EHC Bülach

EHC Bülach
Greatest successes
Swiss women champion 1992 multiple promotions to the NLB Vice Swiss Champion 1st League , East 2011/12
Club information
history	EHC Bülach (since 1942)
Location	Bülach , Switzerland
Nickname	EHC Büli, polar bears
Club colors	blue White Red
league	MySports League
Venue	Hirslen sports center
capacity	3000 seats
Head coach	Ramon Schaufelberger
captain	Yannick Waller
2016/17	3rd place, playoff semifinals

The EHC Bülach is an ice hockey team from the city of Bulach in Switzerland , which since 2017 third in the newly formed league, the MySports League , compete.

history

At the beginning the EHC Bülach played in a nearby forest. Later they moved to the Hirslen sports center. The EHC Bülach operates a strong youth work in cooperation with the Kloten Flyers . Some well-known players come from the youth division of EHC Bülach, z. B. Reto Pavoni , Kloten legend Felix Hollenstein or Severin Blindenbacher .

Between 1986 and 1996 there was also a women's team at the EHC, which, as the highlight of its history , won the Swiss championship title in 1991/92 . In 1996 the team moved to EHC Illnau-Effretikon after the board had demanded a special fee of 500 francs from each club member.

In the 2009/10 season, the team failed in the quarter-finals at EHC Winterthur . In the 2011/12 season they advanced to the playoff final, where they again failed at EHC Winterthur with 2: 3 wins.

In the 2016/17 season, the team trained by Martin Höhener reached the playoff semi-finals and qualified third in the main round for the new third division, the MySports League .

Venue

The club's home games are played in the Hirslen sports center, which today (2011) can accommodate up to 3,100 spectators. The audience record at home games of EHC Bülach is 3,400, which was set up in a game against the ZSC Lions .

successes

• Multiple promotions to the National League B
• Vice Swiss Champion 1st League , East 2011/12

Former players (selection)

• Severin Blindenbacher
• Denis Hollenstein
• Felix Hollenstein
• Christine Hüni
• Rick Middleton
• Thomas McMurchy
• Reto Pavoni
• Ronnie Rüeger
• Marco Buehrer
• Sven Lindemann
• Sébastien Reuille
• Reto Berra
• Hans Kossmann

Former trainers (selection)

• Arno Del Curto
• Richard Farda
• Christian Wohlwend
• Thierry Paterlini
• Martin Höhener

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1996/97 EIE women's team - EHC Illnau-Effretikon. In: eie.ch. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .