Roy Roedger
Roy Roedger | |||
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Born |
Weston, Ontario, Canada | October 11, 1958||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||
Weight | 203 lb (92 kg; 14 st 7 lb) | ||
Position | Right Wing | ||
Played for |
Bundesliga ) | ||
National team |
West Germany | ||
Playing career | 1979–1990 |
Roy Roedger (born October 11, 1958) is a retired
He is a member of the German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.[1]
Biography
Roedger, born in Weston, Ontario of German descent, started his playing career with the Prince Albert Raiders in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.[2]
Roedger was discovered in 1978 by
Roedger joined Mannheim, freshly promoted to the Bundesliga, and by 1980, the club won the national championship, giving credit to Weisenbach's initially belittled recruitment effort.[3]
Roedgers played for six seasons at Mannheim and, from 1982, also for the German national team. While at Mannheim he played in three World Championships and the 1984 Winter Olympics for Germany.[4] In 1985, in a friendly against Switzerland, he was part of the Canadian bloc of the German team when, for the first time, all skaters on the ice were born in Canada, a novelty in German ice hockey. The players were Roedger, Krueger and Wolf as forwards while Kreis and Schmidt played defense, all discovered for Germany by Weisenbach.[3]
In the 1984–85 season, Roedger was involved in an incident in which he hit
At the end of the 1984–85 season, Roedger left Mannheim for the Düsseldorfer EG. With Düsseldorf, he won one more German championship in his last season, 1989–90, and also took part in three more World Championships and the 1988 Winter Olympics. In 1990, aged 31, he retired from Bundesliga ice hockey.[2][4]
After his playing career
Roedger returned to Canada after his career ended. He acquired a degree in sports and event marketing and formed SDI Marketing, a sports marketing agency of which he is the CEO.[6]
Roedger's younger brother Peter (born 1960) also played in Germany, starting his career with
Honours
- Ice hockey Bundesliga
- Ice Hockey World Championships
- Participant: (6) 1989
- Participant: (6)
- Olympic ice hockey tournament
References
- ^ German ice hockey Hall of Fame (in German) List of members of the German ice hockey Hall of Fame, accessed: 20 December 2011
- ^ a b Roy Roedger ww.hockeydb.com, accessed: 20 December 2011
- ^ a b c Klein, p. 152
- ^ a b Roy Roedger (GER) www.eurohockey.net, accessed: 20 December 2011
- ^ Klein, p. 84–85
- ^ SENIOR PROFILES SDI Marketing website, accessed: 20 December 2011
- ^ Peter Roedger at www.hockeydb.com, accessed: 21 December 2011
Sources
- Günter Klein: 30 Jahre Eishockey-Bundesliga (in German) Copress Verlag, published: 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0289-3
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database