Vincent Praplan

Switzerland Vincent Praplan


Date of birth	June 10, 1994
place of birth	Sierre , Switzerland
Size	181 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	center
number	# 29
Shot hand	Right

Career stations

until 2008	HC Sierre
2008-2009	EHC Visp
2009-2013	EHC Kloten
2013-2014	North Bay Battalion
2014-2018	EHC Kloten
2018-2019	San Jose Barracuda
2019	Springfield Thunderbirds
since 2019	SC Bern

Vincent Praplan (born June 10, 1994 in Sierre ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been under contract with SC Bern from the National League since May 2019 and plays for them in the position of the center .

Career

As a teenager, Praplan played for HC Sierre and EHC Visp . At the age of 15, the man from Lower Valais left his homeland and moved to EHC Kloten , where he became a junior national player and received his first appearances in the National League A (NLA) during the 2012/13 season . He made an important development step during the 2013/14 season , which he spent with the Canadian club North Bay Battalion in the Ontario Hockey League .

After returning from Canada, Praplan matured in Kloten to become a top performer and national player. He remained a total of four more seasons in Kloten. In March 2018, the Swiss signed an entry contract with the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League (NHL). He was not used for the Sharks in the NHL, but was in 27 games for their training team San Jose Barracuda in the American Hockey League on the ice, scoring four goals and twelve assists. In February 2019 he was transferred from the Sharks to the Florida Panthers , but again only used in the AHL (Springfield Thunderbirds).

In May 2019, Praplan signed a four-year contract with SC Bern with a term until the end of the 2022/23 season, which ended his one-year commitment in North America.

International

The striker made his first appearance in the U16 national team for his home country. He completed the ice hockey tournament of the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2011 , the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2014 up to the U20 team . At the European Olympic Winter Youth Festival he was able to win the bronze medal.

In the Swiss senior national team , Praplan made his debut at the Germany Cup in November 2015. As a result, the attacker completed the 2017 World Cup and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

Achievements and Awards

2011 bronze medal at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2011
2017 Swiss Cup winner with the EHC Kloten

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010/11	Kloten Flyers	Elite-A-Jun.	11	1	1	2	6th	4th	0	0	0	0
2011/12	Kloten Flyers	Elite-A-Jun.	36	16	14th	30th	24	9	6th	5	11	10
2012/13	Kloten Flyers	Elite-A-Jun.	34	33	29	62	83	8th	4th	8th	12	4th
2012/13	Kloten Flyers	NLA	5	0	0	0	0	3 ¹	0	0	0	0
2013/14	North Bay Battalion	OHL	61	19th	34	53	16	21st	2	2	4th	6th
2014/15	Kloten Flyers	NLA	46	4th	4th	8th	8th	6 ¹	0	0	0	2
2015/16	Kloten Flyers	NLA	50	18th	15th	33	4th	4th	1	1	2	0
2016/17	EHC Kloten	NLA	50	15th	27	42	18th	6 ¹	0	2	2	2
2017/18	EHC Kloten	NL	47	15th	24	39	31	15 ¹	2	3	5	14th
2018/19	San Jose Barracuda	AHL	27	4th	12	16	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL	14th	2	5	7th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
Elite A Juniors total			81	50	44	94	113	21st	10	13	23	14th
NLA / NL total			198	52	70	122	61	34	3	6th	9	18th
AHL total			41	6th	17th	23	18th	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Switzerland at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Switzerland	EOWYF		3	0	0	0	4th
2011	Switzerland	HIMT	7th place	4th	1	0	1	0
2014	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	7th place	5	0	1	1	6th
2017	Switzerland	WM	6th place	8th	4th	3	7th	2
2018	Switzerland	Olympia	10th place	4th	0	0	0	0
2019	Switzerland	WM	8th place	7th	1	5	6th	4th
Juniors overall				12	1	1	2	10
Men overall				19th	5	8th	13	6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )