Vienna Capitals

spusu Vienna Capitals
Greatest successes
Austrian champion 2005, 2017
Club information
history	EV Vienna Capitals (2001–2011) UPC Vienna Capitals (2011–2017) Vienna Capitals (2017–2018) spusu Vienna Capitals (since 2018)
Location	Vienna , Austria
Nickname	Caps
Club colors	Yellow black
league	Erste Bank Ice Hockey League
Venue	Erste Bank Arena
capacity	7,022 seats
executive Director	Franz Kalla
Head coach	Dave Cameron
captain	Mario Fischer
Season 2019/20	2nd place (main round) 3rd place (placement round)

The spusu Vienna Capitals are an Austrian ice hockey team from Vienna founded in 2001 and play in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League . The “Caps” home games are played in the Erste Bank Arena . In the 2004/05 season, the Vienna Capitals won their first championship title in the best-of-seven series against the EC KAC and were able to repeat this success in 2017.

history

First years in the Bundesliga

Logo 2001-2011

The Vienna Capitals took part in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga for the first time in the 2001/02 season and reached the playoffs. With good performances, they established themselves in the middle of the table and reached fourth place at the end of the basic round. In the quarter-finals they sweeped the Graz 99ers with 4-0 victories and met the EHC Linz in the semi-finals . This series lost the Capitals in four games and said goodbye to the season.

Some changes were made to the squad for the following season, but the team failed to find consistent performances and ended the regular season in penultimate place in the table. Since all teams were qualified for the playoffs this season, the Capitals met defending champions EC VSV in the quarter-finals and lost the series with 2: 3 wins. The 2003/04 season ended one point behind in fourth place in fifth place. Since only the first four teams were qualified for the playoffs, the season for the Capitals was over for the first time after the regular season.

The first championship title

Players of the Capitals

Due to the unsatisfactory performance in the 2003/04 season, the squad was revised again. The most important change was the commitment of the DEL legionnaire Frédéric Chabot for the position of goalkeeper. Although the team did not start the season optimally, coach Jim Boni managed to gradually form a tight-knit unit out of the team. From the halfway point of the basic round, the Viennese put on a winning streak and finished the basic round with eight points ahead of the runner-up, the EC KAC , in first place. In the semi-finals, the capital city team defeated the EC VSV in four games and met the EC KAC in the final. The respective away team won the first six matches of the final series, until Jim Boni picked up a trick for the decisive seventh game. The players spent the entire day like in an away game and ended up playing in the away addresses. The Capitals won the seventh final game 6-2 and won the first championship title in their history.

The years after that

There were some changes for the following season. Chabot left the team and was replaced by Jeff Maund . The Caps started the season a bit awkwardly and the situation was further complicated by Maund's request to terminate his contract. As a result, Walter Bartholomäus took over his position and also performed well. At the end of the regular season, the team made it into the playoffs by one point. In the semifinals, the Viennese lost to EC Red Bull Salzburg with 1: 4 wins . This one victory of the Capitals had been achieved at the green table. Since Salzburg had not properly registered the legionnaire Patrick Thoresen , the third game in the series (which Salzburg won 6: 3) was penalized 5: 0 in favor of the Capitals.

The squad problem

Due to the failures of the past few years, the club's board had become aware of a decisive disadvantage that the Capitals had compared to other Bundesliga teams: the lack of young talent. Since, on the one hand, the infrastructure of the City of Vienna did not allow for permanent training and on the other hand , there were no longer any cooperation partners after the end of the EHC Team Vienna , Capitals President Schmid took a new approach. From the 2007/08 season, the existing Legionnaires' regulation, which allowed every EBEL team to sign five transfer card players, was overturned. The so-called point rule came as a replacement for this. With the changed regulation, the squad was completely renewed.

With Jean-François Labbé an experienced goalkeeper has been obliged to come with Dan Bjornlie and Peter Casparsson excellent defender. In the storm, with Marcel and David Rodman and Aaron Fox, a complete line of strikers was signed from HK Jesenice . Kelly Fairchild and Pascal Rhéaume also strengthened the team, so that the Capitals started the season with a total of ten legionaries and four naturalized players, so-called Austros. After six missions, Labbé was injured and was out for the rest of the season. The club management was looking for a suitable replacement. After Günther Hell did not meet the expectations, the Capitals struck gold with Sébastien Charpentier . However, he was also injured in the current season and was temporarily replaced by Kelly Guard .

At the end of the regular round, the Viennese finished second on points with the leading Linzers. In the second round, a new problem emerged: due to the large number of transfer card players who each consumed four of the contingent, which was limited to sixty points, the top of the squad was very thin, so that at times only two and a half lines had to be played. After HC Innsbruck was defeated in four games in the quarter-finals , the team lost all games in the semi-finals against eventual champions Salzburg.

After this season, Capitals President Hans Schmid also tried to abolish the point rule in order to be able to sign players completely freely in the future. This sparked heated discussions among the clubs, in which the EU labor law was argued, which allows every ice hockey player the free choice of job, which would make any regulation illegal. This discussion continues to this day, but has so far not brought about any changes to the system.

For the 2008/09 season , the expenses for the squad were reduced. Through some legionnaires in the form of the trio Patrick Lebeau , Juha Riihijärvi and Benoit Gratton , the Viennese played again for the title. The basic round ended in second place behind the EC KAC. In the quarterfinals, the team met the Graz 99ers . After the Capitals led with 3-1 victories, the Grazers managed to equalize. In the seventh game of the series, a 5-1 win secured the semi-finals. There, the Viennese met EC Red Bull Salzburg and lost the series in five games.

The following two seasons were largely the same. Both times the Viennese showed good performances in the main round and finished it in third place, but both play-offs also ended again in the semi-finals against EC Red Bull Salzburg. While Gratton and François Fortier , who was added in 2010, established themselves as top players in the league, young Viennese players were gradually brought back to the club or integrated into the fighting team from the forced offspring. At the end of the 2010/11 season , Kevin Gaudet ended his engagement with the Viennese and was replaced by the Swede Tommy Samuelsson .

Successful era

In preparation for the following season, the Capitals took part for the first time in the European Trophy 2011 , an invitation tournament made up of top European teams. The home games in the European Trophy were played for the first time in the Albert Schultz ice rink, which has been expanded to 7,000 seats . The 2011/12 championship was disappointing for Vienna Capitals and the high expectations could not be met by far. This was due, among other things, to the numerous wrong purchases, the serious injury to the crowd favorite Rafael Rotter and the surprising end of Harald Ofner's career . After the basic round, the Viennese took only eighth place, which resulted in a step into the qualifying round. Nevertheless, coach Tommy Samuelsson was held on, who, thanks to a runaway win on the last day of the qualifying round, led the capitals into the play-off . There the Capitals failed in the quarterfinals in seven games against the later champions from Linz . The Capitals started the 2012/13 season with a reinforced squad (including Corey Potter , Adrian Veideman , Jamie Fraser and Matt Zaba ) . The Viennese won the regular round with 61 points and retained their position even after the subsequent placement round. Orli Znojmo was defeated in the play-off quarter-finals before a victory against EC Red Bull Salzburg in the semi-finals . Only in the final, the Viennese were defeated with a sweep by the EC KAC . The Klagenfurters achieved the first sweep in a final since the EBEL was founded and the first final sweep in Austrian league history at a distance of best-of-seven. At the same time, the club won the thirtieth ÖEHL championship title in the club's history.

Before the 2013-14 season , several key players left the club, including Dan Bjornlie and André Lakos . Nevertheless, the Viennese were able to win the main round again, but were beaten by the EC VSV in the quarter-finals . In the 2014/15 season , the Vienna with the new coach started Tom Pokel , which in February 2015 by Jim Boni was replaced. With a fourth place in the main round the play-off could be reached again, where the Capitals reached the final again against Székesfehérvár and the EHC Linz. There they were beaten 4-0 in the series by Salzburg.

In the 2015/16 season , the Capitals finished the main round again in fourth place and again selected the EC VSV as their opponent in the quarter-finals. The team lost 4-1 against Villach.

For the 2016/17 season , Serge Aubin was signed as coach . In addition, Jean-Philippe Lamoureux was brought in as the new goalkeeper from the EC VSV. The Caps kept the championship lead throughout the season and won the regular season and the pick round. As a quarter-final opponent, the Caps decided for HC Innsbruck . With three sweeps against HC Innsbruck, HC Bozen and EC KAC , the caps won the second championship title in history.

Only three players - David Kickert , Collin Bowman and the captain Jonathan Ferland - left the Capitals after the championship title. With Kyle Klubertanz and Jérôme Samson , the Caps signed two very experienced players. After dominating the regular round like last year, the team reached first place on the last match day of the intermediate round and again chose Innsbruck as their quarter-final opponent. After the first three games, as in the previous year, it looked like a sweep for the Viennese. But Innsbruck could just win games 4 and 5, in the sixth game the caps moved into the semifinals. As in the previous year, HC Bozen was waiting there . After winning the first game impressively 4-0, the next four games were lost and the Italians moved into the finals with a 4-1 win in a row and ultimately became champions.

For the 2018/19 season the Viennese club signed a former NHL coach, Dave Cameron . At the start of the season, the Viennese won all of their first twelve games. This winning streak was followed by five defeats until they recovered and were largely on rank 1 of the table. After taking first place after the regular season in each of the previous two years, the caps only achieved second place this season and thus missed early qualification for the Champions Hockey League . However, the qualification for the CHL was fixed with the first place in the pick-round . For the quarter-finals, the Caps chose HC Orli Znojmo , whom they eliminated with 4-1 wins. In the semifinals there was a duel with EC Red Bull Salzburg . The close series, in which neither team managed to take the lead by more than two goals, was won by the Caps 4: 3. In the final, they had to admit defeat to EC KAC 4: 2.

In October 2018, the mobile operator spusu was signed up as the new main and name sponsor. From now on the association is called spusu Vienna Capitals .

At the end of the season it was announced that Dave Cameron will also be on the side of the Caps in the 2019/20 season . Thanks to him, well-known players such as Brenden Kichton , Kyle Baun , Mark Flood and Ryan Zapolski - who played all five games of the US team at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang - were signed up. Due to the departure of the two top scorers from the previous year, Chris DeSousa and Peter Schneider , the two Austrian regulars Benjamin Nissner and Andreas Nödl , as well as Philippe Lakos , who is now playing for the second team of the Caps , you had a nominally weaker squad than in the in recent years. In addition, audience favorite Rafael Rotter was injured in a preparation game against MAC Budapest and had to sit out until shortly after Christmas. In addition to their own junior staff, Dario Winkler was also loaned from EC Red Bull Salzburg and Henrik Neubauer from Dornbirner EC was signed on . The caps did not start the season as usual from previous years and switched between second and fifth place in the table, also due to the participation of only eleven teams, where one team had to sit out per game day. From the 30th matchday on, they could fix themselves on the second place in the table and were the first pursuer of the EC Red Bull Salzburg. After the Mozartstadt team, the second team was able to qualify early for the play-offs. Due to the coronavirus epidemic , the season was canceled early. So there is no master 2020.

Club statistics

season	Main round									Playoffs					annotation
	Games	S.	SNV SNP	N	NNV NNP	Gates	TVH	PKT (PT)	rank	Games	S.	N	Gates	TVH
2001/02	32	16		9	7th	106: 97	+9	39 (30)	4th	8th	4th	4th	22:22	0	Quarter final out
2002/03	42	19th		17th	6th	137: 137	0	44 (37)	6th	5	2	3	14:16	−2	Quarter final out
2003/04	48	22nd		22nd	4th	113: 128	−15	48 (37)	5.						No playoff participation
2004/05	48	34		10	4th	199: 142	+57	72 (57)	1.	10	7th	3	33:25	+8	master
2005/06	48	25th		20th	3	173: 163	+10	53 (40)	4th	5	1	4th	12:18	−6	Semi-final out
2006/07	56	29		22nd	5	214: 205	+9	63 (48)	4th	3	0	3	11:20	−9	Semi-final out
2007/08 (*)	36	22nd		9	5	122: 86	+36	49	2.	3	0	3	19:24	−5	Semi-final out
2008/09	54	33		14th	7th	203: 162	+41	73	2.	12	5	7th	31:30	+1	Semi-final out
2009/10	54	33		17th	4th	193: 156	+37	70	3.	12	7th	5	47:38	+9	Semi-final out
2010/11	54	31		18th	5	200: 162	+38	67	3.	11	7th	4th	43:34	+9	Semi-final out
2011/12 1	40	17th		17th	6th	120: 136	−16	40	8th.	7th	3	4th	20:25	−5	Quarter final out
2012/13 1	44	28		11	5	137: 100	+37	61	1.	15th	8th	7th	45:31	+14	Vice Master
2013/14 1	44	26th		12	2	160: 103	+57	62	1.	5	1	4th	13:22	−9	Quarter final out
2014/15 1	44	24		16	4th	119: 117	+2	52	4th	15th	8th	7th	42:47	−5	Vice Master
2015/16 1	44	20th	6 2	16	2	125: 102	+23	74	4th	5	1	4th	10:14	−4	Quarter final out
2016/17 1	44	27	6 2	6th	5	151: 95	+56	98	1.	12	12	0	50:26	+24	master
2017/18 1	44	28	2 2	9	5	146: 97	+49	93	1.	11	5	6th	30:29	+1	Semi-final out
2018/19 1	44	24	5 2	10	5	162: 117	+45	87	2.	18th	10	8th	53:39	+14	Vice Master
2019/20 1	40	23	2 2	10	5	130: 86	+44	78	2.	3	2	1	8: 7	+1	Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
total	750	429	21 2	240	80	2645: 2177	+468	980		145	75	70	458: 436	+22

(1) Exclusive intermediate round

(2) Victories after extra time / penalty shootout only became relevant with the introduction of the 3-point rule for the 2015/16 season.

Legend: S = victories, N = defeats in regular playing time, NNV = defeats after extra time or penalty shootout, victory% = percentage of the total possible points scored, TVH = goal difference, PKT = points, PT = points with points shared at half of the season

team

Squad of the 2020/21 season

Status: March 2020

No.	Nat.	player	Item	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
29		Bernhard Starkbaum	G	February 19, 1986	2018	Vienna , Austria
		Max Zimmermann	G	September 12, 1999	2020	Vienna , Austria
76		Lucas Birnbaum	D.	0June 9, 1997	2018	Bruck an der Mur , Austria
50		Mario Fischer -  C.	D.	0May 5th 1989	2011	Vienna , Austria
36		Mark Flood	D.	September 29, 1984	2019	Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , Canada
5		Dominic Hackl	D.	0November 8, 1996	2014	Vienna , Austria
4th		Philippe Lakos	D.	19th August 1980	2009	Vienna , Austria
14th		Patrick Peter	D.	January 27, 1994	2010	Vienna , Austria
3		Lukas Piff	D.	December 12, 2000	2018	Vienna , Austria
42		Alex Wall	D.	0November 1, 1990	2018	St. John's , Newfoundland , Canada
23		Fabio Artner	LW	0March 4, 1999	2019	Vienna , Austria
11		Sascha Bauer	LW	January 30, 1995	2012	Vienna , Austria
12		Kyle Baun	LW	0May 4th 1992	2019	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
55		Mathias Boehm	W.	April 17, 2003	2020	Vienna , Austria
		Alexander Cijan	LW	May 16, 1994	2020	Klagenfurt , Austria
22nd		Julian Großlercher	C.	0March 5, 1993	2014	Lienz , Austria
96		Nikolaus Hartl	RW	December 18, 1991	2017	Zell am See , Austria
21st		Riley crab apple	C.	August 18, 1988	2016	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
61		Patrik Kittinger	RW	0June 1, 1996	2018	Vienna , Austria
27		Ty Loney	RW	0March 1, 1992	2019	Valencia , Pennsylvania , USA
70		Benjamin Nissner	C.	November 30, 1997	2020	Vienna , Austria
13		Sondre Olden	RW	August 29, 1992	2018	Oslo , Norway
3		Armin Preiser	F.	December 18, 2000	2019	Vienna , Austria
81		Marco Richter	LW	November 19, 1995	2020	Vienna , Austria
6th		Rafael Rotter -  A.	RW	June 14, 1987	2008	Vienna , Austria
91		Taylor Vause -  A	C.	September 28, 1991	2016	Calgary , Alberta , Canada
9		Ali Wukovits	C.	0May 9, 1996	2016	Vienna , Austria
40		Mike Zalewski	C.	18th August 1992	2019	New Hartford , New York , USA

Official

activity	Nat.	Surname	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
Trainer		Dave Cameron	July 29, 1958	2018	Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , Canada
Assistant coach		Christian Dolezal	February 21, 1986	2020	Vienna , Austria
Goalkeeping trainer / video coach		Varian Kirst	June 11, 1977	2017	Montréal , Quebec , Canada
General manager		Franz Kalla		2009

Significant past teams

EBEL champion 2004/05

position	Surname
Goal:	Frédéric Chabot , Christian Cseh
Defense:	Darcy Werenka , Robert Lukas , Peter Kasper , Philippe Lakos , Thomas Pfeffer , Leopold Wieselthaler , Mario Altmann
Storm:	Mike Craig , Dave Chyzowski , Bob Wren , Dieter Kalt , Markus Peintner , Manuel Latusa , Ray Podloski , Jari Suorsa , Gregor Baumgartner , Christoph König , Juri Tsurenkow , Bernd Jäger , Christian Dolezal , Ivo Jan , Paul Roch , André Niec , Sandro Winkler
Trainer:	Jim bonuses

EBEL runner-up 2012/13

position	Surname
Goal:	Fabian Weinhandl , Matt Zaba
Defense:	Dan Bjornlie (A) , Jamie Fraser , Sven Klimbacher , André Lakos , Philippe Lakos , Patrick Peter , Corey Potter , Markus Schlacher , Peter Schweda , Adrian Veideman
Storm:	Zdenek Blatny , Christoph Draschkowitz , Jonathan Ferland , Mario Fischer , François Fortier , Benoît Gratton (C) , Justin Keller , Stefan Nador , Marcus Olsson , Philipp Pinter (A) , Tony Romano , Rafael Rotter , Michael Schiechl , Mario Seidl , Josh Soares , Daniel Woger
Trainer:	Tommy Samuelsson

EBEL runner-up in 2014/15

position	Surname
Goal:	David Kickert , Matt Zaba
Defense:	Brett Carson , Jamie Fraser , Dominic Hackl , Florian Iberer , Sven Klimbacher (A) , Philippe Lakos , Patrick Peter , Markus Schlacher
Storm:	Sascha Bauer , Danny Bois , Jonathan Ferland (C) , Mario Fischer , Kris Foucault , Benoît Gratton , Julian Grosslercher , Nikolaus Hartl , Peter MacArthur , Ken Magowan , Andreas Nödl , Kevin Puschnik , Rafael Rotter , Michael Schiechl , Dustin Sylvester , Matt Watkins (A)
Trainer:	Jim Boni , Tom Pokel

EBEL champion 2016/17

position	Surname
Goal:	David Kickert , Jean-Philippe Lamoureux
Defense:	Collin Bowman , Aaron Brocklehurst , Tyler Cuma , Jamie Fraser , Dominic Hackl , Philippe Lakos , Ryan McKiernan , Patrick Peter
Storm:	Sascha Bauer , Jonathan Ferland (C) , Mario Fischer , Julian Grosslercher , Nikolaus Hartl , Riley Holzapfel , Felix Maxa , Benjamin Nissner , Andreas Nödl (A) , Jerry Pollastrone , Rafael Rotter (A) , MacGregor Sharp , Kelsey Tessier , Taylor Vause , Ali Wukovits
Trainer:	Serge Aubin

EBEL runner-up 2018/19

position	Surname
Goal:	Jean-Philippe Lamoureux , Bernhard Starkbaum
Defense:	Lucas Birnbaum , Mat Clark , Mario Fischer , Marc-André Dorion , Dominic Hackl , Philippe Lakos , Patrick Mullen , Patrick Peter , Alex Wall
Storm:	Chris DeSousa , Julian Grosslercher , Nikolaus Hartl , Riley Holzapfel , Benjamin Nissner , Andreas Nödl (C) , Sondre Olden , Emilio Romig , Rafael Rotter (A) , Peter Schneider , Kelsey Tessier , Taylor Vause ( A ), Ali Wukovits
Trainer:	Dave Cameron

Blocked jersey numbers

So far, the shirt number has been "blocked" by a player because of his merits for the club, that is, it is no longer given to other players.

Philippe Lakos (Defense, 2003-2008, since 2009)
Number 4	Philippe Lakos is the record player of the Vienna Capitals with 791 games (as of March 3, 2020). Lakos has been with the Capitals since 2003 and 2009 and was part of the Viennese squad in both years as a champion.

The second team

Vienna Capitals Silver
Club information
history	Vienna Capitals II (2017-2019) Vienna Capitals Silver (since 2019)
Location	Vienna , Austria
Nickname	Caps II
Club colors	Black, yellow, red
league	Alps Hockey League
Venue	Erste Bank Arena
capacity	7,022 seats
executive Director	Franz Kalla
Head coach	Johan Sjöquist

The second team ( within the club Vienna Capitals Silver ) is also a professional team and has been playing in the international Alps Hockey League since 2019 . Before that, they played in the Hungarian first division for two years . The coach is the Swede Johan Sjöquist .

Squad for the 2019/20 season

goal	Defense	Storm
1 Matthias Lichtenecker April 28, 2001 30th Max Zimmermann September 12, 1999	21st Jesper Åkerman October 2, 1995 36 Adam Åkesson June 25, 1990 26th Pascal Bayer December 26, 1999 76 Lucas Birnbaum 1 June 9, 1997 4th Philippe Lakos 19th August 1980 60 Timo Pallierer June 21, 2001 2 Lukas Piff December 12, 2000 40 Bernhard Posch January 22, 2001 17th Tobias Steibl February 17, 2000	10 Patrick Antal October 24, 2000 23 Fabio Artner 1st March 4, 1999 Daniel Aschauer May 29, 2003 11 Sascha Bauer 1 January 30, 1995 8th Mathias Boehm April 17, 2003 89 Patrick Bohm July 8, 2001 67 Markus Hermanstad March 30, 1999 48 Alexander Hofer April 29, 1999 88 Viktor Johansson October 6, 1998 53 Maximilian Kieweg October 2, 2002 61 Patrik Kittinger 1st June 1, 1996 42 Lukas Löfquist January 16, 1996 77 Alexander Maxa March 10, 1999 18th Benjamin Mosaad July 25, 2002 15th Henrik Neubauer 1 April 15, 1997 54 Emil Norberg February 22, 1999 24 Lukas Pohl July 24, 2001 3 Armin Preiser December 18, 2000 27 Fabian Ranftl July 27, 1997 20th Fabio Rohm July 1, 1998 16 Richard Schlögl October 26, 1996 54 Dario Winkler 1 May 18, 1997 1 Also in the first team's professional squad As of January 23, 2020

Coaching and support staff for the 2019/20 season

Surname	function
Johan Sjöquist	Head coach

Junior teams

The U20 team (club-internal Silver Caps U20 ) has been playing in the Austrian U20 league since 2003 ( EBYSL since 2012 ). Head coach is Tommy Flinck . The U18 team (internal Silver Caps U18 ) has been playing in the Erste Bank Juniors League since 2013 . The head coach is Philipp Ullrich .

player

Club-internal records

Statistics since the promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2001/02 season. All preliminary round and play-off games are included.

season

Gates space player Gates season 1. François Fortier 51 2010/11 2. Mike Craig 46 2006/07 3. Chris DeSousa 46 2018/19 4th Peter Schneider 40 2018/19 5. Mike Craig 37 2004/05

Assists space player Assists season 1. Bob Wren 63 2006/07 2. Benoit Gratton 58 2010/11 3. Benoit Gratton 55 2009/10 4th Pat Lebeau 54 2008/09 5. Oliver Setzinger 54 2006/07

Top scorer space player Points season 1. François Fortier 96 2010/11 2. Bob Wren 93 2006/07 3. Mike Craig 92 2006/07 Benoit Gratton 92 2010/11 5. Pat Lebeau 87 2008/09

Penalty minutes space player Penalty minutes season 1. Benoit Gratton 275 2010/11 2. Philippe Lakos 224 2006/07 3. Benoit Gratton 208 2009/10 4th Benoit Gratton 186 2008/09 5. Bob Wren 182 2006/07

All in all

Gates space player Gates 1. Rafael Rotter 135 2. Mike Craig 134 3. Benoit Gratton 129 4th François Fortier 124 5. Jonathan Ferland 114

Assists space player Assists 1. Rafael Rotter 327 2. Benoit Gratton 273 3. Darcy Werenka 195 4th Jamie Fraser 183 4th Dan Bjornlie 176

Top scorer space player Points 1. Rafael Rotter 462 2. Benoit Gratton 402 3. Darcy Werenka 289 4th Mike Craig 281 5. François Fortier 260

Games space player Games 1. Philippe Lakos 794 2. Rafael Rotter 564 3. Mario Fischer 483 4th Patrick Peter 395 5. Christian Dolezal 392

Significant former players

(Team membership and position in brackets)

Frédéric Chabot (2004/05, goalkeeper) The Canadian goalie came to Vienna after three years with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers and won the club's first championship title with the team in the 2004/05 season. Mike Craig (2003-2007, attack) The striker played for the Capitals for four years and finished one season each as top scorer and points leader.

Bob Wren (2003-2007, attack) Bob Wren was also active with the Viennese for four years and formed one of the best striker duos in the league with Mike Craig. In the 2004/05 season, he led the assist list. Oliver Setzinger (2005–2007, attack) Oliver Setzinger, one of the best Austrian ice hockey players, played in Vienna for two years and scored 158 points in 109 games.

Participation of players on the All-Star-Team

season	player
2006/07	Scott Fankhouser , Darcy Werenka , Jonathan Zion , Robert Lukas , Bob Wren , Oliver Setzinger , David Schuller , Dieter Kalt , Manuel Latusa , Mike Craig
2007/08	Philippe Lakos , Darcy Werenka , Marcel Rodman , Manuel Latusa , Aaron Fox
2008/09	Darcy Werenka , Benoit Gratton

Trainer

time	nation	Trainer	Remarks
2001-2003		Kurt Harand	1 × semi-final out; 1 × quarter-final out
2003-2007		Jim bonuses	1 × Austrian champion ; 2 × semi-final out
2007-2011		Kevin Gaudet	4 × semi-final out
2011-2014		Tommy Samuelsson	1 × runner-up; 2 × quarter-final out
2014-2015		Tom Pokel	Dismissed in February 2015
2015-2016		Jim bonuses	1 × runner-up; 1 × quarter-final out
2016-2018		Serge Aubin	1 × Austrian champion ; 1 × semi-final out
since 2018		Dave Cameron	1 × runner-up

Venue

The home of the Vienna Capitals is the 7,022-seat Erste Bank Arena in Vienna's Donaustadt district . In February 2009 it was announced that the capacity of the hall would be expanded to 7,000 spectators. The renovation work began after the 2008/09 season and was completed before the 2011/12 season. In addition, new video screens and VIP boxes were installed in the hall. The roofing of the free ice area should create better conditions for the youngsters. The cost of the renovation is estimated at 40 million euros.

Average audience

• 2003/2004 season: 3,590 spectators per home game
• 2004/2005 season: 3,710 spectators per home game
• 2005/2006 season: 3,852 spectators per home game
• 2006/2007 season: 3,991 spectators per home game
• 2007/2008 season: 4,045 spectators per home game
• 2008/2009 season: 3,568 spectators per home game
• 2009/2010 season: 3,918 spectators per home game
• 2010/2011 season: 3,911 spectators per home game
• 2011/2012 season: 5,096 spectators per home game
• 2012/2013 season: 5,242 spectators per home game
• 2013/2014 season: 4,889 spectators per home game
• 2014/2015 season: 4,811 spectators per home game
• 2015/2016 season: 4,816 spectators per home game
• 2016/2017 season: 4,420 spectators per home game
• 2017/2018 season: 4,689 spectators per home game
• 2018/2019 season: 4,735 spectators per home game

Club culture

Capitano

Fans

The Vienna Capitals have six registered fan clubs: ICEFIRE , Vienna Hockey Fans , Die Optimisten , Rossauer Caps , Fiaker Caps and S'Eck !! .

mascot

Until 2011, the Capitals mascot was Captain Cap , a figure in the shape of a burning ice hockey puck. With Pucky the clown, attempts were unsuccessful to establish a more mobile colleague. In 2011 a cheetah was introduced as a new mascot, which initially remained nameless. Before the 2013/14 season, a survey was started on Facebook, where fans could choose a new name for the mascot. Since then, the mascot has been called Capitano .

Web links

• official homepage
• Entry on hockeyarenas.net with photos of the ice rink

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Capitals: The End of Master Maker Jim Boni. In: kurier.at. March 7, 2016, accessed December 22, 2017 . 
2. ^ Ice hockey: Serge Aubin new coach of the Vienna Capitals. In: kurier.at. June 7, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2017 . 
3. ↑ https://www.vienna-capitals.at/newsdetails/items/meister.html
4. ↑ [1] . In: eliteprospects.com , January 23, 2020. Accessed January 23, 2020.
5. ↑ erstebankliga.at: Caps get a hall for 7,000 fans , accessed on February 21, 2009
6. ↑ Albert Schultz-Halle is expanded. In: vienna.at. February 20, 2009, accessed December 17, 2015 . 
7. ↑ hockeyfans.at: Caps get a completely renovated hall , accessed on February 21, 2009
8. ↑ viewer EBEL. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .