Robert Dietrich Explained

Robert Dietrich
Played For:DEG Metro Stars
Straubing Tigers
Milwaukee Admirals
Adler Mannheim
Ntl Team:GER
Position:Defence
Shoots:Left
Height Ft:5
Height In:10
Weight Lb:172
Birth Date:1986 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Ordzhonikidze, Kazakh SSR,
Soviet Union
Death Place:Yaroslavl, Russia
Draft:174th overall
Draft Year:2007
Draft Team:Nashville Predators
Career Start:2003
Career End:2011

Robert Dietrich (25 July 1986 – 7 September 2011) was a professional ice hockey defenceman. He was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, in which all players and coaches on board the plane from the club perished.

Playing career

Dietrich was drafted 174th overall in the sixth round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft by the Nashville Predators. He played with the DEG Metro Stars of the DEL from 2005 to the 2008. On 16 July 2007, Dietrich was signed to a three-year entry-level contract with the Predators.[1] He was reassigned on loan to the Metro Stars for his first year of the contract, before he spent the final two seasons in North America with the Predators American Hockey League affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals.

In his second year with the Admirals in 2009–10, Dietrich led the team with 43 points for defenseman, but was unable to appear in the NHL with Nashville. On 8 June 2010, Dietrich returned to Germany and signed a two-year contract with Adler Mannheim.[2]

Death

See main article: 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. On 7 September 2011, Dietrich was killed when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly the entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk, Belarus to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects. Lokomotiv officials said "everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team."[3] [4] [5]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular seasonPlayoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIMGPGAPtsPIM
2003–04EC Peiting3.GBun314711401112343
2004–05ETC Crimmitschau2.GBun453141734
2005–06DEG Metro StarsDEL40002
2005–06Straubing Tigers2.GBun4653855150118
2006–07DEG Metro StarsDEL523192228924622
2007–08DEG Metro StarsDEL911212131234
2008–09Milwaukee AdmiralsAHL634151932111782
2009–10Milwaukee AdmiralsAHL79637432820112
2010–11Adler MannheimDEL42315186960228
DEL totals1077354211128381134

International

YearTeamEventGPGAPtsPIM
2004GermanyWJC18-D150444
2005Germany60006
2006GermanyWJC-D1 50114
2007Germany6 2 2 4 2
2010GermanyWC 9 0 0 0 2
2011GermanyWC 70 0 0 0
Junior totals 1605514
Senior totals 222244

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Predators sign five to contracts . . 2007-07-16 . 2011-03-31.
  2. Web site: http://www.adler-mannheim.de/topstories.php?d<!--[-->nr<!---->=2439#j57 Eagles take Robert Dietrich under contract ]. . 2010-06-08 . 2010-06-08 . German . https://web.archive.org/web/20120318050937/http://www.adler-mannheim.de/topstories.php?dnr=2439#j57 . 18 March 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
  3. Web site: First pictures from the crash of Yak-42 near Yaroslavl . . 2011-09-07 . Russian . 2011-09-07.
  4. Web site: The list of Lokomotiv players who died . . 2011-09-07 . Russian . 2011-09-07.
  5. Web site: Pavol Demitra among 43 killed in Russian plane crash . theglobeandmail.com . 2011-09-07 . 2011-09-07 .