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The HC Bolzano ( Italian: HC Bolzano ) is an Italian ice hockey club from Bolzano in South Tyrol, which plays in the Erste Bank Hockey League since the 2013/14 season. Previously, the team was in the Italian Elite.A ( former name: Serie A1 ) were active, where she served as greatest hits 19 league titles had been able to win.

History

The HC Bolzano was founded in 1933 and contributed in the first twenty years of its home games on a rink from. Not until 1953 that moved the club into the Bolzano Exhibition Hall, which was the first artificial ice available. Eleven of the nineteen Italian league titles were won there before the team 1994, the newly built Eiswelle involved. At the same time, the team also took part in the Alps League, an international ice hockey competition in which teams from Slovenia and Austria also participated. In addition to a master and three runner-up titles in this competition, the team also won another seven Italian titles, the last of them in 2012. Added to this was the three-time winning the Coppa Italia, the Italian League Cup competition. Other achievements include three wins the Supercoppa Italiana and the Six Nations tournament, also called European Ligacup, in 1994.

In 2013, the HC Bolzano applied for recording again to Erste Bank Eishockey Liga ( EBEL ) after earlier applications were a failed time and again to the resistance of the Italian Ice Hockey Federation. However, the chaotic conditions in the Italian Hockey Club paved the way to participate because a large part of the club from the second division had been approved for participation in the supranational also Inter- National -League shortly before.

For participation in the EBEL a completely new team was assembled under the leadership of head coach Tom Pokel to be competitive in relation to the Italian league stronger EBEL. The squad also planning some so-called Italo - Canadians were taken into account, ie Canadian players with Italian roots. In the EBEL, HC Bolzano occurs as HCB South Tyrol.

In addition to the first team, the club also runs several youth teams. Contrary to the rules in force in the EBEL but no team participates at the Erste Bank Young Stars League and the First Bank Juniors League.

Main sponsor of the club has been for several years, the supermarket chain InterSpar.

Team

Squad of the 2013/14 season

As of August 21, 2013

Farm team control

By August 2010, the HC Appiano Pirates was from the Italian Serie A2, the farm team of HC Bolzano before the HC Appiano ended the cooperation. On 22 September of the same year the cooperation with the HC Appiano was restarted.

Well-known former players

• Kent Nilsson
• Mark Pavelich
• Sylvain Turgeon
• Scott Young
• Daniel Marois
• Mike Rosati
• Jason MUZZATTI
• Jaromir Jagr

• Deron Quint
• Eric Belanger
• Jamie Lundmark
• Bruno Zarrillo
• Sergei Wostrikow
• Gaetano Orlando
• Martin Pavlu
• Robert Oberrauch

Coach

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Venue

Homestead of the club is built in the in the Bolzano industrial zone in 1994 multipurpose hall named Eiswelle (Italian Palaonda ). It can hold 7,200 spectators. In addition to the HC Bolzano and the women's ice hockey club HC Bolzano Eagles is at home.

The name of the structure is derived from the distinctive shape of the roof construction. For participation in the EBEL HC Bolzano were handed over various surfaces which required a slight modernization ( lighting for TV broadcasts and the like. ).