Bergen Ishockeyklubb is 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 ...
club from
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
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History
Bergen Flyers were elite commitment to the club until 2005. Elite team's history went back to the hockey team to the
Sportkluben Djerv, which changed its name in turn to "Bergen / Djerv" (in 1986, in cooperation with BIK), "Bergen Hockey Club" (BIK) (for bankruptcy and complete a merger with BIK) and finally "Bergen Flyers" (by moving and merging with the Oslo club
Spektrum Flyers
Spektrum Flyers was a short-lived ice hockey team from Oslo, Norway. A merger between Manglerud Star and Furuset, it played the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons in Eliteserien, the premier ice hockey league in Norway, with home games at Oslo Sp ...
. Djerv was 1 division a few years in the mid 1980s as the legendary hockey player
Bear "Botta" Skaare played for the club. Bergen Flyers were back in the top division in the season 2004 / 2005. Bergen Flyers went bankrupt in 2005 and no longer exists. Bergen Hockey Club now has a team in 1st division.
Bergen Ice Hockey Club located in the
Bergenshallen
Bergenshallen is an indoor ice hockey arena
An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on ...
at Slettebakken in the
Ã…rstad district of Bergen. Bergenshallen has the nickname "bathtub".
In June 2017, the
Norwegian Ice Hockey Association
The Norwegian Ice Hockey Association (in Norwegian language, Norwegian, ''Norges Ishockeyforbund'' (NIHF) is the governing body of all Ice hockey in Norway, ice hockey, sledge hockey and in-line hockey in Norway.
NIHF has its office at Ullevaal ...
withdrew the club's licence after its failure to meet league requirements and economic requirements.
The team was moved down a division, and started the 2017-18 season in
2. divisjon.
References
External links
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{{Norwegian Second Division (ice hockey)
Ice hockey teams in Norway
Sport in Bergen