Lausanne HC

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Lausanne Hockey Club
Lausanne Hockey Club
Greatest successes
  • Swiss champion NLB 1957, 1978, 1995, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2013
Club information
history Lausanne HC (since 1922)
Nickname LHC
Club colors Red White
league National League
Venue vaudoise aréna
capacity 9,600 places
executive Director Sacha Weibel
Head coach Craig MacTavish
captain Etienne Froidevaux
Season 2018/19 3rd place, playoff semifinals

The Lausanne Hockey Club is a Swiss ice hockey club from Lausanne in the canton of Vaud . The club was founded in 1922 and has been participating in the National League since the 2013/14 season .

history

The Lausanne Hockey Club was founded in 1922 by former members of the CP Lausanne and is one of the oldest clubs in Switzerland. During the first 16 years of existence, the team played in Le Chalet-à-Gobet and then moved to Montchoisi , where they merged with Star Lausanne HC to form the Montchoisi Hockey Club in 1941 . On November 6, 1949, the official name Lausanne Hockey Club, which still exists today, came about, with which they started in the National League . Although they never won a championship, the club was one of the most successful of its time. Numerous second places proved this. After relegation to the National League B in 1954, the promotion followed three years later until 1961, when the team relegated again. The next 17 years were spent in the second highest class before they were promoted to HC Davos on February 18, 1978 in front of 7,000 spectators . Lausanne played first class for three more seasons before relegation to the NLB in 1981 and even moving to the third division in 1984. This year the company moved to the newly built Patinoire de Malley , where the home games were played from now on. After being promoted back to the NLB, he was immediately relegated a year later. This difficult time for the club was used for a team upheaval, which resulted in reaching the NLB in 1989.

1990s

In 1992 the LHC got into financial difficulties, from which a solidarity developed on the part of fans and supporters of the club, which ultimately saved the club. In the 1993/94 season the team was in the promotion round to the NLA, but had to admit defeat to SC Rapperswil-Jona . They lived up to the role of favorites that the south-west Swiss were given in the following season and after five games in the final against the GCK Lions they were promoted to the NLA. In contrast, however, was the immediate relegation to the NLB, in which the next four years were played.

2000s

In 2001, the LHC dominated the league, became champions of the second highest division and rose again to the top tier. There the team played until 2005 in the lower field of the league and had to relegate again after the 2004/05 season .

The club ran into economic difficulties again. In April 2007, the two Canadian entrepreneurs Barry Alter and Ken Lockett were introduced to the public as the club's new majority shareholders. In addition, Jim Koleff (or his wife after Koleff's death in November 2008) held shares in the club. According to Chris McSorley and Hugh Quennec , the then LHC President Robert Lei-Ravello turned to the two owners of Genève-Servette HC in November 2006. Through their mediation, Jim Koleff acted as a consultant to the Lausanne management, and Quennec brought the LHC into contact with the investors Alter and Lockett. In March 2007, the Geneva-based company denied in a press release that McSorley and Quennec or GSHC were themselves financially involved in Lausanne HC. Nevertheless, there were always media reports in which it was said that Hugh Quennec was pulling the strings in the background and holding the majority stake in the LHC.

In the 2008/09 season , the Lausanne Hockey Club was NLB champions for the fifth time, but failed in the league qualification for National League A at EHC Biel .

2010s

At the end of April 2010, the board of directors was completely re-appointed at the behest of the elderly, and the Canadian himself took over the position of chairman of the board. In July 2011, Patrick de Preux took over the chairmanship of the board of directors, as Alter focused more on business activities in North America. Tennis professional Stanislas Wawrinka joined the panel. In November 2011, Jan Alston was appointed head of sport after having previously worked as a player, assistant coach and assistant head of sport at the LHC.

In the 2012/13 season, the club was promoted to the NLA after defeating the SCL Tigers in the league qualification with 4-2 wins. In April 2013, de Preux indirectly confirmed to the newspaper La Côte that Quennec was involved in the LHC. De Preux also said in the same conversation that Quennec did not make any decisions at Lausanne HC and denied being a puppet.

Game scene from September 2014

In the 2013/14 season , Lausanne HC, which had been the number one relegation candidate before the season, sensationally qualified for the playoffs, thanks mainly to their excellent defensive work. In the playoff quarter-finals, the outsider was only defeated by the sovereign qualifying winner ZSC Lions in the decisive seventh game of the series with 3: 4 victories and only just missed another surprise.

In the 2014/15 season they moved into the playoffs again, this time as qualifying seventh. In the quarter-finals of the championship round they lost to SC Bern with 3: 4 games.

On December 18, 2015, the LHC Board of Directors put the club's majority shareholder, who was not mentioned, under pressure at a media conference and called for a decision on a capital increase. Quennec's name was not mentioned by President de Preux, but he spoke of "an open secret" in this regard. Three days later, Quennec broke its silence and said in a statement that, before joining Lausanne in 2007, he had checked with several lawyers that his engagement was in line with the league's rules. He has always acted transparently towards the LHC and never hidden his participation in the club. President de Preux was always informed and in April 2013 also publicly confirmed Quennec's participation to La Côte, the statement said. In December 2015 Stanislas Wawrinka announced his retirement from the Board of Directors due to lack of time.

In view of a looming change in the National League A regulations, according to which a person may not be the majority owner of more than one NLA club, Quennec decided to sell its shares in the LHC. In February 2016, the American businessman Ken Stickney took over the majority of the shares in Quennec's LHC. Stickney was previously president of Kloten Flyers and a member of Avenir Sport Entertainment LLC (ASE), the owner of the club. Personally, however, Stickney was not a shareholder in Kloten and entered Lausanne with his own money and not, as in Kloten, as part of the ASE investor group. In September 2016, Stickney said the goal was to make the LHC the best club in Europe.

In April 2016, the Vaudois split from their Danish head coach Heinz Ehlers after missing the playoffs. With the playoff participation in 2014 and 2015, the Dane had achieved the greatest club successes in the NLA to date. His successor was the Canadian Daniel Ratushny . Under Ratushny the team, until then notorious for their extremely defensive style of play, began to play more offensively. With success: The 2016/17 season ended in fourth place. In the playoffs, however, the Vaudois no longer found the kick. They were eliminated in the playoff quarter-finals against HC Davos without having won a single game.

On October 11, 2017, coach Ratushny was relieved of his post as a result of a mixed start to the 2017/18 game year (twelve points from the first ten games). Yves Sarault - formerly youth coach in Lausanne - initially took over the post on an interim basis and was confirmed in this position at the beginning of November 2017 until the end of the 2017/18 season. On February 8, 2018, however, the second coach change of the season was made: John Fust came in place of Sarault, after there had been exclusively defeats in the previous five games under his leadership and LHC was third from bottom of the National League.

In May 2018, Ville Peltonen took up the position of coach. Under the Finn, the team reached the playoff semi-finals in 2018/19, at the end of February 2020 Peltonen and head of sport Jan Alston were sacked for sporting reasons. Successor in the coaching office was the Canadian Craig MacTavish .

At the end of May 2020, Petr Svoboda , Zdenek Bakala and Gregory Finger became the new LHC owners and thus successors to Ken Stickney. Svoboda also took over the office of sports director.

Venues

The home games of the Lausanne Hockey Club were played from 1984 to 2017 in the original Patinoire de Malley (German ice rink Malley , officially Center Intercommunal de Glace de Malley , CIG de Malley or CIGM for short ). It had an official capacity of 8,000 spectators. For the 2017/18 season, the LHC moved into a temporary venue called Malley 2.0 with 6,700 seats until the end of the renovation work in the Malley ice rink . It was the largest temporary ice hockey hall in the world.

The inauguration of the new stadium took place on September 24, 2019. Lausanne HC lost 3: 5 in the derby against Genève-Servette HC . The new ice rink with 9,600 seats was given the name Vaudoise aréna when the insurance company Vaudoise took over the naming rights .

Squad for the 2019/20 season

As of October 8, 2019

No. Nat. player Item Date of birth in the team since place of birth
29 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Luca Boltshauser G 17th July 1993 2018 Zurich , Switzerland
51 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Tobias Stephan G January 21, 1984 2019 Zurich , Switzerland
38 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lukas Frick D. September 15, 1994 2017 Zuberwangen , Switzerland
79 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Joël Genazzi D. February 10, 1988 2013 Zurich , Switzerland
77 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Robin Grossmann -  A. D. 17th August 1987 2018 Dintikon , Switzerland
61 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Heldner D. June 24, 1996 2019 Eyholz , Switzerland
45 SwedenSweden Jonas Junland -  A. D. November 15, 1987 2016 Linkoping , Sweden
Flag of Canada and Germany.svg Justin Krueger D. 0October 6, 1986 2020 Dusseldorf , Germany
4th FinlandFinland Petteri Lindbohm D. September 23, 1993 2018 Helsinki , Finland
88 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Matteo Nodari D. November 23, 1987 2014 Lugano , Switzerland
65 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Victor Oejdemark D. June 18, 1998 2019 Stäfa , Switzerland
89 Flag of Canada and Switzerland.png Cody Almond C. July 24, 1989 2019 Calgary , Alberta , Canada
46 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Benjamin Antonietti LW 0July 7, 1991 2018 Orbe VD , Switzerland
22nd SwitzerlandSwitzerland Christoph Bertschy C. 0April 5, 1994 2018 Le Mouret , Switzerland
CanadaCanada Cory Conacher LW December 14, 1989 2020 Burlington , Ontario , Canada
25th CanadaCanada Cory Emmerton C. 0June 1, 1988 2018 St. Thomas , Ontario , Canada
40 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Etienne Froidevaux -  C. C. March 20, 1989 2013 Biel , Switzerland
United StatesUnited States Brian Gibbons C. February 26, 1988 2020 Braintree , Massachusetts , USA
11 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Yannick gentlemen W. 0February 7, 1991 2014 Mühleberg , Switzerland
15th CanadaCanada Dustin Jeffrey -  A C. February 27, 1988 2016 Sarnia , Ontario , Canada
19th CanadaCanada Josh Jooris C. July 14, 1990 2019 Burlington , Ontario , Canada
81 LatviaLatvia Ronalds Ķēniņš LW February 28, 1991 2018 Riga , Latvia
80 SwitzerlandSwitzerland FinlandFinland Robin Leone RW March 30, 1993 2018 Winterthur , Switzerland
95 SwitzerlandSwitzerland United StatesUnited States Tyler Moy C. July 18, 1995 2018 La Jolla , California , USA
12 Flag of Canada and Switzerland.png Tim Traber RW January 26, 1993 2018 Quesnel , British Columbia , Canada
91 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Joël Vermin W. 05th February 1992 2017 Frauenkappelen , Switzerland
14th FinlandFinland Max Wärn W. June 10, 1988 2019 Helsinki , Finland


Coaching staff

Surname nationality Date of birth place of birth
Ville Peltonen FinlandFinland Finland May 24, 1973 Vantaa
Tommi Hämäläinen FinlandFinland Finland March 27, 1975 Kerava
Tommi Niemelae FinlandFinland Finland June 17, 1983 Helsinki

Well-known former players

Jersey numbers that can no longer be assigned

  • # 10 Gérard Dubi
  • # 16 Claude Friederich
  • # 21 Beat Kindler
  • # 39 Cristobal Huet

Web links

Commons : Lausanne Hockey Club  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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