The Herlev IC Hornets are a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 professional ice hockey team playing in the top Danish 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...

 league AL-Bank Ligaen

Oddset Ligaen

AL-Bank Ligaen is the premier league in Danish ice hockey. The teams are semi-professional with only the best Danish and foreign players being fully professional.- History :The name is a result of a sponsorship deal with a Danish bank Arbejdernes Landsbank...

. The team is located in the Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 suburb

Suburb

The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...

 of Herlev

Herlev

Herlev Kommune is a suburban municipality in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 12 km², and has a total population of 26,567 . Its mayor is Kjeld Hansen, a member of the Social Democrats political party...

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The team returned to the top Danish league following a two-year hiatus due to financial problems. For the 2011-12 season the team will be coached by Finn Juha Riihijärvi

Juha Riihijärvi

Juha Riihijärvi is a former professional ice hockey left winger who played his last season for Bolzano-Bozen Foxes in Italian Serie A.-Career in Finland:...

. Returning to the team will be former Herlev players and Danish national team players such as Kim Staal

Kim Staal

Kim Staal is a Danish professional ice hockey forward, currently with Malmö Redhawks in the Swedish second tier league HockeyAllsvenskan....

, Thor Dresler

Thor Dresler

Thor Dresler is a Danish professional ice hockey player who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Denmark National men's ice hockey team.-External links:...

 and Frederik Storm

Frederik Storm

Frederik Storm is a Danish ice hockey player. He participated at the 2011 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Denmark men's national ice hockey team.-External links:...

. The official name of this 'new' Herlev has not yet been officially announced.

Former players

• Mika Alatalo
  Mika Alatalo
  Mika Antero Alatalo is a professional ice hockey forward who plays for Hockey Club Pustertal-Val Pusteria in Italy's Serie A....
  
  
• Nichlas Hardt
  Nichlas Hardt
  Nichlas Hardt is a Danish professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Jokerit of the Finnish SM-liiga.- Career :...
  
  
• Daniel Patrick Höhl
  Daniel Patrick Höhl
  Daniel Patrick Höhl is a Danish professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for Hvidovre Ligahockey.-Career:This Danish player came to Skellefteå in Sweden in 2002 after playing with the Danish Elite team Rungstedt/Nordsjaelland...
  
  
• Mikko Niemi
  Mikko Niemi
  Mikko Niemi Mikko Niemi Mikko Niemi (born June 17, 1972 in Tampere, Finland is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player. Niemi began his career at junior level icing for his local team Ilves Tampere at junior A SM-Liiga standard, the highest level of junior ice hockey. In his first season,...
  
  
• Kai Nurminen
  Kai Nurminen
  Kai I. Nurminen is a retired Finnish ice hockey forward, who last played with Herlev Hornets in the Danish Oddset Ligaen.- Career :...
  
  
• Martin Thelander
  Martin Thelander
  Martin Thelander is a professional Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently playing for the Storhamar Dragons in the Norwegian GET-ligaen. He joined the club in 2007...
  
  
• Matthew Yeats
  Matthew Yeats
  Matthew Yeats is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played five National Hockey League games with the Washington Capitals.-Playing career:...