Kassel Huskies

Kassel Huskies
Full name	EC Kassel Huskies
Founded	19 February 1977
Dissolved	27 August 2010
Based In	Kassel
Arena	Eissporthalle Kassel; (Capacity: 6,100)
League	DEL 1994–2006, 2008–2010 Bundesliga ; 1977–1994; 2nd Bundesliga ; 2006–2008; Oberliga; 2011-2014; DEL2; 2014-;
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The Kassel Huskies were a professional ice hockey team based in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. They played the majority of their seasons in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

History

In the 19th century, the Karlsaue park was already a popular place for ice skating during the winter months on the frozen Fulda river. Skating in Kassel at the time was called ‘foot skating’. The earliest example of ice hockey being played in Kassel came from a 1926 photo from the court photographer Carl Eberth, depicting young people playing ice hockey on the frozen Fulda.

In 1966, Helmut Spohr, a former football player for KSV Hessen Kassel, introduced the idea of establishing an ice hockey club. Spohr teamed up with Viktor Klement to form what was the first ice hockey team in Kassel, ESV Jahn Kassel. They managed to source some disused firefighting water hoses and in winter they built an outdoors ice rink with the hoses on top of a tennis court in the park as there were no ice machines. Players started to join in the games and eventually they had enough for a team to play other regional social community groups in Hannover and Bad Nauheim.

The club was founded as ESG Kassel in 1977, the same year as the first indoor ice rink was built in Kassel, the Eissporthalle Kassel, and was renamed into EC Kassel in 1987. Since 1994, the professional section of the club had been outsourced into a company with limited liability and belonged as Kassel Huskies to the founding members of the DEL.

It was announced 27 August 2010, that the club had folded from the DEL due to bankruptcy.^[1] They played the 2010-11 season in the regional Hessenliga, and had worked their way back up to the DEL2 by 2014.

Honors

Champions

2. Bundesliga (1): 2008
DEL2 (1): 2016
Hessenliga (1): 2011

Runners-up

Deutsche Eishockey Liga (1): 1997
DEL2 (1): 2020
Oberliga (1): 2013
German Cup (1): 2004

Season-by-season-results

Champions	Runners-up	Third Place	Promoted	Relegated

Kassel Huskies
Season	League	P	W	OW	OL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Finish	Post season	Top scorer	Pts
1994/95	DEL	44	22	4	1	17	145	138	+7	48	7th	QF	Mike Millar	60
1995/96	DEL	50	19	12	2	17	149	148	+1	52	9th	QF		54
1996/97	DEL	50	27	4	1	19	190	167	+23	59	4th	Runner-up		58
1997/98	DEL	44	19	3	4	18	140	128	+12	45	11th	POQ	Paul DiPietro	50
1998/99	DEL	52	24	4	4	20	165	145	+20	84	9th	-	François Guay	53
1999/00	DEL	56	28	2	9	17	168	137	+31	97	4th	SF	Sylvain Turgeon	45
2000/01	DEL	60	28	6	7	19	176	156	+20	103	5th	SF	Pat Mikesch	42
2001/02	DEL	60	26	6	8	20	157	147	+10	98	5th	SF	Daniel Kreutzer	46
2002/03	DEL	52	19	7	7	19	118	127	-9	78	7th	QF	Alexander Serikow	32
2003/04	DEL	52	16	6	4	26	129	166	-37	64	11th	-	Matthias Trattnig	31
2004/05	DEL	52	10	7	8	27	127	173	-46	52	14th	RW	Daniel Corso	38
2005/06	DEL	52	15	5	3	29	137	179	-42	58	13th	Relegated	Jason Ulmer	52
2006/07	2.BUN	52	37	4	1	10	203	113	+90	120	1st	Runner-up	Shawn McNeil	65
2007/08	2.BUN	52	36	6	2	8	186	114	+72	122	1st	Champions	Shawn McNeil	55
2008/09	DEL	52	15	8	4	25	147	171	-24	65	14th	-	Alex Leavitt	54
2009/10	DEL	56	16	2	4	34	151	213	-62	56	15th	-	Josh Soares	56
EC Kassel Huskies
Season	League	P	W	OW	OL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Finish	Post season	Top scorer	Pts
2010/11	HL	16	16	0	0	0	266	23	+243	48	1st	Champions	Patrick Berendt	77
2011/12	OL	42	27	2	1	12	250	122	+128	86	3rd	-	Petr Sikora	100
2012/13	OL	42	35	4	1	2	357	80	+277	114	1st	Runner-up	Petr Sikora	107
2013/14	OL	58	40	2	4	12	352	151	+201	128	1st	Runner-up	Kyle Doyle	84
2014/15	DEL2	52	27	5	6	14	197	140	+57	97	3rd	QF	Mike Collins	81
2015/16	DEL2	52	23	8	7	14	201	164	+37	92	4th	Champions	Jamie MacQueen	70
2016/17	DEL2	52	28	5	2	17	161	147	+14	96	3rd	SF	Manuel Klinge	50
2017/18	DEL2	52	21	8	5	18	180	160	+20	84	6th	QF	Braden Pimm	63
2018/19	DEL2	52	22	3	3	24	146	145	+1	75	7th	POQ	Richard Mueller	51
2019/20	DEL2	52	27	3	5	17	191	147	+44	92	2nd	N/A	Ben Duffy	58
2020/21	DEL2	49	32	6	4	7	210	108	+102	112	1st	Runner-up	Ryon Moser	65