HK Skalica

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HK 36 Skalica
HK 36 Skalica
Greatest successes
  • Promotion to the Extraliga in 1997
  • Slovak runner-up in 2009
Club information
history TJ Sokol Tekla Skalica (1936–1952)
TJ Tatran Skalica (1952–1963)
ZVL Skalica (1963–1993)
HK 36 Skalica (1993–2016)
HK Skalica (since 2016)
Location Skalica , Slovakia
Club colors green white
league 1st League
Venue Hant Aréna
capacity 4,095 seats (including 2,648 seats)

The HK Skalica is a Slovak ice hockey team from Skalica , which the game operation of the second-rate since 2016 1st league participates. The original club was founded in 1936 and played continuously in the Slovak extra league between 1997 and 2016 . The club plays its home games in the Hant Aréna , which had 3214 spectators until 2008. In the summer of 2008, the venue was rebuilt and has since offered 4095 spectators.

history

In its history, the club was renamed several times, for example in 1952 from TJ Sokol Tekla Skalica to TJ Tatran Skalica , later to ZVL Skalica and on January 1, 1993 to HK 36 Skalica. From 1974 to 1989 the senior team of the then ZVL Skalica played in the 1st Slovakian league (SNHL) (second class), but never got above fourth place. In 1989 he was even relegated to the 2nd division, but was able to qualify for promotion to the 1st Slovak division in 1993. In 1995/96 they reached the relegation round to the Extraliga, but failed clearly as the last in qualification. In the following season the relegation was again achieved, in which the HK 36 Skalica took second place and thus rose to the extra league.

In the first extra league season in the club's history they reached a good sixth place, but were eliminated in the first play-off round against HK Poprad . In the following season 1998/99 the HK 36 took second place after the championship round and came to the play-off semifinals, where they were defeated by HC Košice .

During the lockout in the NHL , Žigmund Pálffy went back to the ice for a few games for HK 36, but then moved to HC Slavia Prague . Since many other Slovak clubs had players from the NHL permanently available, Skalica missed the play-offs. In the 2005/06 season they reached the quarter-finals, but were eliminated in a series of seven games 3: 4 against HK Dynamax Oil Nitra .

In the 2007/08 season, HK 36 managed to assert itself in the quarter-finals against HKM Zvolen, then lost by one goal in the seventh semi-final game against HC Košice and thus finally finished third in the Slovakian extra league.

The 2008-09 season was the most successful in the club's history. After HK 36 took third place in the preliminary round, he defeated HC Dukla Trenčín in the quarter-finals (4: 0), as well as the defending champion HC Slovan Bratislava in the semi-finals (4: 3), and met HC Košice in the final . The series ended with a 4-2 win for HC Košice, with which HK 36 Skalica finished second.

The club reached in the preliminary round of the 2008/09 season for the first time in the club's history 100 points and 200 goals (with 168 goals conceded).

Team captain Žigmund Pálffy set several historical offensive records in the Extraliga in the 2008/09 season:

  • 64 goals (previously Vlastimil Plavucha in the 1999/2000 season - 49 goals)
  • 126 points scorer (previously Pavol Demitra in the 2003/04 season, and Žigmund Pálffy in the 2007/2008 season - 99 points each)
  • a value of +100 in the plus / minus rating
  • a series of 25 games with at least one scorer point (previously Martin Hujsa in the 2008/09 season - 19 games)

With 70 games played, this gives Pálffy an average of 0.91 goals and 1.8 points per game.

The scorer point record of 99 points was overcome in the 2008/09 season by another player from HK 36 Skalica: Juraj Mikúš reached 113 points. At the same time, Mikúš set a new historical record in the Extraliga with 75 assists.

In February 2016, the club withdrew from the Extraliga because they could no longer provide a competitive team due to financial problems. In spring 2016, a new men's team was built out of the youth club MHKM Skalica under the leadership of President Žigmund Pálffy. With the establishment of a new game operating company, it started playing in the first division for the 2016/17 season under the name HK Skalica.

Known players

Žigmund Pálffy comes from the offspring of HK 36 Skalica and played very successfully in the National Hockey League for many years . After retiring, he made his comeback at HK 36 in 2007 and was the top scorer in the Extraliga in the 2007/08 season . Another striker who has been successful in North America is Miroslav Zálešák , who has also been back in Skalica since the middle of the 2007/08 season. The Czech Michal Kempný , who comes from the offspring of Skalica, has played in the NHL since 2016 and won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals in the 2017/18 season .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Project: Martin Formánek: HK 36 Skalica withdrew from Extraliga - Eurohockey.com. In: eurohockey.com. February 16, 2016, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ hk36.sk, Do novej sezóny s niekoľkými zmenami ( Memento from September 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ SzĽh: HOKEJ: Skalica bude štartovať v I. league - Slovenský zväz ľadového hokeja. In: hockeyslovakia.sk. May 27, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 (Slovak).