HC Fribourg-Gottéron

Fribourg-Gottéron
City Fribourg, Switzerland
League

NL 1999-present

  • NL
    1980-1999
  • SL
    1953-1980
Founded 1938
Home arena BCF Arena
(capacity: 6,500)
General manager SwitzerlandRaphaël Berger[1]
Head coach Canada Mark French
Captain Switzerland Julien Sprunger
Website www.gotteron.ch
Franchise history

HC Fribourg-Gottéron SA 1959-present

  • HC Fribourg 1967-1980
  • HC Gottéron 1938-1967
Current season

HC Fribourg-Gottéron is a professional ice hockey team based in Fribourg, Switzerland, which competes in the National League (NL). The team is the sixth most attended team in Switzerland for the 2015/16 season with 6,156 spectators.[2]

History

The club was originally started as HC Gottéron by the citizens of the town of Auge in 1938. They competed on an outdoor rink, most notably at Les Augustins, until 1982 when Patinoire St-Léonard was constructed.[3]

In 1980, the name HC Fribourg-Gottéron was adopted upon promotion into the National League (NL). In spite of the club's financial struggles for the better part of their existence in the NL, they managed to reach the league's championship finals three years in a row (1992–94), but have never won a championship in their long history.

The team was saved from bankruptcy in 2006.[3]

Honors

Champions

The team has never won a NL Championship .

Runner-up

Players

Current roster

Updated August 11, 2014.[4][5]

# Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
2 Switzerland Marc Abplanalp D L 33 2007 Grindelwald, Switzerland
15 Switzerland Sandro Brügger  RW L 26 2007
89 Switzerland Andrej Bykov C L 30 2004 Moscow, Russian SFSR
1 Switzerland Benjamin Conz G R 27 2012 St. Ursanne, Switzerland
96 Canada Christian Dubé (A) C R 41 2011 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Canada Barry Brust G L 30 2017 Swan River, Manitoba, Canada
18 Switzerland John Fritsche RW R 27 2014 Parma, Ohio, USA
57 Switzerland Adam Hasani LW L 29 2007 Fribourg, Switzerland
56 Switzerland Timo Helbling (A) D R 37 2013 Basel, Switzerland
51 Switzerland Kevin Huber (UFA) G L 25 2013
27 Switzerland Anthony Huguenin D L 26 2013 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
58 Switzerland Sandy Jeannin (C)  C L 42 2008 Les Bayards, Switzerland
29 Switzerland Jeremie Kamerzin D R 30 2014
8 Canada Joel Kwiatkowski D L 41 2012 Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Canada
20 United States Greg Mauldin C/LW R 36 2012 Holliston, Massachusetts, USA
7 Switzerland Thibaut Monnet LW L 36 2013 Martigny, Switzerland
49 Switzerland Maxime Montandon D R 24 2010 Bern, Switzerland
71 Switzerland Killian Mottet F L 27 2013
82 Switzerland Michael Ngoy D L 36 2005 Lausanne, Switzerland
60 Switzerland Melvin Nyffeler G L 24 2014 Volketswil, Switzerland
13 Switzerland Benny Plüss (A) LW L 32 2003 Bülach, Switzerland
78 Canada Marc Pouliot C R 33 2013 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
77 Switzerland Sebastien Schilt D L 31 2012 Hasle, Switzerland
86 Switzerland Julien Sprunger RW R 32 2002 Fribourg, Switzerland
9 Canada Jeff Tambellini LW/C L 34 2014 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
17 Switzerland Tristan Vauclair C L 33 2011 Delémont, Switzerland
35 Switzerland Ludovic Waeber G L 22 2011
33 Switzerland David Wildhaber D L 23 Bern, Switzerland

Head coach: Gerd Zenhäusern

Assistant coach: Kari Martikainen

Goalie coach: David Aebischer

Sports director: Christian Dubé

Assistant sports director: René Matte

References

  1. ↑ "Internet extract from the Register of commerce of Fribourg Canton". Archived from the original on 2012-12-17.
  2. ↑ "NLA mit Zuschauerrekord". www.hockeyfans.ch. Retrieved 2016-02-28.
  3. 1 2 "Fribourg-Gottéron Club Histoire". www.gotteron.ch. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
  4. ↑ "Équipe 2014/2015" (in French). www.gotteron.ch. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
  5. ↑ "Mannschaft 2014/2015" (in German). www.gotteron.ch. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
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