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Eindhoven Kemphanen

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Year Founded 1981 Home Ice Ijssportcentrum Eindhoven (capacity 1,700) City Eindhoven, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

Team Colors Orange, Light Blue Head Coach Leo van den Thillart Championships None
Eindhoven Kemphanen is the professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. They play in the North Sea Cup

North Sea Cup

The North Sea Cup is the only professional ice hockey league in the Netherlands and Belgium and the highest level of competition organized by the Nederlandse IJshockey Bond and sanctioned by the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation...

 (formerly the Dutch Eredivisie

Eredivisie (hockey)

The Eredivisie is the only professional ice hockey league in the Netherlands and the highest level of competition sanctioned by the Nederlandse IJshockey Bond...

), the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands and Belgium. 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

Campine

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" 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
2010–11	28	11	2	2	13	109	106	39	5th, North Sea Cup	Lost quarter-finals to Nijmegen Nijmegen Devils Romijnders Dar Devils Nijmegen is the professional ice hockey team of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie, the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands, where they were the national champions most recently in 2009-2010...  (0-2)
2009–10 2009–10 Eredivisie (ice hockey) The 2009–10 Eredivisie was the 50th season of the Eredivisie, the highest level of ice hockey competition in the Netherlands. The season started on November 13, following the completion of the quarterfinals of the league cup. Eight teams participated and the teams played four times against...	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)

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

Former players (Imports)

Michel Galarneau (Hartford Whalers)

Claude Boileau (Flint, Michigan)

Jean-Piere Dubois (Flint, Michigan)

Florian Pedevilla

Rich Boprey

Scott McKay

Adam Spinarsky

Brent Patry

James Hannon

Vincent Paolucci

Dave Piromalli

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

Erwin Jansen

Roel Bannenberg

Wim Viguurs

External links

• Eindhoven Kemphanen official website (Dutch
  Dutch language
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• Netherlands Ice Hockey Union (Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
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• Ijshockey.com information on the Eredivisie teams (Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
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