Gregor Baumgartner

Gregor Baumgartner ( born July 13, 1979 in Vienna) is an Austrian ice hockey player standing since the 2006/07 season with the Black Wings Linz in the Austrian Hockey League contract.

Career

The Styrian-born Gregor Baumgartner left home age of 15 to try his luck in North America. After a few years in the Canadian Junior Hockey he was in 1999 in the International Hockey League for the first time as a professional in action, where he rushed for the Michigan K- Wings. His further career took him from Oklahoma and Idaho to Utah. From 2001 to 2003, Baumgartner has in the American Hockey League, as well as in the East Coast Hockey League really take root. He was called as the first Austrian in history into the AHL All- Star Classic in 2002.

Still, it pulled him from the Pensacola Ice Pilots in 2003 back to the home where he first stormed at the Vienna Capitals in his career in the Austrian Bundesliga. After a brief stint in Salzburg in the season 2004/ 05 the multiple team players returned after a few months returned to Vienna, where he quickly became an important part of the team that the Championship title in the capital in 2005. For the season 2006/ 07 Baumgartner joined the Black Wings Linz, where he is currently under contract.

Awards and achievements

• 2002 AHL All- Star Classic
• 2005 Austrian Champion with the Vienna Capitals
• 2012 Austrian Champion with the EHC Linz

Internationally

• 2012 promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division IA

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )