Düsseldorfer EG
Düsseldorfer Eislauf-Gemeinschaft or Düsseldorfer EG is a German professional ice hockey team in Düsseldorf. It was Germany's most successful hockey club for a long time and had many international players. The famous Eisstadion at the Brehmstrasse was the home venue for most of the team's history. The team now plays in the DEL2.; the home venue is the PSD Bank Dome.
The club was founded on 8 November 1935 as Düsseldorfer Eislauf Gemeinschaft and was renamed DEG Metro Stars on 1 March 2002. It was renamed again as Düsseldorfer Eislauf-Gemeinschaft in 2012.
Honors
- German champions 1967, 1972, 1975, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996
- German runner-up, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1989, 1994, 2006, 2009
- DEB-Pokal winners 2006
- DEB-Pokal runner-up, 2005
- NRW state champion 1946
- Champion in the 2. Bundesliga 2000
- 2nd place in Eurocup 1991
- 3rd place in Eurocup 1997
- Beat the NHL BLUE ALL-STARS team 3–1 in the first cross-league game in the team's history.
Players
Current roster
Honored members
- 10 Chris Valentine
- 12 Peter-John Lee
- 13 Walter Köberle
- 23 Daniel Kreutzer
Coaches
- 1930s – Bobby Bell
- 1952–53 – Rainer Hillmann
- 1950s – Clare Drake
- 1950s – Gerald Strong
- 1956–58 – Frank Trottier
- 1958–62 – Vlastimil Suchoparek
- 1962–65 – Engelbert Holderied
- 1965–69 – Hans Rampf
- 1969–70 – Dr. Ladislav Horsky
- 1970–72 – Xaver Unsinn
- 1972–73 – Jiri Pokorny
- 1973–76 – Chuck Holdaway
- 1976–77 – Hans Rampf
- 1977 – George Agar
- 1977–78 – Rudi Hejtmanek
- 1978–79 – Otto Schneitberger
- 1979–82 – Gerhard Kießling
- 1982–83 – Jaromir Frycer
- 1983–84 – Heinz Weisenbach
- 1984–87 – Otto Schneitberger
- 1987–88 – Brian Lefley
- 1988–89 – Peter Johannson
- 1989–90 – Peter Hejma
- 1990–95 – Hans Zach
- 1995–97 – Hardy Nilsson
- 1997 – Hans Zach
- 1997–98 – Chris Valentine
- 1998–99 – Czeslaw Panek
- 1999–01 – Gerhard Brunner
- 2001–04 – Michael Komma
- 2004 – Walter Köberle
- 2004–05 – Butch Goring
- 2005–07 – Don Jackson
- 2007 – Slavomir Lener
- 2007–08 – Lance Nethery
- 2008–10 – Harold Kreis
- 2010–12 – Jeff Tomlinson
- 2012–14 – Christian Brittig
- 2014–17 – Christoph Kreutzer
- 2017–18 – Mike Pellegrims
- 2018 – Tobias Abstreiter
- 2018–22 – Harold Kreis
- 2022–23 – Roger Hansson
- 2023–present – Thomas Dolak