Harold Kreis

[1] Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Kreis played junior ice hockey for the Kildonan North Stars and Calgary Wranglers in the 1970s.

A longtime captain of the Mannheim team, Kreis won German championships in 1980 and 1997, he played a total of 891 games for the club.

Kreis joined the Mannheim coaching staff as an assistant after retiring as a player in 1997 and helped guide the team to German championships in 1998 and 1999.

After a stint as assistant coach with Kölner Haie in 2000-01, Kreis returned to Bad Nauheim and remained in the job until February 2002.

[6] Following the championship season and a two-year tenure in Zurich, the DEG Metro Stars of the German top-flight Deutsche Eishockey Liga appointed Kreis head coach in 2008.

In March 2010, he was sacked after a streak of eight losses in eleven games and after it was published that Kreis had signed a contract as head coach of fellow DEL side Adler Mannheim for the following season.

[8] In March 2014, Kreis agreed on a two-year deal with Swiss NLA team EV Zug and was handed a contract extension until 2017 in September 2015.