Pond Hockey Cup
The Pond Hockey Cup was an outdoor ice hockey tournament organized by the German Ice Hockey Federation from 2011-2015.
Champions
| Year | Championship | ||
| Amateurs | Celebrities | Professionals | |
| 2011 | Ohlstadt Chiefs | EHC München | SC Riessersee |
| 2012 | HC Castelfeder | not played | Geronimo Stars |
| 2013 | SCR AH I | not played | Eisbären Allstars |
| 2014 | Team DEL | not played | SCR AH |
| 2015 | Castelfeder Goose | not played | Eisbären Allstars |
Details
- 2011
The first Pond Hockey Cup in February 2011 featured teams including SC Riessersee in the professional category and former members of the German national team who won the bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in the celebrity category. Among them were Alois Schloder, Erich Kühnhackl, and Franz Reindl . Other well-known participants included Stanley Cup winner Uwe Krupp, Ernst Höfner, Klaus Merk , and the celebrity team from EHC Munich, consisting of EHC manager Christian Winkler and coaches Pat Cortina, Joseph "Peppi" Heiß, and Maurizio Mansi .
Approximately 4,000 spectators attended the 1st Pond Hockey Cup over the two days of play.
- 2012
The 2nd Pond Hockey Cup in February 2012 hosted the unofficial Pond Hockey World Championship 2012. Teams from Italy, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Germany competed.
The following DEL teams competed in the professional category: EHC München, Eisbären Berlin, Iserlohn Roosters and Hannover Scorpions.
- 2013
The 3rd Pond Hockey Cup took place on February 17, 2013. Due to bad weather in the run-up to the event, the tournament was held for the first time not on Lake Riessersee, but on the open area of the Olympic Ice Sports Center.
The winners in the amateur category were the first team of the SC Riessersee Old Boys and in the professional category the Eisbären Allstars.
The audience was again around 4000 people.
- 2014
The 4th Pond Hockey Cup took place on February 8th and 9th. Due to the warm weather, the tournament had to be moved to the outdoor rink of the Olympic Ice Sports Center, as in the previous year. The SCR AH team won the professional category, defeating Eisbären Berlin in the final. The DEL team won the amateur category.
- 2015
The Eisbären Allstars won the professional category at the 5th Pond Hockey Cup, held on February 7-8. They defeated SC Riessersee 4-3 in overtime in the final. For the first time, a fan team of the Eisbären Berlin also participated, which went through the preliminary round undefeated, but then suffered defeat in the round of 16.[1]
"Hockey for Diversity", which advertised diversity, reached the quarterfinals of the amateur tournament, where they lost to the Castelfeder Goose from South Tyrol. The South Tyroleans met "starlight excess" in the final, and defeated them 5:3, and thus secured the title for the second time after 2012.[2]