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Asia League Ice Hockey
Asia League Ice Hockey (; ) or ALIH (AL) is an association which operates a professional ice hockey league based in East Asia, with teams from Japan, South Korea, and formerly China and Russia. The league is headquartered in Japan. At the end of ...
team based in
Kushiro
is a city in Kushiro Subprefecture on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. Located along the coast of the North Pacific Ocean, it serves as the subprefecture's capital and it is the most populated city in the eastern part of the island.
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City in
Hokkaidō
is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by railway via the Seikan Tunnel.
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, Japan.
History
The club was founded as Jūjō Paper Kushiro Ice Hockey Club in 1949. They adopted the new name Nippon Paper Cranes in 1993 when Jūjō Paper and Sanyō Kokusaku Pulp merged to form
Nippon Paper.
They won the inaugural
Asia League Ice Hockey
Asia League Ice Hockey (; ) or ALIH (AL) is an association which operates a professional ice hockey league based in East Asia, with teams from Japan, South Korea, and formerly China and Russia. The league is headquartered in Japan. At the end of ...
title in the 2003–04 season, and have won it four times overall. They have also won the
All Japan Ice hockey Championship seven times. After the 2018–19 season, the team was dissolved due to financial difficulties, and was replaced by the
East Hokkaido Cranes.
Honours
*
Asia League:
**''Winners (4)'':
2003–04,
2006–07,
2008–09,
2013–14
*
All Japan Championship:
**''Winners (7)'': 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
Season-by-season record
Asia League
*prior to the 2008–2009 season, there were no shoot-outs and games ended in a tie
Past import players
*
Georgy Yevtyukhin, 1996–97 C
*
Joel Dyck 2003–2009, D
*
Chris Lindberg 2004–05, LW
*
Derek Plante 2005–07, D
*
Jamie McLennan 2007–08, G
*
Tyson Nash 2007–08, LW
*
Kelly Fairchild 2008–09, C
*
Brad Tiley 2008–09, D
*
Pierre-Olivier Beaulieu 2009–10, D
* Ash Goldie 2010–11, FW
*
Mike Madill 2010–11, D
*
Ray DiLauro 2011, D
*
Tyler Mosienko 2011–12, C
*
John Hecimovic 2011–12, RW
References
{{Asia League Ice Hockey
Nippon Paper Industries
Asia League Ice Hockey teams
Ice hockey clubs established in 1949
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 2019
Sports clubs and teams in Hokkaido
Defunct ice hockey teams in Japan
1949 establishments in Japan
2019 disestablishments in Japan
Sport in Kushiro