HC Innsbruck

HC TWK Innsbruck
Greatest successes
National League Champion 2011/12
Club information
history	founded in 1994
Location	Innsbruck , Tyrol , Austria
Nickname	The sharks
Club colors	Red Black
league	Erste Bank Ice Hockey League
Venue	Tiroler Wasserkraft Arena Innsbruck
capacity	3,200 seats
executive Director	Günther Hanschitz
Head coach	vacant
captain	Tyler Spurgeon
Season 2019/20	10th place (main round) 5th place (qualifying round)

The HC Tiroler Wasserkraft Innsbruck - The sharks is an Austrian ice hockey team from Innsbruck ( Tyrol ), since the 2012/13 season after three years in the second division again in the Erste Bank Hockey League is active.

history

The club was re-founded in 1994 as HC Innsbruck and renamed after the major sponsor " Tiroler Wasserkraft " in 1999 . Since the 2000/01 season , the club played again in the highest Austrian league and was thus the first Innsbruck first division team since the departure of the forerunner Innsbrucker EV , which completed its last Bundesliga season 1992/93 .

Over the years, the team reached the semi-finals several times, but never made it to the finals. In the last few seasons in particular, the majority of the squad was often changed, but this mainly had an impact on the budget. In addition, the team struggled with a weak phase at the end of the basic season, which was repeated year after year and regularly culminated in the playoffs. On March 3, 2009 it was announced that HC Innsbruck wanted to leave the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League and relegate to the National League for financial reasons.

The first season in the new league was completed with a squad that consisted primarily of young Tyrolean players, and was successful. The club won the regular round with a seven point lead over the runner-up EC Dornbirn . In the final he was defeated by Vorarlberg with 1: 3 victories and had to be content with the title of runner-up. Two years later, the club managed to win the second division championship for the first time. A short time later it was announced that the Innsbruckers would return to the top division.

The 'Haie' have been back in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League since the 2012/13 season , but have not been able to qualify for the playoffs since then. The Haie achieved their best result in the 2015/16 season with eleventh place in the main round and third place in the qualifying round.

team

Squad of the EBEL season 2020/21

As of August 19, 2020

No.	Nat.	player	Item	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
		Tom McCollum	G	0December 7, 1989	2020	Amherst , New York , USA
34		Kilian Leitner	G	April 27, 2002	2019	Austria
30th		René Swette	G	August 21, 1988	2020	Lustenau , Austria
28		Michael Boivin	D.	November 22, 1990	2018	Delta , British Columbia , Canada
90		Tyler Cuma	D.	January 19, 1990	2019	Scarborough , Ontario , Canada
44		Sacha Guimond	D.	March 28, 1991	2017	Ville-Marie , Québec , Canada
55		Lukas Jaunegg	D.	October 31, 2000	2018	Austria
98		Jan Lattner	D.	December 17, 1989	2019	Czech Republic
		Jonathan Racine	D.	May 28, 1993	2020	Montréal , Quebec , Canada
		Colton Saucerman	D.	0May 5th 1992	2020	Colorado Springs , Colorado , USA
		Adrian Saxrud Danielsen	D.	September 27, 1992	2020	Hamar , Norway
		Kevin Tansey	D.	February 22, 1993	2020	Hammond , Ontario , Canada
12		Thomas Vallant	D.	0December 1, 1995	2019	Wolfsberg , Austria
13		Jakob Wetzelsberger	D.	August 21, 2000	2019	Innsbruck , Austria
21st		Felix Brunner	LW	October 20, 1995	2019	St. Johann in Tirol , Austria
89		Lukas Bear	LW	0July 1, 1997	2017	Innsbruck , Austria
		Braden Christoffer	C.	02nd August 1994	2020	Sherwood Park , Alberta , Canada
		Daniel Ciampini	F.	November 25, 1990	2020	Concord , Ontario , Canada
		Max Gerlach	C.	0April 4, 1998	2020	Burnsville , Minnesota , USA
		Félix Girard	C.	0May 9, 1994	2020	Lévis , Quebec , Canada
91		Caleb Herbert	C.	October 12, 1991	2019	Bloomington , Minnesota , USA
		Sam Lord	LW	October 13, 1992	2020	Hinsdale , Illinois , USA
		Henrik Hochfilzer	LW	0June 2, 1991	2020	St. Johann in Tirol , Austria
		Christian Jennes	F.	May 21, 1997	2020	Villach , Austria
23		Tobias Krippels	F.	July 24, 2000	2019	Austria
37		Christof Kromp	LW	August 14, 1997	2019	Villach , Austria
22nd		Michael Kuprian	F.	May 22, 2001	2019	Innsbruck , Austria
		Thomas Mader	W.	03rd September 1994	2020	Mittersill , Austria
8th		Clemens Paulweber	F.	October 22, 1996	2014	Austria
		Deven Sideroff	RW	April 14, 1997	2020	Summerland , British Columbia , Canada
20th		Jesper Thörnberg	LW	March 15, 1991	2019	Jonkoping , Sweden
11		Marcel Westerthaler	F.	November 10, 1999	2019	Innsbruck , Austria
		Dario Winkler	C.	May 18, 1997	2020	Hall in Tirol , Austria
88		Miha Zajc	C.	0December 8, 1996	2019	Ljubljana , Slovenia

Well-known former players

(Team membership and position in brackets)

Claus Dalpiaz (2000–2007, goalkeeper) With seven seasons in the Haie dress, Claus Dalpiaz was once part of the Innsbruck squad. Over the years he has become a fan favorite, even if his often awkward excursions behind the goal sparked a lot of discussion. Todd Elik (2005-2007, attack) The Canadian striker was one of the most brilliant playmakers to have ever played in Innsbruck, scoring 139 assists for the team in 108 games.

Brad Isbister (2004/05, attack) The NHL veteran joined the Sharks for sixteen games during the lockout . Pierre Dagenais (2006-2008, attack) Pierre Dagenais joined HC Innsbruck in the 2006/07 season and scored 37 goals in just 27 games. However, he could not repeat this performance in the following season.

Significant past teams

National league champions 2011/12

position	Surname
Goal:	Manuel Litterbach, Marco Repitsch, Markus Seidl, Dominique Wolk
Defense:	Christoph Hörtnagl, David Lindner , Jamie Mattie, Jonathan Paiement , Florian Pedevilla, Stefan Pittl, Dominique Saringer , Florian Stern, Dominic Waldnig
Storm:	Christoph Echtler, Aaron Fox , Andreas Hanschitz, Mario Huber , Alexander Höller, Rem Murray, Patrick Mössmer ( C ), Klemens Plössl, Markus Prock , Benedikt Schennach, Valentin Schennach, Marc Schönberger, Maximilian Steinacher, Herbert Steiner
Trainer:	Daniel Naud

U20 team

The U20 team (club-internal HC TWK Innsbruck U20 ) has been playing in the Austrian U20 league since 2001 ( EBYSL since 2012 ). The head coach is Manfred Kuchinka .

Coach history

time	nation	Trainer	Remarks
2004/05		Tommy Samuelsson
2005/06		Alan Haworth
2006/07		Larry Sacharuk
2007/08		Pat Cortina	early discharge
2007/08 - 2008/09		Ron Kennedy	ended the season prematurely due to cancer
2009		Greg Holst	Quarter final out
2009-2011		Jarno Mensonen
2011-2014		Daniel Naud	National League Championship
2014 – December 2015		Christer Olsson	Early release
December 2015-2016		Pierre Beaulieu	after the season he returned to the post of assistant coach
2016 – April 2020		Rob Pallin	2 × quarter-final out

Venue

The Haie's home games take place in the Innsbruck Olympic Ice Sports Center (venue for the 1964 and 1976 Winter Games ). In the large Innsbruck Olympic Hall with around 8,000 seats, which was renovated for the men's ice hockey world championship in 2005 , only particularly important or playoff home games are played. Usually the Haie play in the smaller hall (approx. 3200 seats), which was added in 2005 and is called the Tiroler Wasserkraft Arena .

Average audience

• 2003/04 season: 1,800 spectators per home game
• 2004/05 season: 3,071 spectators per home game
• 2005/06 season: 3,177 spectators per home game
• 2006/07 season: 2,579 spectators per home game
• 2007/08 season: 2,801 spectators per home game
• 2008/09 season: 2,070 spectators per home game
• Season 2009/10: 1,407 spectators (National League)
• 2010/11 season: 1,121 spectators (National League)
• 2011/12 season: 1,119 spectators (National League)
• 2012/13 season: 1,726 spectators per home game
• 2013/14 season: 1,667 spectators per home game
• 2014/15 season: 1,789 spectators per home game
• 2015/16 season: 1,529 spectators per home game
• Season 2016/17: 2,198 spectators per home game
• 2017/18 season: 2,326 spectators per home game

Web links

• official homepage
• Entry at hockeyarenas.net with photos of the ice rinks

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of the ÖEHV ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )