page_title: EV Landshut
section_title: The founding of the DEL and the sale of the license (1994–2000)
hierarchical_section_title: EV Landshut / History / The founding of the DEL and the sale of the license (1994–2000)
caption_attribution_description: English: Boston Bruins left wing Marco Sturm taken at TD Banknorth Garden, Boston MA, 2008-01-08 during game between Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes by Dan4th Nicholas
context_page_description: EV Landshut, also known as EVL Landshut Eishockey and formerly known as the Landshut Cannibals, are a professional ice hockey team based in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. They currently play in Deutsche Eishockey Liga 2, the second level of ice hockey in Germany. They were promoted from the third-tier Oberliga in 2019 after winning the Oberliga finals against the Tilburg Trappers.
  The team was founded in 1948 as Eislaufverein Landshut, but since 2002 the professional operations have been incorporated as a separate entity. From 2002 to 2013 the professional team was competing as “Landshut Cannibals”; in 2013 the name was changed back to "EVL Landshut Eishockey", to more closely reflect the tradition and history of the team. There is close cooperation with the non-for-profit EVL, which is still responsible for non-professional areas, i.e. junior hockey and figure skating. From 1963 to 1994 the Team was a participant in the Ice hockey Bundesliga and is a founder member of the DEL. The team won the West German National Championship in 1970 and 1983.<"Germany". AZ Hockey. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
context_section_description: Due to the desolate financial situation in German professional ice hockey, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga was founded in 1994. It was the first self-managed German professional league. All teams of the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga were outsourcing their professional operations into corporations. The EV Landshut's team was transferred to the Cannibals Eissport GmbH and because of marketing purposes the professional team was known under “Landshut Cannibals” since then.
  In the 1994-95 DEL season – the first ever – coach Bernie Johnston was able to keep most of last year's squad and strengthened it with signing NHL-star Wallace Schreiber. Furthermore, benefited the team from the 1994–95 NHL lockout more than most other DEL franchises, with Pavel Bure, Scott Young and Uwe Krupp playing shortly for the Cannibals. Bure's only game for Landshut was legendary, scoring three times against the Eisbären Berlin. Ranked second after the preliminaries, the Cannibals knocked out the Lausitzer Füchse in the round of sixteen, before defeating both Kassel Huskies and Krefeld Pinguine. In the finals they were only beaten by the Kölner Haie. Wallace Schreiber and Mike Bullard were top-scorers of the league with 38 and 39 goals resp. The following season the Cannibals had landed José Charbonneau (top-scorer with 42 goals), while Marco Sturm entered professional level and scored 12 times. In the 1995-96 playoff season they defeated the Starbulls Rosenheim in the first round and swept the Adler Mannheim, setting up another showdown with the Kölner Haie, which was lost. In the 1996-97 playoffs they played Köln for the third time in a row, this time knocking them out in the quarterfinal round, before losing to Mannheim in the semifinals. Best scorer was Gino Cavallini with 28 goals. The team of following season's top-scorer, Dave McLlwain, swept “favorite opponent” Kölner Haie, but lost to the Eisbären Berlin in the semifinals.
  For the 1998-99 DEL season the Cannibals management envisaged proceeding to the final round for the first time in the last four years. After signing Chris Valentine as coach they contracted former NHL players Dean Evason, Jason Herter, David Bruce, Mike Casselman, Peter Douris and Bob Joyce as well as Evan Marble and Jari Korpisalo. Ranked sixth after the preliminary round the squad was knocked out surprisingly in the quarterfinals by the Adler Mannheim. The disappointment of the early elimination gave way to consternation regarding the club's financial situation. With depths totaling 10 mil. D-Mark (about 6.5 mil. USD) the club management announced on May 12, 1999 they would not be able to run a team for the 1999/2000 DEL season. The corporation Cannibals Eissport GmbH (i.e. the franchise) was sold to the Anschutz Entertainment Group, renamed “MEC Münchener Eishockey Club GmbH” (Munich ice hockey club Gmbh) and relocated to Munich, where the franchise played for three seasons as Munich Barons. In 2002 the franchise was relocated to Hamburg and started operation as Hamburg Freezers. A cooperation contract ruled out that the EV Landshut had to stay two levels below the Barons for at least three years, therefore earning 350,000 D-Mark for junior hockey development p.a. As a result, ice hockey in Landshut had to continue in the third level semi-professional Oberliga after 36 seasons of top-level participation.
caption: Marco Sturm playing for the Boston Bruins
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