Timo Helbling
Timo Helbling (born 21 July 1981 in Basel ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who is since 2013 in Fribourg- Gottéron in the National League A under contract.
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Career
Timo Helbling began his career as a hockey player in the junior section of the HC Davos for the first team, he was active in the National League A from 1998 to 2000. During this period, the defender in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 was selected in the sixth round as a total 162 players from the Nashville Predators. First, however, he played one year for the Windsor Spitfires in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League. Towards the end of the season 2000/ 01 he was also on in a playoff game for the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League, after him, the Nashville Predators had contracted. By 2004, he was exclusively in the American Hockey League for the Admirals, who had left after the dissolution of IHL in this league, as well as the Utah Grizzlies on the ice. He also came in the ECHL for the Toledo Storm for use.
During the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season Helbling was in his native Switzerland at the Kloten Flyers under contract. Then he returned to America, where he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2005/06 season for the Tampa Bay Lightning. In nine games, he gave it a template. However, he spent the rest of the season with their farm team from the AHL, the Springfield Falcons. For the following season the international signed with the Washington Capitals. He played primarily for the farm team, the Hershey Bears. The mixture was then transferred from the Capitals to the Sabres. But Helbling also played as exclusively for the farm team, the Rochester Americans. After one season, he moved back to Switzerland and signed with HC Lugano, where he is under contract since then. In the 2009/10 season he was the player with the most penalty minutes in the league. In November 2010 he signed a contract with Kärpät Oulu in the SM- liiga.
From the season 2011/12 he spent two years at EV train under contract, before a three -year contract with Fribourg- Gottéron signed in December 2012, which shall apply from the 2013/14 season.
Internationally
Helbling represented his native country for the first time at the U18 World Youth Championship in 1999. Followed at junior level further appearances at the U20 World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001.
His first single World Cup appearance in the A-Team, he played in the World Cup 2006 in the Latvian capital Riga. Four years later, he finally took part in the World Cup 2010 in Germany. Helbling was doing at the end of the quarterfinal match against the hosts a match penalty after a confrontation with the German assistant coach Ernst Höfner. The match penalty resulted in an automatic ban of one game.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Switzerland at:
- U18 Junior World Championship 1999
- U20 Junior World Championship 2000
- U20 Junior World Championship 2001
- World Cup 2006
- World Cup 2010
( 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 )