Straubing Tigers

Straubing Tigers
Straubing Tigers
City	Straubing
League	Deutsche Eishockey Liga
Founded	1941
Home arena	Eisstadion am Pulverturm ; (capacity: 5,635)
Colours
General manager	Jason Dunham
Head coach	Tom Pokel
Captain	Sandro Schönberger
Website	straubing-tigers.de
Franchise history
	Straubing Tigers

Last updated April 22, 2024

The Straubing Tigers are a professional men's ice hockey team, based in Straubing, Germany, that competes in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Straubing plays its home games at the Eisstadion am Pulverturm, which has a capacity of 5,635 spectators.

Promoted to the DEL in 2006, and operating with one of the league's smallest budgets, the team could finish no better than twelfth before the 2011–12 DEL season, when it reached the semi-finals of the playoffs. Their greatest success so far is the qualification for the Champions Hockey League seasons 2020–21 (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), 2022-23 and 2024-25. In 2022-23, Straubing finished first in the CHL group stage and reached the round of 16 against Frölunda HC.

History

Bann Straubing (1941–1943)

In 1941, the then 14-year-old Max Pielmaier and his friends Max Pellkofer and Harry Poiger founded the first hockey team in Straubing.^[1] The first official game took place on the first of February 1942 in Hof, which Straubing lost by a score of 0:1. In the following year there were several games against other Bavarian teams. The game against Landshut on 31 January 1943 was the last game during the Second World War, as the younger players had to join the military after that.

TSV 1861 Straubing (1946–1981)

After the end of the war the players of Bann Straubing decided to join the TSV 1861 Straubing. Their home games were played on a pond near the medieval Pulverturm (powder tower) in Straubing where the ice stadium Eisstadion am Pulverturm is located today.

The construction of the Eisstadion am Pulverturm began in 1967 and consisted of an open ice rink surrounded by stands. The first game in the new arena was played on the 13. November 1967 against Preussen Berlin. The TSV Straubing started their first Season in the Kunsteis-Bayernliga where they got to the second place. The TSV Straubing rose to the Regionalliga (3. league) in 1970 and the Oberliga (2. league) in 1971, but had to go back to the third league when the 2nd Bundesliga, which replaced the Oberliga, was founded with fewer teams than the Oberliga had. They got back to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1975 when they won the playoff finals against the EV Regensburg.

EHC Straubing (1981–2002)

The EHC Straubing was founded when the hockey team split from the TSV Straubing in 1981. The ice hocky stadium has belonged to the city of Straubing since the foundation of the EHC Straubing. Although the EHC reached the 7th place in the Season 1982/83 they had to start again in 4. league because of financial problems. The EHC Straubing adapted the nickname "Die Tiger" (the tigers) in 1994 and mainly played in the Oberliga (third league) until they rose back to the 2nd Bundesliga in the year 2000. The professional section split from the EHC Straubing when it had to register bankruptcy in April 2002 and the Straubing Tigers AG was founded. Since then the EHC trains the junior teams of the Straubing Tigers, and also includes a recreational team.

Straubing Tigers (since 2002)

After Straubing lost the finals of the 2nd Bundesliga against EV Duisburg in 2005, they won the championship in 2006 and were promoted to the DEL for the first time in history. Straubing is by far the smallest town which has a team in the DEL and also has one of the lowest budgets in the entire league. When the Straubing Tigers reached a playoff rank for the first time in 2012 they miraculously won the quarter-finals against the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg with a sweep and got to the semi-finals where they lost to the later German champion Eisbären Berlin. With one of the lowest budgets in the entire league Straubing regularly manages to get to the playoffs since 2012 and even qualified for the Champions Hockey League when they finished in the top three in the 2019–20 season. Their first season in the CHL was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic but they qualified again for the season 2022-2023, where they won the group stage and played against Frölunda HC in the round of 16.

Season records

Tigers Logo 2004–2021

Season	Games	Won	OTW	SOW	Lost	OTL	SOL	Points	Goals for	Goals against	Rank	Playoffs
2006–07	52	12	4	4	28	3	1	56	135	189	12	No playoffs
2007–08	56	12	0	4	34	4	2	50	132	197	14	No playoffs
2008–09	52	17	3	4	25	1	2	68	144	164	13	No playoffs
2009–10	56	18	3	2	27	0	6	70	149	193	13	No playoffs
2010–11	52	15	5	4	24	3	1	67	145	159	13	No playoffs
2011–12	52	20	4	4	20	1	3	80	161	151	6	Lost in semi-finals
2012–13	52	21	2	2	23	2	2	74	133	145	9	Lost in first round
2013–14	52	17	2	1	23	3	6	63	136	153	12	No playoffs
2014–15	52	10	1	4	32	2	3	45	103	168	13	No playoffs
2015–16	52	22	1	2	24	2	1	75	147	159	9	Lost in first round
2016–17	52	18	3	0	24	4	3	67	147	168	9	Lost in first round
2017–18	52	17	0	2	27	2	4	61	137	177	13	No playoffs
2018–19	52	21	3	3	19	5	1	81	159	151	8	Lost in wild card
2019–20	52	26	4	4	14	3	1	98	175	136	3	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]
2020–21	37	15	2	0	16	1	3	53	103	102	8	Lost in quarterfinals
2021–22	54	29	1	0	17	3	4	96	188	158	4	Lost in quarterfinals
2022–23	56	25	5	4	17	2	3	98	190	166	4	Lost in quarterfinals
2023–24	52	25	5	2	15	1	4	94	167	130	3	Lost in semifinals

Players

Current roster

Updated 14 April, 2024.^[3]


No.	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
77	Matt Bradley	C	R	27	2023	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
92	Marcel Brandt	D	L	31	2018	Dingolfing, Germany
61	Justin Braun	D	R	37	2023	St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
1	Florian Bugl	G	L	21	2022	Landshut, Germany
19	Tim Brunnhuber	C	L	25	2019	Eggenfelden, Germany
10	Michael Clarke	C	L	29	2023	London, Ontario, Canada
22	Mike Connolly	C	L	34	2015	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
9	Stephan Daschner	D	R	35	2018	Ingolstadt, Germany
10	Garrett Festerling	C	R	38	2022	Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada
42	Cole Fonstad	C	L	23	2023	Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
17	Adrian Klein	D	L	20	2020	Neustadt a.d.Waldnaab, Germany
34	Benedikt Kohl	D	R	36	2019	Berchtesgaden, Germany
88	JC Lipon	RW	R	30	2022	Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
35	Hunter Miska	G	L	28	2022	Stacy, Minnesota, United States
49	Marcel Müller	LW	L	35	2023	Berlin, Germany
8	Joshua Samanski	F	L	22	2021	Erding, Germany
34	Philip Samuelsson	D	L	32	2023	Leksand, Sweden
27	Sandro Schönberger ( C )	LW	L	37	2009	Weiden, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
20	Justin Scott	C	L	28	2023	Burlington, Ontario, Canada
71	Tyler Sheehy	C	R	28	2023	Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
6	Parker Tuomie	RW	L	28	2021	Haßfurt, Germany
89	Mark Zengerle	C	R	34	2022	Rochester, New York, United States
13	Mario Zimmermann	D	L	22	2021	Altötting, Germany

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References

↑ "Historie". EHC Straubing e.V. (in German). Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
↑ "Deutsche Eishockey Liga beendet Saison vorzeitig". del.org (in German). Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
↑ "Straubing Tigers team roster" (in German). Straubing Tigers. 14 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

External links

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[1] "Historie". EHC Straubing e.V. (in German). Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

[2] "Deutsche Eishockey Liga beendet Saison vorzeitig". del.org (in German). Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.

[3] "Straubing Tigers team roster" (in German). Straubing Tigers. 14 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

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