EV Landshut

EV Landshut
Greatest successes
German champion 1970 , 1983 German ice hockey cup winner 1969 German runner-up 1974, 1976, 1984, 1995 German second division champion 1962 , 1963 , 2012 German upper league champion 2002 , 2019
Club information
history	EV Landshut (1948–2002, since 2015) Landshut Cannibals (2002–2013) EVL Landshut Ice Hockey (2013–2015)
Location	Landshut
Parent club	Ice skating club Landshut e. V.
Club colors	Red , white
league	DEL2
Venue	Municipal ice rink Landshut
capacity	4,139 seats (of which 1,573 seats)
executive Director	Ralf Hantschke
Head coach	Leif Carlsson
Season  2019/20	14th place

The Eislaufverein Landshut is an ice hockey club from the Lower Bavarian city ​​of Landshut , which has been playing in the DEL2 again since 2019 . The professional team of EV Landshut, founded in 1948, has been organized since 2002 by Landshuter Eishockey Spielbetriebs-GmbH , which ran from 2002 to 2013 under the name "Landshut Cannibals" ( pronunciation : [ 'kænibls ]) and from 2013 to 2015 as "EVL Landshut Eishockey “ Started. The parent club is still responsible for the entire youth sector. The team played continuously in the ice hockey Bundesliga from 1963 and was a founding member of the German ice hockey league introduced in 1994 . The club celebrated its greatest successes so far in 1970 and 1983, when it was German champion.

The club colors of EV Landshut are red and white, the home games are played in the ice stadium on Gutenbergweg , which has a capacity of 4,139 spectators. The club's youth work is often counted among the best in Germany and has produced numerous well-known ice hockey players, such as the Truntschka brothers Gerd and Bernd , Alois Schloder and the long-time NHL players Marco Sturm and Christoph Schubert , as well as the two-time Stanley Cup -Winner Tom Kühnhackl .

history

Origins of the Landshut ice hockey sport

Ice skating came into fashion in Landshut by the end of the 19th century at the latest, a newspaper advertisement in the Landshuter Kurier from 1871 advertised women's and men's ice skates . Flooded meadows in the area of ​​today's ice stadium , the Rennweg and Nikolastraße were popular as ice rinks . The Landshut family first came into contact with ice hockey at the beginning of 1934, when Heinz Wittmann organized an ice hockey set from Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Under his leadership, a private team was set up, which - after the patron at the time, the Wittmann Brewery, which still exists today - came up under the name "Team Brewery Wittmann". Toni Stanglmeier stood in the goal, Adolf Knauer and Toni Heigl formed the defense and Hans Schneider, Kurt Höhna, Richard Kollmannsberger, Fred Tayler, organizer Heinz Wittmann and Georg Zeller formed the offensive. The latter was significantly involved in the development of Landshut ice hockey in the period that followed. The first games were played on the "Selmeier-Eis" against private teams from Wartenberg and Donaustauf . A few months after the team was founded - on February 1, 1934 - the Ski Club Landshut (SCL) had its own ice hockey department, which became champions of the Danube region that same year.

For the 1935/36 season, the almost unchanged team of SC Landshut took part in the district league, then the second highest league. After the following season, which was also contested in the second-rate district league, the ice hockey department decided to leave the ski club and join the - by far larger - gymnastics community of Landshut (TGL). Two seasons followed, which were also played in the district league, before the outbreak of World War II put an end to regular league operations. Only a few games took place during the war years. In 1940/41 friendly games were organized again as a department of the TGL, the following season the team was active under the umbrella of the Hitler Youth as Bann 332 Landshut and played against other ban clubs, such as Straubing on January 10, 1943. The first leg was won 8: 1 and the second leg in Straubing on January 31, 1943, the Landshut won 2-0.

After the war, the TG Landshut was again "responsible" for ice hockey. The so-called "Kolbeck-Eisplatz", a natural ice rink that was located at the intersection of Luitpoldstrasse and Rennweg in the Nikola district , now served as a play area . The first game after World War II was won 5-0 against Donaustauf on their own ice. From the first post-war season in 1945/46 to the 1947/48 season, the team played in the second-rate national league. During these years, some new players joined the club, of which Hans Frühmorgen, Walter Rauhmeier and Jaro Truntschka are among the most important. The latter was the team's top scorer eight times in the following years. The striker, who was born in the Czech Republic , came to Bavaria after the end of the war. Like many of his teammates at the time, he played as a footballer for SpVgg Landshut during the ice hockey-free summer months . For the 1947/48 season, the ice hockey department consisted for the first time of a second senior team and a youth team.

Founding of the ice skating club and second class in the national league

season	league	class	Preliminary round	Finals
1948/49	BLL	II	1st place	2nd place ↑
1949/50	BLL	II	2nd place	no
1950/51	BLL	II	2nd place	no
1951/52	BLL	II	2nd place	no
1952/53	BLL	II	4th Place	1st place ↓
1953/54	BLL	II	2nd place / B	no
1954/55	BLL	II	1st place	2nd place ↑
1955/56	BLL	II	2nd place / A	no
1956/57	BLL	II	1st place	Master ↑

^{↑ ↓} in the promotion / relegation round of the respective league

The former Gasthaus Sterngarten 2010

Despite the solid foundation in the second-rate national league, there were disputes between the ice hockey department and the leadership of the gymnastics community. The main concern was the misappropriation of audience income from the ice hockey games in favor of other areas of the TGL. For this reason, at the suggestion of Georg Zeller, the ice hockey department consulted about ways of solving the existing problems and also dealt with the establishment of its own club. Then on April 25, 1948, the founding meeting of the Landshut ice skating club took place in the Sterngarten inn on Seligenthaler Strasse. Georg Zeller, Helmut Kalbe, Johann Frühmorgen, Ludwig Jena, Walter Rauhmeier, Josef and Rudolf Wagner, Jaro Truntschka, Walter Kolb and Herrmann Simbürger are the founding members. Ludwig Fronauer became the first chairman of the association.

In the first season of 1948/49, the EVL team consisted of goalkeeper Adolf Spohrer and field players Neumann, Fred Tayler, Josef Wagner, Otto Kolbeck, Walter Rauhmeier, Rudi Wagner, Walter Kolb, Hans Frühmorgen, Jaro Truntschka and Rudi Fischer. The team of trainer Franz Stern, who became German champions as a player with SC Riessersee the following year, competed in the Landesliga, the second highest league. The still existing ice hockey department of the TGL, on the other hand, did not get beyond the district league and was finally dissolved after the 1950/51 season. In the first friendly game, the club lost 3-2 against EV Tegernsee . Josef Wagner and Hans Frühmorgen scored the two goals on the Landshut side. On the following 20-0 win against Donaustauf, Jaro Truntschka, the outstanding player in the regional league, scored five goals. In the run-up to the first league game against SC München, which the EVL won 3-0, the ice hockey goals had to be built by themselves, as the original ones had been seized by the TGL. At the end of the main round, the first rank was to book and against the EV Tegernsee two playoffs for promotion to the league were played, both of which were lost.

In the following years the venues were changed several times. For the 1949/50 season, for example, the EVL played on the Rot-Weiß tennis court. After this season ended in second place and Jaro Truntschka was the top scorer, as in the previous year, the team also achieved second place in the following season - this time on a place on Gabelsbergerstraße near the Isar . This time Hans Frühmorgen scored the most goals. In 1951 another move followed: the club found its final venue in a natural ice rink on Gutenbergweg. The entrance fee for adults at that time was one mark , children paid 50  pfennigs , and an average of 700 spectators attended the home games in the premiere season right next to the Isar. In that year Dieter Lang joined the team, he became the first Landshut national player . After the season, the team took second place again. The 1952/53 season ended in fourth place, which had the consequence of playing a relegation round against a possible promoted team, which was won. In the following season, the EVL found themselves in second place once again, with Jaro Truntschka becoming the top scorer - again once again - with 20 goals from eight games.

However, since the club management did not want to stay in the national league for long, they advocated more extensive training units. Because natural ice rinks were often unusable due to the weather, the other clubs in the state league, which were based near artificial ice stadiums, had decisive training advantages. As an interim solution, the EVL took ice ages in Bad Tölz , which were often assigned late in the evening. The training units showed their first successes in 1954/55, among other things, the two best goal scorers Jaro Truntschka (14 goals) and Rudi Wagner (7 goals) secured the club first place in the national league. In the battle for promotion, the Landshut had to admit defeat to the ESV Kaufbeuren . At the beginning of the 1955/56 season, Leopold Eichbichler was elected ice hockey chairman. He soon campaigned for the construction of an artificial ice stadium, but the project required a promotion to the highest German division, which was not achieved immediately after the second place after the preliminary round. With Sepp Schramm , a player began his career who was to guard the Landshut goal for the following sixteen years. After the main round in 1956/57 the club was in first place and qualified as "Bavarian Champion" for the promotion round. In a total of four games, the EVL competed against SC Ziegelwies and against TEV Miesbach . While the encounters against Ziegelwies were won 4: 0 and 5: 3, the EVL Miesbach lost in the first game with 0: 5 goals. In the decisive second game against Oberbayern, the team won 3-1 and made their promotion to the first-class league perfect.

• For tabular seasonal overviews with roster and placement, see: Seasonal overviews / 1940s and 1950s

The new artificial ice stadium and establishment in the ice hockey Bundesliga

season	league	class	Preliminary round	Finals
1957/58	OIL	I.	5th place	3rd place ↓
1958/59	OIL	II	4th Place	no
1959/60	OIL	II	2nd place	no
1960/61	OIL	II	2nd place	no
1961/62	OIL	II	1st place	Master ↑
1962/63	OIL	II	1st place	Master ↑
1963/64	1st BL	I.	5th place	1st place ↓
1964/65	1st BL	I.	6th place	2nd place ↓
1965/66	1st BL	I.	8th place	3rd place ↓
1966/67	1st BL	I.	3rd place	3rd place ↑

^{↑ ↓} in the promotion / relegation round of the respective league

Before the first season in the top German league, the ice hockey league in 1957/58 , the demands for an artificial ice stadium were getting louder, since a natural ice rink was not competitive in the first division. Local politicians decided against building an indoor swimming pool, despite concerns, and instead favored the construction of an artificial ice rink. Mayor Albin Lang also solicited donations and in the summer of 1957, the ice rink on Gutenbergweg was transformed into the municipal ice rink , which was not closed at the time, with the help of players and officials . On November 10, 1957, the artificial ice rink was inaugurated against the EC Kitzbühel . In front of 5000 spectators, the ice skating club achieved a 4: 4. The first goal scorers in the new stadium were Jaro Truntschka, Dieter Lang and Egmond Scheibenzuber. With the new options, the number of home games rose from five in the previous year to twenty. For the first time, the Landshut team went to the international level and played, for example, against Blau-Weiss Zurich , HC Bozen or HK Partizan Belgrade .

The training of young talents also moved more and more into the spotlight, with Engelbert Holderied the first full-time trainer was hired. In the league season - Egmond Scheibenzuber was the top scorer - the entry into the final round was missed, the club was fifth. The placement had far-reaching consequences, as the team also missed qualification for the newly introduced ice hockey Bundesliga 1958/59 and remained in the - now - second-rate league. In the following season, the team came fourth. In the 1959/60 season, Rudi Wagner was behind the gang for the first time, with which promotion to the Bundesliga should be achieved. ESV Kaufbeuren won the battle for first place and left Landshut in second place empty-handed. In the following year, the EVL finally climbed to the top of the table, but failed in two relegation games against the last of the ice hockey Bundesliga, TuS Eintracht Dortmund . At home the team lost 0: 1 in front of 8,000 spectators, away with 2: 5. In the following season 1962/63 was again the championship title of the league to book. The opponent in the relegation was again Dortmund. This time the club won 4: 2 in front of 9,000 Landshut fans and 5: 4 away from home, which meant promotion to the ice hockey Bundesliga. Mainly responsible for this success were coach Rudi Wagner, Gerd Wagner, Jaro Truntschka, Erwin Kraus and last but not least the “young talent”, consisting of the 16-year-old players Alois Schloder , Heinz Zerres and Gerd Banholzer.

The EV Landshut started the first Bundesliga season in 1963/64 without personnel reinforcement and after the defeats in the first two games in Kaufbeuren with 5-8 and at home against the Krefeld EV with 1-4 as a relegation candidate. The team reported back with an 8: 1 against the favored Mannheim ERC . Against the eventual champions EV Füssen , the team was defeated with 1:11 away and on their own ice in front of a record crowd of 10,000 spectators with 3: 5. The preliminary round ended in fifth place, the subsequent round of relegation in first place. With 12 goals, Alois Schloder was the team's most successful goalscorer, which appeared in front of an average of 4750 spectators. Since the two veterans Jaro Truntschka and Walter Rauhmeier ended their careers in the following period, numerous young talents were included in the first team, including Toni Steiger and Walter Glaser . At the end of the preliminary round 1964/65, the EVL was in sixth place and reached second place in the relegation round , tied with SC Riessersee . Contact with the Czechoslovak first division club HC Sparta Prague began in 1965 , friendly matches were held and training camps were held in the other city. The commitment of Vaclav Fryzek marked the beginning of a Landshut Bundesliga time dominated by coaches from the CSSR. In the third Bundesliga season, the team reached eighth place after the preliminary round in the now ten-player Bundesliga and, after the final round, finished third with the same number of points as the Krefeld EV. Heinz Zerres and Kurt Schloder signed the list of goalscorers with 19 goals each. After Dieter Lang, three more Landshuters were appointed to the national team: the brothers Kurt and Alois Schloder and goalkeeper Sepp Schramm.

In the game year 1966/67 the ice skating club landed in third place after the preliminary round, level on points with SC Riessersee. Ten years ago, the Landshut team suffered heavy defeats against the 1b team of SC Riessersee, but the team decided the upcoming placement game for a place in the final round 3-2. In the championship round, the EVL was the only team that defeated the future champions Düsseldorfer EG , finally found themselves in front of the EV Füssen and could call themselves the third best team in Germany. After the season there were increasing efforts to convert the open stadium into a hall. At the urging of the later Mayor of Landshut, Josef Deimer - then a member of the state parliament - the state parliament approved financial subsidies. Shortly before the start of the upcoming season, the ice rink was inaugurated with another friendly against Prague, which was lost 4-1.

• For tabular seasonal overviews with roster and placement see: Seasonal overviews / 1950s and 1960s

The era of “Kühnhackl and Schloder” and the two championship titles

season	league	Preliminary round	Finals
1967/68	1st BL	3rd place	3rd place ↑
1968/69	1st BL	4th Place	1st place ↓
1969/70	1st BL	1st place	Master ↑
1970/71	1st BL	4th Place	no
1971/72	1st BL	5th place	no
1972/73	1st BL	3rd place	no
1973/74	1st BL	2nd place	Runner-up
1974/75	1st BL	4th Place	no
1975/76	1st BL	2nd place	Runner-up
1976/77	1st BL	6th place	3rd place ↑
1977/78	1st BL	5th place	5th place ↑
1978/79	1st BL	8th place	1st place ↓
1979/80	1st BL	4th Place	4th place ↑

^{↑ ↓} in the promotion / relegation round of the respective league

For the season 1967/68 the club had to look for a new coach, as Vaclav Fryzek had already spent the permitted three years abroad. Because no one was shortlisted until shortly before the start of the season and a coach from the CSSR was to be hired again, the EVL turned to Sparta Prague. After long negotiations , the management of the club let the then coach Karel Gut move towards the Isar. In its first season, the Landshut team successfully defended third place after the preliminary round and came in third behind Füssen and Bad Tölz. Alois Schloder scored 23 goals in 28 games as the top scorer. A foreign player was allowed to play for the first time in the following season: The EVL signed the Czech Rudi Hejtmanek from Slavia Prague , and another player appeared for the first time for the Dreihelmenstadt team: Erich Kühnhackl immigrated to Bavaria with his parents from Sokolov in the Czech Republic in 1968 . In Gut's second year, the team missed qualifying for the championship round with fifth place in the preliminary round, and first place was achieved in the relegation. The top scorer was again Alois Schloder (35 goals), followed by newcomer Rudi Hejtmanek with 32 goals. In the 1968/69 season , the EVL was able to win the first German ice hockey cup. Erich Kühnhackl scored the decisive goal for the 2: 1 against SC Riessersee .

After first place in the preliminary round of the 1969/70 season and winning the Bavarian championship, there were already many indications that the EVL was facing the most successful season in the club's history. On the penultimate day of the match, the team ensured clear conditions prematurely with a 3-1 win, won the German championship title and after ten wins from fourteen games relegated the Bavarian competition from Bad Tölz , Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Füssen to their places. Alois Schloder (twice) and Rudi Hejtmanek scored the goals in the decisive encounter. The ice hockey euphoria in Landshut was great, four of the 18 home games were sold out with 10,000 spectators, the average number of visitors of 6750 is still unmatched. The fact that the juniors also became German champions at the same time showed that Landshut had made it to the top. After the season, Karel Gut, the "father of the first championship", had to return to Czechoslovakia.

After the EVL squad had hardly changed in the following year and young talents like Klaus "Butzi" Auhuber added to the team, it only achieved fourth place under coach Jaro Truntschka. One of the reasons for this was an injury mishap that basically spanned two seasons, with eight players temporarily unable to play. In the 1970/71 European Cup , for which the respective national champions of the previous year were qualified, the club defeated SG Cortina 3: 1 and 6: 3, but was disqualified from the tournament because an unauthorized player played. In the following year, the Truntschka troop landed in fifth place. Two of the three best scorers in the league came from Landshut: Alois Schloder with 51 points (29 goals) and Erich Kühnhackl with 43 points (24 goals). From the 1972/73 season on, regular players such as Sepp Schramm, who ended his career, and Kurt Schloder, who moved to the Cologne EC , had to be dispensed with. After coach Mike Daski had to train seven young players in the professional team, the team moved up to third place in the table. A year later, the second championship title was narrowly missed when the ice skating club against Bad Tölz did not get past a 4: 4 and the Berliner SC took first place. Erich Kühnhackl was the best scorer in the league with 76 points. With a younger squad, the Landshut team under Dany Smit found themselves in fourth place after the 1974/75 season. While the EVL won against Kaufbeuren twice with 10: 1, the team in Krefeld lost with 0:10 because only six players were available due to a flu epidemic. With Bernhard Englbrecht and Gerd Truntschka , two future ice hockey greats joined the team for the next season, which - like two years before - only failed at the Berliner SC.

After the season ensured Klaus Auhuber, Alois Schloder and Erich Kühnhackl with the national team caused a sensation when she at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games , the bronze medal won - the hitherto greatest success of the German ice hockey. Before the next season, Kühnhackl moved to the Cologne EC for the record sum of 650,000 marks, which ultimately became champions for the first time, while EV Landshut finished the preliminary round in sixth place and came third in the final round. Top scorer for the EVL was the Swede Claes-Ove Fjällby with 61 points. In 1977/78 the Landshut team did not get past fifth place in both the preliminary and the final round. The club management tried to deal with a decline in the number of spectators with a top-class team. For the 1978/79 season František Pospíšil was committed from the CSSR, ten-time medalist at world championships and three-time medalist at the Olympic Games. In addition to the former international player Horst Meindl from Füssen, there were eight other national players in the Landshut team. The entry into the final round was still missed. As a result, the average attendance fell to 1700 - the calculation was 4500. In 1979/80 the club finally signed Jiří Kochta , Kühnhackl returned from Cologne, while Gerd Truntschka moved there. The average attendance improved again to over 3600 and the two league-wide top scorers, Erich Kühnhackl with 155 points and Jiří Kochta with 144 points, put the EVL in fourth place.

season	league	Preliminary round	Play-offs
1980/81	1st BL	5th place	Quarter finals
1981/82	1st BL	1st place	Semifinals
1982/83	1st BL	1st place	master

Landshut cheers after winning the championship

After numerous coach changes, the coach of the championship team in 1970, Karel Gut, returned to the EVL and wanted to form Landshut again into a title contender within the next three years. In a 1980/81 season overshadowed by the so-called passport forgery scandal , the goal of play-off home law was missed and fifth place was taken. After a first, annulled quarter-final against the Cologne EC, the Landshuter were eliminated against the Berliner SC with a victory in the quarter-finals, which were carried out according to the best-of-three mode. The youngsters were more successful: the junior and youth teams were each German champion, the student team runner-up. After the season, the club's own stadium was sold to the city of Landshut in order to put the club on a more solid financial footing. A large part of the team of the following year was under 23 years old, compared to the experienced players Kühnhackl, Schloder and Auhuber. In addition, the EVL signed the Laycock brothers Bob and Robin , who previously competed for Straubing and were top scorers in the league several times. After the preliminary round, the team took first place in front of the Cologne EC. In the quarter-finals of the play-offs, Düsseldorf was defeated 6-2 and 5-2. In the semifinals, the team finally lost their first home game against the fifth SB Rosenheim 5-0. Despite a 6-2 away win, the home game went 3: 4 to the eventual champions Rosenheim shortly afterwards. The play-off games each saw 8,500 spectators. Erich Kühnhackl collected the most points (102 points), while Helmut Steiger was the EVL's best striker.

No major personnel changes for the new season were made, but Bernd Truntschka and Bernd Wagner joined the team for the first time . After the preliminary round of the 1982/83 season, the team was one point ahead of the Mannheim ERC in first place. In the quarter-finals, Düsseldorf were defeated 10: 6 and 4: 3 and Landshut moved into the semi-finals, where they met the Cologne EC. While the first match was won 5-2, Cologne then reported back with a 13-3 win, before Landshut won the following two games 6-2 and 6-3. Thus the entry into the final against Mannheim was reached. After a close 2-1 win, the team suffered an 8-2 defeat away from home. In the third game, Landshut took the lead again with a 6: 4 win, before Michael Betz scored the 5: 4 winning goal two minutes before the end in Mannheim in the fourth game and thus brought the second championship title to the Isar. Overall, the series of the Laycock brothers and Betz was responsible for eleven of the fifteen hits in the final. The best scorer was again Erich Kühnhackl with 80 points, top scorer was Helmut Steiger with 45 goals. On average, over 4,700 spectators attended the EVL's home games. After the season it was time for Karel Gut, who was now also responsible for winning the second title, to say goodbye again.

• For tabular seasonal overviews with roster and placement, see: Seasonal overviews / 1960s , 1970s and 1980s

Times in the midfield of the league

season	league	Preliminary round	Play-offs	Audience Ø
1983/84	1st BL	4th Place	Runner-up	-
1984/85	1st BL	4th Place	Quarter finals	3,633
1985/86	1st BL	5th place	Quarter finals	3,244
1986/87	1st BL	8th place	Quarter finals	3,367
1987/88	1st BL	4th Place	Quarter finals	4,661
1988/89	1st BL	8th place	Quarter finals	3,228
1989/90	1st BL	9th place	1st place ↓	3.810
1990/91	1st BL	9th place	1st round ↓	4,300
1991/92	1st BL	11th place	Relegation ↓ GT	3,680
1992/93	1st BL	10th place	1st round ↓	5.010
1993/94	1st BL	4th Place	Quarter finals	5,404

^↓ Placement in the relegation round
or the play-downs of the respective
league ^GT relegation at the green table

After Karel Guts departure, Jaroslaw Pitner, a coach from the CSSR, was in charge of the gang for the 1983/84 season. With young talents such as Ewald Steiger and Joe Wasserek and the well-known veterans, the club achieved first place in the final group A in a complicated mode. The best scorer until then was again Erich Kühnhackl with 87 points from 42 games. In the subsequent semi-finals, the team defeated ESV Kaufbeuren with three wins in a row after two defeats. In the final, the team was defeated by the Cologne EC with 2: 3 wins and was German runner-up, the last major success in the remaining ten Bundesliga seasons. The team's top scorers were Helmut Steiger with 53 goals ahead of his Polish colleague Henryk Pytel with one less goal. In the next season Christian Brittig made his debut in the senior team, to which he remained loyal until 1992. After the main round, as in the previous year, fourth place was achieved. In the quarterfinals, the Landshut met ESV Kaufbeuren, who won the series with 3-1 wins.

In the next four seasons, mediocrity was probably the best catchphrase to aptly describe the achievements of the Landshut skid-steers, the financial resources of a big city club were missing. The EV Landshut wanted to play longer for the championship with the commitment of the Finnish national player Matti Hagman , who had previously played for the Boston Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers from the NHL, among others . In the 1985/86 season, Andreas Lupzig began his professional career at EV Landshut, for which he played until 1989. In his one-year stint in Landshut, Hagman was the third best scorer in the league with 74 points. After the fifth place in the preliminary round, the team under coach Rudolf Sindelar was eliminated from the ECD Iserlohn with 0: 3 wins in the quarter-finals. In the following season the team only reached eighth place and was eliminated in the quarter-finals against SB Rosenheim after winning four matches. The top scorers were Tom Roulston with 23 and Jiří Poner with 19 goals. In the following year the future coach Tobias Abstreiter , Günter Oswald a year later, joined the team. The 1987/88 season ended with a place in the top four and ended in the quarter-finals against the Düsseldorfer EG. The American Tom O'Regan scored 31 goals. In the following season Erich Kühnhackl ended his professional career and was Landshut's best scorer for the last time with 59 points. The EVL did not get past eighth place after the preliminary round.

The EVL had in the meantime accumulated 2.7 million marks in debt, so the club's management had to forego major investments in the period that followed. The long-time club president Rudolf Gandorfer predicted a decline of the remaining traditional Bavarian clubs Kaufbeuren and Landshut - Füssen and Riessersee had previously left the first division. Since the training of an ice hockey player cost the EVL about 220,000 marks, but the talents were mostly bought up by other clubs, Gandorfer demanded higher transfer fees in vain. In the 1989/90 season, the Landshut failed to make it into the play-offs for the first time, but stayed in ninth place in the relegation round in first place. The best scorer was Craig Laughlin with 47 points. In the following season, the team reached ninth place and prevailed in the first play-down round against EHC Dynamo Berlin with 4-1 wins. The following season was a low point in the history of the EVL. Towards the end of the preliminary round, the team was in penultimate place and was defeated in the first play-down round by ESV Kaufbeuren with 1: 4 wins. In the second round of direct relegation against Weißwasser , Landshut lost the best-of-five series, which led to relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga . However, since SB Rosenheim withdrew for financial reasons at the end of the season and Weisswasser was refused the license, the Dreihelmenstadters held the class. In the following season, the team with tenth place had to compete again in the play-downs, in which this time the class was held after the club prevailed with 4-2 wins against EHC Freiburg .

As a result of avoiding relegation, the EVL managers changed their strategy and invested in the new coach Bernie Johnston and several players. The team retired after a fourth place in the preliminary round in the quarter-finals against Cologne with 3: 4 wins.

• For tabular seasonal overviews with roster and placement see: Seasonal overviews / 1980s and 1990s

The EV Landshut in the DEL: From the runner-up to the license sale

season	league	Preliminary round	Play-offs	Audience Ø
1994/95	DEL	2nd place	Runner-up	5,355
1995/96	DEL	4th Place	Semifinals	4,358
1996/97	DEL	7th place	Semifinals	4.152
1997/98	DEL	3rd place	Semifinals	4,035
1998/99	DEL	6th place	Quarter finals	3,346

The newly founded German Ice Hockey League was the first self-governing professional league in Germany. The qualified clubs outsourced their professional teams to a corporation for the start of gaming operations . For this reason, Cannibals Eissport GmbH was founded, which was responsible for the professional team in the following years and was the holder of the DEL license. Since the mid-1990s, the first team was nicknamed “ Cannibals ” for marketing reasons .

Pawel Bure at EVL: One game, three goals

In the first DEL season, coach Bernie Johnston was able to fall back on the same player base as from the previous year. In addition, the former NHL striker Wallace "Wally" Schreiber was signed by league competitor EC Hedos Munich . During the season, the team particularly benefited from the lockout in the NHL, when three players, Pawel Bure , Scott Young and Uwe Krupp, briefly ran into the three-helmet town. "The Russian Rocket" scored three goals in the only appearance by Bure in Landshut dress against the Eisbären Berlin . Since his number ten with the Cannibals was already taken, he played with shirt number "01". After the preliminary round, the team came in second behind BSC Preussen . In the play-off round of 16, the Cannibals defeated ESG Sachsen Weißwasser with a sweep , before the Kassel Huskies were defeated in the same way in the quarter-finals. Landshut also won the semi-final against Krefeld EV after falling 2-0 down with 3-2. In the final series, the opponent was Cologne , the series was balanced until the last game, before the team lost 4-0 at home and thus missed the third championship title after 1970 and 1983. The best goalscorers were Wally Schreiber with 38 goals and Mike Bullard with 39 goals, who was thus at the top of the league.

Storm in the jersey of the Boston Bruins

The following season ended the Landshut in fourth place, in the round of 16, the Starbulls Rosenheim were defeated in four games, while the team defeated the Adler Mannheim with a sweep. In the semifinals, the Kölner Haie again ended the higher ambitions of the EVL. The two top scorers José Charbonneau (42 goals) and Mike Bullard (35 goals) couldn't change that either. Marco Sturm scored twelve goals in his first professional season. The average attendance this season was 4,300, after an average of over 5300 people made the pilgrimage to the stadium on Gutenbergweg in the previous year. After extensive mode changes, the EVL reached the play-offs in the 1996/97 season via the relegation round. This time the team faced the Cologne team in the quarterfinals. If the Cannibals were eliminated in the last two years against the Domstädter, this time the series was won in four games. However, the euphoria only lasted for a short time, because the Adler Mannheim won all matches in the semi-finals. Gino Cavallini scored the most frequently for the EVL with 28 goals, followed by Mike Bullard. In the next season, the play-offs were reached directly with sixth place. The team repeated the sensation of the previous year by defeating the Kölner Haie, this time without defeat. The semifinals were again the final destination, no game was won against the Eisbären Berlin. Dave McLlwain , who was signed directly from the NHL this season , was the top scorer with 21 goals ahead of Wally Schreiber.

With the goal to win the third German championship, was the 1998/99 season under Chris Valentine , a high-caliber cadres to the Dean Evason , Jari Korpisalo , Evan Marble , Jason Herter , David Bruce , Mike Casselman , Peter Douris and Robert Joyce newly were added. At the end of the preliminary round, the Landshut team reached sixth place. The team lost in the play-offs in the quarter-finals against eventual champions Adler Mannheim without a win. But that's not all: In the meantime, the Landshut Bundesliga club had accumulated a good ten million marks in debts and on May 12, 1999 it was finally announced that the club's management was unable to shoulder the upcoming budget and was therefore withdrawing from the DEL should. For two million marks, the US American Anschutz Entertainment Group around billionaire Philip F. Anschutz took over the Landshut license, including the capital company Cannibals Eissport GmbH , which was renamed "MEC Munich Ice Hockey Club GmbH" and was relocated to Munich as the Munich Barons professional team , three Years later, the company was renamed Hamburg Freezers and moved to Hamburg . Within a three-year cooperation agreement, EV Landshut remained the required parent club of the corporation and in return received 350,000 marks a year to promote young talent. The contract also stipulated that the Dreihelmenstadters had to compete at least two leagues below the Barons during this time. After 36 years of first class, the move took place in the third-class Oberliga-Süd .

• For tabular seasonal overviews with roster and placement, see: Season overviews / 1990s

The new beginning in the big league

season	league	class	Preliminary round	Play-offs	Audience Ø
1999/00	OIL	III	2nd place	master	1,750
2000/01	OIL	III	7th place	Quarter finals	1,273
2001/02	OIL	III	1st place	master	1,548

The future NHL player Christoph Schubert spent his first professional season 1999/2000 at EVL

With the license and the corporation, a large part of the players also moved to Munich. This included Christian Künast , Jörg Handrick and Markus Jocher as well as almost the entire “foreigners faction” around Jason Herter , Chris Luongo , Mike Casselman , Peter Douris , Robert Joyce , Johan Rosén and Jari Korpisalo . In the first league season - the club was now also responsible for the professional team again - Michael Eibl was behind the gang at the beginning, before he left his place for Gary Clark in the course of the year. For the following time, the club's management relied more and more on its own young players, for example Matthias Wittmann , Markus Hundhammer , Christoph Schubert and Dominik Hammer were involved. The defender Kamil Ťoupal was signed by the Czech first division club HC České Budějovice . While the team was still sixth after the preliminary round in the Oberliga-Süd, the Landshut team reached second place behind Straubing after the qualifying round . After play-off victories against EHC Wolfsburg and TSV Erding , the team had qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga , but the promotion was waived due to the valid cooperation agreement with the Munich Barons.

In the following season Bernd Truntschka ran again for Landshut. The preliminary round ended in seventh place. In the quarter-finals of the play-offs, no game was won against EV Duisburg and the team was eliminated early. The top scorer was David Bruk with 24 goals. The average attendance reached a low this season - an average of almost 1,300 people wanted to see the home games of EV Landshut.

A year later, ex-goalkeeper Bernie Englbrecht was hired as a coach. Economically, things were not going well this year: First of all, the new managing director and manager of the club, Bernd Truntschka, fired himself at the beginning of the season for financial reasons and then worked on a voluntary basis for the EVL. After more and more financial gaps opened up and the club from the DEL times was still in debt in the millions, an application for bankruptcy was filed during the season and the game was continued. In terms of sport, however, the Dreihelmenstadters showed a different side. Under Englbrecht, the team reached first place in the table with a fourteen point lead. In the play-off semifinals, the club prevailed against the Erding Jets with a sweep and also won the final against the Dresdner Eislöwen without defeat. This was the second time in three years that EV Landshut won the league championship and this time finally achieved promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga . The success was finally completed by the two victories in the prestige duel against co-promoted ESV Kaufbeuren .

• For tabular seasonal overviews with roster and placement see: Season overviews / 1990s and 2000s

The way to the second division championship

season	league	Preliminary round	Play-offs	Audience Ø
2002/03	2nd BL	4th Place	Semifinals	2,699
2003/04	2nd BL	4th Place	Runner-up	3.129
2004/05	2nd BL	6th place	Quarter finals	2,621
2005/06	2nd BL	2nd place	Quarter finals	2,677
2006/07	2nd BL	5th place	Semifinals	2,455
2007/08	2nd BL	2nd place	Runner-up	2,665
2008/09	2nd BL	6th place	Quarter finals	2,090
2009/10	2nd BL	5th place	Quarter finals	2,264
2010/11	2nd BL	8th place	Quarter finals	2.005
2011/12	2nd BL	1st place	master	2,775
2012/13	2nd BL	3rd place	Quarter finals	2.223

In the course of the previous insolvency application, the first team's game operations were outsourced to Landshuter Eishockey Spielbetriebs-GmbH on January 28, 2002 . With the promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, LES-GmbH, with Bernd Truntschka as managing director, was still responsible for the professional team, which from then on ran under the name "Landshut Cannibals". The bankruptcy plan was accepted by the creditors in September 2002 and the last installment of the plan was paid in the following year. In terms of sport, the season ended after the fourth place in the preliminary round in the play-off semi-finals, in which they lost 3-2 wins against SC Riessersee . The most successful goalscorer in the first second division season was Christian Brittig with 20 goals.

In the following season, the Cannibals prevailed in the play-offs with 3-1 wins against EV Duisburg , before the team won the semi-final against EC Bad Nauheim in the last game with 3-2 after a penalty shootout. In the final, the Landshut had to admit defeat to the later promoted EHC Wolfsburg and became runner-up. The top scorer was Markus Welz with 25 goals. Landshut's home games were attended by an average of 2,622 spectators. On March 2, 2004, the insolvency proceedings were finally concluded by the Landshut District Court.

Stefan Horneber and TJ Guidarelli in the 2007 play-offs

In the 2004/05 season, the last with Bernie Englbrecht as coach, the play-off qualification was reached with sixth place. The team lost the quarter-final series against the Eisbären Regensburg with just one win. The top scorers were Bobby Brown and Thomas Daffner , each with 15 goals. The latter also led the list the following year, this time with 32 hits. Under coach Daniel Naud , the team strengthened in the goalkeeper position with Martin Cinibulk in 2005/06 . Brandon Dietrich , who was also newly added to the squad, was the second top scorer with 28 goals. After the second place after the preliminary round, the Landshut were defeated by the Dresdner Eislöwen in a quarter-final series of seven games. In the following season, the Cannibals moved into the play-off semi-finals against the Schwenninger Wild Wings , which were defeated with 4-1 wins. Here the later promoted Wolfsburg ended a Landshut play-off season for a second time.

In the following season, coach Andreas Brockmann signed Brent Walton , Brandon Dietrich and Peter Abstreiter (top scorer with 36 goals). Most of the regulars were held around the Czech players Martin Cinibulk and Kamil Ťoupal and the Germans Markus Welz, Markus Hundhammer , Andreas Geipel , Thomas Daffner and Anton Prommersberger . The second place after the preliminary round behind "Ligakrösus" Kassel Huskies gave hope for a successful play-off round. In the quarter-finals the team won against the Bietigheim Steelers with 4-1 victories, in the semi-finals the Heilbronner Falken were defeated without defeat. The unequal final duel - the Kassel Huskies had a budget more than twice as high as Landshut - was more exciting than expected: Only in the extension of the fifth game did a goal by Drew Bannister put an end to Landshut's dreams of promotion.

In the following season the belt had to be tightened financially again. Mike Bullard became the new coach before he was replaced during the season by the interim team around Ewald Steiger and Günter Oswald . The newcomer Ben Cottreau was the best scorer with 59 points. Sixteen-year-old Tom Kühnhackl , the youngest son of ice hockey legend Erich Kühnhackl, scored 21 points. After the preliminary round, the team found itself in fifth place. This time it was over in the quarterfinals against EV Ravensburg . For the 2009/10 season the defender brothers Tobias (as coach) and Peter (as striker) were signed. Despite a weak start and several player changes, the troop found themselves in fifth place after the preliminary round and increasingly caused a sensation with the “young talent” around Tobias Rieder , Tom Kühnhackl and Maximilian Forster , who however could not prevent the quarter-finals against the Bietigheim Steelers . After another disappointing start to the 2010/11 season, the team around top scorer Ty Morris (48 points) was only eighth despite a race to catch up with 12 home games in a row. The team lost in the quarter-finals of the play-offs against the Ravensburg Towerstars without a win and could not build on the title win of the junior team in the DNL .

The 2011/12 season marked the end of an era: Both the previous shareholders and the long-time managing director Bernd Truntschka announced their retirement. In autumn 2011, Rainer Beck was introduced as a future partner, thereby securing the professional location in Landshut. The season's goal of being able to take part in the play-offs was more than exceeded: Under the leadership of the new coach Jiří Ehrenberger , the cannibals reached first place after the main round. In the team that harmonized well, the “Czech series” around Jaroslav Kracík (top scorer with 51 points), František Mrázek and Martin Davídek was particularly noteworthy. In the play-offs Bill Trew was in top form - he reached 27 points - and played a major role in the two sweeps against the Hanover Indians in the quarter-finals and the “feared opponents” of the last few seasons, the Ravensburg Towerstars , in the semifinals. For the first time in the second division of the Landshut Cannibals, they were favorites in the play-off final. If the team had a hard time in the first games against arch rivals Starbulls Rosenheim , they finally decided the series with four to two wins and celebrated the first championship on Rosenheimer Eis since the upper league final in 2002.

A new team logo was presented before the 2012/13 season . After the main round, the Cannibals were in third place, but they were eliminated 2: 4 in the play-off quarter-finals in the new edition of the final of 2012 against Starbulls Rosenheim . As the reigning second division champion, the team took part in the IIHF Continental Cup during the season . There you were set for the 2nd round. The Cannibals won Group B and prevailed against the Belfast Giants , Ruijters Eaters Geleen and HSC Csíkszereda before they were eliminated in the third round without a win against HC Bozen , Toros Neftekamsk and Herning Blue Fox .

• For tabular seasonal overviews with roster and placement see: Season Overviews / 2000s and Seasonal Overviews / 2010s

Return to the name EV Landshut

Logo of LES GmbH since 2013

season	league	Preliminary round	Play-offs	Audience Ø
2013/14	DEL`2	5th place	Semifinals	2,749
2014/15	DEL`2	6th place	Semifinals	3,367

On February 25, 2013, it was announced that LES GmbH will dispense with the nickname “Cannibals” from the 2013/14 season and will again compete under the name “EVL” in the 2nd Bundesliga. A new sponsorship concept and an even stronger cooperation with the parent club were also largely positively received. For reasons of trademark law, LES GmbH renounced the term ice skating “club” and has since been known as “EVL Landshut Eishockey”. A modified logo was also introduced. Despite a successful start in the newly founded DEL2 with eleven home wins in a row, the preliminary round ended in fifth place. In the play-offs, the team, which had been playing with Andreas Brockmann since February , turned a 3-1 deficit against the Ravensburg Towerstars and only lost out in the seventh match of the semifinals against the Fischtown Pinguins . The 2014/15 season started mixed with twelve wins and 14 defeats in the first half of the season. In addition, the club had to do without its head coach from December 2014 for health reasons. The successor was the previous co-trainer Ewald Steiger. In January 2015, Anton Krinner was signed as the new head coach. Under his leadership, the team was able to qualify directly for the play-offs, where they had to admit defeat in the semifinals of the later championship team of the Bietigheim Steelers .

New start in the big league

season	league	class	Preliminary round	Play-offs	Audience Ø
2015/16	OIL	III	4th Place	Quarter finals	2,609
2016/17	OIL	III	8th place	Round of 16	1,648
2017/18	OIL	III	4th Place	Round of 16	2,475
2018/19	OIL	III	2nd place	master	2,639
2019/20	DEL2	II	14th place	-	2,990
2020/21	DEL2	II

The 2015/16 season started extremely negatively for EV Landshut, as the license for the DEL 2 was surprisingly refused due to a lack of profitability. The club will therefore start in the Oberliga Süd from the 2015/16 season . It then became known that the previous sole shareholder Rainer Beck had notarized his shares back to LES GmbH and, in addition to waiving all loans, made new capital available to LES GmbH.

Since the 2015/16 season, the EVL has been back under the name EV Landshut. The first season in the league ended the EVL in 4th place. In the play-offs it was over against the Tilburg Trappers from the Netherlands. In the 2018/19 season, the Landshut team took second place in the main round. After a successful play-off phase, the EVL won the league championship and thus rose again to the DEL2.

• For tabular seasonal overviews with squad and placement see: Season overviews / 2010s

successes

• German champion 1970 , 1983
• German cup winner 1969
• German runner-up 1974, 1976, 1984, 1995
• Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga in 1963
• Promotion to the Oberliga (1st division) in 1957
• German second division champion 1962 , 1963 , 2012
• South German champion 1957
• German second division runner-up in 1960 , 1961 , 2004 , 2008
• German Oberliga Champion 2002 , 2019
• German Oberliga runner-up in 2000
• Bavarian champion (2nd division) 1957
• "EVL-1b" Bavarian Champion (4th division) 1969

team

Squad for the 2019/20 season

Status: February 7, 2020

No.	Nat.	player	Item	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
24		Jaroslav Hübl	G	December 29, 1982	2019	Chomutov , Czechoslovakia
32		Dimitri Pätzold	G	03rd February 1983	2020	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
86		Dominik Boháč	D.	February 18, 1990	2019	Klatovy , Czechoslovakia
27		Alexander Dersch ( FL )	D.	March 30, 2000	2019	Landshut , Germany
13		Christian Ettwein	D.	October 24, 1998	2018
61		Nicolas Geitner ( FL )	D.	December 11, 1998	2019	Dusseldorf , Germany
8th		Stephan Kronthaler	D.	0May 2, 1993	2018	Landshut , Germany
43		Josh McFadden	D.	May 23, 1991	2019	Guelph , Ontario , Canada
40		Phillip brass	D.	February 17, 1995	2019	Kaufbeuren , Germany
17th		Elia Ostwald	D.	March 17, 1988	2018	Bad Muskau , Germany
		Matic Podlipnik	D.	0August 9, 1992	2020	Jesenice , Slovenia
85		Mario Zimmermann	D.	April 26, 2001	2019	Altötting , Germany
44		Marco Bassler	F.	July 16, 1999	2017	Landshut , Germany
5		Maximilian Brandl	C.	February 13, 1988	2019	Landshut , Germany
20th		Alexander Ehl ( FL )	C.	November 28, 1999	2017	Landshut , Germany
19th		Christoph Fischhaber	C.	0June 1, 1988	2016	Benediktbeuern , Germany
82		Maximilian Forster	LW	September 19, 1990	2013	Landshut , Germany
41		Erik Gollenbeck	C.	May 31, 1995	2019	Werdau , Germany
88		Jeff Hayes	C.	April 15, 1989	2019	Ottawa , Canada
10		Maximilian Hofbauer	LW	02nd January 1990	2015	Landshut , Germany
18th		Aleš Jiřík	C.	0April 9, 1981	2018	Kladno , Czechoslovakia
89		Lukas Mühlbauer	F.	June 30, 1999	2019	Landshut , Germany
37		Marc Schmidpeter	RW	0March 3, 1995	2018	Fürstenfeldbruck , Germany
22nd		Marco Sedlar	RW	August 30, 1995	2014	Dingolfing , Germany
23		Luca Trinkberger	F.	March 27, 1998	2017	Landshut , Germany

Coaching staff

activity	Nat.	Surname	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
Trainer		Leif Carlsson	February 18, 1965	1/2020	Ludvika , Sweden

Significant past teams

German champion 1970

position	Surname
Goal:	Sepp Schramm , Johann Schneidermeier
Defense:	Michael Eibl , Heinz Bickleder , Günter Magura , Max Pfaller
Storm:	Alois Schloder , Kurt Schloder , Toni Steiger , Rudolf Hejtmanek , Erich Kühnhackl , Wolfgang Dylla , Peter Krebs , Harald Siegmund , Rupert Kreitmeier , Walter Glaser , Gerd Banholzer
Trainer:	Karel good

German champion 1983

position	Surname
Goal:	Bernhard Englbrecht , Rupert Meister , Franz Spornraft
Defense:	Thomas Gandorfer , Bernd Wagner , Franz Steer , Bernhard Seyller , Klaus Auhuber , Peter Weigl , Christoph Schödl , Wolfgang Oswald , Alois Schloder
Storm:	Klaus Gotsch , Gerald Riedl , Erich Kühnhackl , Bob Laycock , Robin Laycock , Michael Betz , Bernd Truntschka , Hans-Georg Eder , Joe Wasserek , Ewald Steiger , Helmut Steiger , Alfred Weiß
Trainer:	Karel Gut , Toni Steiger

player

Blocked jersey numbers

Honoring the legends of EV Landshut

In the history of the Landshut ice skating club since 1948, numerous personalities have made outstanding contributions to ice hockey in the city of three helmets. Some of the most important players have been honored in a special way since the 2010/11 season : their numbers have not been awarded since then and their jerseys were placed above the ice surface of hall one under the hall roof. In August 2010 the following five actors were honored:

• In honor of Sepp Schramm , jersey number 1 was blocked. The goalkeeper accompanied his home team on promotion to the top German league and won the championship with him in 1970. After 244 Bundesliga games, he was last on the ice for Landshut in 1974/75.
• The number 4 is no longer awarded as an appreciation for Jaro Truntschka . The founding member of the EVL was largely responsible for the early success story of the ice skating club. Truntschka scored 355 goals in 318 games and worked for the club for eighteen years after the end of his career.
• Out of respect for Klaus “Butzi” Auhuber's achievements , “his” jersey number 7 was banned. The defender spent almost his entire career at EVL and became German champions with the team in 1983.
• By blocking number 14, the EVL is honoring the commitment of the "ice hockey player of the century" Erich Kühnhackl . The striker won four German championships, two of them with Landshut, and scored 724 goals and 707 assists in 774 Bundesliga games. For the national team he scored another 131 goals in 211 encounters.
• Alois Schloder's jersey number 15 is no longer awarded in recognition of his commitment to the three-helmets . He was accepted into the Bundesliga squad in 1963 and remained loyal to his club until he ended his professional career in 1986. In 1085 games he can point to 631 goals.

Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany

Personalities who have rendered outstanding services to ice hockey in Germany will be admitted to the “Hall of Fame” of the German Ice Hockey Museum. The following recorded players were active in Landshut:

(Team membership and position in brackets)

Klaus Auhuber (1979–1984, 1985–1988, defense) Born in Landshut, he went through all the youth teams and was German champion in 1983 with the EVL. After a stopover at the ECD Iserlohn, he returned to his home club in 1985. With the German national team, Auhuber took part in three world championships and won the bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games.	Bernhard Englbrecht (1975–1993, goal, 2001–2005, coach) Englbrecht, born in the Lower Bavarian capital, first guarded the goal of the professional team in 1975. The goalkeeper was the first German to be drafted by an NHL team. In 1983 he became German champion with the EVL. In addition to 646 games in the Landshut jersey, Englbrecht was also active at SC Riessersee, the Nürnberg Ice Tigers and the Erding Jets. "Bernie" Englbrecht was in goal for the German national team for 83 games.	Georg Franz (1994–1997, Sturm) After the stations SB Rosenheim and EC Hedos Munich, the striker came to Landshut in 1994 and celebrated the German runner-up in his first season. Further stations were the ERC Sonthofen and the EHC Straubing. Franz became German champion in 1985, 1989 and 1994 and completed 135 games for the German national team.
Erich Goldmann (1993–1994, defense) Born in Dingolfing, he played for the first time for the professional team of EV Landshut when he was seventeen and played 33 games. Already in the following year, the goldman, who liked to change, played in Mannheim. Other stations in his career were - in addition to a game for the Ottawa Senators and three years in US minor leagues - the ERC Ingolstadt and the Iserlohn Roosters. The defender played a total of 126 games with the German national team.	Udo Kießling (1992–1996, defense) The defender played in Landshut at the end of his career. He played a total of 1,020 games in the German Bundesliga, was German champion six times and player of the year three times. Kießling is Germany's record player with 320 games, took part in the Olympic Games five times and was appointed to the World Cup All Star Team in 1987.	Erich Kühnhackl (1968–1976, 1979–1985, 1987–1989, Sturm, trainer) "Der Lange" played most of his career at EV Landshut. He was German champion in 1970 and 1983 with Landshut, and two more times with the Cologne EC. The striker completed 211 games for the German national team and won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1976. Kühnhackl was voted "German Ice Hockey Player of the Century" and is a member of the IIHF Hockey Hall of Fame. As a trainer, he was among the gang at EV Landshut.
Alois Schloder (1963–1986, Sturm) Alois Schloder spent his entire 23-year career at EV Landshut. He became German champions in 1970 and 1983 and completed a total of 1,085 games for the EVL. The long-time national team captain completed 206 games for the German selection, took part in twelve world championships and three Olympic Games, where he won the bronze medal in 1976. He has also been a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame since 2005.	Georg Spießl (until 1975, functionary) Born in Landshut, Spießl worked as a volunteer at EV Landshut until 1975. Among other things, he looked after the first team and was involved in building up the AH team. From 1975 to 2008 he worked for the Bavarian Ice Sports Association, where he performed various tasks. From 1991 he was team manager of the DEB tradition team for ten years.	Helmut Steiger (1976–1985, 1994–1997, Sturm) After the native Landshut had gone through the youth teams of the EVL, Steiger played from 1976 in the 1st Bundesliga. In 1983 he became German champion with Landshut, and vice-champion the following year. After a temporary move to the Cologne EC, he returned to Landshut for three seasons at the end of his career in 1995, with 481 points he is one of the all-time top scorers of the EV Landshut. Helmut Steiger completed 152 games for the German national team, took part in six world championships and twice in the Olympic Games.
Bernd Truntschka (1982–1989, 2000–2001, Sturm) Gerd Truntschka's younger brother, who was born in Landshut, spent the first professional years after his training at EV Landshut. He then moved to Düsseldorfer EG, where he played between 1989 and 1997 and with whom he became German champion five times. In 674 games he scored 141 goals and 314 assists. He also took part in 3 Olympic Games and 4 ice hockey world championships. After the end of his professional career, he completed a degree in business administration and was Managing Director of Landshut Cannibals from 2002 to 2012.	Gerd Truntschka (1975–1979, Sturm) Born in Landshut, he played in the first Bundesliga at EV Landshut at the beginning of his career. He was also active for the Cologne EC, the Düsseldorfer EG and the EC Hedos Munich and was German champion a total of eight times. Truntschka played 215 times for the German national team, took part in nine World Championships and four Olympic Games and was elected to the World Cup All Star Team in 1987.	Hans Zach (1977–1979, Sturm) In addition to stations in Bad Tölz, Riessersee, Preussen Berlin and Rosenheim, Zach played in Landshut in the first Bundesliga. He became German champion in 1982 with SB Rosenheim. After his active career, he already trained in Rosenheim, Ratingen, Bayreuth, Düsseldorf, Kassel, Zurich, Cologne and Hanover as well as the German national team. He led the Düsseldorfer EG to three championships in a row, the German national team reached the quarter-finals of the world championships three times with him.
Georg Zeller (1933–1937, 1945–1955, Sturm, supervisor, referee) Georg Zeller was already in charge of the first Landshut team in 1933, in which he also appeared as a striker, in the following seasons he became involved either as a player or later increasingly as a supervisor. The founding member of the ice skating club was the game director in 1948 and also appeared as a referee. In 1963 he became referee chairman of the German Ice Hockey Federation and remained in office until 1984.

Significant former players

Many personalities who had a major influence on ice hockey in Landshut became famous throughout Germany. The following list contains some of the most important ice hockey players who were associated with the EV Landshut and who were not members of the Hall of Fame Germany in 2010.

Tobias Abstreiter (1986–1993, Sturm) Born in Landshut, he had 115 points in 202 games in the professional team by 1993. With the EC Hedos Munich and the Kölner Haien he became German champion, then he played for the Kassel Huskies and the Straubing Tigers in the DEL. He also took part in six world championships and the 2002 Olympics.	Christian Brittig (1984–1992, 2000–2003, Sturm) Born and trained in Landshut, Brittig played in the first team from 1984 to 1992. During this time he took part with the national team in the 1988 Olympic Games and the 1990 World Cup. Later stages in his career included the Mad Dogs Munich and the Berlin Capitals. In a total of 878 games, he collected 685 points.	Petr Bříza (1994–1999, goal) The Czech was in the goal of EV Landshut for five years, and in his first season in Landshut he was German runner-up. Bříza played for Slavia Prague, HC Budweis, Lukko Rauma and Sparta Prague, among others. With the national team, he took part in the Olympic Games three times and in the world championships six times.
Mike Bullard (1993-1998, Sturm, 2008-09, coach) Bullard has played 727 games in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs in his 25-year professional career. In Europe he was active alongside the EVL for Rapperswil, the Eisbären Berlin and the Schwenninger Wild Wings. The center forward scored 150 goals in 224 games for Landshut.	Walter Glaser (1969–1980, Sturm) Born in Landshut, he played for EVL in the Bundesliga from 1969. He became German champion in his first professional season. After eleven seasons in Landshut, Glaser moved to TSV Straubing in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1980, where he ended his career after one season.	Rudi Hejtmanek (1968–1976, Sturm, 1976–1977, coach) The Czech Hejtmanek was brought to the Isar by Slavia Prague for the 1968/69 season and was the first foreigner to play for EV Landshut until 1976, where he was one of the top scorers for years. In the 1976/77 season he took over the coaching position, which he also held the following year. Further coaching stations were the TSV Straubing and the Düsseldorfer EG.
Jiří Kochta (1979–1981, Sturm) Born in Prague, Kochta moved from Sparta Prague to EV Landshut in 1979. In his two seasons he collected 235 points. In both years he was the second best scorer in the league. With the Czech national team he competed at the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972 as well as four world championships, in 1972 he won the gold medal with the CSSR.	Bob Laycock (1981–1984, Sturm) Laycock moved from the University of Calgary to Straubing in 1979, where he and his brother were among the best players in the league. During his time at EVL, he scored 164 points in 96 games and was thus instrumental in winning the 1983 championship.	Robin Laycock (1981-1983, Sturm) Bob Laycock's younger brother also came to Landshut from Straubing. He won the championship with the EVL in 1983. In his two seasons on the Isar, he recorded 130 points from 70 games. Another station in his career was the Rosenheim Sports Association.
Sepp Schramm (1957–1972, Tor) Born in Landshut, Schramm made his debut in the goal of EV Landshut when he was nineteen. He played his entire career with his hometown club, with which he became German champion in 1970. In addition, the goalkeeper played 52 games for the German national team.	Wally Schreiber (1994-1999, Sturm) The Edmonton-born Schreiber played from 1994 to 1999 at the EVL in the top German division. The winger played for the Minnesota North Stars (NHL) and in Germany for the Schwenninger ERC, the EC Hedos Munich and the Hannover Scorpions. In his career, which he ended in 2006 at the age of 43, Schreiber played 555 games in the DEL and scored 506 points scorer.	Christoph Schubert (1999–2000, defense) Schubert played his first professional season 1999/2000 at EV Landshut. He moved to the Munich Barons in the DEL, in 2001 the Munich-born player was drawn in the 4th round of the NHL Entry Draft in 127th position. From 2002 to 2005 Schubert was active for the Ottawa farm team, the Binghamton Senators, in the AHL, since 2005 he has played in the NHL for the Ottawa Senators.
Marco Sturm (1995–1997, Sturm) At the age of eighteen, Sturm played his first game for EV Landshut in the DEL. In 1997, the native Dingolfinger moved to the San Jose Sharks in the NHL, after he had been drawn in the first round in 1996 in the NHL Entry Draft in 21st position. After working at ERC Ingolstadt, Sturm moved to the Boston Bruins, for whom he has been playing since 2005. He participated with the national team in four world championships and three Olympic Games.	Kamil Ťoupal (1999-2013, defense) Born in Budweis, Ťoupal began his professional career with the Czech first division club HC České Budějovice. From the new beginning of the EVL in the Oberliga he ran for Landshut from 1999. He won two league championships, was twice runner-up and 2012 champion in the 2nd Bundesliga.	Bernd Wagner (1983–1995, defense) The Wagner trained in Landshut took part in two Junior World Championships in 1983 and 1984. The defender played for EV Landshut throughout his professional career, which spanned the period from 1983 to 1995. With the German national team he took part in the World Championships in 1989 and 1991.

Internal club records in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga

The following statistics refer to the time in which the Landshut Cannibals compete in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga and thus start with the 2002/03 season . As recently as 2013, there were two players in the Landshut squad who played for the second division in the first season after promotion. These two record players are Kamil Ťoupal and Markus Welz , who are also among the best scorers, goal scorers and assists. Other decisive players in the Landshut jersey were Markus Hundhammer , Thomas Daffner and Andreas Geipel .

Overall leader

Record player space player Games 1. Kamil Ťoupal 491 2. Markus Welz 474 3. Markus Hundhammer 382 4th Andreas Geipel 340 5. Anton Prommersberger 267 6th Maximilian Brandl 237 7th Peter Abstreiter 227 8th. Martin Cinibulk 218 9. Zdzisław Zaręba 200 10. Thomas Daffner 193

Top scorer space player Points (T / A) 1. Kamil Ťoupal 340 (58/282) 2. Markus Welz 222 (93/129) 3. Markus Hundhammer 208 (92/116) 4th Andreas Geipel 195 (59/136) 5. Peter Abstreiter 179 (101/78) 6th Thomas Daffner 163 (59/104) 7th Zdzisław Zaręba 133 (48/85) 8th. Brandon Dietrich 120 (50/70) 9. Cody Thornton 108 (49/59) 10. Maximilian Brandl 106 (43/63)

Top goal scorers space player Gates 1. Peter Abstreiter 101 2. Markus Welz 93 3. Markus Hundhammer 92 4th Andreas Geipel 59 4th Thomas Daffner 59 6th Kamil Ťoupal 58 7th František Mrázek 53 8th. Brandon Dietrich 50 9. Cody Thornton 49 10. Zdzisław Zaręba 48

Top template provider space player templates 1. Kamil Ťoupal 282 2. Andreas Geipel 136 3. Markus Welz 129 4th Markus Hundhammer 116 5. Thomas Daffner 104 6th Zdzisław Zaręba 85 7th Peter Abstreiter 78 8th. Rich Bronilla 75 9. Brandon Dietrich 70 10. Jaroslav Kracík 63

Penalty minutes space player Minutes 1. Markus Hundhammer 401 2. Zdzisław Zaręba 292 3. Günter Oswald 281 4th Peter Abstreiter 264 5. Markus Welz 261 6th Matthias Wittmann 246 7th Andreas Geipel 226 8th. David Kudelka 225 9. Thomas Schinko 216 10. Chris Bahen 197

Season records

Top scorer space player Points season 1. Conny Strömberg 70 2005/06 2. Brandon Dietrich 67 2005/06 3. Riley Armstrong 64 2013/14 4th TJ Guidarelli 61 2006/07 5. Thomas Daffner 58 2005/06

Top goal scorers space player Gates season 1. Thomas Daffner 28 2005/06 2. Brandon Dietrich 27 2007/08 3. Peter Abstreiter 25th 2007/08 3. Ben Cottreau 25th 2008/09 5. Peter Abstreiter 24 2012/13 5. Riley Armstrong 24 2013/14

Top template provider space player templates season 1. Conny Strömberg 47 2005/06 2. Brandon Dietrich 44 2005/06 3. Kamil Ťoupal 41 2006/07 4th Riley Armstrong 40 2013/14 5. TJ Guidarelli 39 2006/07

Penalty minutes space player Penalty minutes season 1. David Kudelka 130 2002/03 2. Chris Bahen 119 2005/06 2. Jaakko Hagelberg 119 2006/07 4th Josh Godfrey 115 2013/14 5. Dominik Quinlan 112 2007/08

Status of the statistics: playing times in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga / DEL2 up to the end of the 2013/14 season , except for "penalty minutes" (status 2010/11)

Trainer

Before the start of the 1956/57 season, the Landshut team completed a multi-day training camp under Jakob Probst in Bad Tölz . It was not least thanks to this circumstance that the EVL became champions of the regional league and rose to the top division of the time, the Oberliga . Poldi Löw from Mannheim was responsible for the team's fortunes at the beginning of the premier season in the league . After poor performance, he was replaced by Engelbert Holderied from Füssen on the gang. Holderied was the first full-time trainer in the history of the Landshut ice skating club. He also looked after the team the following season, before Rudi Wagner, who was born in Landshut, was in charge of the gang from the 1959/60 season . Under his leadership, the promotion to the Bundesliga was made perfect in 1962/63 . After Wagner moved to Straubing in 1964 , Herbert Ulrich took over as coach for the following season.

1965 began a Bundesliga time for the EVL that lasted until 1991 and was to be dominated by coaches from Czechoslovakia . The good connections to Sparta Prague played a decisive role in this. In 1965, after negotiations with the Czech association, Vaclav Fryzek was signed as Ulrich's successor. He stayed in Landshut for two years before having to return to the CSSR in 1967. According to the regulations of the CSSR at the time, a trainer was only allowed to spend three years at a time abroad before he had to return home. Before joining the Isar, Fryzek worked in Romania. His successor was his compatriot Karel Gut , who left Sparta Prague with a heavy heart in his second year as a coach and moved to the Isar. Under his leadership, he won the German championship in 1970 in his third year at the EVL. Gut returned to Czechoslovakia after winning the championship. Because the CSSR did not send any more coaches to Germany after the Prague Spring , but those in charge of the EVL wanted to rely on a Czech again, the exiled Czech Zdenek Bláha was committed. After just a few match days, however, he was replaced by Jaro Truntschka, who came to Landshut from the CSSR after the end of the war and was one of the founding members of the EVL.

Truntschka also took over the coaching position in the following season 1971/72 before he was replaced by the Canadian Mike Daski , who was already champion with Bad Tölz . After a year, he left the EVL. A replacement was found in Dany Smit, a Canadian with a Dutch passport. Under Smit, the team just missed the second championship title in the 1973/74 season and ended up in second place. After Smits switched to ESV Kaufbeuren after the following season, the previous youth coach Walter Rauhmeier took over his position in the 1975/76 season . After a short interlude by interim trainer Hans Rampf , ex-Landshut Rudi Hejtmanek finally became the third trainer in a season in which the runner-up was achieved for the second time. Hejtmanek also held the office in the following year. In the 1977/78 season, the Canadian Ed Reigle was on the gang, who had previously been the German national team's supervisor , before a three-year contract was signed with the Czechoslovak Ladislav Stemprok in 1978. After the team under Stemprok even had to go into the relegation round, he was dismissed after just one season. The previous assistant coach Toni Steiger was now in charge of the gang in the 1979/80 season .

In 1980 the "father of the first championship", Karel Gut, returned to Landshutern as a coach and was in charge of the gang for the next three years. In 1983 the team finally became German champions for the second time. Gut ended his engagement after the championship title and his compatriot Jaroslav Pitner became a coach. Under his leadership, the EV Landshut reached the play-off final in 1984, but the following year it failed in the quarter-finals. Even under Rudolf Sindelar, who was the coach from 1985 to 1987, and Pavel Volek , who coached the team from 1987 to 1989, they each reached the quarter-finals of the play-offs. In the 1989/90 season Karel Gut took over the coaching position in Landshut for the third time. The season was not very successful: The team missed the play-off entry. In the second year he was supported on the gang by Erich Kühnhackl , who had laced his skates for the EVL himself in the previous year.

Erich Kühnhackl: Trainer 1991/92

After Karel Guts departure, Erich Kühnhackl was initially head coach of Landshut in the 1991/92 season . Because the desired success did not materialize, the Canadian Dave Sherlock took charge of the gang during the season. Due to persistently poor performance by the team, he was also replaced during the season. The third coach of the season was no stranger: Pavel Volek finally ended the game year in which relegation was only secured at the green table . The 1992/93 season started with him before he was replaced by Toni Steiger - again during the season after his release in mid-January 1993. After the two turbulent years, the Canadian Bernie Johnston , who was signed up for the 1993/94 season , became a constant. He was to be responsible for the fate of the Landshut team for three seasons. His greatest success was the runner-up title in 1995. Johnston's successor was Timo Sutinen from Finland in 1996. He was followed during the season by the Canadian Wayne Fleming, with whom the team reached the play-off semi-finals in 1997. After Fleming returned to Canada, Guy Charron took over as coach in the 1997/98 season . With Charron, the EVL was third in the main round and reached the play-off semi-finals. In 1998 Chris Valentine came to Landshut as a coach, the team only reached the quarter-finals with him in the play-offs. After leaving the DEL , Valentine said goodbye to the EVL and went to Mannheim .

The first coach at the restart in the third-highest league in the 1999/2000 season was Michael Eibl, a member of the Landshut championship team in 1970. Eibl had to give way to the Canadian Gary Clark on October 8, 1999. Under his leadership, the EVL managed to get promoted in sport, but had to forego it because of a cooperation agreement with the successor to the Landshut DEL team, the Munich Barons . In Clark's second year in Landshut he was less successful and was replaced as coach during the season on February 12, 2001 by former Landshut goalkeeper Bernhard Englbrecht .

Jiří Ehrenberger: Trainer from 2011 to 2014

Toni Krinner: Trainer from 2015 to 2016

Under "Bernie" Englbrecht, the team won the league championship again in 2002 and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga . Englbrecht remained the coach of the Landshut Cannibals until 2005 and became runner-up with them in 2004. After being eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals in 2005, the Canadian Daniel Naud was the new coach for the 2005/06 season . Naud remained the boss of the gang until 2007, when the former Landshut player Andreas Brockmann became the new coach. Under Brockmann, the team made it into the play-off final. However, the successful collaboration was not continued because Brockmann moved to Nuremberg after the 2007/08 season. With the Canadian Mike Bullard , another former player of the EVL became the coach of the second division team. Bullard was dismissed on February 14, 2009 by the board of directors, the reason given were "visible dissolution phenomena and resignation" in the team. Ewald Steiger and Günter Oswald took over the post of Bullard as interim trainers. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season , Tobias Abstreiter from Landshut became boss of the gang before he was replaced by Jiří Ehrenberger after two seasons in the 2011/12 season . This was able to bring the second division championship to the Isar in his first season. On February 1, 2014, the native of Brno switched to the sports director post of ERC Ingolstadt and was replaced by Andreas Brockmann, who was not unknown in Landshut. However, this was canceled at the end of 2014 due to illness and was represented by assistant coach Ewald Steiger , before Toni Krinner, a native of Tölz, took over the post of head coach again in January 2015 . At the beginning of January 2016, Krinner resigned for health reasons. Bernhard Englbrecht has been the new head coach since then.

Parent club

The main club of the LES is the Eislaufverein Landshut e. V. The first team's game operations were outsourced on January 28, 2002 to the newly founded Landshuter Eishockey Spielbetriebs-GmbH . However, the ice skating club remained responsible for all other activities. This includes the training of the next generation in ice hockey , which is one of the best in Germany. There are also other departments within the club: On the one hand there is a figure skating department that goes under the name "Ice Angels", as well as departments in the areas of curling , inline hockey and bowling .

The youth teams of EV Landshut are brought together in the ice hockey department, they also run under the name Young Cannibals . There is a so-called support group for the youngest, and there is also a team for small and small students, followed by a team of boys and a team of students. The "heart" of the junior training is ultimately the DNL team, which unites the youth and junior age groups. Each of the junior teams competes in the highest division: For the youngest pupils this is the performance class A held in tournament form, the youngster and boys' teams also compete in the performance class A of the Bavarian Ice Sports Association . The school team carries out their encounters in the school league organized by the DEB . The youth and junior division takes part in the game operations of the German Junior League , founded in 2001, with one team .

The fact that the junior training of the ice hockey department of the EV Landshut is one of the best in Germany can be seen in various aspects. In the history of the club, numerous German championship titles have been won in the school, youth and junior sectors. Major successes in recent years include winning the 2007/08 German school championship, the 2011 DNL championship title and the 2009 DNL runner-up title. Another measure for the qualitative evaluation of the youth work of an association is the annual distribution of the so-called "Reindl pool". This instrument, named after DEB functionary Franz Reindl , is used to promote young talent within the Oberliga and the 2nd Bundesliga . Depending on the player transfers, each club in these leagues pays a certain amount of money into a fund before the sum is paid out to the clubs with the best training. Numerous qualitative and quantitative factors play a role here. According to this calculation, EV Landshut occupies top places every year, for example received almost 70,000 euros in 2006/07 , which meant first place in the ranking before the Eisbären Juniors Berlin . Another confirmation of the good youth work is the annual choice of rookie of the year , i.e. the best young player in the league, by the ice hockey magazine Ice Hockey News : Here the Landshut players prevailed against the competition almost every year. In 2004 Alexander Feistl was named Rookie of the Year , in 2006 Maximilian Brandl received this honor, while Gerrit Fauser was chosen as the best young talent in 2007. In 2009 Tom Kühnhackl was the number one youth talent in the league, while Tobias Rieder was awarded this title in 2010. The Alois Schloder Cup is awarded annually to the club's most exemplary young player . In 2010 the “EVL Ice Hockey Youngsters Förderverein” was founded to provide financial support for the youth work of EV Landshut. He plans to build up an economic network of sponsors to support the ice skating club in various projects.

In the last few decades, numerous ice hockey players have been trained in the talent factory of EV Landshut, who have gained national, and in some cases international, fame. Under EV Landshut / players some of the most important personalities in Landshut's ice hockey history are listed. Players who have completed the Landshut junior training and played in the DEL for the 2009/10 season are, for example, Thomas Wilhelm ( Straubing Tigers ), Thomas Brandl ( Kölner Haie ), Stephan Daschner ( ERC Ingolstadt ) and Stephan Retzer ( Hamburg Freezers ), Marco Sturm ( Boston Bruins ) and Christoph Schubert ( Atlanta Thrashers ) competed in the NHL .

Women's team

In the 1989/90 season, a women's ice hockey team from EV Landshut took part in the game operation, which took part in the women's ice hockey Bundesliga from the 1992/93 season . After the 1996/97 season , the team rose again. After the 2001/02 season, the team was no longer reported to play. From the 2003/04 season, the tradition of the women's team at EHC Landshut , a club participating in the hobby game operation in Landshut, was continued.

offspring

• German champion "DNL" 2011
• German runner-up "DNL" 2009
• German Junior Champion 1981, 1982, 1984,
• German youth champion 1981, 1982, 1992,
• German student champion 1980, 1990, 2007, 2008
• German U13 champions (boys) 2019

Venues

From the beginnings of ice hockey in Landshut until the 1951/52 season, the teams changed the natural ice rink three times . While all pre-war encounters and the few games during the Second World War were played on the so-called “Selmeier ice cream”, after the war the move to the “Kolbeck ice rink” in the Nikolaviertel took place. The club played here until the 1948/49 season, before an area of ​​the Rot-Weiß tennis court that was flooded in winter was prepared. After just one season, the EVL moved to an area on Gabelsbergerstraße directly next to the Isar , before the ice skating club found its final place of activity on Gutenbergweg in 1951. The previous playing areas were naturally extremely dependent on the weather, which also severely restricted the first team's ice training. Finally, ice ages were even recorded in Bad Tölz , as there was no weather-independent training opportunity nearby.

Municipal ice rink on Gutenbergweg

Hall 1 of the stadium

The ice rink from Sandnerstrasse

Main article: Landshut municipal ice rink

In the 1956/57 season, the promotion to the first-class league was made perfect, which was considered a prerequisite for the construction of an artificial ice surface. Construction of the area began in the summer of 1957, and on November 10th it was inaugurated against the EC Kitzbühel in front of 5000 spectators. Ten years later, the ice rink, which had been open until then, was roofed over and handed over to its intended use in 1967. At that time, the ice rink was the first club-owned ice rink in Germany. Due to the high operating costs for the stadium, which the club no longer had to shoulder in the long term, the city of Landshut acquired the hall in 1981. At the same time, a usage and leasing contract for the municipal ice rink in Landshut , which regulated the ice skating club, was signed Ensured gaming operations. In the course of the expansion to a “ state performance center for ice hockey of the Bavarian Ice Sports Association with federal use”, a second covered artificial ice rink was added in the following period, which was subjected to a general renovation in 2011.

Today the stadium is a public facility of the city of Landshut and serves "exclusively and directly non-profit purposes". Since the maximum number of spectators was increased in March 2014, it has seated 6,737 people, 1,573 of them in seats. With this capacity, the ice rink on Gutenbergweg fulfills the so-called 9000 point plan , which is necessary for inclusion in the DEL . The adjoining training hall has standing room for more than 800 people. There are also a total of eight bowling alleys in the building complex . Both the VIP area and the stadium restaurant offer a view of the game. In addition to the Landshut Cannibals and the EVL as the main users of the complex, the hall is available for public ice skating and school sports. In addition, numerous amateur teams play their games in the halls. In the summer, inline hockey and street hockey are practiced in the facility .

Audience statistics for the last few years
season	Home games	spectator	Spectators per game
2018/19	33    (25/8)	87,081    (56,734 / 30,347)	ø 2,639    (2,270 / 3,794)
2017/18	24    (23/1)	59,382    (57,463 / 1,919)	ø 2,475    (2,498 / 1,919)
2016/17	24    (23/1)	39,542    (37,543 / 1,999)	ø 1,648    (1,632 / 1,999)
2015/16	24    (20/4)	62,624   (50,061 / 12,563)	ø 2,609    (2,503 / 3,140)
2014/15	30    (26/4)	101.015   (81.113 / 19.902)	ø 3,367    (3,120 / 4,976)
2013/14	33    (27/6)	90,727   (73,017 / 17,710)	ø 2,749    (2,704 / 2,951)
2012/13	27    (24/3)	60,018   (51,303 / 8,715)	ø 2.223    (2.137 / 2.905)
2011/12	31    (24/7)	86,038   (63,141 / 22,897)	ø 2,775    (2,630 / 3,271)
2010/11	27    (24/3)	54,141    (48,890 / 5,251)	ø 2,005    (2,037 / 1,750)
2009/10	29    (26/3)	65,670   (56,426 / 9,244)	ø 2,264    (2,170 / 3,081)
2008/09	27    (24/3)	56,439    (47,129 / 9,310)	ø 2,090    (1,963 / 3,103)
2007/08	33    (26/7)	87,973    (59,368 / 28,605)	ø 2,666    (2,283 / 4,086)

(The total occupancy rate for the entire season is given. The main round and play-offs are listed separately in brackets.)

Club culture

Fans and rivalries

Fans of EV Landshut before a play-off game

EV Landshut fans are organized in several fan clubs or fan groups. Geographically, the associations in western Lower Bavaria concentrate on the greater Landshut area and the surrounding regions (such as the Hallertau ) and cities (such as Dingolfing and Vilsbiburg ). Together, the fan clubs provide acoustic and visual support for the team, both for home and away games. In addition, away trips are coordinated by the various clubs. In the 2009/10 season , the team's fans organized the “Landshuter for Landshut” campaign for the first time. The aim of this project was to cheer the team against the derby opponent EHC Munich with as many spectators as possible. A total of 5400 people found their way to the ice rink. During the EVL's Bundesliga time in particular, the Landshut fans cultivated a friendship with the fans of the Mannheim ERC .

During the Landshut Bundesliga time from the 1960s to the 1990s, there were sometimes pronounced rivalries with other Bavarian ice hockey strongholds. In the 1960s these were mainly EV Füssen , EC Bad Tölz and SC Riessersee . In the media, disputes between players from Landshut and Riessersee were even exaggerated into the "murder Christmas" in 1970. There were also hot duels against ESV Kaufbeuren , which culminated in headlines such as “Landswut gegen Raufbeuren”. The indirect consequence of this rivalry was the "Lex Butzi", which states that in German ice hockey at least one referee has to be on the ice when warming up before the game. As revenge for the defeat of Landshut Ewald Steiger by Bohuslav Šťastný and Vladimír Martinec from Kaufbeuren, Landshut goalkeeper Bernhard Englbrecht and defender Klaus “Butzi” Auhuber returned the favor in one of the next home games with the Czechoslovaks while warming up and mixed them up - which was back then however, no referee could punish. In the 1980s at the latest, the rivalry with the Rosenheim Sports Association arose . With this team, the EVL already played hard-fought games during the Bundesliga times. Even today, the Rosenheimers are the most important derby opponents of the EV Landshut. In the DEL years, the rivalry with the Kölner Haien increased : three times in a row - from 1993/94 to 1995/96 - the Domstadt team ended a Landshut play-off season before the team faced Cologne in the following two seasons asserted.

With the new start in the Oberliga and the first few years in the 2nd Bundesliga , there were hotly contested local derbies against the Straubing Tigers in northern Lower Bavaria and the Eisbären Regensburg . The contrast between Lower Bavaria with the seat of government Landshut and the Upper Palatinate with the seat of government Regensburg played a major role here. The rivalry with the EHC Munich also lived, among other things, from the contrast between the big city club and the “provincial team” from Landshut. In the late 2000s there was a special rivalry with the Bietigheim Steelers : Their Landshut coach Christian Brittig gradually signed players from the Landshut squad - in 2009/10 , for example, seven players who were formerly active for Landshut stood for “Landshut II” or the “branch " on ice.

Partnerships

In June 2014, those responsible for EV Landshut announced a cooperation with the DEL club ERC Ingolstadt and the Oberliga club EV Regensburg in relation to the promotion of young talent . The cooperation provides for a linkage that is so far rare in Germany and is intended to offer young players from the respective clubs optimal development opportunities without having to move to other locations or abroad. The aim is to better combine top-class sport and popular sport. From the student teams of the clubs to the EVL team in the German junior league and the upper league team of EV Regensburg, talented players can move up seamlessly into the DEL2 team of Landshut up to the professional team of ERC Ingolstadt. The system also provides for the reciprocal allocation of funding licenses so that individual players are eligible to play for several clubs in order to gain as much match practice as possible. In the previous seasons, there were less intensive cooperation agreements with the ERC Ingolstadt and the Krefeld Penguins .

The regional television station Isar TV reports on all Landshut games in a weekly sports program; these summaries are also available in an internet media library. In the radio area, the Radio Trausnitz station should be mentioned in particular, which follows all the EVL games in the Eiszeit program on live broadcasts . The only daily newspaper in the region, the Landshuter Zeitung , reports several times a week on ice hockey events around the EVL. The Landshuter Wochenblatt also deals weekly with news about EV Landshut.

See also

• EV Landshut / season overviews

Web links

Commons : EV Landshut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website EV Landshut
• Official website of the parent club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Ice-cold passion - or: How it all began (I)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Ice-cold passion - or: How it all began (II)
3. ↑ ^{a b} 2nd Bundesliga season 2007/2008 2nd Bundesliga season 2007/2008 - season information
4. ↑ ^{a b c} EVL Chronicle 1948/49. Georg Spießl: EV Landshut is founded
5. ↑ ^{a b c} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Ice-cold passion - or: How it all began (III)
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Despite concerns: The artificial ice stadium is becoming a reality
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Urban ice rink ( memento from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) City of Landshut: Urban ice rink
8. ↑ ^{a b c} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Landshut is finally getting promoted to the Bundesliga
9. ↑ ^{a b c} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Landshut gains respect in the first year of the upper house
10. ↑ ^{a b c} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Landshut is providing three national players for the first time
11. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: The era of good begins ...
12. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Landshut is German champion!
13. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Jaro Truntschka becomes a trainer
14. ↑ MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Coach carousel at EV Landshut
15. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Personnel change at EV Landshut
16. ↑ ICE HOCKEY - songs and blows February 11, 1980 DER SPIEGEL 7/1989: songs and blows
17. ↑ MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Transfer record: 700,000 Deutschmarks for Erich Kühnhackl!
18. ↑ MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Change of coach at EV Landshut
19. ↑ MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Rebuilding at EV Landshut
20. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Kühnhackl is coming - Truntschka is going ...
21. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Good times - bad times
22. ↑ ICE HOCKEY - Bad game October 6, 1980 DER SPIEGEL 41/1980: Bad game
23. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: Landshut's “Kindergarten” is causing an upswing
24. ↑ ^{a b} MATCH magazine - 2007/2008 season. Michael Zierer: EV Landshut wins the second title!
25. ↑ ICE HOCKEY - wasted and empty March 20, 1989 DER SPIEGEL 12/1989: wasted and empty.
26. ↑ ^{a b c} With home grown on the way up December 4th, 2001 With home grown on the way up.
27. ↑ DEL: Landshut is out! May 12, 1999 DEL: Landshut is out!
28. ↑ Americans are buying into Bavaria - US investor group relocates ice hockey team from Landshut to Munich ( Memento from September 13, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Americans are buying into Bavaria.
29. ↑ TABLE / SEASON 2013/14 possibly info ( memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The EVL is back !!!  
30. ↑ Return to EV Landshut "The funeral will not come" March 8, 2013 Return to EV Landshut "The funeral will not be"
31. ↑ EVL Landshut Eishockey presents a new logo July 10, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. EVL Landshut Eishockey presents a new logo. 
32. ↑ EVL Landshut: Andi Brockmann is not available until further notice - Steiger takes over ( memento of the original from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 31, 2015.  
33. ↑ EVL Landshut: Toni Krinner is the new trainer at EVL Landshut Ice Hockey ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 31, 2015.  
34. ↑ Eishockeynews.de: DEL2 supervisory board refuses Landshut the license, decision of the shareholders on Thursday , accessed on July 31, 2015.
35. ↑ Ice Hockey News.de : Green light from DEB: EVL Landshut Ice Hockey receives approval for the Oberliga Süd , accessed on July 31, 2015.
36. ↑ br.de, Bayerischer Rundfunk B5-Aktuell August 21, 2015: "Ice hockey traditional club sole shareholder of EV Landshut is getting out"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
37. ↑ Radio Trausnitz, August 21, 2015: "Rainer Beck pays and gets out at the EVL" ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
38. ↑ ^{a b} Landshut Cannibals all-time player roster All-time roster for the Landshut Cannibals of the 2nd GBun.
39. ^ Rosters from Germany Rosters from Germany.
40. ↑ Roster for EV Landshut 2. Bundesliga ('05 / '06) ( Memento from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Roster for EV Landshut 2. Bundesliga ('05 / '06)
41. ↑ Roster for EV Landshut 2nd Bundesliga ('06 / '07) ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Roster for EV Landshut 2nd Bundesliga ('06 / '07)
42. ↑ "Olejnik: We trainers are only fair game!" ", Sport-Bild from January 27, 1993, p. 40 f.
43. ↑ eishockey.info, Mike Bullard has to go , EV LANDSHUT ICE HOCKEY, February 15, 2009.
44. ↑ wochenblatt.de, The Cannibals makers hope for Billy Trew, plan with Uvira and wait for Kronthaler - On my wish list: 2 Center , April 6, 2011.
45. ↑ ANDREAS BROCKMANN NEW EVL-TRAINER ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: possibly info . January 23, 2014, accessed March 5, 2014.  
46. ↑ Toni Krinner is the new coach of EVL Landshut Eishockey In: hockeyweb.de . January 20, 2015, accessed January 20, 2015.
47. ↑ LEAGUE OVERVIEW YOUNG JUNIORS ( Memento from August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) League overview youngsters season 2009/2010.
48. ↑ Student TABLE Student South Group B Student TABLE Student South Group B 09/10.
49. ↑ DNL TABLE German Junior League DNL TABLE German Junior League 09/10.
50. ↑ deb-online.de, Young Talent Fund 2006/07 - Summary analysis ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 133 kB), in the web archive.
51. ↑ Alexander Feistl (GER) Profile Alexander Feistl (GER)
52. ↑ Alexander Feistl (GER) Profile Maximilian Brandl (GER)
53. ↑ Gerrit Fauser (GER) Profile Gerrit Fauser (GER)
54. ↑ Peter Stützer: Kühnhackl's son as a draft horse for ice hockey. In: The world . September 5, 2009, accessed December 3, 2013 . 
55. ↑ swp.de, Kelly to Ravensburg
56. ↑ Johannes Viertlböck: New sources of money for the talent factory. Landshuter Zeitung, 2010 No. 135.
57. ↑ Teams in the season: 2009/2010 women's ice hockey in Germany - historical tables EV Landshut (accessed online on April 11, 2010)
58. ^ EHC Landshut website of the EHC Landshut.
59. ↑ Michael Stolzenberg: 3 million for ice hockey. Landshuter Wochenblatt, November 3, 2010 No. 44.
60. ↑ Capacity of the ice rink increases to 6,737 spectators for the play-offs ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: idowa.de January 23, 2014, accessed on March 5, 2014.
61. ↑ GER - DEL 2 - scoreboard | Pointstreak Sports Technologies 2nd Ice Hockey Bundesliga.
62. ↑ "Landshuter für Landshut" - Derbytime EVL vs EHC ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cannibals fight for a point in the derby against the EHC Munich (accessed online on May 5, 2010)  
63. ^ Excerpts from the stadium newspaper from January 16, 1970 ( Memento from March 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Excerpts from the stadium newspaper from January 16, 1970.
64. ↑ esvk, de, Landswut gegen Raufbeuren - The Derby
65. ↑ From the first bully to the final siren, you can whistle about the rules of the game. Martial law rules on the ice. But what the heck, ice hockey is the toughest sport ice bomber - by Axel Thorer.
66. ↑ Concentrated ice hockey competence. In: Donaukurier. June 11, 2014, accessed July 4, 2014 . 
67. ^ Radio Trausnitz Ice Age ( Memento from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Radio Trausnitz Ice Age.