Erste Bank Eishockeyliga 2009/2010

[simsala]

Magst mir schnell einen deppaten Post von ihm in diesem Thread raussuchen, bitte. Nur weils ihm im Beisl dann und wann den Vogel raushaut (was auch verständlich ist so wies da teilweise zugeht) muss das nicht heißen, dass er "erbärmlich" ist.

Lass ma's sein

[zerenato]

moh, jesenice knapp an den schlümpfen gescheitert

[sockn]

da österreich ja bald bei der U20 wm in canada mitspielt...

weiß jemand ob spiele der u20 übertragen werden? (sport+, orf, atv?)

wissen nicht, aber mit ziemlicher Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht.

Sollte aber kein grosses Problem sein, diese sich zu besorgen.

Voriges Jahr gab es von fast allen Spielen der U20 WM am nächsten Tag Streams im Netz. Offiziell.

[OoK_PS]

Zagreb hat gerade die Caps geschlagen, finds ganz lustig, dass fast immer mehr zuschauer als Dinamo Zagreb haben.

hoffentlich kommen sie ins play-off, dann spielen sie wahrscheinlich in der 15.000er halle.

finds ganz lustig, dass die refs auch in Zagreb, wo nur das kroatische fernsehen überträgt in Sky-montur auflaufen.

bearbeitet 20. November 2009 von OoK_PS

[zerenato]

offizielle einkleidung. und sky freut sich über die bilder im fremden fernsehen natürlich auch einen ast.

[simsala]

Zagreb hat gerade die Caps geschlagen, finds ganz lustig, dass fast immer mehr zuschauer als Dinamo Zagreb haben.

hoffentlich kommen sie ins play-off, dann spielen sie wahrscheinlich in der 15.000er halle.

finds ganz lustig, dass die refs auch in Zagreb, wo nur das kroatische fernsehen überträgt in Sky-montur auflaufen.

[Doena]

Zum Eishockey kommen mehr als zum Fussball .. was ist so schwer daran zu verstehen ?

[DerFremde]

Die Verantworlichen haben ja auch einen sehr sympathischen Ansatz in der Zagreber Halle.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Sports promoters in August plastered 77 billboards around Zagreb with the face of an unsmiling goalie, and an announcement in capital letters: Ice hockey is back.

Croatia is fielding a competitive professional ice-hockey team, Zagreb's Medvescak Bears, for the first time in more than 20 years. Under the new ownership of four former Yugoslav-era players, the ice rink that previously drew just a few hundred fans has pulled in 6,000 or more spectators to every home game since the Sept. 15 opener. Even midweek games draw a capacity crowd.

"I don't think anyone expected the fans to be like this," said center Joel Prpic, a Canadian player with Croatian heritage. "They're singing, dancing -- it's a party the whole game."

For the four new owners, revitalizing the Medvescak team is the first step in building up a national hockey program that began to decline with the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s.

During the Yugoslav era, most ice rinks were built in Slovenia, says Bears co-owner Markoantonio Belinic. After the conflicts in the 1990s, sponsors fled. Croatia was left with no funding and only two covered ice rinks. Mr. Belinic and his business partners, Damir Gojanovic, Antonio Zujic and Juraj Sinanovic, played for free in local games and on the Croatian national team that convened for world championships. Meanwhile, fans migrated to football, basketball and handball.

Unhappy with the state of Croatian hockey, Mr. Belinic and his former teammates decided to invest in turning around Medvescak -- named after the part of Zagreb where the city's first ice rink was built -- and building up a youth program on a total annual operating budget of around €1.5 million ($2.2 million).

In a pilot program that began last year, the team played in the Slovenian national league and, after much lobbying, negotiated filling an opening in the competitive regional Erste Bank league. The head coach, Enio Sacilotto, and general manager, Doug Bradley, both Canadians, had roughly three months to recruit players from the U.S., Canada and Eastern Europe, including star Slovenian goalie Robert Kristan, and prepare for a grueling season of 54 games, plus playoffs.

"It's a very competitive league," said Mr. Bradley. "This is a big step up from where they played previously."

Ice hockey faded as a spectator sport when the team lost sponsors and funding after the wars of the '90s. Croatia didn't have the money to recruit foreign players and the country lacked a strong youth program. The quality of play declined, and fans lost interest in local games.

Now, the team's management is heavily marketing its return. Black-and-white photographs of Olympic squads from decades earlier line the ice-rink walls, and fans regularly refer to the glory days of the Yugoslav team in the 1980s. In the month leading up to the opener, Medvescak advertised on billboards, radio stations, Internet banners, street posters, leaflets and Facebook. The first game sold out in five days.

Mr. Belinic said sponsors initially balked at the idea of financing a hockey resurgence. But after the opener drew 6,500 people, corporate interest jumped.

"Now we are overflowing with various calls from corporations and private sponsors," Mr. Belinic said. Current backers include pharmaceutical company Pliva and food-production concern Agrokor, Croatia's largest private company.

At a recent midweek game against Austria's Graz 99ers, fans packed the rink, with some perched on the orange railings lining the dome's highest row. Spectators sang along to music that alternated between AC/DC and ballads extolling the beauty of Zagreb. A scoreboard flashed when Medvescak player Aaron Fox scored to tie the game in the second period, though Graz won 3-2 in overtime penalty shots.

Despite standard grumbles over referee calls, spectators remained largely good-natured. Fans said they appreciated the cheap tickets, which are priced at €4.50; most of the league's teams charge between €10 and €23 per game.

"Last season there were a few hundred diehards watching hockey. We all knew each other," said Drazen Kramaric, co-founder of the Croatian Hockey Portal Web site, which launched in December. "For many of us, this is a dream come true."

Hockey in Croatia enjoys one legal advantage over other spectator sports. Because of violent incidents, fans can't buy alcohol at "high-risk" events, which include many football, handball and other matches. Hockey games currently aren't considered high-risk, and the Bears are vigorously promoting it as a family sport.

"It's the only place where we can drink beer and watch sports," explained 25-year-old Zagreb resident and geology student Mareinko Baica, drink in hand.

Mr. Belinic conceded the $3 beers may be contributing to hockey's popularity.

"We are one of the rare sports given the license to have alcoholic beverages," he said. "We have beer and spritzers, but everybody drinks beer."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409249910344827.html

[simsala]

Zum Eishockey kommen mehr als zum Fussball .. was ist so schwer daran zu verstehen ?

:aaarrrggghhh: hab mich verlesen...dachte dass Zagreb (EH) fast immer mehr Zuseher als Zagreb (EH) hat...

Ich hoffe Zagreb schaffts ins Play Off

[zerenato]

todd elik ist wieder da. bei jesenice.:|

[Kehill]

todd elik ist wieder da. bei jesenice.:|

Mah, . Der kanns auch nicht sein lassen.

[n0ak]

HK Acroni Jesenice - EC KAC 6:4 (2:0, 1:2, 3:2)

KHL Medvescak Zagreb - HDD TILIA Olimpija Ljubljana 1:4 (1:0, 0:4, 0:0)

Moser Medical Graz 99ers - EHC Liwest BW Linz 3:1 (1:0, 0:1, 2:0)

Vienna Capitals - Sapa Fehervar AV 19 4:3 n.V. (2:1, 0:0, 1:2, 1:0)

bearbeitet 29. November 2009 von snaze

[DerFremde]

und die salzburger haben den aufstieg im continentalcup geschafft (nur: wozu eigentlich?)!

[zerenato]

damit noch zehn spiele verschoben werden müssen, bis sie in frankreich in der letzten qualirunde ausscheiden?

[DerFremde]

damit noch zehn spiele verschoben werden müssen, bis sie in frankreich in der letzten qualirunde ausscheiden?

Ist das ein ? Und wofür qualifizieren sie sich, wenn sie nicht ausscheiden? bearbeitet 3. Dezember 2009 von DerFremde