EHC Illnau-Effretikon

EHC Illnau-Effretikon
Greatest successes
Series B champions in 1947 Master of the LKB (women) 1998, 2005
Club information
history	EHC Illnau-Effretikon (since 1978)
Location	Illnau-Effretikon , Switzerland
Club colors	Green, black and white
league	2nd league
Venue	KEB Eselriet
2015/16	place 2

The Illnau-Effretikon ice hockey club (often EIE for short ) is an ice hockey club from Illnau-Effretikon in Switzerland . It was created in 1966 from the merger of the two clubs EHC Illnau and EHC Effretikon.

history

In 1935 the EHC Effretikon was founded. In 1937 the team won the Zurich Schoolchildren's Championship, and in 1938 the club joined the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation as one of the first Zurich country clubs. In 1937 the EHC Illnau was founded in the neighboring village of Illnau.

In the 1938/39 season, the Effretiker played the first friendly games against the Grasshoppers, Winterthur and St. Gallen. In the 1943/44 season, the EHC Effretikon prepared for the season in a training camp in Klosters and won the regional championship title of Serie B for the first time in March 1947 thanks to victories over Fehraltorf, Winterthur, Veltheim and Enge, without having their own ice rink the players of the EHC Effretikon won the Swiss championship series B, the team at that time consisted of Hans Diener, Werner Pfister, Ruedi Werffeli, Carl Corrodi, Eugen Sommer, Stettbacher, Walter Bretscher, Walter Hess, Jakob Christen.

In the winter of 1949/50 a new play area was built in Mülizenriet, which from 1952 could also be illuminated at night.

In 1963 the EHC Effretikon rose to the first division. Three years later, the two ice hockey clubs Effretikon and Illnau merged to form the ice hockey club Illnau-Effretikon (EIE) and played in the first division in the following years. In 1971 the Eselriet ice rink was opened.

In February 1987, the EIE's membership in the first division ended when the club and EHC Schaffhausen were relegated to the second division. In the following years several promotions and relegations between the 1st and 2nd league followed, and the club has played permanently in the 2nd division since the late 1990s.

Women

Between 1986 and 1996 there was a women's team at EHC Bülach , 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 Bülach board had demanded a special fee of 500 francs from each club member. In 2006 the women's team was disbanded after many players had left the club.

Well-known former players

Arnold Lörtscher "Noldi" Lörtscher completed over 248 national league games for Olten and Lugano. During this time Lörtscher made it into the Swiss national ice hockey team. With this Lörtscher played 89 international matches and took part in six world championships. After retiring as a player, Arnold Lörtscher moved to the coaching camp. Olten Elite Juniors, then Aarau and SC Langenthal, and since 2000 the EHC Olten, are his previous coaching stations.	Marcel Jenni Marcel Jenni became the most successful ex-EIE player to date, when he joined the NLB at the Grasshopper Club Zurich as an 18-year-old attacking defender. With his later NLA club Lugano, Jenni became Swiss champion in 1999. Marcel 'Schöggi' Jenni played a total of 315 NLA games, later he played for Färjestad BK in Sweden. Jenni also made the leap into the national team and completed 141 international matches and seven world championships. His greatest World Cup success was fourth in 1998.
Matthias Bächler , so far 404 games with ZSC, Friborg-Gotteron, Kloten, Bülach and Chur Marcel Sommer , 164 games with Thurgau, Rapperswil-Jona and Basel Marc Haueter , 527 games with Rapperswil-Jona, GC, ZSC-Lions and Chur	Giorgio Giacomelli , 261 games with Geneva-Servette, Herisau and GC-Küsnacht Michael Blaha 135 games with Kloten, Bülach, Davos and Chur Reto Züger , 32 games with Herisau
Kathrin Lehmann Daniela Diaz Christine Meier Sandra Cattaneo Viktor Stancescu Mike Küenzle	Melvin Nyffeler Daniel Weber Patrick Maeder Roland Korsch Pascal Lamprecht

Web links

• Official website
• Profile at eurohockey.com
• Profile and statistics since 1987 at eliteprospects.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ History - EHC Illnau-Effretikon. In: eie.ch. Retrieved August 1, 2016 . 
2. ↑ 1996/97 EIE women's team - EHC Illnau-Effretikon. In: eie.ch. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .