Stanley Cup winner with a South Tyrolean past

Mike Ellis As Director of Skills Development, i.e. as the person responsible for the technical training of the players, he played his part in the great triumph of the Tampa Bay Lightning. These secured themselves with a 2-0 win in the sixth final game against the Dallas Stars the most coveted trophy in ice hockey for the second time.

Ellis, who spent most of his playing and coaching career in Great Britain, is no stranger to South Tyrol. In the summer of 2009, the Wolves brought him to Pustertal as a youth coach and assistant coach of the Serie A team, and a year later the Canadian moved to HC Eppan. He led the Pirates to the Serie A2010 title in spring 2 before being replaced in the coaching bench by Jari Helle during the following season. Ellis then spent a year and a half on the team at the then first division club Valpellice.

In 2014, the ice hockey expert finally joined the NHL as a consultant. In the summer of last year, he moved via Toronto to the Lightning organization, with whom he can now celebrate the greatest success of his official career. “Watching the boys in training is a feast for the eyes. “Nikita Kucherov is the most technically gifted player I know,” Ellis said in a recent interview Okanagan hockey , “Victor Hedman is also impressive. The way he moves and uses his body, the way he skates, it’s just great.” Angelidis' former teammates cheer By the way, Tampa will also be happy Mike Angelidis , who won the EBEL trophy with HC Bozen in 2018. As a player, he was active for the NHL club from Florida for years. He was on the ice with many of today's Tampa stars, including goalie Andrei Vasilevsky, captain Steven Stamkos, Alex Killorn and Ondrej Palat, for the Lightning and their farm team, the Syracuse Crunch. After ending his career in Bozen, Angelidis moved to the scouting sector of the “Bolts”, but left during this, ultimately successful, season. Angelidis is now an entrepreneur in the Greater Toronto Area.

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Stanley Cup winner with a South Tyrolean past

Last night (CEST) the time had finally come when the star-studded Tampa Bay Lightning brought the Stanley Cup to Florida for the second time. This should be particularly pleasing to anyone who has worked as a trainer in the Pustertal and Überetsch for a long time in the past.

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