Koelner Haie

Hi Cologne... :D
Last year I visited your beautiful city for a school exchange and attended a regular season game of the "Haie" against the Mannheim Eagels. The arena (Koelnarena :dunno: ) reaches almost NHL standards.Enthusiasm is guaranteed among the cologne's hockey fans, seems like hockey's popularity is finally growing in Germany. ( Better late than never :joker: )

Can you give me an update about the "Koelner Haie" and the german hockey league, any onformation would be appreciated... :bow:

Have a nice Sunday :joker: and nice greetings for Ottawa..

Hi Cologne... :D
Last year I visited your beautiful city for a school exchange and attended a regular season game of the "Haie" against the Mannheim Eagels. The arena (Koelnarena :dunno: ) reaches almost NHL standards.Enthusiasm is guaranteed among the cologne's hockey fans, seems like hockey's popularity is finally growing in Germany. ( Better late than never :joker: )

Can you give me an update about the "Koelner Haie" and the german hockey league, any onformation would be appreciated... :bow:

Have a nice Sunday :joker: and nice greetings for Ottawa..
Hi!!

Well, 42 games are already played and the Cologne Sharks are only 4th, behind Berlin,Frankfurt and Hamburg.

1 Eisbären Berlin 41 82 142:104
2 Frankfurt Lions 41 80 141:112
3 Hamburg Freezers 41 75 116:88
4 Kölner Haie 42 72 132:115
5 Nürnberg Ice Tigers 38 68 135:104
6 Adler Mannheim 40 68 114:102
7 Augsburger Panther 41 67 147:137
8 ERC Ingolstadt 40 67 102:99
9 Düsseldorfer EG 39 64 109:101
10 Kassel Huskies 40 52 105:124
11 Iserlohn Roosters 40 47 105:122
12 Krefeld Pinguine 38 42 90:111
13 Hannover Scorpions 39 39 103:136
14 Wölfe Freiburg 40 17 109:195

The topscorers of this team are David McLlwain(45points) and Brad Schlegel as a def. with 39points.
Eduard Lewandowski, a 2003-draft-pick scored 28points.

Greetings from Berlin(but my native place is Bonn, near Cologne... :joker: :joker: )


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.Eduard Lewandowski, a 2003-draft-pick )

Lewandowski was drafted by the Yotes in round 8 #242 overall.

But let's talk about Stefan Schauer. :D
How does he look like???
The Sens think very highly of him...was described as a top-tour defender on your blueline with Redden, Chara, Volchenko, Phillips and Pothier for the years to come.
Got any pics of him....

Thanks!!!
See you later...

PS: I like Berlin, too. :handclap:

Lewandowski was drafted by the Yotes in round 8 #242 overall.

But let's talk about Stefan Schauer. :D
How does he look like???
The Sens think very highly of him...was described as a top-tour defender on your blueline with Redden, Chara, Volchenko, Phillips and Pothier for the years to come.
Got any pics of him....

Thanks!!!
See you later...

PS: I like Berlin, too. :handclap:


here is a link to Mr Schauer stats.

http://www.haie.de/index.php?type=player&playerId=269

And a pic

http://www.haie.de/image/gallery/720.jpg


I believe it was not the best decision of him to go to Cologne, his development has really stagnated and at the moment I can not see him making the NHL at present.
A few other defenders have overtaken him even in Germany in the defensman ranking.

Yesterday the Cologne Sharks(Kölner Haie) won their first title in this season, the "Deutscher Pokal",against the Kassel Huskies with 3:1 in front of 13.480 fans in Cologne.

Here are the stats.:

Kölner Haie - Kassel Huskies 3:1 ( 2:1, 1:0, 0:0)

Tore:
1:0 (11:34) Blank (Boos - 5:4), 2:0 (13:28) Lewandowski (Schlegel - 4:5), 2:1 (16:21) Wahlberg (De Wolf), 3:1 (31:19) Stefan (Kink)

Strafzeiten: Köln 8 - Kassel 10
Schiedsrichter: Chvatal (Waldkraiburg)
Zuschauer: 13.480

Schiedsrichter: Chvatal (Waldkraiburg)


Isn't that the guy, who caused a controversy in last years DEL playoffs? I think it was in the first or second round.

He always does ;)

Chvatal is the only pro-referee in the DEL, but it doesn't always look like it.

He was absolutely awful in Game 4 of the Berlin-Hamburg series. Hamburg lost the game and the series in five games. Max Fedra was pretty upset about him.
The Freezers would have lost anyway, but it wasn't what you would expect from a DEL-referee.

There was another incident some weeks later...

Max Fedra was pretty upset about him.

Who´s not upset about him ;)

btw: Wasn´t Chvatal the referee who said as long as he´s the referee in a Mannheim game, they won´t win the game or am i a little bit confused ?

Update from Cologne

Coach Hans Zach will sign a new 2 years contract.
Schauer will play next year for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers

Rumors:
Pascal Appel from Krefeld to Cologne
Kink from Cologne to Mannheim but he said when Zach will stay in Cologne than he will stay too. Also Markus Kuhl from Mannheim said that it is not looking good to sign him. :handclap:
Morczinetz from Cologne to Augsburg,Ingolstadt
Yannic Seidenberg to Cologne (His father said that it is done)
Christoph Brandner back to Europe and perhaps Cologne

Draft choices:
Lewandowski (PHX,8th,242nd,2003) 45 Games played 15G 15A 30P 54PIM 126Shots 1PPG 2SHG +28 -26 +/- 2

Hospelt (SJ,7th,216th,2003) 40 Games played 2G 2A 4P 18PIM 49Shots 1PPG 0SHG +7 -10 +/- -3

Schauer (OTT,5th,162nd,2001) 38 Games played 0G 1A 1P 6PIM 10Shots +7 -10 +/- -3


Greetz from Cologne :yo:



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Update from Cologne

Coach Hans Zach will sign a new 2 years contract.
Schauer will play next year for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers

Rumors:
Pascal Appel from Krefeld to Cologne
Kink from Cologne to Mannheim but he said when Zach will stay in Cologne than he will stay too. Also Markus Kuhl from Mannheim said that it is not looking good to sign him. :handclap:
Morczinetz from Cologne to Augsburg,Ingolstadt
Yannic Seidenberg to Cologne (His father said that it is done)
Christoph Brandner back to Europe and perhaps Cologne

Draft choices:
Lewandowski (PHX,8th,242nd,2003) 45 Games played 15G 15A 30P 54PIM 126Shots 1PPG 2SHG +28 -26 +/- 2

Hospelt (SJ,7th,216th,2003) 40 Games played 2G 2A 4P 18PIM 49Shots 1PPG 0SHG +7 -10 +/- -3

Schauer (OTT,5th,162nd,2001) 38 Games played 0G 1A 1P 6PIM 10Shots +7 -10 +/- -3


Greetz from Cologne :yo:



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Doesnt look like Hospelt and Schauer are improving as expected. What should they do? Are they too old to play junior hockey? Should they move to the ECHL?

Doesnt look like Hospelt and Schauer are improving as expected. What should they do? Are they too old to play junior hockey? Should they move to the ECHL?

....to hard to decide this already.Maybe they should come over to North America next year and play minor league hockey in Cleveland and Binghamton, not unlike Schubert does.

Yannic Seidenberg to Cologne...I'm starting to lose every inch of respect I have for him. Like Kevin Costner said "He's got a million dollar arm with a 5 cent head "

Only a short information.
The Cologne sharks have now a english homepage.
http://www.haie.de and than in the middle of the top. :handclap:

Greetz
Shark-from-cologne

(The german play-offs are starting now)

Hospelt is still VERY young. He has just turned 18 I think. He has the tools and I think he will succeed. The problem is that Zach always TALKS about giving responsibilities to young germans but doesn't do it like, for example, Greg Poss does. Hospelt needs to earn scoring line-ice time. He is a scorer, not a checker. It is the same problem some other guys have. For example Adrian Grygiel in Krefeld or also Kink in Cologne. Going to the NA-Junior leagues might be a good move for those guys.

Zorin

Hospelt is still VERY young. He has just turned 18 I think. He has the tools and I think he will succeed. The problem is that Zach always TALKS about giving responsibilities to young germans but doesn't do it like, for example, Greg Poss does. Hospelt needs to earn scoring line-ice time. He is a scorer, not a checker. It is the same problem some other guys have. For example Adrian Grygiel in Krefeld or also Kink in Cologne. Going to the NA-Junior leagues might be a good move for those guys.

Zorin

Sure the potential is there but think about the sharks depth at center, his chances are very low....