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Alex Hicks
Squirt AA & PW98 Assistant Coach

Alex Hicks
Alex Hicks

Playing History:

  • Three-time team MVP at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
  • Three-time American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) first team All-American.
  • Holds the school and Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) career records for goals, assists and points.
  • 249 points as a Bluegold from 1988 through 1992 with 98 goals and 151 assists.

    15-year professional career that included five years in the National Hockey League (NHL)

    • Played 258 games with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks and Florida Panthers,
      • Games: 258
      • Goals: 25
      • Assists:54
      • Total Points:79


      From 2000 through 2006, he played with the Berlin Polar Bears and the Cologne Sharks in Europe.
      • Games: 267
      • Goals: 107
      • Assists:115
      • Total Points:222


      Played with the Toledo Storm of the ECHL, the Adirondack Red Wings of the AHL, the Las Vegas Thunder of the IHL, the Baltimore Bandits of the AHL and the Louisville Panthers of the AHL. He also played one year of professional roller hockey with the Buffalo Stampede, serving as team captain in 1994 when the Stampede won the league championship.

      ECHL All-Star with Toledo, also serving as captain as the Storm won the Riley Cup. He was the Las Vegas Thunder Rookie of the Year in 1995. team scoring leader for the Berlin Polar Bears and also with the Cologne Sharks in 2002 when they won the league championship. He was named to the DEL (German Elite League) All-Star Team in 2002 and in 2004 was voted the Most Popular Player in DEL.

      Coach Hicks played on Team Canada in the German Cup competition. He was also the Ducks’ Alka-Seltzer Plus-Minus Leader 1996.

      Alex founded the Alex Hicks Initiative, a non-profit charitable organization that provides, coordinates and distributes gifts and support to ill and underprivileged children in Cologne, Germany. The organization continues to thrive even though he has retired from the DEL and left Cologne.
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