Mountfield HK

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Mountfield HK
Greatest successes
  • Champion of the 2nd division 1978
  • Promotion to the Extraliga in 1993
Club information
history BK Hradec Králové (1926–1948)
Sokol Škoda Hradec Králové (1948–1952)
Spartak Hradec Králové ZVÚ (1952–1976)
TJ Stadion Hradec Králové (1976–1992)
HC Stadion Hradec Králové (1992–1994)
HC Lev Hradec Králové (1994 –2000)
HC Hradec Králové (2000–2003)
HC VČE Hradec Králové (2003–2007)
HC VCES Hradec Králové (2007–2012)
Královští lvi Hradec Králové (2012–2013)
Mountfield HK (since 2013)
Location Hradec Králové , Czech Republic
Club colors red, white, black
league Extra league
Venue ČPP aréna
capacity 6,890 seats (including 3,655 seats)
executive Director Aleš Kmoníček
Head coach Vladimír Kýhos
Season 2018/19 4th place (main round)
5th place (quarter-finals)

The Mountfield HK is an ice hockey team from Hradec Kralove , Czech Republic . He has been playing in the top division of the Czech Republic, the Extraliga , since purchasing a license in July 2013 . The club has played its home games in the ČPP aréna since 1957 , which has a capacity of 6,890 spectators.

history

In 1925 the Bruslařský klub Hradec Králové was founded in Hradec Králové , which from 1926 belonged to the Czech Ice Hockey Federation. After the Second World War, the club was renamed Sokol Škoda Hradec Králové in 1948 , whose first team played at the regional level. Four years later, the club was renamed again: As Spartak Hradec Králové ZVÚ , they continued to take part in regional competitions, as there was no artificial ice surface in Hradec Králové. It was not until 1956 that the construction of an open-air stadium began, so that the club's teams had better training opportunities from 1957. The first game in the new stadium Spartak lost against VTJ Dukla Litoměřice 6: 9. At the end of the 1950s (1958), Spartak's first team made it to the second division. At the end of the season 1962/63 they occupied only the last place in the second division, but since no promoted team could be found for financial reasons, Spartak remained in the second division.

Ascents and Descents (1967-2013)

At the end of the 1960s, the club's first team showed their best performance up to that point: They won their second division season in 1967 and 1968 and were thus entitled to take part in the respective promotion round. In the following years the club stayed in the middle of the table in the second division. When a new league structure was created in 1973, Spartak did not qualify for the new 1. ČNHL, but relegated to the third class 2. ČNHL. Only three years later did the team get the chance to rise: They won group B of the third division and prevailed in the promotion round against the second team of SONP Kladno and TZ Trinec . Thus Spartak belonged again to the second division of the ČSSR. Associated with the rise was a renaming of the club in TJ Stadion Hradec Králové . In the following seasons, the club's first team rose regularly up and down before they could establish themselves in the second division in the 1980s. In 1983 the club was runner-up in the second division. This success could only be repeated in 1992 and 1993, so that the club was promoted to the newly founded Extraliga in 1993 as HC Stadion Hradec Králové . However, at the end of the 1993/94 season they only finished eleventh, so that they were relegated to the second-class first division . 1997 even followed the relegation to the 2nd division

In the summer of 2000 the joint stock company HC Hradec Králové as was founded, in which the city of Hradec Králové, HC Moeller Pardubice and a civic association were involved. This company managed to finance ice hockey in Hradec Králové and to find sponsors for the club. In 2002, by acquiring the license from HC Šumperk, they were promoted back to the first division, in which the club played until 2013. The club made it to the semi-finals of the playoffs of the 1st division twice during this period.

Purchase of an Extraliga license (since 2013)

In the course of the 2012/13 season , the Extraliga agreed on a sponsorship contract with the Radegast brewery, which received exclusive serving permits in all stadiums of the league from the following season. This contract collided with the contract between the city of Budweis and the Budweiser Budvar Brewery regarding the naming and serving rights of the Budvar Aréna , which provides for high penalties for serving a different beer brand than Budweiser in the arena. After no agreement could be reached between the conflicting parties, the Extraliga license (including the current player and employee contracts) of HC Mountfield was sold to a newly founded operating company, Mountfield HK as , from Hradec Králové.

team

Squad of the 2018/19 season

No. Nat. Surname birthday in the team since
goal
91 CzechCzech Daniel Dvorak January 9, 2000 youth
39 AmericansAmericans CanadianCanadian Brandon Maxwell March 22, 1991 2018
31 CzechCzech Jaroslav Pavelka September 12, 1993 2013
Defense
27 LatvianLatvian Oskars Cibuļskis April 9, 1988 2017
CzechCzech Michael Gaspar October 31, 1999 2014
51 SlovakSlovakCzechCzech Dominik Graňák June 11, 1983 2017
95 CzechCzech Štěpán Havránek July 15, 1997 youth
21st CzechCzech Tomáš Linhart February 16, 1984 2018
77 CzechCzech Richard Nedomlel July 1, 1993 2018
45 CzechCzech Filip Pavlík July 20, 1992 2017
55 CanadianCanadian Sébastien Piché 4th February 1988 2018
44 SlovakSlovakCroatianCroatian Mislav Rosandic January 26, 1995 2018
41 CzechCzech Radim Šalda February 18, 1999 2018
24 CzechCzech Petr Zámorský 3rd August 1992 2018
Storm
13 CzechCzech Jan Berger February 8, 1989 2017
93 SlovakSlovak Juraj Bezúch December 20, 1993 2018
96 LatvianLatvian Māris Bičevskis August 3, 1991 2018
71 CzechCzech Matej Chalupa July 26, 1998 2018
6th SlovakSlovak Lukáš Cingel June 10, 1992 2017
29 CzechCzech Michal Dragoun April 12, 1983 2016
63 CzechCzech Jaroslav Dvořák March 21, 1999 youth
CzechCzech Filip Jirasek February 13, 1999 youth
42 CzechCzech Petr Koukal August 16, 1982 2017
16 SlovakSlovak Roman Kukumberg April 8, 1980 2014
14th CzechCzech Patrik Miškář March 29, 1996 youth
67 SlovakSlovak Matej Paulovič January 13, 1995 2018
98 CzechCzech Radovan Pavlík February 18, 1998 youth
62 CzechCzech Radek Pilař July 8, 1996 youth
61 CzechCzech Daniel Rákos May 25, 1987 2018
81 CzechCzech Tomáš Vincour November 19, 1990 2018
36 CzechCzech Lukáš Vopelka March 2, 1996 2017

Home ground

Exterior view of the ČPP aréna in October 2017

The club plays its home games in the ČPP aréna , which was opened in 1957 as an open-air stadium . In 1969 the stadium was roofed over and had a capacity of 7,700 spectators, with 4,200 standing and 3,500 seats available. The best attendance average in recent years was achieved in the 2006/07 season, when an average of 2,266 spectators followed the club's home games. The hall was extensively renovated in 2007 and has since offered 6,890 seats (3,655 seats and 3,235 standing places).

Well-known former players

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.hockeyarchives.info/Tchecoslovaquie1963.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.hockeyarchives.info/Tchecoslovaquie1973.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.hockeyarchives.info/Tchecoslovaquie1976.htm
  5. ↑ V Českých Budějovicích kvůli sporu o pivo mohou přijít o extraligový hokej. (No longer available online.) Himed.cz, May 29, 2013, archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved July 28, 2013 (Czech). 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 / sport.ihned.cz
  6. ^ The War of the Beers. eurohockey.com, June 6, 2013, accessed August 20, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Hradec Králové schválil přesun HC Mountfield. ceskatelevize.cz, June 18, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013 (Czech).
  8. ↑ HC Mountfield definitely moves to Hradec Kralove. eurohockey.com, June 29, 2013, accessed August 20, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Zimní stadión Hradec Králové 1957-1969