Roy Roedger Roy Roedger ( born October 10 , 1958 ) is a retired German ice hockey player born and raised in Canada . Roedger , of German descent , left Canada for Germany in 1978 and played eleven seasons there . He also fielded for the German national team at two Olympic games and six World Championships . After the end of his career he returned to Canada . He is a member of the German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame . Biography . Roedger , born in Weston , Ontario of German descend started his playing career with the Prince Albert Raiders in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League . Roedger was discovered in 1978 by Heinz Weisenbach , coach of the Mannheimer ERC in the German Ice hockey Bundesliga . Weisenbach went to Canada to discover whether he could find Canadian ice hockey players of German descend who were eligible to obtain a German passport and therefore would not take up one of the limited permissible spots for foreigners . Additionally , they would also be eligible for the German national team . He flew to Toronto and contacted German clubs in Canada to make contacts . He watched a number of junior games and eventually discovered a number of young players , among them Roedger , his brother Peter , Harold Kreis , Manfred Wolf , Ralph Krueger , George Fritz , Mike Schmidt and Karl Friesen . Some of them he managed to convince to join his club , Mannheimer ERC while others , like Friesen , later fielded in the Bundesliga and for Germany for other clubs . It marked the beginning of an influx of ethnic German Canadians , the " Deutschkanadier " , in German ice hockey and in the national team . Roedger joined Mannheim , freshly promoted to the Bundesliga , and by 1980 , the club won the national championship , giving credit to Weisenbach ' s initially belittled recruitment effort . Roedgers played for six season at Mannheim and , from 1982 , also for the German national team . While at Mannheim he played in three World Championships and the 1984 Winter Olympics for Germany . In 1985 , in a friendly against Switzerland , he was part of the Canadian block of the German team when , for the first time , all field players on the ice at one time where born in Canada , a novelty in German ice hockey . The players were Roedger , Krueger and Wolf as forwards while Kreis and Schmidt played defense , all discovered for Germany by Weisenbach . In the 1984 – 85 season , Roedger was involved in an incident in which he hit Kölner EC player Steve McNeil in the right eye with his stick . In the scene , repeated on German television many times , McNeil is shown to lose a lot of blood . Steve McNeil lost up to 50 percent of his vision in the right eye and Roedger was forced to pay him compensation after an out - of - court settlement but intent was never proven and it was generally considered to be an accidental foul . At the end of the 1984 – 85 season , Roedger left Mannheim for the Düsseldorfer EG . With Düsseldorf , he won one more German championship , in his last season 1989 – 90 and also took part in three more World Championships and the 1988 Winter Olympics . In 1990 , aged 31 , he retired from Bundesliga ice hockey . After his playing career . Roedger returned to Canada after his career ended . He acquired a degree in sports and event marketing and formed SDI Marketing , a sports marketing agency of which he is the CEO . His younger brother Peter Roedger ( born 1960 ) also played in Germany , starting his career with Berliner SC in 1981 , playing for a season with his brother in Mannheim in 1982 – 83 before dropping down to the 2nd Ice hockey Bundesliga . He played , until 1992 , for Eintracht Frankfurt , Duisburger SC and EC Kassel .