Rostock piranhas

Rostock piranhas
Greatest successes
Champion Oberliga Nord 2012 Champion Regionalliga North / East 2006 Promotion to the league in 2007
Club information
history	1953 Founding of BSG Motor Rostock 1954 Takeover by SG Dynamo Rostock 1956 Founding of SC Empor Rostock 1962 Integration of SG Dynamo Rostock 1970 Dissolution and re-establishment as VSG Rostock 1972 Takeover by BSG Chemie 70 Rostock 1985 Founding of BSG Schifffahrt / Hafen Rostock 1990 Merger to Rostock EC
Nickname	Piranhas
Club colors	red, black, white
league	Oberliga Nord
Venue	Rostock ice rink
capacity	2000 places
Head coach	Christian Behnke
Season  2018/19	7th place OL-Nord / PO - round of 16

Rostock Piranhas or the Rostocker EC (registered as Rostocker Ice Hockey Club e.V. ) is an ice hockey club from Rostock , which is in the tradition of various Rostock ice hockey teams.

history

Beginnings and establishment as a center of excellence

BSG Motor Rostock / SG Dynamo Rostock (1953 to 1962)

The ice hockey section of the company sports association BSG Motor Rostock was founded on April 24, 1953. In December of the same year, their team won the district championship against the team from BSG Motor Wismar . This meant that the Rostockers were eligible to participate in the promotion games to the 1st league, the second highest division in GDR ice hockey, where they prevailed against the BSG unit Görlitz and the BSG unit Halle . Before the beginning of the 1954/55 season , the ice hockey section was transferred to the Dynamo sports association on May 1, 1954 . After the team, now known as SG Dynamo Rostock, finished second at the end of the season, they were promoted to the league in 1956 . In their league debut , the Rostockers had to pay hardship and in ten encounters only went off the field as a winner once. The threatened relegation did not materialize, however, as the scheduled relegation games against league champions BSG Aufbau Schönheide were canceled due to unfavorable weather conditions. In their second league year , the Ostseestädter could not convince and again brought up the rear. Due to the upcoming league increase by two teams, the last place in the table remained without consequences this time. In 1958/59 SG Dynamo was able to keep the class on its own and in the end came third from last. In the following three years the Rostockers remained in the top division without being able to intervene in the championship decisions. After the 1961/62 season , the ice hockey section was taken over by SC Empor Rostock as part of a reorganization in municipal sports .

SC Empor Rostock (1956 to 1970)

On April 1, 1956, an ice hockey section was launched at SC Empor Rostock . After a few friendlies, the team played a game against Motor Wismar in January 1957 for the district championship, which the men from the district town won. Due to its playing strength, the sports club team was classified in the first division for the 1958/59 season without prior qualification. As second of season 2, the Rostock missed the relegation games for promotion to the league only because of the poorer goal difference. A year later , the Empor team managed a sovereign march and remained undefeated after the league season and relegation games. The debut in the upper house was difficult for the North Germans, at the end of the season the newcomer to the upper league could only keep the class because of the better goal difference. In 1961/62 , Empor Rostock still owed proof of its upper league class and was the only team without a point win.

In 1962, the sports club took over the ice hockey section of the neighboring SG Dynamo Rostock, whose first representative had been in the major league for five years. By taking over the starting place at the same time, SC Empor Rostock remained first class for the 1962/63 season and was able to secure relegation with the strengthened squad. After the Ostseestädter escaped relegation the following year only through a victorious relegation, they finally established themselves permanently in the House of Lords and only occupied fourth and fifth places in a total of six seasons up to 1970.

Continuing to exist as an "after-work team"

VSG Rostock / BSG Chemie 70 Rostock (1971 to 1990)

Due to the competitive sports decision of 1969, ice hockey was withdrawn from its status as a “sport particularly worth promoting”. As a result, the were except SV Dynamo all Hockey sections of the sports club after the end of the season 1969/70 dissolved. The remaining players of the former Empor team formed privately under the name "Volkssportgemeinschaft Rostock" ( VSG Rostock ) and registered in 1971 for the GDR amateur championship, which was declared as the best determination . After the team had finished this tournament in third place, it found a new sporting home in the "Company Sports Association Chemistry 70". Apart from the 1978/79 season - which they did not participate in - BSG Chemie 70 Rostock competed in the determination of the best for 17 years. After the Ostseestädter in 1988 as eighth and last place lost the subsequent relegation against the winner of the eliminations of the district champions, BSG Einheit Crimmitschau II , their last participation in the determination of the best was sealed. Due to the social upheaval in the GDR, the qualifying games of the district champions scheduled for the 1989/90 season were no longer played.

BSG Shipping / Rostock Port (1985 to 1990)

The BSG Schifffahrt / Hafen Rostock established its own ice hockey section on March 12, 1985, the team of which consisted partly of former SC Empor squad players. As Rostock district champion in 1985, the team took part in the qualifying games for a starting place in the determination of the best, but had to cancel the sails in the first round against the district champion Berlin, BSG Spartakus Berlin . In the years to come, the Rostockers failed as district champions at the start of the elimination rounds, with the representatives from Halle and Berlin proving to be too strong every time .

Rostock EC

Rostock ice rink

New beginning in the German sports landscape

On July 18, 1990, the ice hockey sections of BSG Chemie 70 Rostock and BSG Schifffahrt / Hafen Rostock merged to form the Rostock EC . With the help of veteran BSG players, the first team made it to the association league and then to the regional league within a few years. In the 1999/00 season , Rostock took part as champions of the fourth-class Regionalliga Nord / Ost for the first time in the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord . There the team reached second place behind the newly promoted Herford EC . A year later , the REC reached again - this time as second behind the EC Euroregio Nordhorn - the promotion round to the Oberliga, where the team took third place behind the SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied and the Grefrather EC . In the 2003/04 season a final round of the regional leagues in the north was played, for which the Rostock EC was able to qualify as third place in the Regionalliga Ost behind the ESC Halle 04 and the Blue Lions Leipzig and reached tenth place. However, the club waived the offer to move up to the league.

present

In 2006 , the team won the championship title of the Regionalliga Nord / Ost, but the club again renounced promotion to the next higher division. After the first team, now known as “Piranhas”, qualified as runner-up in the Regionalliga North / East in the 2006/07 season , the REC took part in the third division until the 2008/09 season . On May 29, 2009, however, the board announced the withdrawal of the team in the Regionalliga Nord for the 2009/10 season . There the piranhas finished the main round of the regional league in first place, making them champions in the group north. In the following playoffs, however, they had to admit defeat to EV Duisburg in the semi-finals . The 2010/11 season ended the Piranhas with first place in the Oberliga-Nord main round, but could not survive in the subsequent final or cup round against the stronger teams from Oberliga West and thus did not reach the last place the subsequent play-offs. The main round of the 2011/12 season ended the Piranhas again with first place in the Oberliga-Nord, but were then eliminated in the finals, as in the last season, in last place and could not go to this season either Participate in play-offs. In the 2012/13 season things went the same for the piranhas as in previous years. The Piranhas finished the preliminary round of the Oberliga Nord lying in first place, in the subsequent championship round they had to be satisfied with second place, before they were eliminated in the final round, again lying in last place, and thus not take part in the promotion play-offs could.

Teams

In addition to the piranhas, there are the following junior teams under the umbrella of the Rostock EC:

• the REC juniors who play in the Lower Saxony junior league (season 09/10 no league operation),
• the REC students who compete in the student championship (season 09/10 no league operation),
• the REC pupils , they play in tournaments against their opponents, and
• The REC youngsters , they also play in tournaments against their peers.

The following hobby teams also exist:

• the buccaneers who have been on the first two places in the Landesliga Hamburg (now Hanseliga) for years,
• the Monday painter who has taken over the top of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional league since the 2007/08 season (09/10 season no league operation),
• the Rostock Oldstars , who competed in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern regional league until the 2006/07 season and were among the best there, but have not played in the league since then, and
• the women's ice hockey team , the Rostocker Eisfüchse , which took part in a syndicate with the EHC Adendorfer women from 2003 to 2006 in the third-class 1st women's league north / east . (They broke up in April 2007.)

Venue

→ Main article : Rostock ice rink

The Rostock EC teams play their home games in the Rostock ice rink with a capacity of 2,000 spectators, which is the largest ice rink in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and is also regularly open to the public as an ice rink in winter. The stadium is in close proximity to the Ostseestadion . The predecessor of the hall was an uncovered speed skating short course with a length of 133 meters, the Rostock short course , built in 1958 . Especially youth competitions like the GDR championships in 1967 took place here. In 1970 the ice rink was built in the same place, which finally opened in September 1971 and was then mainly used by BSG Chemie 70 Rostock .

literature

• Müller, Stephan; "German Ice Hockey Championships", Libri Books on Demand, ISBN 3-8311-0997-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} (PDF; 24 kB) lotok.de: 50 years of ice hockey in Rostock
2. ↑ Tönsmann, Alexander; Grahmann, Wolfhard; Zug, Anna-Christina: Sportvereinigung Dynamo - Brief outline of the history of the sports organization of the protection and security organs of the GDR , Office of the Central Management of SV Dynamo, Dept. Culture and Education, 1981, p. 188
3. ↑ piranhas.de, Oberliga 2009/2010 without the Rostocker EC ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ piranhas.de, The season is over! ( Memento from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ desg.de, Kleinbahn Rostock ( Memento from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Official website for the Rostock EC and the piranhas team
• Unofficial page Rostock Ice Hockey with information about the other teams and history part