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On Wednesday night at 9:36 pm Austrian time, the history of red and white ice hockey was written: Thimo Nickl was the first player born in Klagenfurt and trained at EC-KAC to be selected in the Inning Draft of the National Hockey League. In the fourth round and in 104th place, the Anaheim Ducks of California secured the 18-year-old’s transfer rights to the strongest ice hockey league in the world.
High point of his career
Reaching draft pick status is the temporary high point in the career of the young Klagenfurter, who first skated for Rotjacken’s Bambini team in 2005 and subsequently all ages in EC-KAC youth training until 2019. on the farm team in the Alpine Hockey League. At the tender age of 16, Thimo Nickl made his wrestling team debut as part of the preparatory tournament in Zvolen, Slovakia, and the defender was able to score a point in his first game. After a full season on the AHL team, he moved to the Drummondville Voltigeurs in the Canadian QMJHL last summer, where he played his way up the NHL scouts draft rankings throughout the season.
Due to entry restrictions in Canada, Thimo Nickl represents the SHL Rögle BK club this season, the NHL draft, which this year only took place online due to the pandemic, followed on Wednesday with his parents at his current workplace in Ängelholm, Sweden. From mid-August until last week, the Klagenfurt native was still on the ice every day at his local club, head coach Petri Matikainen integrated the talent into the training operations of the KAC combat team.
Congratulations
EC-KAC warmly congratulates Thimo Nickl on his outstanding success, the whole club is proud that a club-trained player is now one of the greatest talents of his year in world ice hockey. Juniors are accompanied by the best wishes from the entire organization for a long and successful career!
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