Martin Ulrich (born December 16, 1969) is a retired

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

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. He was the captain of the Austrian national ice hockey team. Born in

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, Austria, Ulrich began his career with three seasons at Vienna before joining

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in 1991 again in a three-year spell. After a brief return to Vienna, Ulrich moved to the

Deutsche Eishockey Liga The Deutsche Eishockey Liga (for sponsorship reasons called Penny (supermarket), PENNY Deutsche Eishockey Liga) (; English: ''German Ice Hockey League'') or DEL, is a professional ice hockey league in Germany and the highest division in German i ...

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, playing for the

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for two seasons. He returned to Vienna for a third time before returning to the DEL in 1999, with spells for the

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and the DEG Metro Stars where he spent four seasons. In 2005, Ulrich returned to Austria and signed for Red Bull Salzburg, where he played two more seasons before ending his player career in 2008 with the lower class team of EK Zell am See. In October 2009 Ulrich was named head coach of the Austrian U-18 national ice hockey team.

International

Ulrich played 228 games for the Austrian national ice hockey team, attending 17 World Championships and 3 Olympic Games (1994, 1998, 2002).

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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