Cardiff Devils
| Cardiff Devils | |
|---|---|
| Greatest successes | |
|
British champions : 1990, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
|
| Club information | |
| history |
Cardiff Devils since 1986 |
| Location | Cardiff , Wales |
| Club colors | red, white, black |
| league | Elite Ice Hockey League |
| Venue | Ice Arena Wales |
| capacity | 3,088 seats |
| executive Director | Todd Kelman |
| Head coach | Jamie Elson |
| 2017/18 | 1st place main round; master |
The Cardiff Devils are an ice hockey club founded in Cardiff in 1986 . They play in the UK's Elite Ice Hockey League and were British champions four times in the 1990s and then again in 2017, 2018 and 2019 . They won the British Hockey League three times , were the first winners of the Ice Hockey Superleague and in 2018 they were also playoff champions of the Elite Ice Hockey League.
history
The club became one of the leading forces in British ice hockey shortly after its inception. As early as 1987, the Devils played in the British Hockey League Division One , i.e. in the second division. In 1989, the Devils won the league and got into the Premier League to where it once in the first 1990 season champions were. In 1993 and 1994 they won the title again. In 1997 they were champions of the newly formed Ice Hockey Superleague and in 1999 they won their fourth British championship.
In 2001 the association was insolvent; the expensive Superleague players were sold and a new team was founded with young players that competed in the British National League (the second division from 1996 to 2005). In 2003 the Cardiff Devils were one of the founding clubs of the Elite League . In the first season they were fifth and lost in the semi-finals of the playoffs against the eventual champions Sheffield Steelers . Also in the following season they failed in the playoff semi-finals, this time against the Nottingham Panthers .
In 2006, the club won the British Ice Hockey Challenge Cup in the finals against Coventry Blaze . In the same year, after 20 years as home, the ice rink Wales National Ice Rink was demolished and the new Cardiff Arena stadium , also known as the Big Blue Tent , opened.
Nine years later, in 2015, the second success came in the Challenge Cup. In March 2016, the club moved to Ice Arena Wales , a new 3,088-seat stadium in Cardiff Bay . The 2016/17 season was the Devils' most successful season in 20 years. The team won the British championship with the EIHL main round by seven points. She also won the title in the Erhardt Conference and the Challenge Cup for the third time. In 2018, in addition to the championship, he also won the playoffs in the EIHL and again won the Erhardt Conference.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorna Doran: Bye bye Cardiff Bay Ice Arena and thanks for all the memories. In: walesonline.co.uk. February 4, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2017 .
- ^ Wales National Ice Rink on Hockeyarenas.net
- ↑ Cardiff Arena on Hockeyarenas.net
