Kassel Huskies

The Kassel Huskies were a professional ice hockey team based in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. They played the majority of their seasons in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
==History==
In the 19th century, the Karlsaue park was already a popular place for ice skating during the winter months on the frozen Fulda river. Skating in Kassel at the time was called ‘foot skating’. The earliest example of ice hockey being played in Kassel came from a 1926 photo from the court photographer Carl Eberth, depicting young people playing ice hockey on the frozen Fulda.
In 1966, Helmut Spohr, a former football player for KSV Hessen Kassel, introduced the idea of establishing an ice hockey club. Spohr teamed up with Viktor Klement to form what was the first ice hockey team in Kassel, ESV Jahn Kassel. They managed to source some disused firefighting water hoses and in winter they built an outdoors ice rink with the hoses on top of a tennis court in the park as there were no ice machines. Players started to join in the games and eventually they had enough for a team to play other regional social community groups in Hannover and Bad Nauheim.
The club was founded as ESG Kassel in 1977, the same year as the first indoor ice rink was built in Kassel, the Eissporthalle Kassel, and was renamed into EC Kassel in 1987. Since 1994, the professional section of the club had been outsourced into a company with limited liability and belonged as Kassel Huskies to the founding members of the DEL.
It was announced 27 August 2010, that the club had folded from the DEL due to bankruptcy. They played the 2010-11 season in the regional Hessenliga, and had worked their way back up to the DEL2 by 2014.
==Honors==
===Champions===
*2. Bundesliga (1): 2008
*DEL2 (1): 2016
*Hessenliga (1): 2011
===Runners-up===
*Deutsche Eishockey Liga (1): 1997
*DEL2 (1): 2020
*Oberliga (1): 2013
*German Cup (1): 2004
==Season-by-season-results==
Champions	Runners-up	Third Place	Promoted	Relegated
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Season 	League 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Top scorer 	
1994/95 	DEL 	44 	22 	4 	1 	17 	145 	138 	+7 	48 	7th 	 	Mike Millar 	60
1995/96 	DEL 	50 	19 	12 	2 	17 	149 	148 	+1 	52 	9th 	 	Mike Millar 	54
1996/97 	DEL 	50 	27 	4 	1 	19 	190 	167 	+23 	59 	4th 	Runner-up 	Mike Millar 	58
1997/98 	DEL 	44 	19 	3 	4 	18 	140 	128 	+12 	45 	11th 	 	Paul DiPietro 	50
1998/99 	DEL 	52 	24 	4 	4 	20 	165 	145 	+20 	84 	9th 	- 	François Guay 	53
1999/00 	DEL 	56 	28 	2 	9 	17 	168 	137 	+31 	97 	4th 	 	Sylvain Turgeon 	45
2000/01 	DEL 	60 	28 	6 	7 	19 	176 	156 	+20 	103 	5th 	 	Pat Mikesch 	42
2001/02 	DEL 	60 	26 	6 	8 	20 	157 	147 	+10 	98 	5th 	 	Daniel Kreutzer 	46
2002/03 	DEL 	52 	19 	7 	7 	19 	118 	127 	-9 	78 	7th 	 	Alexander Serikow	32
2003/04 	DEL 	52 	16 	6 	4 	26 	129 	166 	-37 	64 	11th 	- 	Matthias Trattnig	31
2004/05 	DEL 	52 	10 	7 	8 	27 	127 	173 	-46 	52 	14th 	 	Daniel Corso 	38
2005/06 	DEL 	52 	15 	5 	3 	29 	137 	179 	-42 	58 	13th 	Relegated 	Jason Ulmer 	52
2006/07 	2.BUN 	52 	37 	4 	1 	10 	203 	113 	+90 	120 	1st 	Runner-up 	Shawn McNeil 	65
2007/08 	2.BUN 	52 	36 	6 	2 	8 	186 	114 	+72 	122 	1st 	Champions 	Shawn McNeil 	55
2008/09 	DEL 	52 	15 	8 	4 	25 	147 	171 	-24 	65 	14th 	- 	Alex Leavitt 	54
2009/10 	DEL 	56 	16 	2 	4 	34 	151 	213 	-62 	56 	15th 	- 	Josh Soares 	56
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Season 	League 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Top scorer 	
2010/11 	HL 	16 	16 	0 	0 	0 	266 	23 	+243 	48 	1st 	Champions 	Patrick Berendt 	77
2011/12 	OL 	42 	27 	2 	1 	12 	250 	122 	+128 	86 	3rd 	- 	Petr Sikora 	100
2012/13 	OL 	42 	35 	4 	1 	2 	357 	80 	+277 	114 	1st 	Runner-up 	Petr Sikora 	107
2013/14 	OL 	58 	40 	2 	4 	12 	352 	151 	+201 	128 	1st 	Runner-up 	Kyle Doyle 	84
2014/15 	DEL2 	52 	27 	5 	6 	14 	197 	140 	+57 	97 	3rd 	 	Mike Collins 	81
2015/16 	DEL2 	52 	23 	8 	7 	14 	201 	164 	+37 	92 	4th 	Champions 	Jamie MacQueen 	70
2016/17 	DEL2 	52 	28 	5 	2 	17 	161 	147 	+14 	96 	3rd 	 	Manuel Klinge 	50
2017/18 	DEL2 	52 	21 	8 	5 	18 	180 	160 	+20 	84 	6th 	 	Braden Pimm 	63
2018/19 	DEL2 	52 	22 	3 	3 	24 	146 	145 	+1 	75 	7th 	 	Richard Mueller 	51
2019/20 	DEL2 	52 	27 	3 	5 	17 	191 	147 	+44 	92 	2nd 	 	Ben Duffy 	58
2020/21 	DEL2 	49 	32 	6 	4 	7 	210 	108 	+102 	112 	1st 	Runner-up 	Ryon Moser 	65
==References==
Category:Ice hockey teams in Germany