HC Innsbruck
HC TWK Innsbruck | |
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Greatest successes | |
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
Well-known former players
(Team membership and position in brackets)
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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 | |
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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 |
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Daniel Naud | National League Championship | |
2014 – December 2015 |
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Christer Olsson | Early release | |
December 2015-2016 |
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Pierre Beaulieu | after the season he returned to the post of assistant coach | |
2016 – April 2020 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the ÖEHV ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )