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Grasshopper Club Zurich (1934–2000) GCK Lions (since 2000) |
| Location | Küsnacht , Switzerland |
| Parent club | Grasshopper Club Zurich |
| Club colors | blue White |
| league | Swiss League |
| Venue | KEK Küsnacht |
| capacity | 2,200 seats (including 1,800 seats) |
| executive Director | Peter Zahner |
| Head coach | Michael Liniger |
| Season 2019/20 | 8th place, playoff quarter-finals |
The GCK Lions are a Swiss ice hockey club from Küsnacht , which has competed in the Swiss League since 2000 and acts as the ZSC Lions farm team . The club name GCK is derived from Grasshopper Club Zürich (GCZ) and SC Küsnacht (SCK), whose ice hockey departments merged in 2000.
history
In 1932, together with the Dolder artificial ice rink in Zurich, the Grasshopper ice hockey team was established, which in 1934 became the fifth section of the Grasshopper Club Zurich .
The GCZ belonged to the National League A until 1945, 1946 to 1957 and 1963 to 1968 . In between you entered respectively in the National League B on. In the 1965/66 season, the Grasshoppers became Swiss champions and Swiss cup winners, which was also the greatest success in the history of the section.
In 1967 they went back to the NLB. In 1971 they were relegated to the first division . After an interlude in 1982/1983 in the NLB, they were relegated to the 2nd division for four years in 1984. From 1993 the Grasshopper Club had re-established itself in the NLB.
The GC ice hockey section was the initiator of the merger with Zürcher SC and a supporting member of the extremely successful ZLE pyramid, the operating company of ZSC Lions and GCK Lions.
In the 2015/16 season , the GCK Lions had to be satisfied with ninth place as in the 2014/15 season, the playoffs were missed by one place. The quarter-finals were also missed in 2016/17, this time clearly: The Lions landed on the 12th and last place of the qualification. In 2017/18 the season ended in 9th place. In the 2019/20 season, the GCK finished the qualification in 8th place and came into the playoff quarter-finals, in which the team lost 4-1 to EHC Kloten .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Club history of the GCK Lions - 1932 to today. In: gck.zsclions.ch. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
- ^ History of GC Ice Hockey. In: gc-eishockey.ch. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .