LTC Praha was a famous 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...

 club founded in 1903 in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

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The main sport in this club was originally tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

. This changed in 1927 when there was a quarrel among 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...

 players for Sparta Prague, and many elite players moved to LTC. The club then became very famous. Many players from LTC Prague were in the Czechoslovak national ice hockey team. The team has won the Spengler Cup seven times, and twice they finished second. After the communist coup d'état

Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948

The Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948 – in Communist historiography known as "Victorious February" – was an event late that February in which the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia, ushering in over four decades...

 in 1948, the club was banned as a symbol of Western (capitalist) professional sports. In 1950, the communist government forbade the Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team to go to the Ice Hockey World Championships in London. The players on the national team were tried in secret political trials, and they were sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment on trumped-up, nonsensical, charges.

Achievements

• Czechoslovak league titles: 11 (1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949)
• Spengler cup winner: 7 (1929, 1930, 1932, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948)
• Spengler cup runner-up: 2 (1933, 1938)

External links

Website about the history of LTC Praha