Eisbären Juniors Berlin
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EHC Neue Eisbären Berlin (1997–2000) Eisbären Juniors Berlin (since 2000) |
| Parent club | Eisbären Juniors Berlin eV |
| Club colors | Dark blue - white |
| league |
Bundesliga (women) Regionalliga Ost (men) German junior league (junior) |
| Venue | Corrugated iron palace |
| capacity | 4,695 seats (of which 1,600 seats) |
| executive Director | Marc Dannbeck |
The polar bears Juniors Berlin are an ice hockey - and speed skating club in Berlin . The Eisbären Juniors form the amateur and junior division of Eisbären Berlin in ice hockey and are considered economically independent. Nevertheless, the club is dependent on payments from Eisbären Berlin - mainly due to the relatively low number of spectators. The official name of the Eisbären Juniors Berlin eV association has been since 2000. The concept of the Eisbären Juniors is to introduce young and talented players to professional ice hockey. For this purpose, a farm team of the professional team based on the North American model was maintained until 2009 , which was able to rise to the third-class league in 2004 . In summer 2009, due to the changed structure of the German junior league DNL, the league team was withdrawn.
The speed skating department included Claudia Pechstein and Monique Angermüller .
In addition to ice hockey and speed skating, the Eisbären Juniors' floorball department has existed since December 2016 .
Ice Hockey Department
In 1997, the EHC Neue Eisbären Berlin was founded for the Eisbären Berlin's youngsters and amateurs. After the 1999/00 season , in which the ice hockey senior team of the EHC Neue Eisbären took part in the Oberliga Nord, the club went bankrupt, and the Eisbären Juniors were founded as successors.
As a participant in the Regionalliga Ost 2003/04 , the Eisbären Juniors - with the approval of the Berlin Ice Sports Association - applied for admission to the ESBG and were accepted into the Oberliga Nord for the 2004/05 season . There they played until 2009 and could never reach the play-offs. Instead, the team often took part in the relegation round.
In addition, the club has seven different youth teams, including the running school, the Bambini, small school children, boys, school children, youth and junior departments. Some of the teams play in the youth leagues of the German Ice Hockey Association .
After the end of the 2008/09 season , the Eisbären Berlin announced that they would disband the junior league team and loan talented players to the second division club Dresdner Eislöwen or the regional division FASS Berlin as part of funding licenses . In 2017 the long-term cooperation with FASS Berlin was ended and a junior team was registered in the Berlin State League.
German youth league
The Eisbären Juniors Berlin have been a team in the German Junior League since 2000 and have been able to celebrate the runner-up there several times.
Women ice hockey
In June 2017, the entire women's ice hockey team at OSC Berlin switched to the Eisbären Juniors in order to attract more attention and sponsorship money for Berlin's women's ice hockey. In the 2018/19 season, the team took fifth place in the main round and secured relegation in the subsequent play-downs, in 2019/20 the polar bear women took part in the play-offs for the first time, but had to play in the third game of the The semi-finals were beaten by ESC Planegg .
| season | league | placement | Finals |
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| 2017/18 | Bundesliga | 6th place | |
| 2018/19 | Bundesliga | 5th place (main round) | Relegation in play-downs |
| 2019/20 | Bundesliga | 4th Place | Semifinals |
Men's amateur team
The Eisbären Juniors also has an amateur men's team. From 2003 to 2009 the amateur team was known as the "farm team" of the Eisbären Berlin professional team and most recently played in the major league . Since 2017, the Eisbären Juniors have had a men's team again, which played in the Landesliga Berlin from 2017/18 to 2018/19 and in the Regionalliga Ost in 2019/20 .
| season | league | placement | Remarks |
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| 2003/04 | Regional league | 4th place (main round east) 9th place (final round) |
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| 2004/05 | Oberliga | 6th place (main round) 6th place (championship round) |
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| 2005/06 | Oberliga | 15th place (main round) 1st place (relegation round) |
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| 2006/07 | Oberliga | 12th place (main round) | |
| 2007/08 | Oberliga Nord | 8th place (main round) | Non-relegation in 2nd round play-downs |
| 2008/09 | Oberliga Nord | 7th place | Relegated, retreat after the season |
| 2017/18 | Landesliga Berlin | 3rd place | |
| 2018/19 | Landesliga Berlin | 1st place | State league champion, promoted |
| 2019/20 | Regional League East | still running | still running |
Venue
The teams of the Eisbären Juniors Berlin play their home games in the Wellblechpalast , which until the end of the 2007/08 season also housed the professional team, the Eisbären Berlin. The stadium has space for 4,695 spectators (1,600 of which are seats). Both the youth games and the women's Bundesliga and men's regional league games rarely manage to bring more than 200 spectators into the hall.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel , suspected doping: The Pechstein case
- ↑ Tagesspiegel , Monique Angermüller, ... which starts for the Eisbären Juniors ...
- ↑ Floorball department , on www.eisbären-juniors.de
- ^ A b Claus Vetter: Ice hockey: The polar bears play in the women's Bundesliga. In: tagesspiegel.de . June 15, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Eisbären Juniors Berlin U18. In: eliteprospects.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Eisbären Juniors Berlin U19. In: eliteprospects.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Benedikt Paetzholdt: Women in polar bear jerseys: The first game after changing the jersey takes place on the weekend. In: berliner-zeitung.de. September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .