Ben "Bennie" Tijnagel (12 June 1964 – 5 December 2005) was a Dutch professional
ice hockey
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player. He played a total of 18 seasons in the
Eredivisie
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. He also competed for
the Netherlands
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in the
1987 World Ice Hockey Championships
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Biography
Born in Nijmegen
Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...
, he joined hometown Nijmegen Tigers
Nijmegen Tigers was a Dutch ice hockey club based in Nijmegen until 2003, when it was forced into bankruptcy. It has been succeeded by the Nijmegen Devils
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and played his first senior level first team hockey at age 16 in 1979. He had his career best offensive season in 1984-5 when he scored 104 points in just 39 games. In 1987, he joined Rotterdam Panda's
Rotterdam Panda's was a professional ice hockey team in Rotterdam, Netherlands. They played in the Dutch Eredivisie, the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands. Home games were played at the Weena-ijshal, a (now-closed) arena near Rotterd ...
, with whom he remained until 1992, when he rejoined Nijmegen as team captain.[
Throughout his career, Tijangel played in 56 matches, scoring 20 goals and collecting 21 assists, for the Dutch national team. He played in 363 games over eleven seasons for the Tigers, scoring 322 goals and collecting 270 assists. In Rotterdam, he scored 260 goals and collected 160 assists.][
On 5 December 2005, Tijnagel died in an auto accident on the Bundesautobahn 57 at ]Meerbusch
Meerbusch () is a town in Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has been an incorporated town since 1970. Meerbusch is the municipality with the most income millionaires in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Geography
Meerbusch is a town in ...
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References
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1964 births
2005 deaths
Dutch ice hockey forwards
Eredivisie (ice hockey) players
Nijmegen Tigers players
Sportspeople from Nijmegen
Rotterdam Panda's players
Road incident deaths in Germany