It was the first blast in Davos in this season: A week before the championship start Arno Del Curto had engaged with Anders Lindbäck for a foreign Goalie. 15. September was Gilles Senn, nor the number 2, and Joren van Pottelberghe even just the number 3 in the Club. The third wheel on the wagon.
“at First it was a shock. But these are situations that happen in the life of an athlete again and again, even in North America. So you have to be able to just deal with it,” says Van Pottelberghe, in the summer, only 22 years old.
He went in between, to Denmark, to be a bit of a game to acquire practice. Four games, he completed for Rungsted, and the fights were his only Serious, before he on 27. November came in the Cup against train to his first appearance for the EHC Kloten . At the Premiere, and in the games since then, he showed that he can Displace onto the siding in Davos, has not.
“He is a godsend for us,”
He was ready when his Chance came. The door opened not in the National League, but Relegated to Kloten in the Swiss League, was not an issue for him. And when EHC Van Pottelberghe so far holds a lot more than you can expect from a man with almost no practice had. In 16 of the last 17 championship games he was in the Klotener goal, he won 13 victories, defeats, there was with him only against the ECC Academy, Olten and Ajoie.
“He is a godsend for us,” says head of sports, Felix Hollenstein. With the two Outliers down in the new year against Winterthur and in Porrentruy against Ajoie Van Pottelberghes defense rate lowered a little, his 92,95% but are still the best value in the League. The Visper Sascha Rochow stands as the second best tribe goalie in 91 and 92 percent, Dominic Nyffeler, in the next season Van Pottelberghes successor in Kloten, 91,84.
Sweden – the Best
Van Pottelberghe grew up as a child of Belgian parents in train, his God brought him to the ice hockey . To the Goalie he was only later him the total package: fascinated “Strong, supple and fast, you have to be over 60 minutes are concentrated.” Van Pottelberghe wanted to put on the Sport, not by a teaching of this path. Therefore, he decided to with 16, to go to Sweden to Linköping.
“That was the best decision I’ve made so far,” he says. Since the training in the sports gymnasium with two training sessions per day was, on the one hand, on the other hand, the big step into self-employment. Were housed with the Junior player in a block of flats where Van Pottelberghe lived alone in a Studio. “The host family was far away, I cooked and got my Laundry by myself.” With the former goalie coach Nizze he has to Land continue to be contact, “he is the man who brought me the most forward”.
In the League qualification against Davos, he would be missing
2015, it was concluded Van Pottelberghe of Detroit. The Draft was a reward for his services in the Junior national teams. At the U-18 world Championships in train, he reached in 2015, the bronze game against Canada. At the same tournament, people like Auston Matthews, and Patrik Laine, the concerns today in the NHL for attention. Or Jesse Puljujärvi, the plays also an important NHL role. Or Denis Malgin. Where the all are, want Van Pottelberghe. The time is: “What do I do next season, is yet to be determined.” The road is still a bit far.
as well As the delicate Situation that could arise, should prevail Kloten in the Swiss League and in the League qualification at the Davos meeting. In this case, Van Pottelberghe would have to suspend. This is the only concession that had to Kloten in the lending business with the HCD. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 25.01.2019, 18:19 PM
