Munich Barons

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Munich Barons
Munich Barons
Greatest successes
  • German champion 2000
  • German runner-up in 2001
Club information
history Munich Barons (1999–2002)
Hamburg Freezers (2002–2016)
Location Munich
Nickname Barons
Club colors blue , white
league German Ice Hockey League (DEL)
Venue Olympic ice sports center
capacity 6,136 seats (including 1,515 seats)
Season  2001/02
2002/03 		1st place (preliminary round), play-off semi-finals
game operations were relocated

The Munich Barons were a professional ice hockey team from the Anschutz Sports & Entertainment Group , which was active in the German Ice Hockey League between 1999 and 2002 . The Barons played their home games in the Olympic Ice Sports Center , which at that time offered space for 6,262 spectators. The greatest success of the Barons was the German Championship 2000.

history

After long negotiations between the Anschutz Entertainment Group, the license holder Landshut Cannibals , the ESC Munich and the Munich Olympiapark GmbH, the establishment of the Munich Ice Hockey Club GmbH was announced on June 1, 1999. The license for the German ice hockey league was taken over by the indebted Landshut Cannibals, the games should take place in the Olympic ice stadium. The name and logo of the Barons were presented in mid-June . Those in charge of the new Munich club planned with a budget of eight million marks in the first season of the club's history .

Despite a weak start, the team presented itself well in the first season and was able to take second place behind the Kölner Haien in the main round with 109 points . One of the team's best scorers was the German-Canadian Shane Peacock , who was the best defender in the league with 52 points . In the play-offs the team improved and reached the play-off final with a quarter-final victory against the Frankfurt Lions and a 3-0 victory after games in the semifinals against the Kassel Huskies . There the Barons met the Kölner Haie, who were also able to defeat the Munich team and surprisingly won the German Championship in their first season in the German Ice Hockey League. Despite the sporting success, the number of spectators fell short of expectations (main round: 2,800; play-offs: 4,900).

season league Main round Play-offs
1999/2000 DEL 2nd place master
2000/01 DEL 3rd place final
2001/02 DEL 1st place Semifinals

In the 2000/2001 season , Bayern finished third in the table after the main round and qualified for the final round for the second time in a row. In the play-offs, the Barons reached the final again, which they lost in a best-of-five series with 1: 3 defeats against Adler Mannheim . Nevertheless, the audience numbers could not be increased significantly. Due to a lack of sponsorship income and an expensive squad, high losses were also recorded in the period that followed.

After the team took third place in the preseason after the main round, this could be won in the 2001/02 season . With one point ahead of second in the table, the Adler from Mannheim, the Munich team qualified as first in the table for the play-offs despite major injury problems. In the first round, the Barons were able to defeat their rivals from Augsburg with 3-1 games and thus reached the semi-finals for the third time in the club's history. There the team failed because of the eventual master, the Kölner Haien. Despite the slight increase in the number of viewers, on June 3, 2002, the Anschutz Group announced that it was moving to Hamburg for financial reasons. The sponsorship income had not developed satisfactorily either. Despite much speculation beforehand, the sudden move came as a surprise. Between 2002 and 2016, the Munich Barons played under the name Hamburg Freezers in Hamburg in the top German division, the DEL.

team

Important teams

German champion 2000

position Surname
Goal: Christian Künast , Jochen Lehmann , Boris Rousson
Defense: Kent Fearns , Jason Herter , Markus Jocher , Hans Lodin , Christopher Luongo , Shane Peacock , Brent Severyn , Heiko Smazal
Storm: Peter Abstreiter , Mike Casselman , Peter Douris , Thomas Greilinger , Jörg Handrick , Philip Huber , Wayne Hynes , Robert Joyce , Mike Kennedy , Jari Korpisalo , Bill McDougall , Johan Rosén , Alexander Serikow , Pelle Svensson , Bob Sweeney , Simon Wheeldon , Svend Wiele
Trainer: Sean Simpson

German Vice Champion 2001

position Surname
Goal: Christian Künast , Boris Rousson , Jochen Lehmann
Defense: Kent Fearns , Jason Herter , Patrick Köppchen , Hans Lodin , Christopher Luongo , Shane Peacock , Christoph Schubert , Heiko Smazal , Zarley Zalapski
Storm: Peter Abstreiter , Dave Chyzowski , Thomas Dolak , Peter Douris , Rick Girard , Jörg Handrick , Raimond Hilger , Philip Huber , Mike Kennedy , Daniel Koslow , Peter Larsson , Johan Rosén , Alexander Serikow , Andy Schneider , Bob Sweeney , Simon Wheeldon
Trainer: Sean Simpson

player

Club-internal records in the DEL

Best statistics during team membership
category Surname number
Most games Simon Wheeldon 170 (in three seasons)
Most goals Simon Wheeldon 44 (in three seasons)
Most templates Simon Wheeldon 97 (in three seasons)
Most of the points Simon Wheeldon 141 (44 goals and 97 assists in three seasons)
Most penalty minutes Simon Wheeldon 240 (in three seasons)

Major players

(Team membership and position in brackets)

The Canadian has played for the Barons since the club was founded in 1999 and was under contract in Munich until the club moved in 2002. During this time he was able to achieve or complete the most points as well as the most games in the club's history with 170 games and 141 scorer points. After moving, he switched back to VEU Feldkirch and ended his career in 2004.
Schubert was used in 105 games in which the defender was able to score 25 points. After the Barons moved, he moved to North America, where he worked for the Ottawa Senators and the Atlanta Thrashers in the NHL . From 2010 until the end of gaming in 2016, he played for the Hamburg Freezers.
The striker, who was previously active for the Landshut Cannibals , is one of the best offensive players in Munich's history with 83 points scored. After moving in 2002, he left the club and moved back to Sweden to Leksands IF , where he ended his career in 2005.
Rousson was on the ice for the Barons for a total of three years. He was one of the best goalkeepers in the German Ice Hockey League . The German-Canadian was also one of the few players who did not leave the club even after moving to Hamburg. He played for the Hamburg Freezers until 2007 and ended his career with the Kassel Huskies after two more years .

Participation of players in the DEL All-Star Game

Christoph Schubert took part in the DEL All-Star-Game in 2002

Some of the Barons' players were nominated for the DEL All-Star Game while they were on the team . This is a friendly game that has been held annually since 1998 and in which the most outstanding players of the German Ice Hockey League compete against each other.

Participant in the DEL All-Star Game
Surname position Participation (noun) team
Canadian Peter Douris striker 2002 DEL All-Star Team
German Christian Künast goalkeeper 2002 Team Germany
Canadian Derek planned striker 2002 DEL All-Star Team
Canadian Andy Schneider striker 2002 DEL All-Star Team
German Christoph Schubert defender 2002 Team Germany

Trainer

Period Trainer
1999-2002 Canadian Sean Simpson

The Munich Barons employed only one coach in their three-year club history. The English- born Canadian Sean Simpson was Munich's head coach between 1999 and 2002 and was able to win the German championship with the club in the 1999/2000 season and reach the final and the second round of the play-offs in the following two seasons.

After the club moved to Hamburg in the summer of 2002, Simpson was still hired as head coach. On April 30, 2003, he was released from his job due to the lack of sporting success.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spiegel.de, "Munich Barons" compete in the DEL
  2. ↑ netzeitung.de, Munich Barons withdraw from DEL ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ hockeydb.com, All-Time Roster of the Munich Barons

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