Friesland Flyers

Friesland Flyers
City Heerenveen, Netherlands
League Eredivisie
1971-present
Dutch Cup
Founded 1967
Home arena Thialf
(capacity: 3,500)
Colours               
General manager Netherlands Rob van Aalderen
Head coach Canada Mike Nason
Asst. head coach Canada Dennis Schreur
Website www.frieslandflyers.nl
Franchise history
Friesland Flyers

The Friesland Flyers is a ice hockey club located in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The highest playing team, who competes in the Eredivisie, the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands, is a professional team. This team also competes for the Dutch Cup prior to the Eredivisie season. Home games are played in the icehockey arena of Thialf.

History

The Friesland Flyers were founded in 1967 and played their first season in the Eredivisie in 1971-72. The Flyers set the Eredivisie record for the most consecutive championships with 7 between 1976 and 1983.

Heerenveen is the smallest Dutch city currently represented in the Eredivisie (although the Belgian city of Herentals is smaller).

The highest played team has competed, for sponsorship reasons, under several names in the eredivisie. Since 2011 the club is named "Friesland Flyers" (a non-sponsorship name) to show they are not alone the club for the town Heerenveen, but also for whole Friesland.

Names marked with * are sponsorship names.
Competed nameSeasonsNotes
Thialf Heerenveen1971/72 - 1973/74
* Peters & Jagers Heerenveen1974/75
* Feenstra Verwarming Heerenveen1975/76 - 1977/78
* Feenstra Flyers1978/79 - 1983/84
* Freriks Flyers1984/85
* BP Flyers1985/86 - 1989/90
* Forbo Flyers1990/91 - 1991/92
Flyers1992/93 - 1994/95(until January 1995)
* Pelgrim Flyers1994/95 - 1999/00(from January 1995)
* Formido Flyers2000/01 - 2003/04
* Vadeko Flyers2004/05 - 2007/08
* Hajé Flyers2008/09 - 2009/10
* A6.nl Flyers2010/11
Friesland Flyers2011/12 - 2012/13(until January 2013 still sponsored by A6.nl;
from January 2013 sponsored by UNIS)

Championships

National Championship
9 times Champion: 1976-77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 2015-16, 2016-17
Dutch Cup
12 times winner: 1976-77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1997–98, 2001-02, 2015-16, 2016-2017

Season results

Recent seasons from 2005-06 to 2012-13.

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

SeasonGPWOTWOTLLGFGAPtsFinishPlayoffs
2012–133621231013897703rd, EredivisieLost semi-finals to Tilburg (0W-3L)
2011–121450185263166th, North Sea CupLost qtr.final round-robin to The Hague and Tilburg(0W-1OTL-7L)
2010–112815409118105533rd, North Sea CupLost quarter-finals to Geleen (0-2)
2009–10281522912588515th, EredivisieLost quarter-finals to Geleen (0-2)
2008–09241112108779375th, EredivisieLost quarter-finals to Nijmegen (0-3)
2007-08241811411953572nd, EredivisieLost finals to Tilburg (1-4)
2006-072083098078304th, EredivisieLost semi-finals to Geleen (0-3)
2005-0620121349256412nd, EredivisieLost finals to Nijmegen (2-3)

2013-14 Roster

#NationName
Goalies
30 NetherlandsMartijn Oosterwijk
31 NetherlandsSjoerd Idzenga
Defenders
2 CanadaBrock Matheson
23 NetherlandsNick de Jong
15 CanadaAndrew Krelove
37 CanadaNick Kuiper
52 NetherlandsMark Hoekstra
16 NetherlandsNiels van der Vossen
Forwards
3 NetherlandsJoey Oosterveld
5 NetherlandsSander Dijkstra
9 NetherlandsKevin Bruijsten
10 NetherlandsBrent Janssen
11 NetherlandsAldo van Aalderen
13 CanadaJade Galbraith
19 NetherlandsCalvin Pohlman
20 NetherlandsKevin Bruijsten
21 NetherlandsTony Demelinne
70 NetherlandsValentijn Bouten
71 CanadaShawn Collymore
84 NetherlandsKevin Nijland
97 NetherlandsMarc Nijland

Staff

  • Chris Eimers – Head Coach
  • Justin Bekkering – Assistant Coach
  • Rob van Aalderen – Team manager
  • Roderick Langendijk – Physiotherapist
  • Hendrik Beeksma – Equipment
  • Dirk Lindeboom – Equipment
  • Erik Schra – Equipment
  • Kim Zeijlstra – Statistics

Former coaches

Notable players

  • Netherlands Alwin Assenberg
  • Netherlands Jolke Balt
  • Netherlands Jeroen Beeksma
  • Canada Cole Byers
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