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Simon Schenk knew ice hockey from all perspectives. Unfortunately, one had to know that Simon Schenk is dead. His cryptic group was often given the cryptic term “inexhaustible”; in any case, everyone who wanted could benefit from it. Viewers too. As an expert on the specialized channels Teleclub and MySports, he always found the mix of clear words and objective criticism, which, seasoned with a touch of Emmental charm, is best received by the public.
Emmental head man
If necessary, he also knew how to make other notes behind the scenes. The early Emmental man already had a good temper, as SVP National Council from 1994 to 2011, as a coach, as a national coach, and since 1997 as a sports strategist at the ZSC Lions. After the merger between the Grasshopper Club, which is trapped in the NLB, and the Zurich ice skating club, which never stopped, Schenk quickly turned the Lions into a premium product with a broad-based youth organization and two championship titles.
Simon Schenk was born on May 16, 1946 and grew up in Trubschachen and Langnau. As a child, the Winnetou fan climbs the ice field fence during lunch breaks and exercises until the ice master drives him away. When he chooses a teacher seminar when choosing a career, his teacher then smiles at him and says he doesn’t even have to take the exam, he just rubs the bottom of his pants. But Schenk exists and has been a primary school teacher at Konolfingen for 22 years. Not infrequently he stops with a black eye or after a game.
A scratch on the head in front of the class. He played 16 NLA seasons for Langnau and became a teacher in 1976. On Friday night, the “Simus” heart stopped beating. Leave a wife and three children.
A few days before moving to Bern Island Hospital last Monday for the second major heart operation after 2017, he wrote to his friend and colleague Morgan Samuelsson that they no longer wanted him as a MySports expert. Samuelsson should ask Teleclub if anything could happen there. You still haven’t lost the joy of this job. Now your broad Berndeutsch will never be heard again.
A whole range of emotions as a national coach
During his two tours as a national coach (1986-1990 and 1995-1997), Schenk was offered the full range of possible emotions. Up, down. The 1988 Olympics in Calgary with a historic victory over Finland. A World A Championship in Switzerland in 1990 without Switzerland, because the host did not have a firm place on the field at the time. Schenk already had the PhD for the A-WM 1991 in his pocket.
In the spring of 1997, he had to deal with a tangible crisis during the World B Championship in Poland after two rascals ignored the joke. He countered these signs of moral erosion with a verbal touch against the assembled team, without advertising measures.
“Take cheese or bread”
Sometimes there was a smile in the wardrobe when Schenk gave his tactics additional impressions with difficult dialect instructions. “Gäbetne Chäs u Brot” was a variant of his motivational catalog, sometimes recommending defenders to dispense with a “hammer” (strong blow) and instead send a traitorous “sanghas” (sand rabbit) towards the door. He never gave up on his will to strengthen the Swiss Coaches Guild at every opportunity. “We are still too impressed with the NHL and the Canadians.”
After 20 years serving the ZSC Lions, Schenk returned to his roots in 2017. To the end, he made his experience available to the SCL Tigers as a consultant and strategist. The man had ice hockey in his blood.
* BLICK hockey expert Dino Kessler played with Simon Schenk on the Swiss national team.
