Witali Grossmann

Witali Grossmann
Date of birth	5th January 1963
place of birth	Solikamsk , Russian SFSR
date of death	February 20, 2005
Place of death	Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
size	173 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
until 1991	Ishstal Izhevsk
1991-1994	EC Ratingen
1994-1996	Kassel Huskies
1996-2001	Wolves Freiburg

Witali Grossmann ( Russian Виталий Гроссман ; born January 5, 1963 in Solikamsk , Russian SFSR ; † February 20, 2005 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German - Kazakh ice hockey player who played primarily as a winger.

Grossmann first played for Ischstal Ischewsk in Udmurtia , moved to Germany in 1991 and played three years in the 2nd Bundesliga for EC Ratingen . Then he played for two years with the Kassel Huskies in the DEL and in 1996 he switched to the Freiburg Wölfen . For this he completed 249 games (107 goals / 123 assists) by the end of his career in 2001.

Witali Grossmann was found dead in his apartment in Freiburg on February 21, 2005. He likely died by suicide .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1987/88	Ishstal Izhevsk	Vysschaya League		26th	7th	11	18th	32		Data including relegation round
1988/89	Ishstal Izhevsk	Pervaya League		??	??	??	??	??		??	??	??	??	??
1989/90	Ishstal Izhevsk	Pervaya League		??	??	??	??	??		??	??	??	??	??
1990/91	Ishstal Izhevsk	Pervaya League		??	??	??	??	??		??	??	??	??	??
1991/92	EC Ratingen	2.BL-N		47	49	42	91	62		Dates including play-offs
1992/93	EC Ratingen	1st BL		44	24	15th	39	78		3	1	0	1	4th
1993/94	EC Ratingen	1st BL		42	6th	17th	23	104		13	3	3	6th	24 (PD)
1994/95	Kassel Huskies	DEL		22nd	8th	5	13	43		8th	0	0	0	0
1995/96	Kassel Huskies	DEL		48	4th	8th	12	38		8th	0	1	1	4th
1996/97	Wolves Freiburg	1.LS		??	??	??	??	??		??	??	??	??	??
1997/98	Wolves Freiburg	1.LS		58	31	22nd	53	70		Dates including play-offs
1998/99	Wolves Freiburg	BL *		41	14th	18th	32	60		Dates including play-offs
1999/2000	Wolves Freiburg	2nd BL		57	20th	31	51	86		Dates including play-offs
2000/01	Wolves Freiburg	2nd BL		40	12	17th	29	61		Dates including play-offs

Explanations: USSR I: 1st League of the Soviet Union, 1st LS: 1st League South, "Hacker-Pschorr League", second highest league in Germany 1997/98, BL *: "Bundesliga", 1998/99 the second highest league in Germany

( 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

• Witali Grossmann at hockeydb.com (English)
• Witali Grossmann at eurohockey.com