HYS The Hague HYS The Hague is the highest level ice hockey team in The Hague , The Netherlands . The team plays in the Dutch Eredivisie , where it won the 2008 - 2009 National Championship . Home games are held at de Uithof , a winter sports recreational facility in the west of the city . Founded in 1933 , the team celebrated its 75th anniversary during the 2008 - 2009 season , notably with commemorative hockey sweaters . Name . " HYS " is pronounced " hice " and stands for " Haagsche Ijshockey Stichting " ( " Ice Hockey Club of the Hague " ; when using capital letters , " Y " sometimes replaces the Dutch letter " ij " . Previous variations of the name have included " H . H . IJ . C . Den Haag " ( Hague Hockey and Icehockey Club ) and " H . IJ . S . Hoky Den Haag " . Since 2007 - 2008 , its name has been the anglicized " HYS The Hague " . The team has occasionally had the nickname " Wolves " . For the 2006 - 2007 season , the team was known as the " Calco Wolves " . History . The team was founded on April 16 , 1933 as part of a three - team league ( together with Tilburg and Amsterdam ) called the Nederlandse IJshockey Bond . This league began play in 1934 . In 1937 - 38 The Hague won the championship for the first time , repeating in 1938 - 39 and winning the Western Europe Cup . The team played all of its 1940 season in Tilburg and Amsterdam because of a lack of home arena . Dutch hockey was interrupted during the German occupation from 1941 - 1944 , but resumed in 1945 when an arena was rebuilt in The Hague . Nederlandse IJshockey Bond set up the Eeredivisie , the top Dutch ice hockey division , in 1946 . HHIJC was once again competitive , winning the Eredivise championship in 1946 and 1948 . In 1947 , HHIJC merged with the Penguins , another Hague team . The team was most dominant during the relaunch of the Eeredivie in the 1960s , repeating five times as champions from 1964 to 1969 . The team then entered into a period of almost 40 years of decline , winning no championships and only intermittently playing in the Eredivisie from the 1980s to the early 2000s . In 1996 , HHIJS merged with another Hague team , HOKY , to become the HHIJS HOKY Wolves . In 2004 , the team permanently re - entered the Eredivisie , finishing in last place ( 1 - 0 - 3 - 16 in 2005 - 06 ; 3 - 1 - 0 - 16 in 2006 - 2007 ) . In 2007 - 08 , it dropped the " Wolves " nickname and played as " HYS The Hague " , a name reminiscent of successful teams of the past . That year , it had its first winning season in the Eredivisie since 1979 , with a record of 14 wins , 2 overtime wins , 2 overtime losses and 6 regular season losses , good enough for third place . In 2008 - 09 , the team improved to second place overall with a record of 14 - 3 - 2 - 5 , and won its first National Championship in 40 years by defeating Tilburg in the playoff finals . ( This would have qualified the team to participate in the 2009 - 2010 Champions Hockey League , but the tournament was cancelled for financial reasons . ) Season results . " Note : GP = Games played , W = Wins , OTW = Overtime Wins , OTL = Overtime Losses , L = Losses , GF = Goals for , GA = Goals against , Pts = Points " Rivals . The Eredivise currently has nine teams . Apart from HYS , there are the Tilburg Trappers , Heerenveen Flyers , Nijmegen Devils , Groningen Grizzlies , Eindhoven Kemphanen , Amstel Tijgers , Geleen Eaters and Utrecht Dragons . In the 2008 - 2009 season , HYS came in second place in the regular season ; Tilburg was first . HYS defeated Amstel Tijgers in the first round ( in 2 straight games ) , beat the Geleen Eaters in 3 straight games out of 5 in the semi - finals , and won the National Championship in 5 games out of 5 against Tilburg . Championships . 8 times : 1945 - 46 ; 1947 - 48 ; 1964 - 65 ; 1965 - 66 ; 1966 - 67 ; 1967 - 68 ; 1968 - 69 ; 2008 - 09 . 5 times : 1937 - 38 ; 1938 - 39 ; 1952 - 53 ; 1953 - 54 ; 1954 - 55 5 times : 1938 ; 1949 ; 1950 ; 1951 ; 1952 ; 1963 once : 1949