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Kloten Flyers

Founded	1934
Champion	1967, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
Home ice	Kolping Arena
Based in	Kloten, Switzerland
Colours	Blue, white, red
League	National League A
Head coach	Anders Eldebrink
Assistant coach	Felix Hollenstein
General manager	Alpo Suhonen

The Kloten Flyers are an icehockey team based in the city of Kloten in Switzerland. They originated from the EHC Kloten. The team participates in the National League A and is known for its promotion of young players.

Between 1993 and 1996 the EHC Kloten won the Swiss championship four times in a row.

[edit] History

The EHC Kloten was founded on December 3rd 1934 by seven members led by Emil Hegner. During the first few years, only exhibition matches were played. The home matches were played on the frozen Nägelimoos-Weiher.

When the EHC Kloten began to participate in the championship, they had to start in the lowest league, as usual. In 1941, they were promoted into the Serie B and five years later into the Serie A. One year later, in the year 1947, the EHC Kloten was promoted into the Nationalliga B. In 1962, they joined the Nationalliga A, because the NLA was topped up from 8 to 10 teams.

In 1967 they became the champions for the first time, headed by their czech coach Vladimir Kobera.

[edit] Present

The team has remained in the highest league ever since they were promoted, meaning they are the longest-serving team in the NLA.

For the season 1998/99 the former Russian icehockey player Vladimir Yurzinov was obliged to become the new coach. Not only introduced he a new way of playing, but he also promoted the young players, which is paying-off nowadays. Even though many people liked this philosophy, success stayed away. During the season 2003/2004 the team had to play the playouts for the first time in the history of the team. One year later, in the Playout-season 2004/2005, they managed again to remain in the highest league.

In October 2004 Jursinow was released as their coach. He remained as a youth promoter until the end of the season in the team. The successor was the former EHC Kloten defense player Anders Eldebrink and his assistant coach, hockey legend Felix Hollenstein. The new duo managed to get the team back to success and is still in charge of the team.

In the season 2008/2009 the Kloten Flyers were in the Playoff final against the HC Davos, which they lost with 4:3 matches. The regular season was finished on the 3rd place. During the Playoffs they first defeated the HC Geneve-Servette by 4:0 wins and after that the EV Zug, also with 4:0 wins.

The club is having a well known junior programm. There’s a partnership between the Kloten Flyers and the teams of Bülach, Dielsdorf-Niederhasli and Winterthur. Since the founding oft he elite-junior league, the teams has won 19 titels. The latest being in the season 2005/2006.

[edit] Fans

The Kolping Arena is known to be atmospheric. On the standing places, it's Unity Kloten that is active. Unity is seeing themselves as an umbrella group of the Fanclubs South Kloten, Blue Eagles Kloten and Conspiro. When choreos are done, the old logo of EHC Kloten is always used instead of the new Kloten Flyers Logo.

[edit] Hall of fame

[edit] Coaches

Vladimir Kobera, Champion 1967
Conny Evensson, Champion 1993, 1994
Alpo Suhonen, Champion 1995, 1996

[edit] Reserved numbers

No. 7 Peter Schlagenhauf, Winger 1969-1994
No. 32 Anders Eldebrink, Defender 1990-1995, since 2006 coach
No. 26 Mikael Johansson, Center 1992-1997
No. 21 Roman Wäger, Winger 1971-1998
No. 24 Felix Hollenstein, Winger 1985-2002, since 2006 assistant coach
No. 4 Marco Klöti, Defender 1992-2007
No. 20 Reto Pavoni, Goalie 1989-2002

[edit] 1st team NLA 2009/2010

[edit] Goaltenders

#	Name	Nationality	Date Of Birth
84	Michael Flückiger	Switzerland	15th February 1982
66	Ronnie Rüeger	Switzerland, United Kingdom	26th February 1973
30	Ralph Sonder	Switzerland	7th March 1990

[edit] Defencemen

#	Name	Nationality	Date Of Birth
14	Julien Bonnet	Switzerland	14th January 1985
62	Félicien Du Bois	Switzerland	18th October 1983
	J. D. Forest	United States	18th April 1981
77	Radek Hamr	Czech Republic	15th June 1974
5	Yves Müller	Switzerland	8th February 1989
11	Marc Schulthess	Switzerland	3rd January 1986
28	Patrick Sidler	Switzerland	23rd December 1985
72	Patrick von Gunten	Switzerland	10th February 1985
2	Marc Welti	Switzerland	17th January 1988
52	Benjamin Winkler	Switzerland	22nd February 1979

[edit] Forwards

#	Name	Nationality	Date Of Birth
16	Mark Bell	Canada	5th August 1980
13	Simon Bodenmann	Switzerland	2nd March 1988
15	Jeffrey Füglister	Switzerland	15th January 1990
91	Denis Hollenstein	Switzerland	15th October 1989
17	Arnaud Jacquemet	Switzerland	29th March 1988
10	Marcel Jenni	Switzerland	2nd March 1974
87	Steve Kellenberger	Switzerland	6th February 1987
55	Sven Lindemann	Switzerland	23th April 1978
41	Michael Liniger	Switzerland	29th November 1979
33	Kimmo Rintanen	Finland	7th August 1973
76	Frédéric Rothen	Switzerland	26th January 1976
23	Tommi Santala	Finland	27th June 1979
22	Victor Stancescu	Switzerland, Romania	10th March 1985
27	Roman Wick	Switzerland	30th December 1985
18	Michel Zeiter	Switzerland	22nd April 1974

[edit] Staff (Coach and assistant coach)

Name	Nationality	Date Of Birth
Anders Eldebrink	Sweden	11th December 1960
Felix Hollenstein	Switzerland	7th April 1965

[edit] Noteworthy former players

[edit] External links

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