Hannover Scorpions
- German Champion 2010
The Hannover Scorpions are an ice hockey team in Hanover, who plays in the Oberliga Nord since 2013. After the rise of Wedemark Wildcats in the highest German league, the first team in 1996 was spun off as a GmbH, which was founded in 1975 Melle village ESC Wedemark and renamed Wedemark Scorpions. Since 1997, the team plays under the name Hannover Scorpions, 2001 Finally, the company moved into the capital of Lower Saxony. 2013 The Scorpions have sold their license included GmbH for the DEL at the Schwenningen Wild Wings and the Lower Saxony had to start over (as ice rinks and gaming operations GmbH) in the Oberliga Nord.
The biggest success of the club, which plays its home games at the rink Langenhagen, is the German Cup in 2010. Moreover, the team reached 2001, 2006 and 2009, the play-off semi-finals and finals for the DEB - Pokal 2009. Club colors of Hannover Scorpions are red and black.
- 2.1 cadres of the 2013/14 season
- 2.2 Major former teams 2.2.1 Master League 1 1996
- 2.2.2 German Champion 2010
- 3.1 Locked jersey numbers
- 3.2 Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany
- 3.3 Internal club records
- 3.4 Other important (former) players
- 3.5 Participation of players on the All- Star Game
- 5.1 ESC Hannover Scorpions (until 2008)
- 5.2 ESC Wedemark Scorpions (2008-2010 )
- 5.3 Jets Junior SCL (from 2010)
- 5.4 Sledge Hockey
- 6.1 Ice House Melle village
- 6.2 TUI Arena
- 7.1 Fans and rivalries
- 7.2 partnerships
- 7.3 Coat of Arms
- 7.4 mascots
- 7.5 Torhymne
History
↑ ↓ in the ascent and descent round of the Regional
The beginnings of hockey in Wedemark (1973 to 1991)
The history of the Scorpions began 20 kilometers north of Hanover, where an artificial ice rink was built in 1973 next to the pool in the district of Melle village in Wedemark, a community. However, this ice was initially neither covered nor corresponded with their 30 × 40 meters, the international dimensions of Hockey fields. In 1975, finally, the ESC Wedemark was founded, the sports ice hockey, curling, figure skating and ice dancing offered initially in four departments. A year later, the ice surface was enlarged to the size of 60 × 30 meters, so the first ice hockey matches were played on her, in addition, the ice rink was roofed and built first spectator stands. In the season 1977/78 finally took its first men's team of ESC in the game operation of the Regionalliga Nord, the then fourth- highest German league, and won, even with the help of former Finnish international's Esko Kaonpää, equal in the first season, the championship of the league.
This success was the team but in the following years not repeat and occupied most places in the middle of the league. In the season 1983/84 the ESC Wedemark first met local rivals EC Hannover, which was relegated from the league in the previous year. Although lost Wedemark under the beginning of the season after two years at the EHC for ESC Wedemark returned coach Sepp Sappl the first meeting in their own stadium in front of the then record crowd of 1,200 spectators with 4:6, but still recorded both the ECH as a master and the ESC fifth the relegation round of the Oberliga Nord in 1984/85. The participation in a promotion round the ESC Wedemark finally finished, however, only the fourth and last place, while the EC Hannover due to a bankruptcy renounced the resurgence.
After re- placements in mid-table team reached only in 1989 under the new player-manager Jari Pasanen again offs for promotion to Serie A, where they initially but finished only ninth and penultimate place. In the following year, the ESC could not achieve the stated goal of ascension, and had, as in many previous years, play in the relegation round of the fate in the Regionalliga. Following the arrival of the subsequent owner and funder Jochen Haselbacher in the club's management was finally able to 1991, the championship of the Regionalliga Nord after some significant victories, such as a 12:6 against the EC Wilhelmshaven, are obtained. In the promotion round of the ESC Wedemark took second place and rose for the first time in their history in the league on.
Establishment as a serious Hockey Size ( 1991-1996 )
After the complete takeover of the club by the shops Haselbacher family has been committed to the Canadian Kevin Gaudet, a new player-coach, to be celebrated in the first league year with a fifth place in the final round of the league with the ESC. In the following season the ESC reached after a third place in the first round and with the help of 179 scorer points by the neuverpflichteten before the season British- Canadian striker Joe West second place in the final round and missed only just promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. This was finally achieved in 1994, when the team at the new striker and later national team Leonard Soccio, who scored a record of 328 scorer points in common with the West, according to a first place in the Master round the leap into 1994 as a substructure of the newly founded German Ice Hockey League 1 League introduced two-pronged managed.
At the beginning of the 1994/95 season, the club was renamed ESC Wedemark Wildcats. In addition to well-known new entrants such as Jari Pasanen and Dieter Reiss, succeeded owners Haselbacher also to bring the Russian national team Vladimir Konstantinov due to the lockout in the National Hockey League by the Detroit Red Wings for the duration of the player strikes in North America to Wedemark. With fourth place in the preliminary round of the climbers reached then surprisingly the masters first round of the league, which was eventually finished in sixth place. However, in the subsequent play-off second round, the Wildcats failed on Heilbronner EC. After the team had the advantages as well as the Master Round ended in the season 1995/96, both on the first place, she contested the play-offs as a climbing favorite. After victories over the EHC Klostersee, the EV Landsberg and the EHC Freiburg ESC Wedemark reached the final, in which the EC Bad Tolz was defeated in three games.
Inclusion in the DEL and moving to Hanover ( 1996-2006 )
↓ Play -downs
Since the financially troubled neighbor EC Hannover renounced his DEL license, the ESC Wedemark could take the place in the otherwise played out as a closed league DEL as champions of League 1. In the 1996/97 season started, as with teams in the DEL usual, in a limited liability company outsourced professional team finally under the new name Wedemark Scorpions, as the name Pate served the rock band Scorpions from Hannover. With a budget of only three million D- Mark, the team ended at the end of their first season in the Premier League on the 14th place in the table.
For 1997/ 98, the team from the unknown on the national level " Wedemark " due to the proximity to the state capital in " Hannover Scorpions " has been renamed. Before the season the club tip transferred some former NHL pros like Troy Crowder, Gary Leeman, Jason Lafreniere, Mark Pederson Bryan Fogarty or to the Scorpions. Also, because these experienced players reached the team for the first time the DEL play-offs, where the Scorpions but failed to Frankfurt Lions after four games in the quarterfinals. At the start of the following season the squad was selectively supplemented by well-known players such as the long-time NHL defenseman Claudio Scremin, but missed the team with the eleventh place in the table clearly the final round.
In the 2000/2001 season the Hannover Scorpions finally sealed the biggest success to date, the club's history, as they were eliminated after a quarterfinal victory over the favored Kölner Haie only in the play-off semi-final against eventual champion Adler Mannheim. The semi-final home game the team played here for the first time in the sold Preussag Arena, which bears the name of TUI Arena since 2005 and was built on the fairgrounds Hannover EXPO 2000. With the start of the 2001/2002 season the Scorpions finally moved out of their old home, the Icehouse Melle village to the new multi-purpose hall. Unlike last year, however they missed with a tenth place in the preliminary round of the inaugural season in their new home the playoffs.
Before the season 2003/ 04, there was a dispute between owner Jochen Haselbacher and the management of the arena, which called for more professionalism and participation rights, whereupon the Scorpions first returned to Melle village until three home games in December 2003 and January 2004 in the Preussag Arena had to complete. After these games, it was agreed that the Scorpions and their remaining home games of the 2003/04 season should sort out in the arena. Sporty escaped the team to the play- downs gained in five games against the Wolves Freiburg barely escape relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga.
Before the season 2004 / 05, the Scorpions changed the owner, as the longtime head of the club ESC Wedemark, Jochen Haselbacher, the " Hannover Scorpions Hockey operating GmbH" sold to the contractor Günter Papenburg. Since Papenburg also Preussag Arena belonged to the stadium issue could be resolved in the long term. In addition, the Scorpions cooperation with the second-division club REV Bremerhaven were received prior to this season, as the Hanoverian increasingly on young German players sat with a new concept that should come as a player mining license in Bremen used. Nevertheless, the Scorpions saved only on the final day of the preliminary round on a non- relegation zone, thus avoiding the re- play -down participation. In the following season the team for five years, however, the first time reached the play-offs, where it moved in after a win in seven games over the ERC Ingolstadt again the semi-finals, but there in the later master polar bear Berlin failed.
Obligation Hans Zach's and climb to the top team ( 2006-2011 )
With the German coaching legend Hans Zach the Scorpions were able to present a prominent newcomer off the ice for the season 2006 /07. In addition to respectable wins against the top teams but also the team had with their new coach, first some setbacks, such as plugging in a clear 1:9 defeat against the Cologne Sharks. In the end, the team achieved direct qualification for the play- offs, failed there but despite two victories at the start of the series with 2:4 games to the Sinupret Ice Tigers. The preliminary round of the 2007/08 season ended the Scorpions in eighth place, but missed qualifying for the finals in previous play-offs against the ninth-placed DEG Metro Stars. In the decisive third game did not come until after 91 minutes and 44 seconds in the second extension of the victory for the visitors, which now constitutes the third-longest match of the DEL - history.
Successful, the Scorpions were, however, present in the German Ice Hockey Cup, where the team only lost in the semifinals against the Frankfurt Lions. In the 2008 /09 season they were finally able to surpass this success, as was the finals after a victory over the Kassel Huskies, the team there they lost against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg. The regular season 2008/ 09 ended the Scorpions in second place and had to in the subsequent play-offs in the fifth game of the semifinal the DEG Metro Stars defeated. In 2010, the Scorpions succeeded for the first time in club history the German Championship after a 3-0 play-off series against the Augsburger Panther. In the 2010/11 season, the Hanover eliminated in the quarter- finals.
Sporty failure and sale of DEL license (2011 to 2013)
In the 2011/12 season the Scorpions occupied the 14th and last place. Thus, since the 2004/ 05 season they missed the first time qualifying for the play-offs. In the 2012/13 season, Thomas Greiss decided, because of the NHL lockout began September 15, 2012, for a time at the Scorpions. The goalkeeper, who actually belonged to the team of the San Jose Sharks, signed in November for the duration of the lockout a contract in Hanover. In the Lower Greiss came alternately with the goalkeeper Dimitri Paetzold used. Overall, he completed by the end of the lockout on January 6, 2013 nine games for the Scorpions. Nevertheless, the Scorpions only occupied the 11th place and were able to once again do not qualify for the play- offs. On May 23, 2013, the Scorpions announced their DEL license to the runner-up the 2nd Bundesliga, the Schwenningen Wild Wings for sale. Publicly a relationship had been established by a decision of Deutsche Messe AG to modernize other exhibition halls in the context of an already -year-long loss of business by the arena operator.
Team
Squad of the 2013/14 season
( At 5 February 2014)
Legend: FL = This player is equipped with a mining license from the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg.
Significant former teams
Master League 1 1996
German Champion 2010
Player
Locked jersey numbers
So far, the jersey numbers of two players were "locked " due to their merits for the club, that is, they are no longer awarded to active players. To commemorate the award winners banners were installed with the appropriate numbers under the umbrella of the TUI Arena.
Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany
In the "Hall of Fame" of the German Ice Hockey Museum personalities are included who have rendered outstanding services to the sport of ice hockey in Germany. From the recorded actors acted or act in Hanover:
( Team membership and position in brackets)
- Friedhelm Bögelsack ( Official )
- Dieter Frenzel (2001-2002, trainer)
- Hans Zach (2006-2010, trainer)
Internal club records
The following players could set up several simplified internal records since joining the Scorpions to DEL:
(All statistics are on the level at the end of the season 2011/12 )
Other important (former) players
( Team membership and position in brackets)
- Vikingstad Goals (2008-2011, storm)
- Sascha Goc (since 2005, defense)
- Wallace Schreiber (1999-2003, storm)
- Dan Lambert (2004-2009, defense)
- Mark Pederson (2001-2002, storm)
- Trevor Kidd (2005-2006, Tor)
- Paul Mara (2004-2005, defense)
- Robert Hock (2004-2006, storm)
- Gary Leeman (1997-1999, defense)
- Todd Simpson (2006-2007, defense)
- Todd Warriner (2005-2007, storm)
Participation of players in the All -Star Game
Some players Hannover Scorpions were nominated for the DEL All- Star game, a friendly match, which was held annually from 1998 to 2009 and in which the most outstanding player of the German Ice Hockey League competed against each other.
Coach
* Coaching change during the season
Since the establishment of ESC Wedemark in 1975 to today's 20 trained coaches from eight different nations, the teams of the club. The first full-time trainer of the new hockey team in 1977 /78 as the first time a team took part at the beginning of the season on regular leagues operation, the Romanian Puskas, of the Office 1978 Sepp Sappl, Germany's first coach of ESC Wedemarks handed. Sweden and Germany are today the countries from which most coaches of Hannover Scorpions came. Five trainers were from these countries each contract with the Lower Saxony.
On the longest tenure in Hanover Canadian Kevin Gaudet can look back, who coached the team between 1991 and 2000 and this led the team in the German Ice Hockey League of the league. Gaudet is also measured by titles of the most successful coach of the Scorpions, with whom he in 1996, the Championship of the then second-rate " 1 League " could celebrate. The Canadians can also look back on most tenures in Hannover since he returned both at the beginning of the season 2000/ 01 and from 2004 to 2006 to the dugout. In the last scheduled time Kevin Gaudet finally reached the play-off semi-final with the Scorpions. Also successfully ran the commitment by Olle Aus and Hans Zach, which focused on reaching the play-off semi-final in 2001 and the Cup final in 2009.
Hans Zach took over the post of coach at the start of the 2005/06 season by his predecessor Kevin Gaudet. He led the team to the Scorpions in the 2008 /09 season after a second place in the standings in the main round in the play-off semi-finals. This was the hitherto most successful season in the club's history of Lower Saxony. The former national coach was supported by former goalkeeper and assistant coach Christian Künast. In the 2009/10 season he won the German championship with the Scorpions. With this success, Hans Zach also finished his career as a coach.
After the era Hans Zach, the Lower Saxony for Anton KRINNER had chosen as the new head of the gang. After the team had not achieved in the 2011/12 season the play-offs, he was released on 11 March 2012.
Home club
ESC Hannover Scorpions (until 2008)
After climbing to the highest German league 1996, the first team was spun off into a company with limited liability under the ESC Wedemark founded in 1975. After the change of name of DEL - association in 1997 in Hannover Scorpions and the original club was renamed ESC Hannover in 2006 and since then also bears the nickname " Scorpions ". After renaming members wanted to keep the name Wedemark and founded an independent association EC Wedemark Farmers, which now takes up again under the name Wedemark Scorpions.
By 2008, the youth, women and amateur teams of the Scorpions were organized in "ESC Hannover ", the youth teams, the women's team as well as the Lady Scorpions Hobby team go under the name of Young Scorpions, Scorpions as a senior on the ice. In addition, in the 2008 /09 season takes part an amateur crew of the ESC under the name Hannover Langenhagen Jets the game operating the fourth division Regionalliga Nord. Your games wearing the teams of the ESC Hannover from now at the rink Langenhagen.
ESC Wedemark Scorpions (2008-2010)
After disputes between the leadership of the Hannover Scorpions and the Junior Department of the ESC Hanover, founded in April 2008 by the long jähren owner of DEL teams, Jochen Haselbacher, and Scorpions CEO Marco Stichnoth the new strain club "ESC Wedemark Scorpions " which, under the line of the former East German international's Friedhelm Bögelsack was responsible for youth work of the DEL teams exclusively. First, the department launched only with Bambini and small pupils and boys teams.
Junior Jets SCL (from 2010)
Without giving reasons, the young talent from 2010/2011 season of Scorpions CEO Marco Stichnoth from ESC Wedemark Scorpions was transferred to the Junior Jets SC Langenhagen as a junior partner of the Hannover Scorpions. There the young trained under the direction of former Scorpions player Leonard Soccio.
Sledge Hockey
→ Main article: Ice Lions Langenhagen
The sledge ice hockey department of the Hannover Scorpions won between 2000 and 2007 eight times in a row the championship of the German Sledge Hockey League and was the most successful team of Paralympic sport in Germany. Was founded in the area as RSG Hannover '94 was the first sledge ice hockey club in the country. In the summer of 2008, the Sledge Hockey Division moved to the SC Langenhagen and sets its gaming operations there continued as the Ice Lions Langenhagen.
Venue
Ice House Melle village
The ESC Wedemark and all subsequent teams played to 2001 in the " Ice House ", the former ice rink Melle village in the same district of the municipality Wedemark. The stadium was built in 1974 as an open air ice rink and 1977 for the first time equipped with a roof and bleachers, so that the spectator capacity was increased to 1,200. After the last renovation in 1995, the Arena offers 3,800 spectators and is now used by the DEL team of the Hannover Scorpions for workouts. The teams founded in 2008 ESC Wedemark Scorpions, however, wear them again from their home games at the Ice House.
TUI Arena
→ Main article: TUI Arena
For 2001/ 02 the Hannover Scorpions moved into the on the site of EXPO 2000 newly built Preussag Arena. With the name change of its namesake Preussag in TUI AG, the company extended the contract for the naming rights and the stadium was 2005 TUI Arena. It offers at hockey games 10,767 spectators and also promises better comfort than the previous venue. The location also allowed for more spectators revenues! For the club. After the team was moved to the new arena, the average attendance has doubled to 5,051. Over the next two years, this section sank, although, could be increased in 2006 and 2007 at a record average, however, as an average of 6,186 fans came to the home games of the Hannover Scorpions. After a further slump and a recovery of the audience section, it will continuously declined over the last four years of 5,527 to 3,114 spectators in 2013, in which they did not extend the contract of use.
1The figures given in brackets, are for home games during the season and the playoffs.
Club culture
Fans and rivalries
Currently there are sixteen official fan club of the Hannover Scorpions, which are located mostly in the Greater Hannover.
Since the early years of the club, there is a rivalry between the fans of the Scorpions and the followers of gambling at the ice rink at Pferdeturm EC Hannover, Hannover Indians today. With the change of athletic balance of power by the descent of the EC in Hannover from the DEL and the simultaneous rise of Wedemark Scorpions in the highest German Hockey Class 1996 and the relocation of the Scorpions to Hanover this rivalry has been strengthened since the supporters of the Indians to this day as consider true " Hannoverscher Hockey Club" and see the Scorpions in a strong commercialization and a loss of identity for the sport in Hanover. This means that annual preparation games are marked in advance of the season despite the temporary class difference of three leagues from both sides strongly emotional.
In the 2009/10 season, the Hannover Scorpions hit on a new chapter of sporting cooperation with the Hannover Indians, when the then Scorpions backup Youri Ziffzer was equipped with a mining license for the Hannover Indians. In the following season 2010/11 Hannover Indians retaliated when the injury without a goalkeeper standing there Hannover Scorpions the Indians goalie Jonas Langmann could also equip with a production license. Consequently, a cautious approach is observed even among the fans.
Due to the region around the Games of the Scorpions against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg and Hamburg Freezers are often referred to by the media as Lower Saxony or North Derby, but these games have in Hannover no similar important as the City Cup.
Partnerships
Since the season 2004/05, a collaboration with the REV Bremerhaven from the 2nd Bundesliga exists. According to the rules of the German Ice Hockey League teams in the DEL may be a production license to players under 25 years old, so they are eligible to play for another club in a tiefklassigeren league. Much of the equipped with such a production license youth players have since been sent to Bremerhaven to be slowly brought up to the highest German hockey class, while they reinforce the second division playful.
In addition, the Hannover Scorpions cooperate with schools in the region that are unable to attend TUI Arena as part of a " Fanschule ", the residence of school classes is linked to learning-oriented content. In addition, professional player of the Scorpions visit the schools to which they are assigned as Fanschul godfather. Furthermore, the players act as sponsors of cities and municipalities in the region they visit on special occasions and which they therefore offer a presentation platform.
Coat of arms
The logo of the association has been amended several times since 1996. After the rise in the German Hockey League and the associated spin-off of the first team in a limited company this was a new coat of arms, which is blue and yellow is the new color combination of red and black and also the new emblem, the scorpion used instead of the traditional club colors. After the name change in 1997, first the word " Wedemark " has been replaced under the emblem by "Hannover". Then, the font has been changed since you was in dispute over licenses with the band Scorpions, which font was used previously. The new coat of arms for the 2004/ 05 season should act aggressive, whereupon the scorpion placed an evil act which look again and the font has been changed. In addition, the letter " H", was also used since this time, the Alternative Logo of Hannover Scorpions, which are supposed to become the new home of the Scorpions clearer awareness on many memorabilia in determining manner.
Main Logo Wedemark Scorpions (1996/ 97)
Main Logo Hannover Scorpions (1997-2004)
Main Logo Hannover Scorpions (since 2004)
Alternatively Logo Hannover Scorpions (since 2004)
Mascot
The mascot " Scorpi " is the emblem customized mascot of the Hannover Scorpions. Before and after the games of the team and during the intermissions, it enters in the form of a skater in the Scorpion plush costume the ice, trying with various animation actions to enhance the mood in the hall. In addition, the mascot is a regular part of any other event of the Hannover Scorpions and the club marketing.
Torhymne
The current Torhymne is the song Rama Lama Ding Dong.