HC Martigny
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| history | HC Martigny (1939-2008) |
| Location | Martigny , Switzerland |
| Club colors | Red White |
| Venue | Forum d'Octodure |
| capacity | 4500 seats (including 1200 seats) |
The HC Martigny is a former Swiss ice hockey club from Martigny .
history
The association was founded in 1939. One of the founding members was the then only fourteen-year-old national player Oscar Mudry . The club played in the National League A , the highest Swiss ice hockey league , from the 1950s . In the following years, the club was often active in the lower leagues, but increased several times in the second division, the National League B on. The club was unable to establish itself there permanently. The Lower Valais , who played in the 1990s under the impulsive President René Grand with a high budget at the top of the NLB, withdrew in 1999 as bottom of the table in the relegation round to the 1st (amateur) league.
Without President Grand, but with new leadership and the old name after the interim name HC Octodure , HC Martigny returned to the NLB for the 2005/06 season. Martigny benefited from the fact that the winners of the final round for the amateur championship EHC Dübendorf and SC Unterseen-Interlaken waived their promotion .
Martigny finished the regular season 2005/06 in the National League B with eleventh and last place, but remained second class due to the withdrawal of Forward Morges HC . The club signed for the following NLB season the striker Yevgeny Koreschkow , who was the best scorer of the Kazakh national team at the 2006 Winter Olympics with seven points (5 goals) . Before Koreschkow, another Olympic participant for 2006/07 had already signed with Martigny, Grigorijs Panteljew ( Latvia ).
Friborg-Gottéron and HC Martigny, the bottom two of the NLA and NLB seasons 2005/06 , entered into a partnership in summer 2006. Here Friborg pursued the intention to promote the elite juniors in an off-season in the NLB. It was also planned to continue the partnership between Friborg and HC La Chaux-de-Fonds .
After the 2007/08 season, the general assembly of the club decided to withdraw from the NLB, so that it started with only eleven teams in the 2008/09 season.
In 2008 HC Martigny merged with HC Verbier Val-de-Bagnes to form HC Red Ice Martigny-Verbier-Entremont . By winning the amateur title in 2012, the team rose to the NLB.
Individual evidence
- ↑ hockeyfans.ch, club information on hockeyfans.ch
- ↑ hockeyfans.ch: Martigny is also withdrawing