1943–44 Romanian Hockey League season

The 1943-44 Romanian Hockey League season was the 17th season of the Romanian Championship. All games took place during daylight hours as night time lighting was prohibited due to Soviet bombing. The championship was not awarded.Curentul, assorted issues
==Regional Competitions==
===Northern Regional Championship===
Gazeta Sporturilor, 1944-01-29
;Friendly tournament
*Dragos Voda Cernauti - CFR Cernauti 8:1
*HC Iasi - Munca si Lumina 1:0
;Regional Championship
HC Iasi did not participate.
*Dragos Voda Cernauti - CFR Prutul Cernauti 1:1
*Dragos Voda Cernauti - Munca si Lumina 2:0
*Dragos Voda Cernauti - CFR Prutul Cernauti 5:1
*Dragos Voda Cernauti - Munca si Lumina 3:0
Dragos Voda Cernauti qualified for the national championship.
===Central Regional Championship===
Universitatea Sibiu qualified for the national championship
===Bucharest Regional Championship===
*January 14, 1944: Juventus Bucharest 3 - PTT Bucharest 0 (0:0, 2:0, 1:0) - Anastasiu, Sadovsky, Flamoropol
*January 15, 1944: PTT Bucharest 1 - Viforul-Dacia Bucharest 1 (0:0, 0:1, 1:0)
*January 16, 1944: Venus Bucharest 3 - Viforul-Dacia Bucharest 1 (0:0, 2:0, 1:1) - Ion, Dlugosch, Singerozan (own goal) / Ganga
*January 17, 1944: Venus Bucharest 2 - Juventus Bucharest 0 (0:0, 0:0, 2:0)*
*January 19, 1944: Venus Bucharest 8 - PTT Bucharest 1 (2:0, 5:0, 1:1) - Dlugosch (4), Teodorescu (2), Barbulescu, Popescu / Mardarescu
*January 19, 1944: Juventus Bucharest 7 - Viforul-Dacia Bucharest 1 (2:0, 4:0, 1:1) - Botez (2), Flamaropol (2), Wanieck (2), Meicu / Simionescu
Politehnica Bucharest had enrolled in the competition but forfeited their participation after not appearing for their first match against Venus. *Juventus filed a claim against Venus' use of the goaltender Fluieras in their match. The federation had authorized him to participate, but ruled the match be re-played.
*January 20, 1944: PTT Bucharest 4 - Viforul-Dacia Bucharest 1 (0:1, 1:0, 3:0) - replay of tie
*January 20, 1944: Venus Bucharest 1 - Juventus Bucharest 0 (1:0, 0:0, 0:0) - Popescu
Venus won the replay and qualified for the national championship, as did Juventus.
 	Team 	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Venus Bucharest 	3 	3	0	0	12	2 	6
2.	Juventus Bucharest 	3 	2	0	1	10	2 	4
3.	Viforul-Dacia Bucharest	3 	0	1	2	3 	11	1
4.	PTT Bucharest 	3 	0	1	2	2 	12	1
==National Championship==
The national championship was staged from January 24-26, 1944, in Bucharest. Dragos Voda Cernauti withdrew from the championship on the grounds that the federation had initially stated the tournament would be played in Cernauti.
The director of the Venus Bucharest hockey club, Andrei Barbulescu, stated that his team should be declared national champions without facing Juventus, whom they had already defeated twice, again. The General Pompeius Demitrescu, president of the Venus sports club, decided the team should play the game against Juventus, for which 2000 spectators were expected.
Venus defeated Juventus for a third time and claimed the national championship after an easy victory over Universitatea Sibiu. Barbulescu was suspended for one year by the federation for "unsportsmanlike conduct".
*Venus Bucharest 2 - Juventus Bucharest 0 (2:0, 0:0, 0:0) - Barbulescu, Turceanu
*Juventus Bucharest 9 - Universitatea Sibiu 1 (2:0, 5:1, 2:0)
*Venus Bucharest 9 - Universitatea Sibiu 1 (1:0, 6:1, 2:0) 
 	Team 	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Venus Bucharest 	2 	2	0	0	11	1 	4
2.	Juventus Bucharest 	2 	1	0	1	9 	3 	2
3.	Universitatea Sibiu	2 	0	0	2	2 	18	0
There was also a “national championship” played in Cernauti - contested by HC Iasi and local teams. It was said that the two Bucharest teams and Universitatea Sibiu had forfeited their participation in the tournament, but in reality they were also playing for the national championship among themselves. 
*1/22: HC Iasi - Prutul CFR Cernauti 2:0 - semifinal
*1/23: Dragos Voda Cernauti - HC Iasi 4:0 - final
*1/23: HC Iasi - Munca si Lumina Cernauti (reinforced with Dragos Voda Players) 1:0 - exhibition
A decision was eventually made by the federation, which ruled that no team was declared national champions for 1943-44. Venus Bucharest was declared champions of the Bucharest region, and Dragos Voda Cernatui champions of Moldova and Bukovina. 
==Team rosters==
*Venus Bucharest: Fluieras, Florian Marinescu, T. Ion, Florin Popescu, Al. Teodorescu, Cosman, Turceanu, Diugosch, Alexandrescu, Andrei Barbulescu.
*Juventus Bucharest: Mircea Ratiu, Dorin Dron, Sadovsky, Paul Anastasiu, Mihai Flamoropol, Alexandru Botez, Eduard Pana, Ciuca, Wanieck, Meicu.
==Other games==
Gazeta Sporturilor, assorted issues
*1/16: Scolii Of. Transmisiuni - ACSA 7:6 (3:1, 1:3, 3:2)
*1/18: Scolii Of. Transmisiuni - ACSA 4:0 (2:0, 0:0, 2:0)
*1/18: Scolii Of. Transmisiuni - PTT Bucharest 1:0
*1/18: Scolii Of. Transmisiuni - Combinata ACSA-Viforul Dacia 3:2 OT 
*1/22: Scolii Of. Transmisiuni - Liceul Principele Carol 9:6 (3:2, 2:2, 4:2)
*2/3: Liceul Principele Carol - Liceul Dimitrie Cantemir Voda 3:2 OT (1:0, 1:1, 0:1, 1:0) - Scolara Championship final
*2/28: Iasi Representative Team - Cernauti Representative Team 7:1 (2:0, 2:0, 3:1) @ Iasi
*2/28: HC Iasi - Dragos Voda/Munica si Lumina Cernauti Comb. 1:1 (0:1, 0:0, 1:0) @ Iasi 
;Cupa Col. Bungescu
Tournament for military schools
*1/20: Politechnica - Scolii Of. Transmisiuni 6:0 (4:0, 1:0, 1:0)
*1/21: ACA - Medicina 15:1 (3:0, 3:0, 9:1)
*1/22: Scolii Of. Transmisiuni - Medicina 6:0 Forfeit
*1/23: Politechnica - ACA 1:1 (0:1, 0:0, 1:0) - final
*1/27: Politechnica - ACA 4:2 (0:2, 0:0, 4:0) - final replay
==References==
Category:1943 in ice hockey
Category:1944 in ice hockey