Vitaly Aab

Vitaly Aab
Date of birth	November 14, 1979
place of birth	Karagandy , Kazakh SSR
size	189 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	center
number	# 18
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1997-2001	EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen
2001-2004	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2004-2005	Adler Mannheim
2005-2006	Iserlohn Roosters
2006-2010	Hamburg Freezers
2010-2013	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2013-2014	HK Saryarka Karaganda
2014-2017	EC Bad Nauheim
2017-2019	Highest age EC

Vitalij Aab (born November 14, 1979 in Karagandy , Kazakh SSR ) is a German ice hockey player of Kazakh origin. Since the beginning of the 2017 season, he has been playing for the Höchstadter EC in the Bayernliga and ice hockey league .

Career

After his time in the youth department, the center made his debut in the EC Wilhelmshaven professional team at the age of 17 in what was then the second-class first division north . The right-handed shooter scored 28 points in the first season . Two years later, the native of Kazakhstan moved to the German Ice Hockey League for the first time , where he initially played for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers for three years . During this time, the attacker performed so well that the then national coach Hans Zach appointed him to the German national ice hockey team . Aab experienced his worst season so far in 2004/05 with the Adler Mannheim , where he only got 24 points in 48 games and hardly received any ice age at the end of the season.

As a result, the center forward left Mannheim after just one season to switch to the Iserlohn Roosters . In the Sauerland , Aab was the best German goalscorer at the end of the 2005/06 season . The Hamburg Freezers announced the commitment of the striker early on before the 2006/07 season , who was returning to Nuremberg for the 2010/11 season. In the summer, Aab regularly plays inline hockey to keep fit .

Between 2014 and 2017 Aab played for EC Bad Nauheim in the DEL2 . Aab has been playing for the Höchstadter EC in the Bayernliga since the beginning of the 2017/2018 season .

Achievements and Awards

• Bronze medal at the Inline Hockey World Cup 2003 in Nuremberg
• Promotion to the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga for the 1999/2000 season with EC Wilhelmshaven

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1997/98	EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen	1. Lg		54	16	12	28	6th		20th	8th	7th	15th	6th
1998/99	EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen	1. Lg		36	16	18th	34	26th		10	3	4th	7th	4th
1999/00	EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen	2nd BL		40	10	5	15th	71		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen	2nd BL		44	21st	15th	35	16		5	0	0	0	4th
2001/02	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		58	13	20th	33	8th		4th	0	0	0	0
2002/03	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		52	18th	10	28	24		5	1	0	1	0
2003/04	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		51	11	12	23	24		6th	1	3	4th	2
2004/05	Adler Mannheim	DEL		48	11	13	24	12		10	0	0	0	2
2005/06	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		52	16	17th	33	12		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	11	17th	28	32		7th	0	4th	4th	0
2007/08	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		56	14th	18th	32	46		8th	4th	2	6th	4th
2008/09	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		34	15th	17th	32	22nd		9	3	4th	7th	6th
2009/10	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		55	11	18th	29	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		51	13	18th	31	12		2	0	0	0	0
2011/12	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		48	12	15th	27	41		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		27	1	0	1	10		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HK Saryarka Karaganda	WysHL		45	7th	9	16	14th		19th	2	4th	6th	8th
2014/15	EC Bad Nauheim	DEL2		52	29	30th	59	18th		6th	3	7th	10	2
2015/16	EC Bad Nauheim	DEL2		40	9	22nd	31	14th		5	2	0	2	8th
2016/17	EC Bad Nauheim	DEL2		36	9	9	18th	10		5	2	2	4th	0
1st league / 2nd Bundesliga overall				174	63	50	112	119		105	22nd	28	50	36

( 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 )

Web links

• Vitalij Aab at eurohockey.com
• Vitalij Aab at eliteprospects.com (English)