Eindhoven Kemphanen
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| Year Founded | 1981 | ||||
| Home Ice | Ijssportcentrum Eindhoven (capacity 1,700) | ||||
| City | Eindhoven, Netherlands | ||||
| Team Colors | Orange, Light Blue | ||||
| Head Coach | Leo van den Thillart | ||||
| Championships | None | ||||
Eindhoven Kemphanen is the professional ice hockey team of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. They play in the Dutch Cup and the Eredivisie), the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands. Home games are played at the Ijssportcentrum Eindhoven.
History
Eindhoven ice hockey began in earnest in the 1970s with the construction of a hockey arena. Eindhoven Kemphanen (Kemphanen, "fighting roosters" in English, is a play on words using the name of the "Kempen" region) first played in the Eredivisie in 1981-82 and played intermittently in the Eredivisie in the 1980s and 1990s. The highlight of this period was winning the Netherlands cup competition in 1986. The team returned to the Eredivisie in 2008-09 for the first time since 1996-97.
Season results
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
| Season | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | Pts | Finish | Playoffs |
| 2012-13 | 36 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 122 | 161 | 35 | 6th, Eredivisie | Did not qualify |
| 2011–12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 66 | 47 | 18 | 5th, North Sea Cup | Lost semi-finals to The Hague (0-3) |
| 2010–11 | 28 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 109 | 106 | 39 | 5th, North Sea Cup | Lost quarter-finals to Nijmegen (0-2) |
| 2009–10 | 28 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 114 | 90 | 44 | 6th, Eredivisie | Lost quarter-finals to Tilburg (0-2) |
| 2008–09 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 82 | 100 | 28 | 8th, Eredivisie | Lost quarter-finals to Tilburg (0-3) |
Squad 2008-09
Goalies
29 Matt Anthony
39 Yordan van Hoegee
Bjorn van der Put
Defence
86 Dennis Donders
14 Peter van Kaam
14 Lars van Lieshout
4 Reinier Staats
27 Nick Verbruggen
43 Kevin Young
Forwards
26 Kevin Galerno
27 Diederick Hagemeijer
9 Tyler Hilbert
18 Eric Hoogvliets
12 Robbert Maas
21 Daan Martin
19 Jeffrey Melissant
13 Dave van Mol
22 Dominik Rozman
Dennis Unk
25 Peter Wickström
47 Bob Teunissen
Akim Ramoul
Ivy van den Heuvel
Staff
Leo van den Thillart Coach
Cornel van de Thillart Assistant coach
Championships
- Eredivisie National Championships
None.
- Netherlands Cup Winners
Once: 1986
Former players (Imports)
Michel Galarneau (Hartford Whalers)
Claude Boileau (Flint, Michigan)
Jean-Piere Dubois (Flint, Michigan)
Jean-Louis Roy (Bowdoin Polar Bears)
Ray Irwin (Sudbury, 1978 215 overall NHL Draft pick for Washington Capitals 1978)
Florian Pedevilla
Rich Boprey
Scott McKay
Adam Spinarsky
Brent Patry
James Hannon
Vincent Paolucci
Roger Provencher
Ward Laurie
Dave Bell
Former players (Dutch Internationals)
Dave Livingston
Tom Hartogs
Theo van Gerwen
Mike Louwers
Nico van Galen-Last
Rob van Onlangs
Robbert Marcelis
Nick Verschuren
Risto Mollen
Theo Habraken
Willem-Jan v.d. Broek
John Vorstenbosch
Jess Willemsen
Gerard Vlemmix
Victor Garcia
Eric Habraken
Rob Habraken
Alwin van Doormalen
Erwin Jansen
Roel Bannenberg
Wim Viguurs
External links
- Eindhoven Kemphanen official website (Dutch)
- Netherlands Ice Hockey Union (Dutch)
- Ijshockey.com information on the Eredivisie teams (Dutch)