Yasin Ehliz

Germany Yasin Ehliz


Date of birth	December 30, 1992
place of birth	Bad Toelz , Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 42
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

to 2012	EC Bad Toelz
2010-2018	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2018	Stockton Heat
since 2018	EHC Red Bull Munich

Yasin Ehliz (born December 30, 1992 in Bad Tölz ) is a German ice hockey player of Turkish origin who, before joining EHC Red Bull Munich , was under contract with the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League until November 2018 and for their farm team, the Stockton Heat , used in the American Hockey League . The winger previously spent eight years with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers . With the German national team , he won the silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Career

Yasin Ehliz in the national jersey (2014)

Yasin Ehliz began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of EC Bad Tölz , for whose U18 juniors he was initially active in the German youth league from 2007 to 2010 . At the same time, he made his debut for the first team of EC Bad Tölz in the third-class league in the 2009/10 season . In the 2010/11 season , the winger ran parallel to the game with Bad Tölz in the major league with a license for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League . He made his DEL debut for the Franks on October 28, 2010 in a 5-4 win against the Iserlohn Roosters . In the playoffs in 2011 he was again on the ice for the DNL team from Bad Tölz. In the following season he already played 35 games for the Ice Tigers and scored his first four DEL goals. He was also used for the Tölzer professional team and won the championship with the top division team in 2012. From the 2012/13 season , Yasin Ehliz was an integral part of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers team.

After eight years in Nuremberg, Ehliz decided to move to North America after the 2017/18 season and signed a one-year contract with the Calgary Flames from the National Hockey League (NHL) in June 2018 . They used the attacker on their farm team , the Stockton Heat , in the American Hockey League (AHL). For this he played four AHL appearances before his contract was terminated in November 2018.

On November 7, 2018, EHC Red Bull Munich announced the signing of Ehliz. He finished the main round in 2018/19 with his new team as runner-up in the table and was runner-up in the playoffs. He also reached the final of the Champions Hockey League with the Red Bulls , which they lost 3-1 to Frölunda HC . The main round of the 2019/20 season ended with the EHC first in the table, but the playoffs were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and no champions were determined. Ehliz was able to collect 40 scorer points (22 goals) in 51 games this season and ended the season with a plus / minus balance of +14.

International

Although Ehliz called himself “one hundred percent (as) a Turk”, he plays internationally for Germany . So he took part in the U18 Junior World Championship of Division I in 2010 , in which he and his team achieved promotion to the top division. He contributed to this success with three goals and five assists in his five missions.

On December 18, 2013, Yasin Ehliz was the second player of Turkish origin after Sinan Akdağ to make his debut in the senior national team and took part in the 2014 , 2015 and 2017 world championships. Ehliz celebrated his greatest success by winning the silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

Achievements and Awards

2010 Promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship in Division I.
2012 Oberliga champion with the Tölzer Löwen
2018 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007/08	EC Bad Toelz	DNL	29	6th	13	19th	28	8th	1	1	2	8th
2008/09	EC Bad Toelz	DNL	34	18th	23	41	56	4th	1	2	3	2
2009/10	EC Bad Toelz	DNL	26th	9	24	33	48	4th	3	3	6th	6th
2009/10	Tölzer lions	Oberliga	23	5	3	8th	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	18th	0	0	0	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Tölzer lions	Oberliga	30th	13	23	36	68	12	4th	8th	12	18th
2010/11	EC Bad Toelz	DNL	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	0	0	0
2011/12	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	35	4th	5	9	49	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Tölzer lions	Oberliga	14th	5	14th	19th	43	14th	2	11	13	16
2012/13	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	47	13	12	25th	43	3	0	2	2	4th
2013/14	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	52	17th	20th	37	46	6th	1	1	2	6th
2014/15	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	48	11	34	45	32	8th	2	5	7th	33
2015/16	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	36	7th	21st	28	18th	11	2	4th	6th	12
2016/17	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	51	16	32	48	32	13	5	7th	12	12
2017/18	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL	46	10	21st	31	47	12	5	1	6th	6th
2018/19	Stockton Heat	AHL	4th	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL	35	10	5	15th	38	18th	3	7th	10	12
DNL total			89	33	60	93	132	17th	5	6th	11	16
Oberliga overall			67	23	40	63	131	26th	6th	19th	25th	34
DEL total			368	88	150	238	311	71	18th	27	45	85

International

Represented Germany at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Germany	U17-WHC	6th place	5	1	4th	5	0
2010	Germany	U18 World Cup Div.I	1st place	5	3	5	8th	2
2014	Germany	WM	14th place	3	0	0	0	2
2015	Germany	WM	10th place	6th	0	0	0	0
2017	Germany	WM	8th place	8th	1	2	3	2
2018	Germany	Olympia		7th	0	3	3	6th
2018	Germany	WM	11th place	7th	3	2	5	0
2019	Germany	WM	6th place	8th	2	0	2	2
Juniors overall				10	4th	9	13	2
Men overall				39	6th	7th	13	12

( 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 )