Marco Bührer
Marco Buehrer (* October 9, 1979 in Dielsdorf ZH ) is a Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender who is under contract with SC Bern of the National League A since 2001.
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Career
His time spent as a junior Marco Buehrer the EHC EHC Kloten Bülach and the. For Kloten he played during the 1998/99 season his first NLA game as Reto Pavoni was injured. After a season in the NLB when HC Thurgau, he moved to the 2000/ 01 season through to EHC Chur in the National League A ( NLA ) and the following year he moved to SC Bern.
Marco Buehrer has been playing the 2001/ 02 season with SC Bern, where he then became the successor of the goalkeeping legend Renato Tosio. Since then, he is the undisputed number 1 in the goal of SC Bern.
With the SC Bern he was in 2003/ 04 for the first time in his career Swiss champion. In the 2006/07 season he reached the SCB the playoff final, but failed on HC Davos. In the seasons 2009/10 and 2012/2013 he won his second and third Swiss championship with the Bernese. In September 2013 Buehrer extended his contract with SC Bern until the season end of 2015 / 16th To date, the Zurich had completed 679 appearances for the Bernese, while a total of five times reached the playoff finals.
Internationally
Marco Buehrer began early in his career to represent his country at international championships. As a junior player, he took part in the U18 European Championship in 1997 as well as 1998 and 1999 at the U20 World Cup. As of 2003, played Buehrer for the Men's National Team and participated in the World Cup in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. He also belonged to the Swiss squad at the Olympic Winter Games in 2006, but came to no use.
Special
- Marco Buehrer wears like Dominik Hašek basically no goalie mask with integrated grille guard, but a helmet - mesh protective combination.
- On January 18, 2013 Buehrer introduced to a new national record. He remained five games away exactly 269 minutes and 9 seconds without conceding a goal.
- In the season 2006/ 07, there was the curious situation that Marco Buehrer has been declared as a goalkeeper SC Bern in the game against the EHC Basel to the scorers. He had one minutes before touching the last player of his team the puck in a defensive action. Immediately after this contact, a penalty against one of his players was displayed. This avoided the touch of the puck to delay the punishment ( regular). The goal came as a Basel defender missed the sharp played back pass his striker and this slid it into the empty net.
Awards and achievements
- 2004 Swiss Champion with SC Bern
- 2010 Swiss Champion with SC Bern
- 2013 Swiss Champion with SC Bern