Sepp Puschnig

Josef " Sepp " puschnig ( born September 12, 1946 in Klagenfurt ) is a retired Austrian ice hockey player, the great success with the EC KAC celebrated in the 1960s and 1970s in the Austrian Hockey League. To date, he is one of the best Austrian ice hockey players of all time.

Career

Sepp puschnig began his career in the youth teams of the EC KAC and made his debut at age 16 in the first team, where he with the winning goal to make it 2-1 celebrated its inauguration on the EV Innsbruck. In the following years he developed into one of Europe's best hockey player of all time. In a total of thirteen seasons and 299 Bundesliga matches, where he graduated all for the EC KAC, he scored 190 goals and prepared 296 more ago. He was able to win with his club also twelve times Austrian Champion title.

Also in the national team, he proved to be one of the most valuable player and participated in eleven World Championships and three Olympic Games, where he brought it in 123 international matches on 50 goals and 55 assists.

Again and again in the course of his career showed the National Hockey League interest in the striker. However, this rejected the challenge from a simple reasoning, by always saying, " What shall I as Carinthian in America? I am Klagenfurt rather than New York. "

Awards and achievements

Career Stats

Internationally

Personal

  • Puschnig sister Erika married Adalbert Saint John a striker colleagues of Sepp puschnig.
  • With Andreas Pusnik also the son of Sepp puschnig enjoyed great success as a hockey player and brought it in 731 missions in the Austrian league on 829 points scorer.
  • Also Puschnig grandson Julian Pusnik plays hockey on EC VSV

Others

  • Due to its slim stature Sepp puschnig not necessarily received at the beginning of his career nicknamed Karawankenbär.
  • The end of 1999 the training hall of the Ice Centre Klagenfurt was named after him. This was determined by a choice, could be conducted among the readers of the Carinthian newspaper the director of the Klagenfurt exhibition, Erich Hallegger.
  • In the same year the Artist Wu Shaoxiang honored the athletes with a 400- pound sculpture made of mahogany and spruce. Sponsor was the patron of the arts Peter Schellander. The Seppi baptized figure elicited the former ice hockey player in the presentation of a laugh when he noted in reference to its nickname: " So slim, I never was. "
  • 2014, a film about Sepp puschnig was published. This film is titled Sepp puschnig the Karawankenbär, was directed by Ferdinand Macek and Sigi Bergmann and shows the unique career Puschnig.

Literature and sources

  • Margreiter, Haiszan, Kilias: The Great Austrian Hockey - book publisher specialized Dornbirn, ISBN 3-900496-04-4 ( ISBN formally wrong )
  • OMR. Dr. Hellmuth Reichel: KAC - Hockey conquered a city, publisher: Klagenfurt Athletics Sports Club, Klagenfurt, 1995!
  • Club brochure: 75 years KAC, 1909-1984, Edited by: Klagenfurt Athletics Sports Club, Klagenfurt, 1984
  • Anniversary Book: Red as blood, white as snow - 100 Years of KAC, editor: Klagenfurt Athletics Sports Club, Klagenfurt, 2009, Author: Dr. Gert Seeber, Walter Grill, Heinz Traschitzger
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