Stavanger Oilers
- IIHF Continental Cup 2013/14
- Norwegian champion in 2010, 2012, 2013
The Stavanger Oilers are a Norwegian ice hockey club, which was founded in 2001 and since 2003 in the highest Norwegian league, which is GET ligaen active. The team won the 2010, 2012 and 2013, the Norwegian championship.
History
The Stavanger Oilers were founded in 2001 and represented the unofficial successor of the originating also from Stavanger Viking hockey team dar. Due to the poor management of the Vikings to donors Hartti Kristola withdrew and supported instead the newly Oilers.
This began their history in the lowest Norwegian league, the 2nd divisjon. In their first season they remained unbeaten and scored 304 goals in 24 games, which was in large part because the team was built around a core of Finnish top players and former Norwegian national team sizes. Jari Kesti was involved alone to 226 outside of the team. The rise in the first divisjon succeeded so within the first year.
For the following season the team was strengthened again and dominated as a consequence, the second division. Only after eighteen of thirty-six games had the team suffered their first defeat and lost only three of their encounters. Jari Kesti once again proved to be a great support during the season and collected 150 points scorer. In the playdowns the Oilers lost just one of six games in the shootout and secured so promotion to the top division of the country, GET ligaen the.
The inaugural season was again very positive for the team; the regular season has ended in sixth place, and Kesti was again within teams leading scorer. In the quarterfinals, the Trondheim Black Panthers 3-1 victories could be beaten. However, the semi-finals resulted in the premature end of the season, as the Storhamar Dragons won their series 3-1 for itself.
In the second season, the club went through several changes. Kristola retired as donors back and Tore Christensen took over the management of the association. At the same time left several deserving players, including Kesti, the team, but returned during the season back. The season was mixed, and after a defeat against the last player of the basic passage resigned head coach Matti Riekkinen and was replaced by the Swede Gunnar Johansson. However, this could not change much, and the Oilers had to finish the season with a quarter -final exit.
The new head coach changed the player profile and made sure that several Swedish Legionaries were used. As a result, the Oilers played their best season ever and reached the end as the first hockey team Stavanger, final, where they had to be lost with four consecutive defeats and be content with the runner-up title. The following season brought third place in the regular season, but it was followed by a premature end of the season in the semifinals.
The Oilers were established in the next few years as one of the better clubs in the league, although twice the quarter-finals meant the end in a row. Succeeded until 2010 for the first time the big bang: after the third place in the main round Oilers won the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals respectively 4-2 and secured so their first league title in the short club's history. In the years 2012 and 2013 you were again masters. The greatest international success was the victory in the IIHF Continental Cup 2013 /14, they were the first Norwegian team decide for themselves.
Season statistics
Locked jersey numbers
- 7 - Finland Jari Kesti
- 22 - Finland Tomi Suoniemi
Coach history
- Finland Matti Riekkinen (2001-2005)
- Norway Sverre Høgemark (2005)
- Sweden Gunnar Johansson (2005-2007)
- Canada George Kingston ( 2007)
- Larry Huras Canada (2007-2008)
- Canada Enio Sacilotto (2008-2009)
- Norway Petter Thoresen (since 2009)