HC Red Ice

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HC Red Ice
HC Red Ice
Greatest successes
  • Amateur champion 2012
  • Promotion to the NLB in 2012
Club information
history HC Red Ice (2008 - 2018)
Location Martigny , Switzerland
Club colors Red White
league National League B
Venue Forum d'Octodure
capacity 3520 seats
Head coach Matjaž Kopitar
Season 2016/17 3rd place, playoff quarter-finals

The HC Red Ice Martigny-Verbier-Entremont was a Swiss ice hockey club from Martigny , which was formed in 2008 from the merger of HC Martigny with HC Verbier Val-de-Bagnes. From 2012 to 2017, the club took part in the National League B game. In 2018 the club merged with Sion HC and HC Monthey-Chablais to form HC Valais-Chablais .

history

After the 2007-08 season, the General Assembly of the HC Martigny decided to withdraw from the National League B . Due to the financially strained situation, it then merged with the ambitious HC Verbier Val-de-Bagnes to form HC Red Ice. Then the club started playing in the first division and was able to win the championship of the group Western Switzerland (Romandie) in 2009. Spielbetriebs AG of the professional team was financed by a group of Russian investors. In the following two years the team repeated this success and also became vice-amateur champions.

With the final victory over the EHC Winterthur , HC Red Ice won the Swiss amateur championship in 2012 and was granted the right to promotion to the NLB. Since the licensing went well, the club was allowed to participate in the NLB's game operations. After promotion, a new coach was signed with Albert Malgin , and Igor Fedulow ended his career and became an assistant coach. With Aleksejs Širokovs , a Latvian international was also committed.

In December 2015 Albert Malgin was dismissed from the coaching office and replaced on an interim basis by Adrien Plavsic .

In the 2015/16 season , Red Ice Martigny reached the playoff semifinals after qualifying in seventh place. After SC Langenthal was defeated in the quarterfinals, the team lost to the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in the semifinals .

The Slovenian coach Matjaž Kopitar was signed for the 2016/17 season . They finished the qualification in third place and had to bow in the playoff quarter-finals with 1: 4 games HC Ajoie .

In February 2017, Russian investors announced that they would withdraw from financing the professional team, which led to the first financial problems. In June 2017, a regional court ultimately declared HC Red Ice AG bankrupt, which was accompanied by the exclusion from the NLB. The club therefore entered the 2nd division in the 2017/18 season under the new name HC Red Ice Martigny-Verbier-Entremont. The promotion to the first division succeeded straight away. In the summer of 2018, the merger with Sion HC (MSL) and HC Monthey-Chablais (2nd league) to form HC Valais-Chablais (HCV) took place. The first team competes in the MySports League, where they play their home games in the Forum d'Octodure in Martigny.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung Red Ice Martigny aims high - Russians instead of Romans , November 14, 2012
  2. ↑ sport.sf.tv, Red Ice is promoted to NLB
  3. ^ Plavsic as an interim trainer at Red Ice Martigny. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 14, 2015, accessed on December 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Transfer coup in Martigny: Kopitar new head coach at Red Ice from summer! slapshot.ch, February 2, 2016, accessed on December 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ NLB: Russians get out of Red Ice - financial problems are looming! (No longer available online.) In: hockey-news.info. March 21, 2017, archived from the original on March 28, 2017 ; accessed on June 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hockey-news.info
  6. ↑ Red Ice Martigny bankruptcy: is the NLB taking on a new team at short notice? In: aargauerzeitung.ch. June 14, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017 .

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