ICE: Salzburg signs Dutch defender Dalhuisen – winter sports – ice hockey
EC Red Bull Salzburg announced the signing of defender Mike Dalhuisen on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old Dutchman last played for HK Poprad in Slovakia’s Extraliga. The Bulls are reacting to the early end of the season for defender Lukas Schreier, who sustained a forearm injury in early January.
“I want to help the Red Bulls win the title. I always give everything to win, it’s in my blood,” said Mike Dalhuisen on his arrival in Salzburg. He can describe himself as an “emotional player with a lot of passion. I like playing the game and I have my qualities in the special teams. And I’m always there when it comes to standing up for teammates.”
In addition, the new shirt number 2 has a lot of experience with playoff games: “I’ve played in five final series from my junior days to the pros. I know what it means to be on the ice in playoffs. I’m a playoff player.”
To Canada at the age of eleven
Mike Dalhuisen was born and raised in the Netherlands, but moved to Canada with his family when he was 11. From 2013 to 2015, it went through the USHL and NCAA (Quinnipiac University) to the AHL and ECHL. In 2015, Dalhuisen returned to Europe at the age of 25 to celebrate the Danish championship title with Esbjerg Energy: “Winning the title in Denmark was just incredible and the best thing that happened to me.”
This was followed by two years in the second Russian league VHL at Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk and one season at the German second division club EC Bad Nauheim. In 2019, the defender moved back to the Slovak top-flight where he moved from HK Dukla Michalovce to HK Poprad in the first season, where he has remained until recently.
Dalhuisen on his move from Poprad to Salzburg: “I really had a good time in Poprad and I only have good memories. But it was time for a change, both for the club and for me. I’m now looking forward to meeting new people ; with kit manager Oli [König] I was already together in Bad Nauheim. And I’m particularly looking forward to the Red Bulls, who have a very good reputation.”
Dalhuisen will train with the team for the first time on Tuesday.
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