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Lions coach Ryan Foster: "I don't like passivity"

2022-06-28T14:57:18.080Z


Lions coach Ryan Foster: "I don't like passivity" Created: 06/28/2022, 16:49 By: Nick Scheder Would like to inoculate the Tölzer Löwen with "fast, aggressive ice hockey": The new coach Ryan Foster, who has his small farm with dogs and horses at home in Klagenfurt. © Volker Ballasch/Archive The new lion trainer Ryan Foster in an interview about horses, competition in the team and aggressiveness


Lions coach Ryan Foster: "I don't like passivity"

Created: 06/28/2022, 16:49

By: Nick Scheder

Would like to inoculate the Tölzer Löwen with "fast, aggressive ice hockey": The new coach Ryan Foster, who has his small farm with dogs and horses at home in Klagenfurt.

© Volker Ballasch/Archive

The new lion trainer Ryan Foster in an interview about horses, competition in the team and aggressiveness.

Bad Tölz - He was coach of the year in the Oberliga in the previous season, led his team Saale Bulls Halle to the preliminary round championship in the northern division and earlier proved his skill and understanding of ice hockey on the ice.

Ryan Foster is now the coach of the Tölzer Löwen.

The 47-year-old, who lives with his family in Klagenfurt, takes over the team after being relegated from DEL 2 and would like to convey his idea of ​​fast ice hockey to her.

The Austro-Canadian talks about competition in the team, his family and small towns.

Mr. Foster, you have Austrian citizenship, you're doing well with the language, does your knowledge of Bavarian also work?

I'll have to learn a bit more, but I speak English and German, and that'll have to do.

From the preliminary round champion to being relegated to the premier league - why the move to a new start in Bad Tölz?

Because of my family.

I had an ongoing contract with the Saale Bulls for the coming season, it would have been my fifth.

But after four years in Halle – a nine-hour drive home in the car – I no longer wanted to be so far away from my family.

I have two kids, a wife, dogs, horses, I just wanted to be closer to home.

And then you quickly agreed with the lions, although the squad was still completely unclear at the time?

Yes, there was no squad at all.

It still happened quickly: I had practically not even been on the market when Ralph Bader (TEG Managing Director, ed.) already got in touch.

And I didn't have to think long: A commitment to this traditional club, the environment is world class, a super nice city - I've been there before, my mother-in-law is not far away in Grünwald - I prefer small towns anyway, I'm not a big city person, we live at home even on the outskirts of town.

It was a perfect match.

I would like to go there again next week and show my family the city.

You said you have horses - is that a professional thing?

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No (laughs), we have our little farm at home, so to speak.

My daughter is 12 and horses are her great passion.

My son is 14 and he plays hockey like me.

Ice hockey will be played here again from August.

Until then, the squad has to grow a bit, right?

Yes, definitely.

But it is quite difficult to find players.

But we definitely need three more defenders.

An experienced German, a foreigner, and maybe a youngster with potential.

The mixture in the team so far is good anyway.

I know Erik Gollenbeck, who moved from Halle to Tölz before me, from the Bullas.

So I retrained him from a striker to a defender in the pre-season.

At least ten strikers are under contract on offense.

What's missing?

We're in pretty good shape there.

But a foreign striker - we're on the verge of one - and another German veteran would be good.

We're also quite well manned in goal with Enrico Salvarani and Josef Hölzl.

They have potential and can compete for the position.

I think that's important anyway – for all parts of the team.

That everyone wants to fight for their ice ages.

What else is important to you as a coach, what philosophy do you follow?

I like fast hockey, aggressiveness everywhere, especially in the defensive zone, that's where it starts.

I don't like passivity.

If we don't have disc possession, we have to attack immediately, switch quickly.

The summer training is already underway, when will you convey your philosophy to the team?

That actually takes time.

The older ones are currently doing the summer training on their own, while the younger ones train with the DNL team.

I'll be there from August 8th, on August 13th we'll go on the ice - and then with two training sessions a day.

Then we still have a week until the first preparatory game, which has to be enough to teach them my system, try out a few things and see who plays best with whom.

Do you already have a team of coaches?

No not true.

We're trying to get a goalkeeper coach, possibly an athletics coach.

I don't have an assistant coach at the moment, and I haven't had one in Halle for the whole four years.

But then again, four eyes see more than two...

Where should the journey with the Tölzer Löwen lead in the coming season?

That's hard to say, because the squad has to be complete first.

There are enough good opponents, Weiden, Rosenheim, Memmingen, Deggendorf.

Let's see.

Is your commitment long-term?

Yes, in any case.

But we're not thinking about moving to Tölz, my family and I will stay in Klagenfurt.

Ice hockey is in Tölz.

Source: merkur

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