ZSC Lions

Swiss Champion 1936, 1949, 1961, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2012
Swiss Cup Winner 1960 and 1961
Spengler Cup winner in 1944 and 1945
IIHF Continental Cup winner 2001 and 2002
Champions Hockey League winner 2009
Victoria Cup Winner 2009

The ZSC Lions ( ZSC, colloquially " Zätt ", former name: Zurich Schlittschuhclub ) is a Swiss ice hockey club from Zurich.

History

The club was founded on 15 October 1930 in Zurich and in 1936, 1949, 1961, 2000, 2001, 2008 and 2012 Swiss Champion. In addition, the club won 1944/45 and 1945/46, the Spengler Cup, 2000/ 01 and 2001/ 02 the IIHF Continental Cup 2008/09 Champions Hockey League and in 2009 the Victoria Cup.

Previously, only as Zürcher SC or known short ZSC, ie the club since the merger with the Hockey Department of Grasshoppers Zurich 1997 ( today GCK Lions ) officially ZSC Lions. The ZSC played from 1930 to 1950 at the Dolder ice rink and since 1950 in the Hallenstadion Zurich. In the season 2004/ 05 but this was rebuilt, so were all home games of ZSC in this period in the neighboring Stadiönli (ice rink Oerlikon, short KEBO ) instead.

For the 2005/06 season, the Lions were playing for the first time in the renovated indoor stadium, which was a new situation for the team and for the fans. After a weak performance in this season, in which one could secure the league barely in the relegation round, started the lions in the following season a " restitution tour ," announced by the media in the run- as " Revenge of the Lion » been. With practically unchanged squad and unchanged situation in the stadium reached thanks to a playful high from mid-October to December, the play-offs.

The ZSC Lions are now funded by Walter Frey and Peter Spuhler. Since December 2007, Peter Zahner, former director of the Association of Swiss Ice Hockey Federation, CEO of the ZSC Lions ( ZLE operation AG) and since 2010 president of the GCK / ZSC Lions junior AG.

The ZSC Lions won on 10 April 2008 at the Hallenstadion in their sixth title. In the play-off final against the HC Servette Genève Zurich a 0-2 residue caught up in the best- of-seven series and won the sixth game 2-1 after penalty shoot-out.

First team ZSC Lions won on 28 January 2009, the newly formed Champions Hockey League. After a 2-2 draw in the first leg in Russia, Metallurg Magnitogorsk was beaten 5-0 in the Diners Club Arena in Rapperswil. For the victory in the Champions Hockey League the ZSC was awarded by the then mayor Elmar Ledergerber the honorary prize Zuri- Leu gold in the city of Zurich.

On 29 September 2009, the ZSC Lions won as the winner of the Champions Hockey League NHL against the stars of the Chicago Blackhawks in the Zurich Hallenstadion the match for Victoria Cup 2-1.

In the play-off final of the 2011/12 season against SC Bern of the ZSC took a 1:3 behind in the best- of-seven series and won on April 17, 2012, the seventh game away after the decisive goal of Steve McCarthy 2.5 seconds before the end, 2-1.

Fans

In the indoor stadium of the third rank belongs to the sectors X2 -Q2 the "Z" fans. The mood at the Hallenstadion lives of this rank. In addition to the ice 2006, the project " was third Rank Zuri » launched. The project organizes coach trips at reduced prices at away games of the ZSC.

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Squad of the 2013/14 season

Placement Cup

Achievements

International Series B Champion 1932
Swiss Hockey Champion 1936, 1949, 1961, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2012
Winner of the Spengler Cup in 1944, 1945
Swiss Cup winner in 1960, 1961
Swiss ice hockey champion National League B in 1973, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1989
Winner of the IIHF Continental Cup 2000 / 01, 2002
Swiss hockey vice-champion in 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1960, 2002, 2005
Champions Hockey League winner 2008/ 09
Victoria Cup Winner 2009

Coach

Sweden Andy Lindquist (1949 /50) *
Czechoslovakia Maki Slama (1950 /51) *
Canada Bud McEachern (1951 /52) *
Canada Stan Obodiac (1952 /53) *
Canada Dave Maguire (1953-1955) *
Canada Les Strongman (1955 /56) *
Canada Bill Abbot (1956 /57) *
Canada Garnett Vasey (1957 /58) *
Canada George Beach (1958 /59) *
Switzerland Otto Schlaepfer (1959-1962) *
Switzerland Rudolf Vaterlaus (1962 /63)
Switzerland Bruno Müller (1962 /63) *
Switzerland Silvio Rossi (1962-1964)
Germany Ulrich Herbert (1963 /64)
Canada Dave Maguire (1964-1968)

Czechoslovakia Vladimír Kobranov (1968-1970)
Switzerland Kurt Peter (1969 /70)
Switzerland Otto Schubiger (1970 /71)
Switzerland Georg Riesch (1970 /71)
Canada Stu Robertson (1971-1975)
Switzerland Peter Lüthi (1975 /76)
Canada Fran Huck (1976 /77) *
United States Bob Lindberg (1976 /77) *
Sweden Lasse Lilja (1977 - December 1978 )
Sweden Kent Sundquist ( Dec. 1978-1980 ) *
Switzerland Kurt Loher (1980 )
Canada Kent Ruhnke (1980 - October 1982 ) *
Canada Jim Webster (1982 )
United States George Bastl (1982- November 1983 )
Canada Brian Lefley (Nov. 1983-1984)

Canada 's Andy Murray (1984 - January 1986 )
Sweden Dan Hober (1986 )
Alpo Suhonen Finland ( 1986-88 )
Finland Timo Lahtinen (1988 )
Canada Neil Nicholson (Jan. 1989-1990)
Switzerland Heinz Zehnder (1990 )
Czech Republic Pavel well (1990 - November 1991 )
Arno Del Curto Switzerland (Nov. 1991 October 1993 )
Switzerland Ueli Hofmann (October 1993-1994)
Sweden Lars -Erik Lundström (1994 )
Larry Huras Canada (1994-1996)
Alpo Suhonen Finland (1996/ 97)
Germany Hans Zach (1997/ 98)
Canada Kent Ruhnke (1998-2000)
Canada Larry Huras (2000/ 01)

Finland Pekka Rautakallio (Nov. 2001 March 2003)
Switzerland Christian Weber (2003 - November 2005 )
Germany Poland Henryk Gruth (Nov. 2005 )
Finland Juhani Tamminen (December 2005-2006)
Canada Harold Kreis Germany (2006-2008)
Canada Sean Simpson (2008-2010)
Sweden Bengt -Åke Gustafsson (2010 /11)
Canada Bob Hartley (2011 /12)
Canada Marc Crawford (since 2012)

* Player-Coach

Significant former players

Canada January Alston, 2001-2010
Canada Warren Anderson, 1980-1982
Switzerland Mattia Baldi, 1999-2003
Switzerland Hans Banninger, 1943-1954
Switzerland Leopold Berchtold, 1958-1969
Switzerland Willi Bertschinger, 1974-1980, 1982-1989
Switzerland Severin Blind Bacher, 2005-2009
United States Dustin Brown, 2012 ( during the NHL lockout )
Switzerland Leo Cadisch, 1987-1992
Patric Della Rossa Switzerland, 1997-2004
Canada Blaine Down, 2008-2012
Switzerland Bruno Eberhard, 1985-1990
Switzerland Erich Ehrensperger, 1955-1972
Switzerland Mario Eichholzer, 1973-1982
Switzerland Jiri Faic, 1984-1995
Czech Republic Richard Farda, 1978-1980
Canada Marc Fortier, 1994-1997
Switzerland Canada Ryan Gardner, 2007-2010
Switzerland Roger Geiger, 1981-1990
Germany Poland Henryk Gruth 1985/86, 1988-1990
Switzerland Patrick Hager, 1990-1993, 1994-1997
Switzerland Axel Home, 1996-1999
Switzerland Canada Dan Hodgson, 1998-2003
Switzerland Adrian Hotz, 1989-1993
Switzerland Thomas Hurcik, 1977-1985
Switzerland Croatia Vjeran Ivankovic, 1993-1997, 2000, 2002
Switzerland Peter Jaks, 1998-2003

Sandy Jeannin Switzerland, 1995-1997
Switzerland Hans Keller, 1968-1975
Switzerland Martin Kout, 1995-2007
Russia Alexei Krutov, 2007-2011
Russia Vladimir Krutov, 1990-1992
Canada Patrick Lebeau, 1994/95, 1996/97, 2000/ 01
Switzerland Miguel Leeman, 1978-1984
Switzerland Heini Lohr, 1934-1953
Switzerland Jürg Lott, 1974-1976
Switzerland Urs Lott, 1974-1976
Finland Kari Martikainen, 1998-2000
Switzerland Peter Meier, 1959-1970
Switzerland Roger Meier, 1987-1992
Switzerland Claudio Micheli, 1993-2005, 2010
Switzerland Thibaut Monnet, 2007-2013
Switzerland Patrizio Morger, 1992-1997
Switzerland Peter Mill Stream, 1959-1972
Switzerland Laurent Muller, 1998-2001
Switzerland Andre Mürner, 1987-1990
Czech Republic Milan Nový, 1983-1985
Switzerland Pio Parolini, 1960-1969
Slovakia Rastislav Pavlikovský, 2006-2008
Switzerland Kurt Peter, 1951-1964
Slovakia Róbert Petrovický, 2004-2007
Canada Domenico Pittis, 2008-2012
Switzerland Canada Adrien Plavsic, 1998-2002
Russia Sergei Pryakhin, 1991-1994
Switzerland Didier Princi, 1994-1997
Canada Mike Richard, 1990/91, 2003-2006

Switzerland Georg Riesch, 1952-1964, 1965/66
Switzerland Edgar Salis, 1993-1997, 1999-2005
Morgan Samuelsson Sweden, 2001-2002
Switzerland Roland Scheibli, 1975-1980, 1982-1990
Switzerland Otto Schlaepfer, 1953-1962
Switzerland Hansi Schmid, 1977-1986
Switzerland Lorenzo Schmid, 1976-1984
Switzerland Peter Schmid, 1970-1978
Switzerland Rolf Schrepfer, 1997-2001
Switzerland Rolf Simmen, 1990-1994
Canada Wayne Small, 1971-1976
Switzerland Bruno Steck, 1994-1997, 2000-2002
Switzerland Mark Streit, 2000-2005
Switzerland Reto Stirnimann, 1999-2007
Switzerland Reto Sturzenegger, 1984-1988
Slovakia Radoslav Suchy, 2006-2010
Finland Ari Sulander, 1998-2012
Switzerland Andy clay, 1992-1994
Canada Jean -Guy Trudel, 2008-2010
Switzerland Andy Trümpler, 1978-1983, 1984-1986
Finland Petri Varis, 2001-2003
Switzerland Bruno Vollmer, 1987-1990, 1991-1997
Switzerland Christian Weber, 1985-88, 1989-94, 1997-2001
Switzerland Christian Wehrli, 1972-1980
Switzerland Peter Wespi, 1960-1971, 1972-1974
Switzerland Andreas Zehnder, 1989-1997
Switzerland Michel bridegroom, 1992-2007
Switzerland Thomas Ziegler, 1997/98, 2010-2012

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