HYS The Hague

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HYS The Hague
Logo Hijs Hokij Den Haag.png
City The Hague
League BeNe League
Founded1933
Home arena De Uithof
(capacity: 2610)
ColoursBlue, red, white
   
Head coach Chris Eimers
Website Hijs Hokij

HYS The Hague (Dutch: "Hijs Hockij Den Haag") is the ice hockey club in The Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1933, the club's top team plays in the Dutch/Belgian BeNe League and competes annually in the Dutch National Championships and the Dutch Cup tournament.

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The most successful hockey team in the Netherlands during the 1960s, it broke a 40-year national championship drought by winning the National championship in 2009. It has since repeated as champion in 2011, 2013 and 2018. [1]

Home games are held at de Uithof, a winter sports recreational facility in the west of the city. It has 2,050 regular seats, 160 VIP-box seats and 400 standing room spaces.

Name

"HYS" is pronounced "hice" and stands for "Haagsche IJshockey Stichting" ("Ice Hockey Club of the Hague"; when using capital letters, "Y" sometimes replaces the Dutch letter "ij").

Variations of the name have included "H.H.IJ.C. Den Haag" (Hague Hockey and Ice hockey Club) and "H.IJ.S. Hoky Den Haag". When competing from 2007-2015, its name was anglicized as "HYS The Hague". For the 2006-2007 season, the team was known as the "Calco Wolves".

History

The team was founded on April 16, 1933 as part of a three-team league (together with Tilburg and Amsterdam) called the Nederlandse IJshockey Bond. This league began play in 1934. In 1937-38 The Hague won the championship for the first time, repeating in 1938-39 and winning the Western Europe Cup. The team played all of its 1940 season in Tilburg and Amsterdam because of a lack of home arena.

Dutch hockey was interrupted during the German occupation from 1941–1944, but resumed in 1945 when an arena was rebuilt in The Hague. Nederlandse IJshockey Bond set up the Eeredivisie, the top Dutch ice hockey division, in 1946. HHIJC was once again competitive, winning the Eredivise championship in 1946 and 1948. In 1947, HHIJC merged with the Penguins, another Hague team.

The team was most dominant during the relaunch of the Eeredivie in the 1960s, repeating five times as champions from 1964 to 1969. The team then entered into a period of almost 40 years of decline, winning no championships and only intermittently playing in the Eredivisie from the 1980s to the early 2000s. In 1996, HHIJS merged with another Hague team, HOKY, to become the HHIJS HOKY Wolves.

In 2004, the team permanently re-entered the Eredivisie, finishing in last place (1-0-3-16 in 2005-06; 3-1-0-16 in 2006-2007). In 2007-08, it dropped the "Wolves" nickname and played as "HYS The Hague", a name reminiscent of successful teams of the past. That year, it had its first winning season in the Eredivisie since 1979, with a record of 14 wins, 2 overtime wins, 2 overtime losses and 6 regular season losses, good enough for third place.

In 2008-09, the team improved to second place overall with a record of 14-3-2-5, and won its first national championship in 40 years by defeating Tilburg in the playoff finals. This would have qualified the team to participate in the 2009-2010 Champions Hockey League, but the tournament was cancelled for financial reasons. Instead, the team participated in the 2009–10 IIHF Continental Cup, making it to the third stage. [2]

Since then, it has remained one of the top teams in the Netherlands, winning two additional national championships in 2011 and 2013 and winning its first Dutch Cup in the post-war era in 2011. It also won both North Sea Cup tournaments that were played, in 2011 and 2012.

Season results

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

SeasonGPWOTWOTLLGFGAPtsFinishDutch Championship Playoffs
2012-13 362641520791871st, EredivisieWon National Championship (3W-0L vs Tillburg)
2011-12 14120029741361st, North Sea CupLost finals to Geleen (2W-3L)
2010-11 282300519479691st, North Sea CupWon National Championship (4-1)
2009–10 281802813472562nd, EredivisieLost semi-finals to Tilburg (2-3)
2008-09 241432510772502nd, EredivisieWon National Championship (3-2)
2007-08 241422612276483rd, EredivisieLost semi-finals to Heerenveen (1-4)
2006-07 203101654113116th, EredivisieDid not qualify
2005-06 20103165413066th, EredivisieDid not qualify

Roster

Updated February 14, 2019. [3]

Goaltenders
NumberPlayerCatchesAcquiredPlace of Birth
38 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jan Willem Groenheijde L2018 Voorburg, Netherlands
29 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Tomislav Hrelja L2018 Geleen, Netherlands
24 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Cas Neuman L2016 Leidschendam, Netherlands
Defencemen
NumberPlayerShootsAcquiredPlace of Birth
4 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Reinier Staats R2018 Tilburg, Netherlands
6 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Ceaney van Uijtrecht L2018 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
10 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mike van Oeveren L2013 The Hague, Netherlands
15 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Stijn Knoop L2012 Zoetermeer, Netherlands
18 Flag of Sweden.svg Viktor Gibbs Sjödin R2017 Uppsala, Sweden
60 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jurryt Smid (A) L2017 The Hague, netherlands
65 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Maurice van der Schuit L2014 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Forwards
NumberPlayerShootsPositionAcquiredPlace of Birth
3 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Joey Oosterveld (A) LC2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
7 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Alan van Bentem (C) LF2017 The Hague, Netherlands
8 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Levi Boer RF2017 Dordrecht, Netherlands
9 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Stace van Bentem RF2009 The Hague, Netherlands
11 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jelle Kronenburg LF2018 The Hague, Netherlands
12 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Marco Bommezijn LF2008 The Hague, Netherlands
13 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Raymond van der Schuit LLW/RW2016 Rotterdam, Netherlands
17 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jasper Kick RRW2008 Delft, Netherlands
20 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dani van Schilt LF2015 The Hague, Netherlands
22 Flag of Slovakia.svg Oliver Pataky LRW2017 Trenčín, Slovakia
66 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mike Verschuren RF2018 Eindhoven, Netherlands
77 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Donny van Musscher LLW2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rivals

The Eredivise currently has seven teams. Apart from HYS, there are the Tilburg Trappers, Friesland Flyers, Eindhoven Kemphanen, Herentals HYC and Geleen Eaters and Dordrecht Lions.

Although HYS struggled throughout the early 1970s to the early 2000s, the team has consistently been a league contender since 2008, along with Tilburg Trappers and Geleen Eaters. In the 2009-2010 season, HYS came in second place in the regular season; Nijmegen was first. HYS was released into the quarter-finals, but lost in the semi-finals of Tilburg in 5 games (2-3). In the finals, Tilburg lost in 3 games of Nijmegen (3-0 to Nijmegen).

In the 2009-2010 season, HYS lost the national Cup (an annual pre-season tournament) to Nijmegen. During

Championships

10 times: 1945-46; 1947–48; 1964–65; 1965–66; 1966–67; 1967–68; 1968–69; 2008–09, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2017-2018.

5 times: 1937-38; 1938–39; 1952–53; 1953–54; 1954–55

Twice: 1938; 2011; 2018

Twice: 2011; 2012

5 times: 1938; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1963

once: 1949

once: 2018

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References

  1. ↑ IIHF News Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Internationalhockey.net (October 27, 2009)". Archived from the original on November 9, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
  3. ↑ "HIJS Hokij Roster". hijshokij.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved February 14, 2019.
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