Stjernen Hockey

  • Norwegian Champion 1981, 1986

Stjernen is an ice hockey club from Fredrikstad, Norway and plays in the top league in Norway, the GET ligaen. The home matches of the club will be held in the Stjernehallen.

History

Stjernen was founded in 1960, when the junior team The Star was renamed the direct Norwegian translation Stjernen to conform to the rules of the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. After the club more than ten years had trained and played on an open rink and had to rent ice age when local rivals Sparta Warriors, Stjernen 1970 received its own ice rink, the Stjernehallen.

Based on a good young talent and now improved training facilities soon turned the success and Stjernen rose in league system. In 1974 the team reached the first division for the first time in club history. The biggest success in club history celebrated Stjernen 1981, when the team Vålerenga IF 2-1 beat in the best of three series of the playoffs and becoming the first club outside of Oslo was to have won the Norwegian championship.

In the eighties Stjernen dominated the league with players such as Ørjan Løvdal, Rune Gulliksen, Hans Edlund, Pål Gjermundsen and later Morten Finstad and the Canadians Chris St.Cyr, but winning the championship could be repeated only once, in 1986 when the club Frisk defeated in the final.

At the beginning of the nineties, the team struggled repeatedly with for the championship and reached the finals in 1992 and 1995, but the title is not won the team. At the end of the nineties, the club had economic problems and encouraged the young no longer sufficient, so the club was several times the verge of insolvency.

In the season 2005/ 06, however, fertilized a rebuilding process, as the team finished second in the league and only just missed out on the play-off final.

Well-known former players

GET-ligaen Frisk Asker Ishockey Lillehammer IK Rosenborg IHK Stavanger Oilers
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