SC Bern
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| history | Ice Skating Club Bern (since 1931) |
| Club colors | black, yellow, red |
| league | National League |
| Venue | PostFinance Arena |
| capacity | 17'031 seats (of which 5'635 seats) |
| executive Director | Marc Lüthi |
| Head coach | Don Nachbaur |
| captain | Simon Moser |
| Season 2018/19 | 1st place (qualification), champion |
The SC Bern is an ice hockey team in the Swiss federal capital Berne . He is a 16-time Swiss ice hockey champion .
The Ice Skate Club Bern (SCB) was founded on November 3, 1930, and gaming began at the beginning of 1931. The club colors are black, yellow and red. The club already received a high level of audience response in its early years. In ice hockey circles, the SCB has achieved notoriety in recent years thanks to by far the highest average number of spectators in European ice hockey.
The home venue of the Stadtberner Club has been the PostFinance-Arena since 1967 , originally the Allmend ice rink , with a capacity of 17,031 spectators.
history
1930 to 1956: the founding years
The ancestors of SC Bern were a Bern ice skating club (around 1893), the Bern Hockey Club (winner of the national championship 1916–1918) and the Ice Fellows in the 1920s.
The Bern Ice Skating Club was founded on November 3rd, 1930; on January 1, 1931, the club's ice hockey section began playing. The first venue was at Kirchenfeldstrasse 70, where a tennis facility is now located. SC Bern pioneers included Fred Müller, Paul Gerber, José Barrot, Otto Heller, Kurt Kessi, Heini Dallmeier and Kurt Hauser.
In 1933, the SCB moved to the new Ka-We-De artificial ice rink , which was inaugurated with a game against Zürcher SC on December 3 of the same year. The first home win at a new venue was on January 8, 1934 against the Cambridge University team 6-2.
From the 1937/38 season the SCB played in the newly founded National League A , the highest league in Swiss ice hockey.
1956 to 1967: First championship titles and relegations
In 1956 the SCB was relegated to the National League B , but the following year it was promoted again. In the 1958/59 season, the SCB won its first championship title in front of an average of 7,857 spectators. In the final for the Swiss championship title, the Bernese won at home in front of 10,500 spectators 5: 4 against HC Davos . Ernst "Aeschi" Wenger led the team straight from promotion to championship in 1959. In the 1964/65 season, the SCB let the second championship title follow. Two seasons later (1966/67), the club rose again from the NLB.
1967 to 1982: The Allmend - a new home
While the SCB had to eke out its existence in the NLB for the second time, it was able to move into the Allmend ice rink (now the BernArena , now the PostFinance Arena ), which took three years to build . In the 1968/69 season, the SCB succeeded again in promotion to the National League A, followed by another relegation in the following year. In the meantime the Allmend Stadium had been roofed over.
After rising again, the SCB won another championship in 1974 and successfully defended it in the following season. Further titles followed in 1977 and 1979. It was the time when the three Bern ice hockey clubs SCB, EHC Biel and SC Langnau dominated the Swiss championship. But again the city of Bern missed out on Konstanz and in 1982 they were relegated to the NLB.
1982 to 1986: promotion to the green table
The fourth and to this day last stay in the NLB ended in 1986, when the then NLA club EHC Arosa voluntarily withdrew to the first division , the highest amateur league, due to a lack of financial prospects . As a result, the SCB rose to the green table in the NLA. The athletic qualification had just been missed against EHC Chur in the NLB playoff final.
1986 to 1997: Establishment at the top
| season | qualification | Playoffs |
|---|---|---|
| 1986/87 | 5. | - |
| 1987/88 | 7th | - |
| 1988/89 | 3. | master |
| 1989/90 | 2. | Final |
| 1990/91 | 1. | master |
| 1991/92 | 3. | master |
| 1992/93 | 3. | Quarter finals |
| 1993/94 | 5. | Quarter finals |
| 1994/95 | 6th | Semi-final |
| 1995/96 | 1. | Final |
| 1996/97 | 1. | master |
The rise of the SCB came at the time when the championship was dominated by HC Lugano almost at will. However, the Bernese managed to break this dominance. In 1989, 1991 and 1992 the SCB won three championship titles under coach Bill Gilligan .
SC Bern won the tenth championship title in club history in March 1997 under head coach Bryan Lefley . In the final series, which was held in the best-of-five mode, the Bernese defeated EV Zug with 3-1 victories. Despite the successful performance in the national championship operation, head coach Lefley did not return to Bern for the following season, as he planned to realize his further career in the function of a scout in the National Hockey League. The vacant position of head coach at the Bernese Mutzen was filled with his assistant Ueli Schwarz .
A short time later, in October 1997, Bryan Lefley had a fatal accident in a road traffic accident near Bolzano . The second SCB game after Lefley's death, a derby against Friborg-Gottéron, was completely dominated by the Canadian master coach. On the initiative of Gaetano Orlando , an Italian-Canadian, a badge with the inscription BL was sewn onto the jerseys of the Bernese in honor of SCB coach Lefley. The game in the Allmend Stadium began with five minutes of silence ; the subsequent game, which ended 4: 4, almost became a side note.
1997 to 2001: Economic crisis and rescue
| season | qualification | Playoffs |
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| 1997/98 | 5. | Quarter finals |
| 1998/99 | 4th | Quarter finals |
| 1999/2000 | 5. | Quarter finals |
However, the sporting success was accompanied by major financial problems. The share subscription required for the conversion into a stock corporation was slow and the liquidity of the SCB was no longer secured after a bank loan was refused. The situation became so precarious in the spring of 1998 that bankruptcy rumors began to circulate. There was talk of a mountain of debt of four million francs. One of the reasons for this was the construction of the VIP grandstand. A fundraising campaign with the support of all players and the acquisition of the majority of the shares by Valora AG ultimately secured the future of the SCB. Nowadays, of all things, the VIP grandstand that brought the SCB to the brink of ruin has become a main source of income.
2001 to 2010
| season | qualification | Playoffs |
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| 2000/01 | 6th | Semi-final |
| 2001/02 | 8th. | Quarter finals |
| 2002/03 | 3. | Semi-final |
| 2003/04 | 2. | master |
| 2004/05 | 8th. | Semi-final |
| 2005/06 | 1. | Quarter finals |
| 2006/07 | 2. | Final |
| 2007/08 | 1. | Quarter finals |
| 2008/09 | 1. | Quarter finals |
A new era began at SCB in 2001 with the resignation of goalkeeper legend Renato Tosio . The long-time national goalkeeper had become champions four times with the SCB in 14 years.
While the financial recovery was gradually completed, the Bernese played a few mediocre seasons before they won the eleventh championship in the 2003/04 season . After the SCB had finished qualifying in second place, they faced EV Zug in the first playoff round. This series was won by the SCB in five games with 4-1 victories; with the same result, the Bernese prevailed against the Genève-Servette HC in the semi-finals. In the final, the first in the table faced the second in the table, HC Lugano. The extraordinary thing about this series was that it was played in the best-of-five mode and not, as usual, best-of-seven. After the SCB won the first games with 3: 1 and 2: 1, they earned three matchpucks for the title. HC Lugano decided the next games 5: 1 and 4: 3 for themselves. In the decisive fifth game of the series in the Resega it was 3-2 for the SCB until the final minute, before Luganesi's Mike Maneluk equalized a few seconds before the end. In the 15th minute of extra time, Marc Weber scored to win and the title-winning 4: 3. This meant the first SCB championship title in seven years. Then 40,000 fans celebrated the team as they moved through Bern. The master coach was Kent Ruhnke , who left the SCB despite the success.
In the following season 2004/05 the title could not be defended. After a disappointing season, which the SCB finished eighth, the Bernese defeated the qualifying winner from Lugano. In the playoff semifinals they lost to the eventual champions HC Davos. Regardless of this, the SCB achieved a new record average of 15,621 people. A number to be surpassed in the following seasons. Due to the NHL lockout in the 2004/05 season , there were many personnel changes among the foreign players at SCB. Of the mercenaries, the Bernese audience particularly remembered Daniel Brière and Dany Heatley .
In the 2005/06 season , SC Bern played a sovereign qualification and finished the ranking in first place. The SCB then failed in the playoff quarter-final against the Kloten Flyers, which led to the separation of coach Alpo Suhonen and sports director Roberto Triulzi . The new man on the gang was the US-American-Canadian dual citizen John Van Boxmeer , Sven Leuenberger was appointed the new head of sport. After a good qualification, which the SCB finished in second place in the 2006/07 season , the Bernese won the playoffs against the Genève-Servette HC and later the EV Zug. In the final series against HC Davos over the full distance (seven games), the Grisons kept the better end to themselves. In the decisive final game, HC Davos won 1-0 thanks to a goal from Robin Leblanc .
In contrast, the 2007/08 season ended in disappointment for the SCB. After a superbly played qualification, which the SCB finished in first place by a long way behind the pursuers, they were eliminated in the playoff quarter-finals against rivals Friborg-Gottéron . As a favorite, the SCB failed with 2-4 wins. The sporting leadership reacted by releasing Center Christian Berglund (transfer to the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers ) and long-time captain Martin Steinegger , who returned to his home club EHC Biel at his own request . On June 10, 2008, Valora AG announced that it was selling its stake in the economically strong SC Bern to a group of investors from Bern. This sale should have no effect on the management of SC Bern.
The 2008/09 season also ended disappointingly from Bern's perspective. After the qualification win and another record number of spectators (over 16,000 fans per qualifying home game), the team failed against EV Zug after a 3-1 defeat in the sixth playoff quarter-final game. The renewed failure of the qualifying winner cost coach John van Boxmeer the job. Larry Huras , who won the Swiss championship with the ZSC Lions (2001) and HC Lugano (2003), was signed as his successor. The two Canadian strikers Sébastien Bordeleau and Ramzi Abid also had to leave the SCB despite ongoing contracts.
In the 2008/09 season, the SCB was also able to play as the qualifying winner of the previous season at the qualifying tournament for entry into the Champions Hockey League . The SCB reached the group stage of the new European club competition after beating the Slovak representative HC Košice 5: 4 and the Nürnberg Ice Tigers 4: 1. In the group games, the Bernese met the HV71 from Sweden and the Espoo Blues from Finland. Since only one of the four group games was won, the SCB could not qualify for the semi-finals.
The 2010s
| season | qualification | Playoffs |
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| 2009/10 | 1. | master |
| 2010/11 | 3. | Semi-final |
| 2011/12 | 5. | Final |
| 2012/13 | 2. | master |
| 2013/14 | 9. | - |
| 2014/15 | 2. | Semi-final |
| 2015/16 | 8th. | master |
| 2016/17 | 1. | master |
| 2017/18 | 1. | Semi-final |
| 2018/19 | 1. | master |
| 2019/20 | 9. | - |
The 2009/10 season brought the SCB the twelfth championship title in club history. After the Bernese had completed the qualification first, they won the quarter-final series against Lugano and the semi-final series against Kloten with 4-0 victories each. In the final they met HC Servette Genève , second in qualification , against whom they prevailed with 4-3 victories. This championship title also marked a premiere: For the first time since the introduction of the playoffs, the Bernese won a championship title in their home stadium.
The title defense did not succeed in the 2010/11 season . They finished the qualification in third place behind the later finalists HC Davos and Kloten Flyers . That brought in the quarter-final opponent the canton rival SCL Tigers , who had qualified for the NLA playoffs for the first time in its history. With 4-0 victories, the SCB moved into the semi-finals, where the opponent was Kloten. The Bernese were behind in the series with 0: 3, but came up to 3: 3. In the decisive final game they lost 0-1, which meant the end of the season.
The qualification of the 2011/12 season was mixed for the SCB. With a well-staffed squad, the Bernese reached fifth place and thus had no home right in the playoffs. During the season, the 2010 master coach Larry Huras was replaced by previous assistant Antti Törmänen . The dismissal did not necessarily come because of the bad results, but rather because of the unspectacular ice hockey, according to management. The hoped-for change did not materialize, the sporting performance of SC Bern hardly improved under Antti Törmänen and the entertainment value of the games was low, according to the fans. Thus the pressure increased on the team to save the disappointing qualification in the playoffs.
In the first two playoff rounds, the Bernese initially defeated the Kloten Flyers and Friborg-Gottéron with 4-1 victories each before they met the ZSC Lions in the final series. In the predominantly defensive series, SC Bern gained a 3-1 lead thanks to victories in the third and fourth game of the series, in which the Zurich team had no goal of their own thanks to SCB goalkeeper Marco Bührer and only needed one more success to the desired 13th championship title in the club's history. However, the Bernese were defeated both in the fifth final game at home in the PostFinance Arena - the decisive goal was scored by ZSC defender Mathias Seger in extra time - and two days later in the Zurich Hallenstadion , so that the so-called finalissima in Bern took place on April 17, 2012 . A playfully superior SC Bern for long stretches was only able to score one goal within 60 minutes, so that a few seconds before the end of the game, when the score was 1: 1, going back to overtime seemed inevitable. In a pressure phase in Zurich shortly before the end of regular time, defender Steve McCarthy benefited from a crowd in the Bern goal area and scored 2.5 seconds before the final siren to secure the victory 2-1 for the ZSC Lions.
The 2012/13 season started under special circumstances. Since a players strike had broken out in North America due to the wage negotiations, numerous players from the NHL played in Switzerland. At SC Bern the NHL players John Tavares and Mark Streit from the New York Islanders joined, as well as the former Bernese junior Roman Josi from the Nashville Predators . Thanks to these players, the SCB was able to establish itself in the top group after initial difficulties. Despite a lot of bad luck with injuries in defense, the SCB played a sovereign qualification, was at times the leader of the table and placed second behind rivals Friborg-Gottéron. In the playoff quarter-finals, the Bernese beat Genève-Servette HC after a 3-1 deficit in the series. The semi-final series against EV Zug was also victorious after falling behind. In the final, the City of Bern club defeated Friborg-Gottéron in six games and won the 13th championship title in club history.
After a bad start to the 2013/14 season , the master coach Antti Törmänen was released before the end of the year . The assistant coach Lars Leuenberger temporarily took over responsibility for the team. After the SCB was able to win eight games in a row under Leuenberger, no further coach changes were planned until the end of the season. But the form curve quickly went down again and so after 44 of 50 qualifying games, standing in ninth place, the commitment of the new coach Guy Boucher was announced. Boucher signed a contract from now until the end of the 2015/16 season. In the remaining games, the newly signed coach did not manage to turn around either, although the Stadtberner club had strengthened itself with some experienced players such as Glen Metropolit . Finally, in the final sprint, the promoted Lausanne HC sensationally prevailed in the remote duel against the Berners, which was mainly due to their much more stable defense. Missing the SC Bern playoffs for the first time was a novelty in Swiss ice hockey; never before had a reigning champion not reached the finals in the following season.
In the 2015/16 season , after a tough season and the interim dismissal of Guy Boucher and the takeover of the team by interim coach Lars Leuenberger, SC Bern only qualified for the playoffs in the penultimate qualifying round. In November 2015, sports director Sven Leuenberger was replaced by Alex Chatelain . In the first playoff round, SC Bern met the ZSC Lions and threw them out of the tournament with 4-0 wins. In the final series, SC Bern defeated HC Lugano with 4-1 victories and became Swiss champions for the 14th time. For the 2016/17 season, the Finn Kari Jalonen took over the position of head coach. The 2016/17 qualification was completed as a sovereign first in the table, striker Mark Arcobello was the best player in the league and was awarded as the most valuable player in the qualification. In the quarter and semi-finals, the SCB prevailed against Biel and Lugano respectively with 4-1 victories and won the final series against EV Zug with 4-2. This was the first time since 2001 that a team managed to defend their title. In May 2017, Lars Leuenberger, the master trainer from 2016, returned to Bern and took over the areas of strategic development and player screening at SCB, which his brother Sven had previously been responsible for before he switched to the ZSC Lions as head of sport .
In the 2017/18 season, the SCB as defending champions won the points round again and went into the playoffs as the first team. But nothing came of the renewed championship win: In the semifinals, the ZSC Lions lost with 2: 4 wins. In spring 2019, Bern returned to the throne and won the 16th championship title: Zug was defeated 4-1 in the final series. With this, the club confirmed its supremacy in the late 2010s. The point round (“qualification”) was also the first to be completed. In addition to coach Jalonen, the managing director Marc Lüthi , who has been in office since 1998, was considered a master builder of the Bern era, which is particularly characterized by consistency. On the ice, goalkeepers Leonardo Genoni , Gaëtan Haas and the old masters Andrew Ebbett , Beat Gerber , Eric Blum and Thomas Rüfenacht contributed to winning the title again.
Since 2020
Head coach Jalonen had to vacate his post at the end of January 2020. With the release of the Finn, who had previously led the Bernese to win the regular season three times, the club's management reacted to the "persistently difficult sporting situation". The team had slipped to ninth place in the table and thus a rank that did not qualify for participation in the championship round. Hans Kossmann was given a contract to succeed Jalonen until the end of the 2019/20 season, Lars Leuenberger (responsible for sports strategy at SCB and Bernese master trainer in 2016) took on the role of assistant trainer. After a weak start to the 2019/20 season, the SCB was no longer able to meet the high expectations. The team missed the playoffs for the second time as reigning champions due to an away defeat at Lausanne HC and finally finished ninth after qualifying. After the unsatisfactory performance, the personnel policy of the Bernese was criticized in particular, as it was initially not possible to adequately replace him after the departure of championship goalkeeper Leonardo Genoni . The Swiss-Canadian Niklas Schlegel turned out to be a mistake, only the commitment of the Finnish goalkeeper Tomi Karhunen ensured stability in the Mutzen goal . Of the foreign field players, only the American Mark Arcobello met expectations, but he moved to Lugano for the 2020/21 season.
At the beginning of April 2020, Florence Schelling was introduced as the new SCB sports director, who replaced Alex Chatelain.
Special
Audience magnet
In 2019, SC Bern was the team with the highest average attendance (16,290) in European ice hockey for the 18th time in a row, with the PostFinance Arena occupying 95.65% in the 2018/19 season. With 16,789 and 17,031 spectators after the renovation, the PostFinance Arena was often sold out in the 1990s and 2000s.
Paw Derby
The "paw derby" on January 14, 2007 between cantonal rivals SCL Tigers and SC Bern temporarily set Swiss ice hockey the record for most spectators at a club ice hockey game in Europe. The game took place on an ice rink in the sold-out Stade de Suisse football stadium in Bern in front of 30,076 spectators and ended 5-2 for the Bernese. The official record holder was the SCL Tigers, as they were the home team on paper. On December 28, 2009, a new record was set in Gothenburg with over 31,000 spectators at the game Frölunda Indians against Färjestad BK .
Game against the New York Rangers
On September 30, 2008, SC Bern was the first team in Switzerland to play against an NHL team, the New York Rangers . The friendly game took place on the eve of the Victoria Cup and ended 8: 1 for the Americans.
Cup winner 2015
In the 2014/15 season , the Swiss Ice Hockey Cup was held again for the first time in over forty years. In this first cup of the new Swiss ice hockey season, SC Bern won the title in the final at home against Kloten Flyers. It was the second cup title of the SCB after 1965.
Squad for the 2019/20 season
As of November 5, 2019
Club records
Selected player records of SC Bern over their entire career as well as over individual seasons are listed below.
Career
| player | Item | Sp | T | V | Pt | P / Sp |
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| Ivo Rüthemann | RF | 841 | 261 | 349 | 610 | .73 |
| Christian Dubé | C. | 431 | 124 | 338 | 472 | 1.1 |
| Gil Montandon | F. | 475 | 209 | 212 | 421 | .89 |
| Martin Plüss | F. | 536 | 194 | 216 | 410 | .76 |
| Patrick Howald | LF | 555 | 221 | 178 | 399 | .72 |
| Player | Item | T |
|---|---|---|
| Ivo Rüthemann | RF | 261 |
| Patrick Howald | LF | 221 |
| Gil Montandon | F. | 209 |
| Martin Plüss | F. | 194 |
| Roberto Triulzi | RF | 150 |
| Player | Item | V |
|---|---|---|
| Ivo Rüthemann | RF | 349 |
| Christian Dubé | C. | 338 |
| Martin Plüss | F. | 216 |
| Gil Montandon | F. | 212 |
| David Jobin | D. | 207 |
| Player | Item | SM |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Steinegger | D. | 1264 |
| Rolf Ziegler | D. | 892 |
| Roberto Triulzi | RF | 647 |
| Thomas Ziegler | LF | 642 |
| Dominic Meier | D. | 634 |
| Player | Item | Sp |
|---|---|---|
| Beat Gerber * | D. | 946 |
| David Jobin | D. | 932 |
| Ivo Rüthemann | RF | 841 |
| Marc Reichert | C. | 815 |
| Martin Rauch | D. | 673 |
Playtime
| player | season | league | Item | Sp | T | V | Pt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaetano Orlando | 1996/97 | NLA | C. | 59 | 33 | 66 | 99 |
| Peter Sullivan | 1983/84 | NLB | F. | 38 | 46 | 39 | 85 |
| Kirk Bowman | 1985/86 | NLB | F. | 40 | 41 | 43 | 84 |
| Simon Gamache | 2007/07 | NLA | F. | 60 | 27 | 55 | 82 |
| Mark Arcobello | 2016/17 | NLA | C. | 66 | 33 | 42 | 75 |
| player | season | league | Item | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randall Wilson | 1982/83 | NLB | F. | 48 |
| Peter Sullivan | 1983/84 | NLB | F. | 46 |
| Kirk Bowman | 1984/85 | NLB | F. | 45 |
| Kirk Bowman | 1985/86 | NLB | F. | 41 |
| Alan Haworth | 1989/90 | NLA | F. | 38 |
| player | season | league | Item | V |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaetano Orlando | 1996/97 | NLA | F. | 66 |
| Simon Gamache | 2006/07 | NLA | F. | 55 |
| Christian Dubé | 2006/07 | NLA | C. | 54 |
| Andrew Ebbett | 2017/18 | NLA | C. | 46 |
| Christian Dubé | 2007/08 | NLA | C. | 46 |
| player | season | league | Item | SM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolf Ziegler | 2003/04 | NLA | D. | 176 |
| Sébastien Bordeleau | 2002/03 | NLA | C. | 168 |
| Yves Sarault | 2003/04 | NLA | LF | 151 |
| Rolf Ziegler | 2001/02 | NLA | D. | 147 |
| Rolf Ziegler | 2000/01 | NLA | D. | 146 |
Legend : Pos = position; Sp = games played; T = goals; V = templates; Pt = points; P / Sp = points per game; SM = penalty minutes; * - current player at SC Bern
Well-known former players
Blocked jersey numbers
The following criteria apply to the blocking of jersey numbers:
"Elevation to the nobility is subject to a selection of strict criteria, which are composed as follows:
1. Start of professional career at SCB, 2. Ten years of playing at SCB, 3. Two championship titles with SCB, 4. 50 international matches for the Swiss national team, 5. Graduated from SCB
Point 5 is a mandatory requirement. As a rule, at least three of the other four criteria must be met. In the case of particularly deserving players, the SCB explicitly reserves the right to grant exceptions. "
The players whose jersey numbers have been banned by SC Bern are all Swiss.
- René Kiener , jersey number 0 (1955–1973)
- Peter Stammbach , jersey number 6 (1953–1973)
- Martin Rauch , jersey number 7 (1983-2000)
- Roland Dellsperger , jersey number 12 (1964–1982)
- Sven Leuenberger , jersey number 16 (1988–2003)
- Renzo Holzer , jersey number 18 (1968–1982)
- Patrick Howald , jersey number 22 (1986-2001)
- Marc Reichert , jersey number 26 (1996-2017)
- Martin Plüss , jersey number 28 (2008-2017)
- Renato Tosio , jersey number 31 (1987-2001)
- Ivo Rüthemann , jersey number 32 (1999-2014)
- Marco Bührer , jersey number 39 (2001-2016)
- David Jobin , jersey number 72 (1998-2017)
“The following players did not achieve the status of“ Retired Numbers ”because they either did not play for ten years at SCB or, as foreigners, could not meet the criterion“ 50 international matches in the Swiss national team ”. Nevertheless, they are also among the cult players of the SCB. "
- Paul-André Cadieux , jersey number 3 (1970–1978 and 1985/86)
- Alan Haworth , jersey number 15 (1988-1992)
- Gaetano Orlando , jersey number 17 (1994–1998)
- Jürg Jäggi , jersey number 20 (1972–1980)
- Reijo Ruotsalainen , jersey number 29 (1986/87, 1988-1993 and 1994/95)
The cadres of the championship teams
Coach chronicle
At the beginning of the 1930s, Paul Gerber , the first head coach in the club's history, was considered one of the pioneers at SC Bern and helped the Stadtberner club to achieve a unique impact in the early years with its first sporting successes. Gerber was demonstrably behind the gang until at least 1937. His successors were initially two Canadians, with Frank Trottier being active as a player- coach . From 1947 to 1950, the Czechoslovak national striker Oldřich Kučera , who also acted as a player- coach, was engaged .
After his emigration to Down Under , the Bernese filled the vacant head coach position with the Canadian Sid Arnold . Arnold's tenure ended in 1952 due to its excessive salary demands, so that the management level with Harold Moreland again hired a Canadian player-coach. For the 1953/54 season , his compatriot Stu Cruikshank , a flexible all-rounder, replaced him in this position. Cruikshank stayed only one season in Bern, however, as his services did not meet expectations.
From the 1954/55 season Bruce Hamilton was behind the gang for two game years, but rose in 1956 with the Berners in the National League B and from then on limited himself to his duties as an active player. With Ernst Wenger as head coach - from 1956 to 1963 in this position - the promotion to the top division was achieved in 1958. The first National League A season after that, the 1958/59 season , ultimately led to SC Bern's first Swiss championship title. Wenger was also the first coach in history who managed to win the Swiss championship with a promotion team. The second championship title of the Stadtberner Club followed in 1965 under the leadership of the Canadian Ed Reigle , who had played as an active player for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League .
photos
Simon Gamache
Standing room
Standing grandstand from the side
Videotron
Goal celebration
Fans in the standing room
SCB advertising by BLS at Thun train station
literature
- Henry Eggenberger: 60 years of SC Bern 1931–1991 . Bund-Druck Bern, Bern 1991.
- Christian Dick: The SCB Phenomenon 1997-2006 . SCB Ice Hockey AG, Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-03300896-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SCB - A Unique Story (film)
- ↑ a b Christian Dick: The SCB Phenomenon 1997-2006 2006, p. 15
- ↑ a b Christian Dick: The SCB Phenomenon 1997-2006 2006, p. 16
- ↑ a b Christian Dick: The SCB Phenomenon 1997-2006 2006, p. 17
- ↑ Larry Huras chooses SC Bern - News Sport: Ice Hockey - derbund.ch
- ↑ New SCB sports director Alex Chatelain: “I'm not starting from scratch” . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . November 20, 2015 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed March 23, 2017]).
- ↑ This is the most valuable ice hockey player in Switzerland. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
- ↑ View: Live ticker: EV Zug - SC Bern . ( archive.org [accessed March 14, 2018]). Liveticker: EV Zug - SC Bern ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Lars Leuenberger new Chief Scout and Strategic Sport Developer . In: SCB Eishockey AG . ( scb.ch [accessed on May 3, 2017]).
- ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/sport/der-sc-bern-wird-im-halbfinal-gegen-die-zsc-lions-zum-opfer-seines-erfolges-ld.1375415
- ↑ https://www.sihf.ch/de/game-center/#/bestof//asc/page/0/2018/2689
- ↑ Ulrich Pickel, Bern: Eric Blum shoots SC Bern to the championship title | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
- ^ Daniel Germann: National League: SC Bern crowns a great era . April 22, 2019, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 23, 2019]).
- ↑ Hans Kossmann takes over - Kari Jalonen is dismissed from SC Bern. In: SRF. January 28, 2020, accessed January 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Hans Kossmann replaces Kari Jalonen. In: SC Bern. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
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