Dornbirn EC

Dornbirn Bulldogs
Greatest successes
National league champions 2007/08 , 2009/10
Club information
history	founded in 1992 EC Dornbirn (1992–2003) EC TRENDamin Dornbirn (2003–2005) EC-TREND Dornbirn (2005–2008) EC Dornbirn (2008–2009) EC hagn_leone Dornbirn (2009–2012) Dornbirner Ice Hockey Club (2012–2017) Dornbirn Bulldogs (since 2017)
Location	Dornbirn , Vorarlberg , Austria
Nickname	The Bulldogs
Club colors	black and white
league	Erste Bank Ice Hockey League
Venue	Dornbirn exhibition stadium
capacity	4,270 seats
executive Director	Alexander Kutzer
Head coach	Kai Suikkanen
Season 2019/20	11th place (main round) 6th place (qualifying round)

The Dornbirn ice hockey club “the Bulldogs” is an Austrian ice hockey club from Dornbirn ( Vorarlberg ) that has been playing in the Erste Bank ice hockey league since 2012 . Before that, Vorarlberg had been active in the national league from 2001 and celebrated two championship titles there.

history

Beginnings

The EC Dornbirn was founded in 1992 as the successor to the EHC Dornbirn and initially established itself primarily as a training club whose various youth teams were able to quickly celebrate successes. In 1998 the super mini boys, in 2001 the mini boys and in 2002 the students won the championship title in their respective age group. In addition, the club management tried through cooperation projects with various established teams to catch up with the level of professionals. These efforts bore fruit in 2001, when the club was able to qualify for the first time for the National League , Austria's second-highest division.

National league

The first major success in the club's history was the runner-up title in 2004, where they won the regular season, but then lost 3-0 to Red Bulls Salzburg in the final . In the 2007/08 season the people from Dornbirn were again in the final and won the first national league title in the club's history against the Salzburg farm team . After a runner-up title in the 2008/09 season , in which they lost 3-1 to EHC Lustenau in the series , the Bulldogs were able to win the title in the National League again in the following 2009/10 season .

As the runner-up in the regular round, the Dornbirn team were already in the semi-finals and were able to defeat the Salzburg Red Bulls' farm team 3-0. In the final, the opponent was HC Innsbruck , who had been relegated from the Bundesliga before the season . Before the playoffs had the team with former KAC - Goalkeeper Hannes Enzenhofer and the Vienna Capitals retired defender Tino Anton Teppert strengthened. The series against Innsbruck could finally be won 3-1. As in the two previous seasons, the Dornbirner had to move to the Rheinhalle , the venue of the EHC Lustenau , in the final .

Bundesliga

In spring 2012, after a long planning phase, EC Dornbirn applied for admission to the top Austrian league. The application was accepted, which means that a team from Vorarlberg has been active in the Bundesliga for the first time since VEU Feldkirch left in 2004.

In the first Bundesliga season 2012/13 , the Dornbirn team reached the penultimate place in the main round and were eliminated after the qualifying round without a play-off ticket. Surprisingly, two Dornbirn legionnaires established themselves as the best players in the league. Luciano Aquino scored the most points and the most assists in the league, while Andrew Kozek scored the most goals.

There were a number of signings in 2013/14 , in return Andrew Kozek left the team and moved to Linz. In their only second EBEL season, the Dornbirns managed to get into the play-off, with Luciano Aquino once again distinguished himself as one of the best players in the league. In the quarter-finals, Vorarlberg lost 4-2 in the series against Salzburg.

The 2014/15 season was not successful for Dornbirn. After Aquino had moved to the top Swedish league, the club finished the main round in tenth place and could not solve a play-off ticket in the qualifying round.

In the 2015/16 season , the Dornbirner were able to qualify directly for the play-off with sixth place in the main round, but only achieved the last place in the placement round of the top six. In the quarter-finals of the play-offs, the Dornbirn team met Orli Znojmo , to whom they lost 2: 4 in the best-of-seven mode.

In 2016/17 Dornbirn landed in tenth place in the main round and had to go to the qualifying round. There the Bulldogs barely missed a playoff ticket with six wins from ten games when they landed only four points behind Orli Znojmo in third place.

Name Sponsors

In the course of its history, EC Dornbirn had several sponsors, whose names it bore in the team name. For a long time the full name of the team was EC TRENDamin Bulldogs Dornbirn . This was shortened to EC-TREND Dornbirn in the 2005 season , which remained the official name until 2008. The full name of the team has been EC hagn_leone Dornbirn since the 2009/10 season . The team always kept their nickname Bulldogs .

team

Squad for the 2019/20 season

As of August 23, 2019

No.	Nat.	player	Item	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
69		Juha Järvenpää	G	May 11, 1989	2019	Noormarkku , Finland
29		Rasmus gutter	G	0July 8, 1990	2017	Hyvinkää , Finland
31		Matthias Tschrepitsch	G	March 25, 1999	2019	Vienna , Austria
59		Maximilian Egger	D.	October 31, 1997	2018	Salzburg , Austria
77		Keaton Ellerby	D.	05th November 1988	2019	Strathmore , Alberta , Canada
4th		Robin Gartner	D.	0November 7, 1988	2019	Nacka , Sweden
10		Jonas Kutzer	D.	April 10, 2001	2019	Austria
2		Olivier Magnan -  C.	D.	0May 1, 1986	2012	Sherbrooke , Quebec , Canada
81		Ramón Schnetzer	D.	August 12, 1996	2019	Feldkirch , Austria
7th		Jordan Subban	D.	0March 3, 1995	2019	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
5		Mikko Vainonen	D.	April 11, 1994	2019	Helsinki , Finland
88		Sam Antonitsch	W.	0January 3, 1996	2019	Vienna , Austria
90		Daniel Ban	RW	November 11, 1993	2019	Klagenfurt , Austria
50		Mathias Bau Hansen	W.	03rd July 1993	2019	Glostrup , Denmark
15th		Jannik Froewis	C.	December 17, 1999	2019	Austria
92		Stefan Häussle -  A	F.	October 31, 1992	2010	Dornbirn , Austria
19th		Tomi Körkkö	W.	March 26, 1991	2019	Oulu , Finland
71		Kevin Macierzynski	W.	June 21, 1992	2015	Feldkirch , Austria
13		Philipp Pöschmann	C.	0January 1, 1997	2016	Vienna , Austria
25th		William Rapuzzi -  A.	RW	05th February 1990	2019	Anchorage , Alaska , USA
9		Emilio Romig -  A	W.	19th September 1992	2019	Vienna , Austria
16		Simeon Schwinger	F.	0October 7, 1997	2017	Dornbirn , Austria
67		Matias Sointu	W.	February 10, 1990	2020	Tampere , Finland
88		Juhani Tamminen	C.	January 11, 1989	2019	Hämeenlinna , Finland
40		Evan squad	W.	October 22, 1987	2019	Anchorage , Alaska , USA

Master teams

National league champions 2007/08

Goalkeepers: Christian Fend, Christof Schwendinger Defenders: Jürgen Fussenegger, Michael Kutzer, Alexander Mellitzer, Patric Scheffknecht, Stefan Spannring, Markus Stengele, Florian Stern, Thomas Urban Attackers: Thomas Auer , Manuel Ganahl , Julian Grafschafter, Raphael Herburger , Fabio Hofer, Pascal Kainz, Markus Kosnjak, Michael Lissek, Christian Messner, Alexander Paul, Sascha Rauter, Lukas Schwitzer, Daniel Smith , Adrian Ströhle, Juha-Matti Vanhanen , Marcel Wolf, Matt Zultek Head coach: Kjell G. Lindqvist

National league champions 2009/10

Goalkeepers: Bernhard Bock , Hannes Enzenhofer , René Burtscher Defenders: Alexander Mellitzer , Tobias Holzer, Stefan Spannring, Igor Iwanow , Michael Kutzer, Sebastian Spiegel, Patric Scheffknecht, Jürgen Fussenegger, Tino Anton Teppert , Bernhard Fechtig Attackers: Lukas Schwitzer , Julian Grafschafter, Fabian Glanznig, Fabio Hofer, Martin Pewal , Jussi Tarvainen , Adrian Ströhle, Ryan Murphy , Steven Burger, Roman Schreiber, Benni Schennach, Dmitri Nabokow , Patrick Spannring, Christian Messner, Thomas Auer , Marcel Wolf Head coach: Peter Johansson

Significant former players

(Team membership and position in brackets)

Aaron Fox (2010-2011, forward) The American, who had already gained extensive experience in the Erste Bank Liga, began his second division career in Dornbirn, where he scored 83 points in 42 games.

Juha-Matti Vanhanen (2003-2006, 2007-2008, striker) Vanhanen spent a total of four years in Dornbirn and was one of the most important players there with over 200 points. In 2008 he celebrated the club's first championship title with the club.

Raphael Herburger (2005-2008, striker) Herburger, who was trained in Dornbirn and moved to the top league at EC KAC in 2008 , is considered one of the best examples of successful youth work in Dornbirn.

Club statistics

National league

The following table shows the placements of the club through all seasons.

Until the 2008/09 season, the 2-point rule (2 points for a win in regular time or overtime / shootout) was in effect in the national league, with the start of the 2009/10 season the 3-point rule was introduced, meaning a win was rated with 3 points in regular playing time. Furthermore, between 2002 and 2010, the points were halved after half of the basic round. The column »Pt. tot. «shows the actual points achieved based on the number of wins and losses.

season	league	Main round											Playoffs
		SP	S.	N	OTS	OTN	T	GT	Torv.	Points	Point total	rank
2001-02	National league	16	4th	8th	1	3	65	84	−19	13	-	6th	Quarter final out
2002-03	National league	28	6th	19th	1	2	96	129	−33	12	16	7th	Quarter final out
2003-04	National league	28	16	5	2	5	156	115	+41	32	41	1.	Runner-up
2004-05	National league	36	24	11	0	1	162	109	+53	38	49	3.	Semi-final out
2005-06	National league	32	17th	8th	3	4th	132	101	+31	32	44	3.	Quarter final out
2006-07	National league	32	16	11	3	2	141	115	+26	28	40	5.	Quarter final out
2007-08	National league	32	20th	6th	4th	2	165	109	+56	36	50	1.	master
2008-09	National league	28	17th	10	0	1	119	82	+37	38	52	2.	Runner-up
2009-10	National league	36	19th	11	4th	2	155	113	+42	47	67	1.	master
2010-11	National league	34	21st	5	5	3	165	95	+70	76	-	2.	Runner-up
2011-12	National league	32	21st	5	4th	2	156	68	+88	73	-	3.	Semi-final out

EBEL

season		Sp	S.	N	OTN	Gates	Points	annotation
2012/13	RS	44	13	28	3	128: 183	29
	PR	10	5	4th	1	26:36	11	Rank 10, no playoff participation
2013/14	RS	44	21st	19th	4th	144: 151	46
	PR	10	6th	4th	0	33:27	15th	Rank 8
	PO	6th	2	3	1	18:24	-	Quarter final out
2014/15	RS	44	19th	23	2	121: 147	40
	PR	10	5	3	2	25:23	13	Rank 10, no playoff participation
2015/16	RS	44	23	15th	6th	126: 108	73
	PR	10	5	3	2	32:37	14th	Rank 6
	PO	6th	2	3	1	15:17	-	Quarter final out
2016/17	RS	44	15th	21st	8th	120: 143	53
	PR	10	6th	3	1	32:23	19th	9th place, no playoff participation
2017/18	RS	44	20th	18th	6th	127: 133	61
	PR	10	7th	1	2	41:30	28	Rank 7
	PO	6th	2	3	1	14:20	-	Quarter final out
EBEL main round		264	111	124	29	766: 865	302
EBEL placement round		60	34	18th	8th	206: 176	100
EBEL playoffs		18th	6th	9	3	47:61	-

Legend for season statistics: GP or SP = total games; W or S = victories; L or N = defeats; T or U = tie; OTS = wins after extra time ( overtime ); OTN or OL = overtime defeats; SOS = shootout wins; SOL or SON = Shootout Losses; P = points; Pct% = wins in%; GF or T = goals; GA or GT = goals conceded

Club-internal records

All preliminary round and play-off games are included.

season

Gates space player Gates season 1. Jouko Myrra 71 2003/04 2. Ryan Foster 52 2003/04 3. Matt Zultek 46 2007/08 4th Tommy Kiviaho 43 2005/06 5. Jouko Myrra 39 2004/05

Assists space player Assists season 1. Juha-Matti Vanhanen 61 2003/04 2. Dmitri Nabokov 60 2009/10 3. Ryan Foster 58 2003/04 4th Luciano Aquino 54 2013/14 Luciano Aquino 54 2012/13

Top scorer space player Points season 1. Jouko Myrra 123 2003/04 2. Ryan Foster 110 2003/04 3. Dmitri Nabokov 88 2009/10 4th Luciano Aquino 86 2013/14 5. Tommy Kiviaho 85 2005/06

Penalty minutes space player Penalty minutes season 1. Thomas Auer 187 2008/09 2. Thomas Auer 148 2007/08 3. Guillaume Desbiens 148 2014/15 4th Danny Bois 135 2012/13 5. Thomas Auer 134 2010/11

All in all

Gates space player Gates 1. Chris D'Alvise 124 2. Jouko Myrra 110 3. Jamie Arniel 90 4th Ryan Foster 85 5. Thomas Auer 73

Assists space player Assists 1. Juha-Matti Vanhanen 173 2. Jamie Arniel 144 3. Luciano Aquino 125 4th Lukas Schwitzer 121 4th Martin Grabher-Meier 108

Top scorer space player Points 1. Jamie Arniel 234 2. Juha-Matti Vanhanen 233 3. Chris D'Alvise 231 4th Jouko Myrra 192 5. Ryan Foster 187

Games space player Games 1. Stefan Häussle 385 2. Olivier Magnan 377 3. Chris D'Alvise 275 4th Stefan Spannring 274 5. Julian Grafschafter 269

Penalty minutes space player Penalty minutes 1. Thomas Auer 576 2. Lukas Schwitzer 500 3. Olivier Magnan 377 4th Gerald Penker 408 4th Nikolas Petrik 309

Coach history

Dave MacQueen , coach since 2012

time	nation	Trainer	Remarks
2007-08		Kjell Lindqvist	master
2008-09		Kjell Lindqvist	Runner-up
2009-10		Peter Johansson	master
2010-11		Jamie Bartman	Runner-up
2011-12		Lenny Eriksson	Loss in the semifinals
2012–13		Dave MacQueen	Missed the playoffs
2013-14		Dave MacQueen	Quarter final out

Venue

Since the mid-2000s there has been a lively discussion about the Dornbirn exhibition stadium, the home ground of the Dornbirn ice hockey club. This stadium was designed by the city of Dornbirn as a multi-purpose hall, so not only ice hockey is played in the hall. So it was the case on September 24th and 25th, 2006, that David Copperfield put on his magic show in the exhibition hall. As a result, the arena could not be used by the Dornbirn ice hockey players and ice training could only begin on October 5th.

This fact affects not only the professional team, but also the junior teams, because it means they have to switch to other halls in Vorarlberg, which causes additional costs. In the 2004 playoffs, EC Dornbirn had to switch to the Lustenau ice rink due to the Dornbirn spring fair. In the 2007/08 and 2009/10 seasons the Rheinhalle had to serve as its home stadium, in the 2008/09 season the club played in the Vorarlberghalle in Feldkirch.

Audience numbers

season	league	Home games	spectator	average
2006/07	National league	18th	27,345	1,519
2007/08	National league	23	49,220	2.140
2008/09	National league	20th	41,179	2,059
2009/10	National league	22nd	47,428	2.156
2010/11	National league	22nd	54,847	2,493
2011/12	National league	20th	37,224	1,861
2012/13	EBEL	27	64,528	2,390
2013/14	EBEL	30th	86,274	2,875
2014/15	EBEL	27	68.904	2,552
2015/16	EBEL	30th	88,738	2,957
2016/17	EBEL	27	62,953	2,331
2017/18	EBEL	30th	76,673	2,555
2018/19	EBEL

Individual evidence

1. ↑ It's fixed - Dornbirn is promoted to the EBEL , report on www.hockeyfans.at from May 23, 2012

Web links

Commons : Dornbirner EC  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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