Innsbrucker EV or EV Innsbruck was an

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

team based in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. They competed in the

Austrian Hockey League The ICE Hockey League (International Central European Hockey League, ICEHL), known as the win2day ICE Hockey League for sponsorship reasons, is a Central European hockey league that also serves as the top-tier ice hockey league in Austria. It c ...

until 1993 and won the Austrian Championship seven times. Their home arena was

Olympiahalle Innsbruck Olympiahalle is an multi-purpose indoor sports venue located in Innsbruck, Austria. The arena is located in the south of the city, close to the Tivoli Stadion Tirol; both of which are part of the multi-functional sports complex OlympiaWorld Innsb ...

. The organization was disbanded entirely after the 1993–94 season.

HC Innsbruck HC Tiroler Wasserkraft Innsbruck is an Austrian professional ice hockey team in the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). They play their home games at OlympiaWorld Innsbruck complex in Innsbruck. History The club was founded in 1994 as HC Innsbruck and i ...

was founded in 1994 and, through not a continuation of the original franchise, is regarded as EV Innsbruck's successor.

Notable alumni

Years active with EV Innsbruck listed alongside names *

Alain Daigle Roland Alain Daigle (born August 24, 1954) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played six seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League from 1974–75 to 1979–80. As a youth, Daigle played in the 1966 ...

, 1981–82 *

Chris Felix Christopher Robin Felix (born May 27, 1964) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played junior for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and was the team's captain in the 1984–85 season. He played for 35 games in the National ...

, 1991–1993 * François Guay, 1991–1993 */

Greg Holst Gregory Holst (born February 21, 1954) is a Canadian-born Austrian ice hockey coach and a former player. He played eleven games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers between 1975 and 1977. The rest of his career, which lasted fro ...

, 1989–1992 * Sergei Alekseevich Kapustin, 1986–1987 * Kevin LaVallée, 1987–1990 * Martin Lindner, 1982–1994 * Martin Platzer, 1983–1985 */

Poul Popiel Poul Peter Popiel (born February 28, 1943) is a Danish-American former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and World Hockey Association (WHA), and also served as a head coach in the minor leagues. Fol ...

, 1978–79 * Gerald Rauchenwald, 1986–1991 */ Adelbert Saint John, 1975–1978 (

player-coach A player–coach (also playing coach, captain–coach, or player–manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Player–coaches may be head coaches or assistant coaches, and they may make chang ...

) * Viktor Ivanovich Shalimov, 1987–88 * Christian Perthaler, 1988–1993

Head coaches

* / Adelbert Saint John, 1975–1978 (player-coach) * Gerhard Kießling, 1985 *

Blair MacDonald Blair Neil Joseph "B. J." MacDonald (born November 17, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association between 1973 and 1983. He featured in the 1979 WHA Final with ...

, 1986–87 * Rudolf Killias, 1987–1989 * Gerhard Kießling, 1990–91 *

Václav Nedomanský Václav Nedomanský (born 14 March 1944) is a Czech former ice hockey forward. Nedomanský is best known as the first Czechoslovak hockey player to defect to North America to play. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019. He is als ...

, 1990–91 *

Miroslav Berek Miroslav may refer to: * Miroslav (given name), a Slavic masculine given name * ''Young America'' (clipper) or ''Miroslav'', an Austrian clipper ship in the Transatlantic case oil trade * Miroslav (Znojmo District), a town in the Czech Republic S ...

, 1991–1993

References

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