Several years later, he is reunited with the club of his youth. “But that won't be difficult, not at all. I'm a Munich resident now, and I'll throw myself into the game against Mannheim just as I would against any other team,” Sinn promises. “I'll probably even play extra hard against Mannheim, simply because it's my hometown.”
“I always believed I could do it.”
After taking his first career steps in Mannheim, Sinn moved to the Red Bull Ice Hockey Academy in 2018, like some of our other players. In his first year, he was very homesick, especially during the Christmas season. “But apart from that, it was a great time all round, with lots of wonderful memories,” he recalls. What were the best ones? “When we played soccer outside in the evenings in the summer. It was so much fun,” he explains with a laugh.
Sinn can't remember any pranks from his time at the academy. That's actually surprising, considering there were so many teenagers in the same place. “We didn't sneak out very often,” says Sinn. But then he remembers one youthful indiscretion. He admits: “In my first two years at school, I was perhaps a little disrespectful at times. But if you wanted to be funny and popular in class, you just had to do silly things. Looking back now, I'm not necessarily proud of that,” he admits openly.
However, our summer signing never lost sight of his goal: his dream of becoming a professional ice hockey player. “There was never a moment when I realized that it might actually happen. But I always believed that I could do it,” he emphasizes confidently.
DEL debut for the Red Bulls with a derby win
In the 2022/23 season, the time had come. Sinn, who was still playing for EC Red Bull Salzburg's U18 team at the time, was sent to Munich for two games and made his debut on November 4, 2022, in a 3-2 overtime win against the Straubing Tigers in the PENNY DEL. So he started right away with a derby win! Four days later, he got his second chance in a 3-2 win against the Kölner Haie.
