Alpine League 1995/96

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Master:	VEU Feldkirch

The 1995/96 season was the fourth regular staging of the transnational ice hockey competition of the Alpine League . It was held with a total of seventeen professional teams from Austria , Italy and Slovenia . The defending champion was HC Bozen , which lost its championship to VEU Feldkirch , which established a long-term dominance in the Alpine League and Austrian ice hockey.

Participant field and mode

After no Slovenian team took part in the Alpine League last season , HK Jesenice , HDD Olimpija Ljubljana and HK Bled have now returned to the championship. Otherwise the field of participants remained practically unchanged.

This time the seventeen teams were divided into three groups of two times six and one time five teams and played a simple round trip against each other (eight and ten games, respectively). The best teams of the groups East and Middle were automatically qualified for the playoffs, the other teams, which finished first and second in their respective groups, finally played a qualifying game each to determine the two remaining semi-finals. The semi-finals and finals were ultimately played as a simple game.

Basic round

Group West was dominated by VEU Feldkirch, who defeated HC Devils Milano , who would later be bottom of the group, 28-0 in a memorable game . This result was the main reason for the outstanding goal difference of VEU, which finally secured her first place in front of the only Italian playoff participant, HC Varèse . The Devils, on the other hand, had to struggle with financial problems the whole season and completed the season with a hardly reinforced youth team.

The middle group won the EC KAC mainly thanks to a trio of strikers consisting of Dieter Kalt , Rob Doyle and Dmitri Gogolew . Here the HC Bozen had big problems, which had won the European league cup held last year instead of the Alpine League and only made it to fourth place this year.

The group east was the closest of all and could finally be won by HK Jesenice . Here, too, the Italian teams played only a subordinate role and showed that the smaller Italian teams in particular could only compete with the big names in Austrian and Slovenian ice hockey to a limited extent.

Group west

space	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt
1	VEU Feldkirch	8th	6th	0	2	78:25	+53	12
2	AS Varese Hockey	8th	6th	0	2	38:25	+13	12
3	EHC Lustenau	8th	4th	0	4th	40:31	+9	8th
4th	HC Milano 24	8th	4th	0	4th	44:39	+5	8th
5	HC Devils Milano	8th	0	0	8th	13:93	−80	0

Group middle

space	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt
1	EC KAC	10	9	0	1	60:31	+29	18th
2	HK Olimpija Ljubljana	10	7th	0	3	60:33	+27	14th
3	EC VSV	10	7th	0	3	60:34	+26	14th
4th	HC Bolzano	10	4th	0	6th	41:48	−7	8th
5	Asiago Hockey	10	2	0	8th	26:61	−35	4th
6th	HC Alleghe	10	1	0	9	23:63	−40	2

Group east

space	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt
1	HK Jesenice	10	7th	0	3	41:33	+8	14th
2	CE Vienna	10	6th	0	4th	47:35	+12	12
3	HC Gherdëina	10	5	0	5	56:44	+12	10
4th	SHC Fassa	10	5	0	5	37:47	−10	10
5	HK Bled	10	4th	0	6th	38:38	± 0	8th
6th	EV Bruneck	10	3	0	7th	26:48	−22	6th

Playoffs

The final tournament was held from October 20-22, 1995 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee .

Semi-final qualification

Semifinals

final

W1

VEU Feldkirch

5

O1

HK Jesenice

2

M2

HK Olimpija Ljubljana

3

M2

HK Olimpija Ljubljana

4th

W1

VEU Feldkirch

4th

O2

CE Vienna

0

M1

EC KAC

1

W2

AS Varese Hockey

3

O2

CE Vienna

2

3rd place match

O2

CE Vienna

6th

M1

EC KAC

0

M2

HK Olimpija Ljubljana

2

Squad of the Alpine League champions

Alpine league champion VEU Feldkirch

Goalkeepers: Reinhard Divis , Arnulf Zimmermann Defenders: Konrad Dorn , Karl Heinzle , Michael Lampert , Dominic Lavoie , Tom Searle , Wolfgang Strauss Attackers: Franz Fussi , Fritz Ganster , Christoph Gesson , Bengt-Åke Gustafsson , Siegfried Haberl , Normand Krumpschmid , Rick Nasheim , Gerhard Puschnik , Thomas Rundqvist , Bernd Schmidle , Thomas Sticha , Simon Wheeldon Trainer: Ralph Krueger

Web links

• Alpine League 1995/96 at hockeyarchives.info (French)