Ice hockey Bundesliga 1984/85

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Master:	SB Rosenheim
Relegated:	EHC Essen-West
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The 1984/85 season of the ice hockey Bundesliga was the 27th season of the highest German ice hockey league . The German champions became SB Rosenheim , who not only won the double round, but also emerged victorious from all play-off games. The ten-time title holder SC Riessersee managed for the second time in a row to secure relegation, while newcomer EHC Essen-West had to relegate after one year of membership in the Bundesliga. The place of the Essen took the SV Bayreuth , which for the first time in its club history could rise in the top division.

requirements

Dusseldorf eat Iserlohn Kaufbeuren Cologne Landshut Mannheim Riessersee Rosenheim Schwenningen

Participant in the ice hockey Bundesliga 1984/85

Attendees

The following ten clubs take part in the ice hockey Bundesliga 1984/85 (alphabetical order with previous year's position) :

club	Location	Previous year	Play-offs
Düsseldorfer EG	Dusseldorf	8th.	Placement games 7th place
EHC Essen-West	eat	Climbers	-
ECD Iserlohn	Iserlohn	9.	Relegation 1st place
ESV Kaufbeuren	Kaufbeuren	6th	Semi-final 4th place
Cologne EC	Cologne	2.	German champions
EV Landshut	Landshut	4th	final
Mannheim ERC	Mannheim	1.	Semi-final 3rd place
SC Riessersee	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	10.	Relegation 2nd place
SB Rosenheim	Rosenheim	3.	Placement games 5th place
Schwenninger ERC	Schwenningen	5.	Placement games 8th place

mode

As two years before, the final round was played in the classic play-off mode. Instead of the group phase, as in the previous season , a quarter-finals were held again, but this was the first time that the “ best-of-five ” mode was used. Placement games for places 5 to 8 were completely dispensed with in view of the lack of audience response in previous years, the ranking in the double round was now decisive for the final placement. The relegation round was significantly increased; the last two in the Bundesliga met the best eight teams in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Transfers

Rosenheim strengthened itself with Franz Reindl from Riessersee. In Düsseldorf, the management signed Chris Valentine , who had played for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the past three years , and Jörg Hiemer from Freiburg and Mike Schmidt and Miroslav Nentvich from Mannheim were brought in. Since Mannheim had also given up its two contingent players Bill Lochead (Chur) and Doug Berry (Geneva), the Binghamton Whalers brought in two top-class players, Paul Messier and Ross Yates from Iserlohn . In addition, defender Thomas Gandorfer came from Landshut . Newcomers Essen brought Dave Hatheway from Schwenningen, but with Bruce Hardy and Earl Spry had to hand over two of his heroes of the promotion to Iserlohn. Even Klaus Auhuber from Landshut, peter gailer from Cologne and Miroslav Ďuriš from the Toronto Maple Leafs came to Iserlohn. In Riessersee they strengthened themselves with the Czechoslovaks Libor Havlíček , the German-Canadian Ron Fischer , who was sporadically used in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabers , international Martin Hinterstocker from Iserlohn and Ralph Krueger from Schwenningen. The two Poles Justyn Denisiuk and Bogusław Maj , who had to pause the previous season after their escape, signed on in Cologne, where the young defender Robert Sterflinger had also been brought from Riessersee. There they needed a replacement for Uli Hiemer , who had moved to the NHL.

Preliminary round

Closing table

	club	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	SB Rosenheim	36	23	7th	6th	211: 109	53:19
2.	Cologne EC (M)	36	23	5	8th	194: 99	51:21
3.	Mannheim ERC	36	22nd	2	12	199: 126	46:26
4th	EV Landshut	36	18th	5	13	165: 137	41:31
5.	ESV Kaufbeuren	36	18th	3	15th	164: 173	39:33
6th	Schwenninger ERC	36	17th	3	16	124: 133	37:35
7th	Düsseldorfer EG	36	16	5	15th	159: 142	37:35
8th.	ECD Iserlohn	36	12	4th	20th	133: 168	28:44
9.	SC Riessersee	36	8th	4th	24	107: 200	20:52
10.	EHC Essen-West (N)	36	3	2	31	97: 266	8:64

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats, (N) = newcomer, (M) = defending champion
Explanations:     = play-offs,     = relegation round.

Best scorer

player	team	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
Chris Valentine	Düsseldorfer EG	36	37	42	79
Ernst Höfner	SB Rosenheim	36	23	51	74
Ross Yates	Mannheim ERC	35	31	39	70
Erich Kühnhackl	EV Landshut	36	30th	39	69
Manfred Wolf	Mannheim ERC	36	31	35	66
Franz Reindl	SB Rosenheim	36	28	38	66
Paul Messier	Mannheim ERC	36	33	31	64
Peter John Lee	Düsseldorfer EG	36	29	34	63
Horst Heckelsmüller	ESV Kaufbeuren	36	26th	36	62
Vladimír Martinec	ESV Kaufbeuren	36	25th	33	58
Marcus Kuhl	Düsseldorfer EG	36	24	34	58

Martinec ESVK 58 Kuhl KEC 58

Best defenders

player	team	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
Harold Circle	Mannheim ERC	36	5	36	41
Udo Kießling	Cologne EC	36	14th	26th	40
Doug Hicks	Cologne EC	36	10	26th	36

Relegation round

The relegation round was played in a single round, so that each team played a home and an away game against the other clubs.

Closing table

	club	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	SC Riessersee	18th	12	4th	2	98:63	28: 8
2.	SV Bayreuth	18th	11	5	2	98:61	27: 9
3.	BSC Prussia	18th	10	4th	4th	86:56	24:12
4th	EHC Essen-West	18th	9	2	7th	96:71	20:16
5.	Krefelder EV	18th	8th	2	8th	95:85	18:18
6th	Duisburger SC	18th	7th	4th	7th	72:89	18:18
7th	Eintracht Frankfurt	18th	9	0	9	68:90	18:18
8th.	Augsburg EV	18th	6th	1	11	74:73	13:23
9.	EV Füssen	18th	3	2	13	81: 115	8:28
10.	EC Bad Toelz	18th	2	2	14th	47: 112	6:30

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats
Explanations:     = Bundesliga     next year, 2nd Bundesliga next year.

Best scorer

player	team	Gates	Assists	Points
Kenneth Brown	Krefelder EV	22nd	24	46
Mike Lay	SV Bayreuth	27	18th	45
Jali Wahlsten	EV Füssen	24	20th	44
Ralph Krueger	SC Riessersee	25th	14th	39
Rick Hindmarch	BSC Prussia	13	25th	38

Play-offs

All play-off rounds, with the exception of the game for third place, were played in the " Best-of-Five " mode.

Quarter finals

			series	1	2	3	4th	5
SB Rosenheim	-	ECD Iserlohn	3-0	6: 2	6: 2	10: 5	-	-
Cologne EC	-	Düsseldorfer EG	3: 1	3: 1	0: 2	5: 4 a.d.	4-0	-
EV Landshut	-	ESV Kaufbeuren	1: 3	4: 3	1: 4	5: 8	2: 4	-
Mannheim ERC	-	Schwenninger ERC	3-0	9: 1	3: 2	3: 2	-	-

Semifinals

			series	1	2	3	4th	5
SB Rosenheim	-	ESV Kaufbeuren	3-0	8: 1	3: 2	4: 1	-	-
Cologne EC	-	Mannheim ERC	0: 3	3: 4	3: 5	3: 7	-	-

Series for 3rd place

	series	1	2
ESV Kaufbeuren - Cologne EC	0: 2	2: 4	2:10

final

			series	1	2	3	4th	5
SB Rosenheim	-	Mannheim ERC	3-0	4: 3	7: 2	2: 1 a.d.	-	-

Best scorer

player	team	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
Ross Yates	Mannheim ERC	9	9	8th	17th
Ernst Höfner	SB Rosenheim	9	10	5	15th
Marcus Kuhl	Cologne EC	9	6th	9	15th

Squad of the German champions

German champion SB Rosenheim

Goalkeepers: Karl Friesen , Karl Huber Defenders: Rainer Blum , Peter Scharf , Anton Maidl , Roman Rybin , Sepp Klaus , Jamie Masters , Horst-Peter Kretschmer Attackers: Raimond Hilger , Franz Reindl , Ernst Höfner , Ralf Schlosser , Robin Laycock , Manfred Ahne , Jochen Mörz , Markus Berwanger , Axel Kammerer , Georg Franz , Franz-Xaver Ibelherr , Michael Betz Head coach: Dr. Pavel Wohl

Web links

• All results and tables of the ice hockey Bundesliga 1984/85 at hockey-db.de
• Hockey Bundesliga 1984/85 at hockeyarchives.info (French)