Sinan Akdag (born November 5, 1989) is a German professional

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. He is currently playing for

Düsseldorfer EG Düsseldorfer Eislauf-Gemeinschaft or Düsseldorfer EG (short DEG) is a German professional ice hockey team in Düsseldorf. It was Germany's most successful hockey club for a long time and had many international players. The famous Eisstadion at th ...

in 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 ...

(DEL).

Playing career

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native, Akdag came through the youth ranks of the

Starbulls Rosenheim The Starbulls Rosenheim are a professional ice hockey team based in Rosenheim, Germany. The team competes in the DEL2, the second highest level of play in professional German ice hockey. They play their home games at the ROFA-Stadion. ROFA AG i ...

. After joining the

Krefeld Pinguine The Krefeld Pinguine (Krefeld Penguins) are an ice hockey team in the DEL2. Their home ice is in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany at the Yayla Arena. Founded in 1936 by entrepreneur Willi Münstermann, the pro team became a limited liab ...

organization, he made his debut in Germany's top-flight

(DEL) during the 2007–08 campaign. Following a seven-year stint with the Krefeld team, he signed with fellow DEL side

Adler Mannheim The Adler Mannheim (English: ''Mannheim Eagles'', formerly Mannheimer ERC) is a professional ice hockey team of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the highest-level ice hockey league in Germany. The team is based in Mannheim, a city in the northern par ...

in 2014 and won the German championship in his first year with the team. He received DEL Defenseman of the Year honors in the 2015–16 season. Following nine seasons with Adler Mannheim, Akdag left the club as a free agent and was signed to a two-year contract to continue in the DEL with Düsseldorfer EG on 12 May 2023.

International play

After representing Germany at the U17, U18 and U20 level, he made his debut on the men's national team in December 2011. Akdag was nominated to be part of Team Germany during the 2018 Olympic Games in

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Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

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* 1989 births Living people Adler Mannheim players Düsseldorfer EG players German sportspeople of Turkish descent German ice hockey defencemen Krefeld Pinguine players EV Landshut players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Germany Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Germany Sportspeople from Rosenheim Ice hockey people from Upper Bavaria {{Germany-icehockey-bio-stub