Denis Perez
Denis Perez ( born April 25, 1965 in Caen ) is a French former ice hockey player and current coach, who played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, among others, for the Adler Mannheim in its active between 1983 and 2005. His son Timothy is also a professional hockey player.
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Playing career
Denis Perez began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior section of the HC Caen, for the first team he in the 1983/84 season his debut in the Ligue Magnus, the highest French league, gave. Then the defender ran for five years for his league rivals Français ruffles, with which he was French Champion in 1989 for the first time. Following this success, he moved within the Ligue Magnus to Rouen Hockey Élite 76, with which he in consequence reached the playoff finals seven times and with whom he each won the French league title in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995. He was also 1991 and 1996 runner-up with Rouen. The 1998/99 season spent Perez at the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. With these he immediately became German champion and contributed to this success with four goals and two assists in 41 DEL inserts at. From 1999 to 2001 the national team for Anglet Hormadi Élite ran in the domestic Ligue Magnus, before the HC Amiens Somme joined. With this he was again in 2004 French champion, having still failed in the previous year with his team in the playoff finals. Following the 2004/ 05 season, he ended his active career at the age of 41 years.
Perez is one of the golden generation of French ice hockey and counted alongside Philippe Bozon and Christian Pouget to the exceptional player in his country. Both players were also active for the Adler Mannheim. Although no French players are more active at the Adler Mannheim in a long time, Christian Pouget, Philippe Bozon and Denis Perez have a lasting positive impression in Mannheim. For years after her career in Mannheim fire up the fans with their team to " allez les bleus " calls.
Internationally
For France, Perez took the B World Championships 1987, 1990, 1991 and 2001, and the A World Championships in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 in part. In addition, he was in the squad of his country at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988, in 1992 in Albertville, 1994 Lillehammer, Nagano 1998 and 2002 in Salt Lake City. At the Winter Games in 1988, he had no use.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
DEL stats
Coaching career
Directly after end of his career as a player took over the office Perez as head coach at his last HC Amiens Somme, in which he stood from 2005 to 2008 in the Ligue Magnus behind the gang. Already as an active player, he had ' looked parallel the U22 Junior Amiens in the season 2002/ 03. In the 2008 /09 season he was an assistant coach with the Canadian junior team Action de Joliette from the Ligue de hockey junior AAA du Québec.