Nuremberg Ice Tigers

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Nuremberg Ice Tigers
Greatest successes

German runner-up in 1999, 2007
German second division champions / South 1991
South German champions 1985 , 1986

Club information
history EHC 80 Nürnberg (1980–1995)
Nürnberg Ice Tigers (1995–2006)
Sinupret Ice Tigers (2006–2009)
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers (2009-2020)
Nürnberg Ice Tigers (since 2020)
Location Nuremberg
Nickname Ice Tigers
Parent club EHC 80 Nuremberg
Club colors Red Blue
league German ice hockey league
Venue Arena Nürnberger Versicherung
capacity 7,672 seats (including 4,600 seats)
executive Director Wolfgang Gastner
Head coach vacant
captain Patrick Reimer
Season 2019/20 8th place (main round)

The Nürnberg Ice Tigers are a German ice hockey team from Nürnberg ( official abbreviation: NIT ) that has been playing in the German Ice Hockey League since 1994, making it a founding member . From 2009 to 2020 it operated under the name Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers , after the main sponsor from the jewelry industry, Thomas Sabo , who was committed during this time . In 1995, the professional team was spun off as a limited liability company from EHC 80 Nürnberg , which was founded in 1980, and took part in the DEL games under the name Nürnberg Ice Tigers . From 2006 to 2009, the team started under the name Sinupret Ice Tigers , based on a product of the main sponsor Bionorica . Since June 4, 2009, the original club EHC 80 Nürnberg has been functioning as the parent club of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers. In the 2008/09 season , after differences with the club, the neighboring Höchstadter EC briefly took over the role of the parent club. After 14 seasons with name sponsorship, the Franconian professional ice hockey club returned to its previous name in May 2020.

The club's greatest success to date, which plays its home games in the Nürnberger Versicherung Arena , which opened in 2001 , was the German runner-up in 1999 and 2007 . The club colors of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers are red and blue.

history

EHC 80 Nuremberg (1980–1995)

After the end of SG Nürnberg (real name Spielgemeinschaft HG Nürnberg / Club am Marienberg Nürnberg ) - a club that has played in the 2nd ice hockey class since 1958/59 - EHC 80 Nürnberg was founded in 1980 and began playing in Bavarian in the 1980/81 season Ice Sports Association . After a season in the ice hockey Bayernliga (1981/82) and in the Regionalliga Süd 1982/83 , the EHC was promoted to the Oberliga Süd 1983/84 . From the 1987/88 season, the team played again in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . After being accepted into the German Ice Hockey League on June 13, 1994, the EHC 80 Nuremberg landed in twelfth place at the end of the main round and thus qualified for the play-offs . There they were eliminated in the first round, the second round, against the Düsseldorfer EG without a chance.

Season dates 1980 to 1994
season society league class group placement PO PD Final placement
1980/81 EHC 80 National league VI North master BLL Master
1981/82 EHC 80 Bayern League V - 4th place
1982/83 EHC 80 Regional league IV south 1st place X Semifinals
1983/84 EHC 80 Oberliga III south 12th place X 2. Group A
1984/85 EHC 80 Oberliga III south master OIL Runner-up
1985/86 EHC 80 Oberliga III south master OIL master
1986/87 EHC 80 Oberliga III south 3rd place 2nd BL 4. Group A
1987/88 EHC 80 2nd Bundesliga II south 10th place X 1. Group B
1988/89 EHC 80 2nd Bundesliga II south 3rd place 1st BL 8th place
1989/90 EHC 80 2nd Bundesliga II south Runner-up 1st BL 6th place
1990/91 EHC 80 2nd Bundesliga II south master 2nd BL 4th Place
1991/92 EHC 80 2nd Bundesliga II south 3rd place 2nd BL 3rd place
1992/93 EHC 80 2nd Bundesliga II - 3rd place X Semifinals
1993/94 EHC 80 2nd Bundesliga II - 3rd place X Semi-finals DEL

Source: passionhockey.com , source: rodi-db.de ascent / descent  ↑ ↓

Nuremberg Ice Tigers (1995-2007)

From the 1995/96 season the first ice hockey team was renamed the Nuremberg Ice Tigers. You could only play for an average year again and finished eleventh. In the play-offs, the German record champions Adler Mannheim were eliminated 3-2 from Nuremberg's point of view.

The following season was much worse. After a catastrophic penultimate place in the preliminary round, the team only finished ninth in the subsequent relegation round. This meant having to compete in the playdowns to prevent relegation from the DEL. In the first round, the team met the Schwenninger Wild Wings , who lived up to their role as favorites and beat the Ice Tigers 4-1 in the series. As a result, they started at EV Landshut . As an outsider, they beat Landshut 3-0 and thus remained in the top German ice hockey division.

In the 1998/99 season , those responsible for the Ice Tigers were able to sign well-known players. Consequently, after the preliminary round, they were able to confidently qualify for the play-offs first. In the quarter-finals they met the Augsburg Panthers . In a hard-fought series, the team prevailed 3-2 and made it to the semi-finals for the first time. Another championship candidate was waiting there with the Frankfurt Lions . Despite the relatively balanced starting position, they beat the Lions 3-0 and were in the final of the German championship. In the final, the opponent was Adler Mannheim . The first game could be won 2-1 after extra time. Nevertheless, in the end the Nuremberg team lost just 3-2 and were only runner-up.

Nevertheless, this was one of the most successful seasons in the history of Nuremberg ice hockey. The following six years always followed the same pattern, no matter how successful the points round, the Ice Tigers were eliminated from the 2000/01 season six times in a row in the first round of the play-offs.

Sinupret Ice Tigers (2007-2009)

For the 2006/07 season the team was renamed “ Sinupret Ice Tigers” after sponsor Bionorica AG, Neumarkt . After qualifying again for the championship finals, this year it was finally possible to break through the series and advance to the final. There they were subject to the favored Adler Mannheim and were runner-up for the second time in the club's history.

Expectations rose with the runner-up and the first German championship was longed for for the 2007/08 season . At first it looked as if this endeavor would finally succeed. Promising names such as B. Ahren Spylo or the defender Shane Peacock were transferred to Nuremberg . After the main round, the Ice Tiger deservedly took first place and were now the first championship contender. Sovereign victories against the top teams from Cologne and Berlin gave courage for the subsequent play-offs . There the team first played in the quarter-finals against the DEG Metrostars , who previously only managed to prevail against the Hanover Scorpions in the pre-play-offs with great difficulty .

They went into the series as favorites and were able to take the lead after three and a half minutes through Ahren Spylo in the first game of the series, but then it was visibly difficult against the Düsseldorf team. Nevertheless, you won the first game and thus had the psychological advantage over the Metro Stars. In the second game, too, you clearly had problems. Despite another early lead, they lost the game 2-1. The following three games could not be won either. The DEG Metro Stars surprisingly made it to the semi-finals, while the champions of the regular season had to be eliminated in the quarter-finals for the first time in the history of the DEL. This meant that the season for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers ended after the quarter-finals. The first consequence was the resignation of long-time successful coach Benoît Laporte .

The Tigers in defensive work

As the first in the main round, however, the Ice Tigers have the right to qualify for the newly founded Champions Hockey League . On January 8, 2008, sole shareholder Günther Hertel announced that the Ice Tigers would no longer be solvent if new sponsors were not found in the near future. Three months later, on March 10, 2008, Günther Hertel announced at a press conference that the DEL location in Nuremberg would remain. This is the second time the association has escaped bankruptcy within a few years. Günther Hertel, who runs the club as a hockey enthusiast, wanted to prevent him from having to compensate for deficits from his private assets, as in recent years.

For the 2008/09 season, the Sinupret Ice Tigers parted ways with their parent club, EHC 80 Nuremberg. For years the society and the association had a dispute, u. a. the parent club made excessive demands on the Ice Tigers. A new cooperation partner was found in the Höchstadter EC .

Players bench in O2-World Berlin (game against Eisbären Berlin) on
February 15, 2015

In September 2008, the Sinupret Ice Tigers took part in qualifying for the newly founded Champions Hockey League as the first in the preliminary round of the previous year . They met SC Bern from Switzerland and HC Košice from Slovakia. The first game against the first round of the Swiss National League A took place on September 13, 2008 in the local Arena Nürnberger Versicherung. With Christian Laflamme , the Nuremberg management was able to reactivate a former player for this tournament only. The Ice Tigers lost the game after a tough battle with 1: 4 in front of over 5,000 spectators. After SC Bern had also won the second game against HC Kosice, the Nuremberg team was unable to qualify for the primarily financially lucrative tournament. The Ice Tigers won the match against the Slovak representative HC Kosice 5: 3.

In November 2008 it became known that the GmbH was insolvent. As a result, a provisional insolvency administrator was appointed for the GmbH by the Nuremberg Local Court on November 25, 2008 under the file number 8000 IN 1963/08 , who prepared the insolvency report by December 30, 2008. On March 26, 2009, the previous shirt sponsor Bionorica withdrew, so that insolvency proceedings would have been opened within the following two weeks if no further investors had been found. The opening of insolvency proceedings would have resulted in the loss of the DEL license.

Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers (2009-2020)

At the beginning of April 2009, a group of investors around the jewelry manufacturer Thomas Sabo took over Ice Tigers GmbH, so that bankruptcy was averted and gaming operations were secured in the 2009/10 season. In April 2019, the club announced a realignment with a greater emphasis on working with young players. The previous sporting director of EHC 80 Nuremberg, André Dietzsch, took over the office of sporting director at the Ice Tigers, and Kurt Kleinendorst was the new coach . For Martin Jiranek, his work in Nuremberg ended after six years as responsible for sports.

In August 2018, Thomas Sabo announced that it did not want to extend its sponsorship contract, which would expire on April 30, 2020.

Placements since the founding of the DEL

For the 1994/95 season, the ice hockey Bundesliga was replaced by the German ice hockey league, in which the Nürnberg Ice Tigers started as a founding member for the first time in the club's history in the top German division.

The greatest successes were the two runner-up championships in 1999 and 2007, in which the Ice Tigers failed in the final at Adler Mannheim . In the 2007/08 season, the team took first place after the preliminary round and thus went into the play-offs as favorites. Then the team was eliminated in the first round against the DEG Metro Stars , who had only qualified for the quarter-finals via the pre-play-offs.

In 2013 and 2014 the Nuremberg team reached the playoff quarter-finals, in 2016 and 2017 they were eliminated in the semifinals against Wolfsburg.

season society league Preliminary round Season end Audience Ø
1994/95 EHC 80 Nuremberg DEL 12th place Play-off round of 16 against Düsseldorfer EG (1: 4) 3,272
1995/96 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 11th place Play-off round of 16 against Adler Mannheim (2-3) 3,237
1996/97 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 15th place 2nd play-down round against ESC Wedemark (3-1) 2,525
1997/98 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 12th place 1st play-off qualification against Schwenningen (2-3) 2,747
1998/99 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 1st place Play-off final against Adler Mannheim (2-3) 3,724
1999/00 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 10th place The play-offs were not reached 3,313
2000/01 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 5th place Play-off quarter-finals against Kassel Huskies (1-3) 4,359
2001/02 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 4th Place Play-off quarter-finals against Kassel Huskies (1-3) 5,432
2002/03 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 5th place Play-off quarter-finals against Adler Mannheim (1-4) 5,199
2003/04 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 2nd place Play-off quarter-finals against ERC Ingolstadt (2-4) 5,542
2004/05 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 3rd place Play-off quarter-finals against Adler Mannheim (2-4) 5,363
2005/06 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 4th Place Play-off quarter-finals against Kölner Haie (0-4) 5,091
2006/07 Sinupret Ice Tigers DEL 3rd place Play-off final against Adler Mannheim (0-3) 5,285
2007/08 Sinupret Ice Tigers DEL 1st place Play-off quarter-finals against the DEG Metro Stars (1-4) 5,269
2008/09 Sinupret Ice Tigers DEL 5th place Play-off quarter-finals against Adler Mannheim (1-4) 4,583
2009/10 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 5th place Play-off quarter-finals against the Hannover Scorpions (2-3) 4.233
2010/11 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 10th place Pre-play-off against Adler Mannheim (0-2) 4,745
2011/12 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 13th place The play-offs were not reached 4.112
2012/13 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 7th place Pre-play-off against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg (1-2) 5,950
2013/14 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 3rd place Play-off quarter-finals against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg (2-4) 5,210
2014/15 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 8th place Play-off quarter-finals against Adler Mannheim (1-4) 5.116
2015/16 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 6th place Play-off semi-final against Grizzlys Wolfsburg (2-4) 5,700
2016/17 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 3rd place Play-off semi-final against Grizzlys Wolfsburg (2-4) 5,669
2017/18 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 3rd place Play-off semi-final against Eisbären Berlin (2-4) 6,042
2018/19 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 10th place Pre-Playoffs / Play-off quarter-finals against Adler Mannheim (1-4) 5,359
2019/20 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 8th place Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season ended after the preliminary round 5,104
2020/21 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL

Source: eishockey-online.com

successes

  • German runner-up in 1999, 2007
  • Spengler Cup semi-finals 2018
  • Promotion to the DEL (founding member) in 1994
  • German second division - champions / south 1991
  • German second division - runner-up / south 1990
  • Promotion to the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga in 1987
  • German Oberliga Champion 1986
  • South German champion 1985 , 1986

team

Squad for the 2018/19 season

As of September 2, 2019

No. Nat. player Item Date of birth in the team since place of birth
31 GermanyGermany Niklas Treutle G April 29, 1991 2017 Nuremberg , Germany
77 GermanyGermany Tim Bender D. March 19, 1995 2018 Mannheim , Germany
2 Flag of Canada and Germany.svg Brett Festerling D. 0March 3, 1986 2016 Quesnel , British Columbia , Canada
14th United StatesUnited States Tom Gilbert D. January 10, 1983 2017 Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
19th GermanyGermany Pascal Grosse D. October 21, 1998 2018 Dusseldorf , Germany
22nd GermanyGermany Oliver Mebus D. March 30, 1993 2016 Dormagen , Germany
20th United StatesUnited States Kevin Schulze D. April 23, 1993 2019 White Bear Lake , Minnesota , USA
55 United StatesUnited States Chris Summers D. 0May 5, 1988 2019 Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA
24 GermanyGermany Marcus Weber D. 02nd November 1992 2013 Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany
GermanyGermany Moritz Wirth D. June 10, 1999 2019 Frankfurt am Main
41 Flags of Canada and the United States.svg Will Acton C. July 16, 1987 2018 Edina , Minnesota , USA
95 Flag of Russia and Germany.svg Eugene Alanov LW September 29, 1995 2017 Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakhstan
61 Flag of Canada and Germany.svg Chad Bassen C. April 25, 1983 2018 Strathmore , Alberta , Canada
68 GermanyGermany Tim Bernhardt W. August 19, 1997 2019 Mannheim , Germany
11 United StatesUnited States Chris Brown C. 03rd February 1991 2018 Flower Mound , Texas , USA
9 CanadaCanada Brandon Buck LW August 16, 1988 2018 Delaware , Ontario , Canada
88 United StatesUnited States Austin Cangelosi C. August 27, 1994 2019 Hillsborough , New Jersey , USA
91 CanadaCanada Philippe Dupuis C. April 24, 1985 2016 Laval , Quebec , Canada
71 GermanyGermany Daniel Fischbuch LW 19th August 1993 2019 Bad Friedrichshall , Germany
21st GermanyGermany Maximilian Kislinger LW February 11, 1998 2018 Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany
15th United StatesUnited States Jim O'Brien C. January 29, 1989 2019 Maplewood , Minnesota , USA
32 Flag of Italy and Germany.svg Joachim Ramoser LW February 22, 1995 2019 Bolzano , Italy
17th GermanyGermany Patrick ReimerC. RW December 10, 1982 2012 Mindelheim , Germany
13 Flag of Canada and Germany.svg Rylan Schwartz C. 0January 8, 1990 2019 Kamsack , Canada
29 United StatesUnited States Jack Skille W. May 19, 1987 2020 Madison , USA
GermanyGermany Timo Walther F. January 20, 1998 2020 Bangkok , Thailand
Coaching staff
activity Nat. Surname Date of birth In the team since place of birth
Trainer vacant
Assistant coach Canada-UK Mike Flanagan 20th November 1968 2016 Orangeville, Ontario , Canada

Significant past teams

German runner-up in 1999

position Surname
Goal: Andrej Mesin , Michel Valliere
Defense: Ivan Droppa , Sjarhej Stas , Per Lundell , Daniel Kunce , Kevin Grant , Torsten Kienass , Heiko Smazal , Liam Garvey
Storm: Sergio Momesso , Jarno Peltonen , Jozef Čierny , Martin Reichel , Wadym Schachrajtschuk , Martin Jiranek , Dimitri Dudik , John Craighead , Sven Valenti , Roland Ramoser , Leszek Laszkiewicz , Florian Roth , Chris Straube , Jason Miller
Trainer: Peter Ihnačák

German runner-up in 2007

position Surname
Goal: Jan Guryca , Jean-François Labbé , Lukas Lang
Defense: Anton Bader , Rich Brennan , David Cespiva , Josef Frank , Christian Laflamme , Michel Périard , Jame Pollock , Stefan Schauer
Storm: Gert Acker , Colin Beardsmore , Shawn Carter , Petr Fical , Adrian Grygiel , Martin Jiranek , Scott King , Greg Leeb , Justin Mapletoft , Ulrich Maurer , Florian Ondruschka , Thomas Pielmeier , Aleksander Polaczek , Andre Savage , Brian Swanson
Trainer: Benoît Laporte

player

Blocked jersey numbers

Surname # position Time at the club Remarks
GermanyGermany Martin Muller 4th striker
CanadaCanada Paul Geddes 7th striker 1992-1997
Germany-Canada Martin Jiranek 12 striker 1996-2004, 2006-2008 Jiranek played a total of twelve seasons for the Ice Tigers. During this time he was twice vice champion and once top scorer of the DEL. He also heads all the Ice Tigers' scorers. He made a total of 493 appearances for Nuremberg, scoring 178 goals and 252 assists. His jersey was pulled under the hall roof on the occasion of the season opening on August 29, 2010.
CanadaCanada Steven Reinprecht 28 striker 2012-2018

Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany

Personalities who have rendered outstanding services to ice hockey in Germany will be admitted to the “Hall of Fame” of the German Ice Hockey Museum. Of the actors recorded in Nuremberg:

(Team membership and position in brackets)

Biersack became German champion with SC Riessersee in 1950 and moved to SG Nürnberg in 1959, the predecessor club of EHC 80, for which he was on the ice for three years. As a national player, the all-rounder took part in the 1953 and 1954 World Championships and in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
The attacker played in the German ice hockey league for the Berlin Capitals and the Kassel Huskies before moving to the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in 2000. The 182-time national player ended his active career after the 2004/05 season with the Hamburg Freezers and is now assistant coach of the Straubing Tigers.

Club-internal records

Since the Ice Tigers have been represented in the German Ice Hockey League, they have had some players in their ranks with outstanding personal statistics. In addition to Martin Jiranek , who holds the respective club records in two categories, Jason Miller and Petr Fical were the outstanding players.

Record player
space player Games
1. Martin Jiranek 493
2. Greg Leeb 488
3. Patrick Reimer 462
4th Petr Fical 394
5. Yasin Ehliz 386
Top scorer
space player Points (T / A)
1. Patrick Reimer 431 (201/230)
2. Martin Jiranek 430 (178/252)
3. Steven Reinprecht 330 (112/218)
4th Greg Leeb 290 (112/178)
5. Yasin Ehliz 258 (93/165)
Top goal scorers
space player Gates
1. Patrick Reimer 201
2. Martin Jiranek 178
3. Petr Fical 118
4th Greg Leeb 112
4th Steven Reinprecht 112
Top template provider
space player templates
1. Martin Jiranek 252
2. Patrick Reimer 230
3. Steven Reinprecht 218
4th Greg Leeb 178
5. Yasin Ehliz 165
Penalty minutes
space player Minutes
1. John Craighead 576
2. Guy Lehoux 508
3. Jame Pollock 493

(all statistics are current at the end of the 2019/2020 season )

Other well-known (former) players

(Team membership and position in brackets)

The defender played over 300 NHL games, including for the St. Louis Blues and the Edmonton Oilers. He also wore the Ice Tigers jersey 200 times and returned to Nuremberg in 2008 to take part in the qualifying tournament for the Champions Hockey League.
The former Czechoslovak national player, together with Martin Müller and Peter Just, formed the first storm of the EHC 80 at the end of the 1980s and left Nuremberg after two years to later play for various teams in lower-tier leagues.
The brother of ice hockey legend Dieter Hegen made a few appearances in the national team's jersey and was in the goal of the EHC 80 at the end of the 1980s.
The defender played 92 NHL games for the California Seals in the 1980s and moved to Germany in 1981. Pesut ended his career in 1993 at EC Kassel.
Craighead is with 584 minutes to date the Nuremberg player with the most penalties since the existence of the DEL. In addition, the American played five NHL appearances for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1996/97 season and ended his career in 2005 with the British first division club Nottingham Panthers.
The former Canadian international was in the squad of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers from 1992 to 1997 and scored 352 points in 263 games. The attacker's other DEL stations were EV Landshut and the Kassel Huskies, where he ended his active career in 1998.
The Canadian winger with German nationality wore the Nuremberg jersey from 1996 to 2004 and is the most successful DEL scorer in the club's history with 166 goals and 234 assists. After two years in Ingolstadt, the attacker returned to the Ice Tigers for the 2006/07 season, where he ended his career after the season.
Momesso played a total of 710 NHL games for the Montréal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers. From 1998 to 1999 the Canadian played one season in Nuremberg, where he scored 30 goals and 40 assists in 60 games.
The attacker played for the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers and Boston Bruins in the NHL, among others. From 2003 to 2005 the US national player and son of the Hockey Hall of Fame member Peter Šťastný was on the ice for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the DEL. Since October 2011, Yan Stastny has been playing in Nuremberg again.
The Czech champions from 1988 moved from Eintracht Frankfurt to EHC Nürnberg in 1991, for which he was on the ice until 1998 and with whom he qualified for the German ice hockey league in 1994. Sýkora ended his career after the 1997/98 season with the Ice Tigers.
Borsato played a total of 210 NHL games for the Winnipeg Jets and in 1995 moved to the DEL for the Kölner Haien. After two years in Finland and Switzerland, the Canadian signed a contract in Nuremberg in 2000, where he ended his career after the 2001/02 season.
The German national goalkeeper was in the 2007/08 season with the Ice Tigers between the posts, to which he had moved after six years with the Iserlohn Roosters. He became one of the outstanding goalkeepers of the season and then moved to HK Spartak Moscow in the KHL.
The Canadian played a total of 431 NHL games for the Vancouver Canucks, New Jersey Devils, Boston Bruins and Edmonton Oilers. In the 2007/08 season, the defender was on the ice for the Sinupret Ice Tigers and then moved to Klagenfurt AC.
The attacker played for the junior national team in the U18 World Cup in 2003 and in the Junior World Championships in 2004 and 2005. In 2008 Ulrich Maurer moved to league rivals Augsburger Panther in Nuremberg after four years.
Spylo wore the Sinupret Ice Tigers jersey in the 2007/08 season and was voted Player of the Season by the Nuremberg fans. The Canadian, who had previously played for league rivals Hamburg Freezers, then moved to Vitjas Chekhov in the newly founded KHL.
Fical already played for HC Energie Karlovy Vary in the highest Czech league, the Extraliga, and in 2003 moved from the Iserlohn Roosters to Nuremberg. The attacker has played over 400 DEL games so far, in addition to Iserlohn and Nuremberg, also for the mosquitoes Essen.
The Czech was in the goal of the Ice Tigers in the 1995/96 season and then moved to the NHL, where he played for the Dallas Stars, the St. Louis Blues and the Calgary Flames. In 1998/99 and 1999/2000 he won the William M. Jennings Trophy as a goalkeeper with the fewest goals conceded.
The former NHL player of the St. Louis Blues played from 2005 to 2007 with the Ice Tigers, where he set the defender's goal record for Chris Snell, which was up to then at 22 goals in the main round. After stops at the newly founded KHL and a commitment to Adler Mannheim, the Canadian returned to Nuremberg for the 2011/12 season.
The then captain of the Russian national team played one season in Nuremberg. Before that, he worked for Dynamo Moscow, the Detroit Red Wings and San Jose Sharks, among others. He ended his career in 2003 in the jersey of Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

Participation of players in the All-Star-Game

Some Ice Tigers players have been nominated for the DEL All-Star-Game , a friendly game that has been held annually since 1998 and in which the most outstanding players in the German Ice Hockey League compete against each other.

Participation in the All-Star-Game while being part of the team
Surname position Participation (noun) team
GermanyGermany Vitaly Aab striker 2002
2003
DEL All-Star TeamDEL All-Stars Germany
GermanyGermany
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Marián Cisár striker 2004 DEL All-Star Team DEL all-stars
GermanyGermany Petr Fical striker 2005, 2006
2007, 2008
GermanyGermanyGermany
EuropeEurope
GermanyGermany Thomas Greilinger striker 2004 GermanyGermany Germany
German Martin Jiranek striker 2000 DEL All-Star Team DEL all-stars
CanadaCanada Stéphane Julien defender 2004 DEL All-Star Team DEL all-stars
CanadaCanada Scott King striker 2007, 2008
2009
North America team North America
GermanyGermany Let Kopitz defender 2004, 2005 GermanyGermany Germany
GermanyGermany Daniel Kunce defender 2000 GermanyGermany Germany
GermanyGermany Felix Petermann defender 2006 GermanyGermany Germany
CanadaCanada Jame Pollock defender 2007 North America team North America
GermanyGermany Martin Reichel striker 2002, 2003 GermanyGermany Germany
GermanyGermany Jürgen Rumrich striker 2002 GermanyGermany Germany
GermanyGermany Stefan Schauer defender 2005, 2006 GermanyGermany Germany
GermanyGermany Marc Seliger goalkeeper 2002 GermanyGermany Germany
United StatesUnited States Paul Stanton defender 2002 DEL All-Star Team DEL all-stars
United StatesUnited States Yan Stastny striker 2005 DEL All-Star Team DEL all-stars
CanadaCanada Pascal Trepanier defender 2005 DEL All-Star Team DEL all-stars

Trainer

  • 2006/07 Benoît Laporte
  • 2007/08 Benoît Laporte
  • 2008/09 Andreas Brockmann
  • 2009/10 Andreas Brockmann
  • 2010/11 Andreas Brockmann

From the 2003/04 season, the Ice Tigers for two years were trained by the then national coach Greg Poss, who, however, announced after the game 2004/05 entirely on his national coach to focus -Amt. From the 2005/06 season to the end of the 2007/08 season , Benoît Laporte was a coach in Nuremberg, having previously worked for the Augsburg Panthers . Although on the first game day of the Sinupret Ice Tigers in the 2006/07 DEL season, partner Günther Hertel announced in a pre-game speech that the contract with Benoît Laporte had been extended prematurely for another two years until 2009, the contract was shortly after End of the 2007/08 season, as Laporte immediately moved to Switzerland as a "firefighter" at EHC Basel , which is threatened with relegation . On April 29, 2008 the Ice Tigers announced that the new coaching team would be Andreas Brockmann (Landshut) and Martin Jiranek (EHC 80). After three game days of the 2011/12 season, the Ice Tigers dismissed Brockmann and signed Peter Draisaitl as his successor until the end of the season. He was succeeded by Jeff Tomlinson, previously coach of the Düsseldorfer EG . After the 26th match day of the 2012/13 season, the Ice Tigers sacked Tomlinson. As the new head coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson was signed, but his contract was not extended after the elimination of the Ice Tigers against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the pre-play-offs.

In April 2013, the Ice Tigers announced that the previous assistant coach Tray Tuomie would take over the post of head coach for the coming season. Maurizio Mansi, who had previously been under contract with EHC Red Bull Munich for three years , completed the new coaching team. After a successful first season, the two’s contract was extended for another two years. But the start of the 2014 season did not make it easy for the Tuomie-Mansi coaching team, so the Ice Tigers increasingly had to worry about the pre-playoffs. Jiranek drew the consequences at the end of December and released the coaching duo from their duties. By the end of the season, Jiranek took over the post of head coach and hired Rob Wilson , who had previously been dismissed in Straubing, as assistant coach. After reaching the playoff quarter-finals, it was decided that Rob Wilson would take over the position of head coach for the 2015/16 season and Martin Jiranek, in addition to his duties as manager, would occupy the position of assistant coach.

Wilson led the Franks into the DEL playoff semi-finals in 2016, 2017 and 2018. At the beginning of May 2018, he asked Nuremberg to terminate his contract for personal reasons. The club complied with this request, successor was Kevin Gaudet , who had previously worked very successfully for the second division side Bietigheim. After only four DEL match days in the 2018/19 season, Gaudet was released, the reason given by the Franks was "different views on the tactical direction and leadership of the team". Under Gaudet's leadership, the team had won four games.

Venues

The main entrance of the Arena Nürnberger Versicherung

Since February 2001 the Nürnberg Ice Tigers have been playing in the Nürnberger Versicherung Arena , a multifunctional hall that was also used for the 2001 Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany . It can also be used for basketball , handball and indoor soccer .

Previously, the venerable stadium Linde on the exterior Bayreuther Straße played, originally for the Winter Olympics in 1936 of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was built.

The stadium was open on both sides and had only 800 seats, which were located in the middle of the main and opposite stands. The opposite stand was only a provisional tubular steel stand. After major renovations at the end of the 1980s, the capacity increased to 4,200 places. Despite the renovation, the demand was greater than the space available.

In 2001 the Nürnberg Ice Tigers played their last game in the "Linde". For the fans there was also a farewell jersey with the imprint Servus Linde to buy. In the same year the stadium was demolished and the “ Mercadoshopping center was built in its place .

Club culture

mascot

Pucki (born October 7, 1997 in the Linde Stadium in Nuremberg ) is the mascot of the Nuremberg Ice Tigers. It was invented by the then goalkeeper of the Ice Tigers Michel Valliere . The mascot is regularly on site at home games and also accompanies the team and officials at various press and public meetings.

See also

literature

  • Wolf Arnold: "They combined brilliantly and shot as hard as steel ...": 90 years of ice hockey in Nuremberg . Verlag Route 66, o. O. 2001, ISBN 3-931461-01-7 .

Web links

Commons : Nürnberg Ice Tigers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ice Tigers change their home club. In: www.eishockey.info. ICE HOCKEY.INFO, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  2. The Nürnberg Ice Tigers are back! Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  3. ^ Archive Ice Hockey Germany 1980/81 to 1994 Passionhockey
  4. League membership EHC 80 Nürnberg RODI-DB
  5. ^ Nürnberger Zeitung , Ice Tigers / Höchstadt: A "marriage" only for a time? - The DEL is staying out for the time being, June 20, 2008.
  6. eishockey.info, Nuremberg Ice Tigers: Negotiations about continued existence failed
  7. Spiegel Online , Nuremberg Ice Tigers avert bankruptcy
  8. Kurt Kleinendorst takes on coaching positions at the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers, André Dietzsch becomes sports director, Martin Jiranek has to leave. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  9. German Ice Hockey League ends season prematurely. In: Official website of the German Ice Hockey League . March 10, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  10. Info block ice hockey online
  11. hockeyfans.at: Nürnberg blocks Jiranek number 12 , accessed on August 25, 2010.
  12. ^ Special edition of the ice hockey news for the DEL season 2008/09
  13. a b Sinupret Ice Tigers , in: DEL. The 1st Bundesliga. Special issue season 06/07, ice hockey news, episode 01/06, pp. 132–137.
  14. Ice Hockey24.de : Peter Draisaitl will be the new head coach ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed December 10, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eishockey-24.de
  15. ^ Nürnberger Nachrichten: Ice Tigers part ways with Tomlinson , accessed December 10, 2012.
  16. Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers website: Bengt-Ake Gustafsson new head coach , accessed December 10, 2012.
  17. Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers website: Rob Wilson new head coach , accessed July 20, 2015.
  18. http://www.nordbayern.de/sport/paukenschlag-bei-den-ice-tigers-gaudet- Follow-auf-wilson- 1.7547616
  19. http://www.icetigers.de/content/kevin-gaudet-wird-freigracht
  20. https://www.eishockeynews.de/aktuell/artikel/2018/09/25/nuernberg-trennt-sich-nach-nur-vier-del-spiele-von-cheftrainer-kevin-gaudet.html