Danny Kurmann

Danny Kurmann ( born January 10, 1966) is a professional Swiss ice hockey referee from the municipality of Risch.

Career

His first game as a referee ran Danny Kurmann 1983, when he began his career in amateur leagues. He was first appointed to the Swiss National League A, in which it is used in the first three years as a line judge and since 1993 as the main referee in 1989. In 1997 he signed with the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation a professional contract and gave up his job as an environmental engineer.

Danny Kurmann was classified as Impartial already in some international tournaments. So he headed hockey games world championships in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and the U-20 World Championships in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

In the A - 1999 World Cup in Norway, he led the final two games of the Czech Republic against Finland. During the Junior A Championship 2000 in Sweden, he arbitrated the gold medal game of the Czechs against the Russians. At the Junior A Championship 2007 in Sweden, he led the final match of the Canadians against the Russians. At the Junior A Championship in 2009 in Canada, he led the final match of the Canadians against the Swedes. Furthermore took Danny Kurmann part in the Olympic Games in 2002, 2006 and 2010, and a total of seven tournaments for the Spengler Cup.

Danny Kurmann since its introduction in 2004, next to Brent Reiber Swiss representative at the IIHF Referee Exchange Program. On 17 September 2004, he whistled the first encounter in the framework of the exchange program: HC Moeller Pardubice vs HC Rabat Kladno in the Czech Extraliga. Even before starting the program he led some games in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. In December 1998, he was the first professional referee, who held the match line at a DEL game. Together with his colleagues Daniel Stricker, Stefan Eichmann and Brent Reiber he founded on the model of referee camps in Canada, the Swiss Referee School.