Deniz İnce

Deniz İnce
Born (1974-11-25) November 25, 1974
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb)
Position Defenceman
Shoots Right
TBHSL team
Former teams

Zeytinburnu Belediyespor

National team  Turkey
Playing career 1995–present

Deniz İnce (born November 25, 1974) is a Turkish ice hockey coach and former ice hockey defenceman . He is currently serving as the head coach of Zeytinburnu Belediyespor in the Turkish Ice Hockey Super League and the Turkey men's national ice hockey team. He also holds the citizenship of the United States.[1]

Playing career

Club

İnce began his ice hockey career in 1995. From 1998 to 2004, he played for Istanbul Paten K. Hs team became runners-up in the 1995–96 and 1996–97 Turkish Ice Hockey Super League seasons. He enjoyed his team's champion title in the 1997–98 season. His team finished the following two league seasons as runners-up. İnce transferred to Ankara University SK in the 2009–10 season, which won the league champion title at the end of the season. In 2013, he returned to his hometown and joined Zeytinburnu BSK, where he briefly played. The team finished the 2013–14 Super League season as runners-up.[1]

International

İnce was admitted to the Turkey men's national ice hockey team in 1996, and played until 2011, serving as their captain from 1998 on.[2] He took part at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1996 qualifying,[3] 1998 Group D,[4] 1999 Group D,[5] 2000 Group D,[6] 2002 Division II,[7] 2003 Division III,[8] 2008 Division III,[9] 2010 Division II,[10] and 2011 Division III tournament matches.[11]

Coaching career

Club

İnce was appointed coach of Zeytinburnu Belediyespor in the 2014–15 Super League season.[12] He led his team to the league champion title in two successive seasons.[13][14][2]

He coached his team at the IIHF Continental Cup tournaments of 2015–16 and 2016–17. Zeytinburnu BSK finished the 2015-16 Cup as the group runners-up,[13][12] and the First round of the 2016-17 Cup as champion advancing to the Second round.[15][2]

International

In 2012, İnce became assistant coach of the Turkey men's national ice hockey team. In this capacity, he took part at the 2013 IIHF World Championship Division II B tournament.[1] The next year, he was named head coach of the national team. He coached the team at the 2014 Division II B,[16] 2015 Division III,[17] and 2016 Division III tournament matches.[18]

Statistics

As of October 23, 2016
Team From To Record
G W OTW OTL L Win %
Zeytinburnu BSK
2014 2015 12 9 0 0 3 75.00
2015 2016 13 10 0 1 2 76.92
2016 2017 6 4 0 0 2 66.67
Turkey national
2014 2015 5 1 0 0 4 20.00
2015 2016 6 5 0 1 0 83.33
2016 2017 5 5 0 0 0 100.0
Career Total 47 34 0 2 11 72.34

Honours

Player

Istanbul Paten Kulübü
Ankara University SK
Zeytinburnu Belediyespor

Coach

Zeytinburnu Belediyespor
Turkey men's national ice hockey team

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Deniz Ince". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  2. 1 2 3 "Continental Cup anniversary starts with surprise". IIHF CCA. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  3. ↑ "1995 – 1996 WC DQ nation Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  4. ↑ "1997 – 1998 WC D team Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  5. ↑ "1998 – 1999 WC D nation Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  6. ↑ "1999 – 2000 WC D team Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  7. ↑ "2001 – 2002 WC D2 team Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  8. ↑ "2002 – 2003 WC D3 team Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  9. ↑ "2007 – 2008 WC D3 team Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  10. ↑ "2009 – 2010 WC D2 team Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  11. ↑ "2010 – 2011 WC D3 nation Turkey". Elite Prospects Hockey. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  12. 1 2 "Zeytinburnu Buz Hokeyi Takımı Sırbistan'da Tarih Yazdı". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  13. 1 2 "Buz Hokeyinde Türkiye'nin Gururu Oldular" (in Turkish). Doğan News Agency. 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  14. ↑ "Erkekler Buz Hokeyi Ligi'nde şampiyon Zeytinburnu Belediye!". Spor X (in Turkish). 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  15. ↑ Tuniz, Davide (2016-10-03). "Continental Cup: lo Zeytinburnu scrive la storia". Hockey Time (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  16. ↑ "Game Summary NZL – TUR 6–3" (PDF). IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Spain. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  17. ↑ "Game Summary TUR – BIH 11–0" (PDF). IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Turkey. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  18. ↑ "Game Summary TUR – GEO 5–4" (PDF). IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Turkey. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
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