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Year Founded 1969 Home Ice Sportcentrum Kardinge (capacity 800) City Groningen, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

Team Colors Red, White, Black Head Coach Sergey Yashin Championships 1 (1985–86)
Pecoma Grizzlies Groningen were a professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team in Groningen, The Netherlands. They played in the Dutch Eredivisie

Eredivisie (hockey)

The Eredivisie is the only professional ice hockey league in the Netherlands and the highest level of competition sanctioned by the Nederlandse IJshockey Bond...

, the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands. Home games were played at the Sportcentrum Kardinge.

History

Founded on December 23, 1969 as Groninger IJshockey Stichting (GIJS), the team played in the lower divisions until 1976, when it began competing in the Eredivisie. It won its first and only Eredivisie championship in the 1985-86 season, with 7 wins and 1 loss in the playoffs.

Failure to attract a major sponsor forced the team out of the Eredivisie from 1988 until 2007. In 2007-2008, after winning two straight championships in the eerste divisie (the top amateur division), the team re-entered the Eredivisie for three seasons. However, after three losing seasons and weak ticket sales, the team dropped out of the Eredivisie in the summer of 2010.

Season results

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

Season	GP	W	OTW	T	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts	Finish	Playoffs
2009–10 2009–10 Eredivisie (ice hockey) The 2009–10 Eredivisie was the 50th season of the Eredivisie, the highest level of ice hockey competition in the Netherlands. The season started on November 13, following the completion of the quarterfinals of the league cup. Eight teams participated and the teams played four times against...	28	1	0	-	1	26	87	223	4	8th, Eredivisie	Did not qualify
2008–09	24	10	2	-	0	12	77	90	34	6th, Eredivisie	Lost quarter-finals to Geleen
2007–08	24	1	1	-	1	21	61	207	6	7th, Eredivisie	Did not qualify
1988–2006	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Did not compete in Eredivisie
1986–87	10	4	-	2	-	4	52	54	12	4th, Eredivisie	Did not qualify
1985–86	16	10	-	2	-	4	87	60	22	1st, Eredivisie	Won National Championship
1984–85	36	27	-	1	-	8	289	136	55	4th, Eredivisie	3rd in playoff round (3-0-3)
1983–84	10	3	-	0	-	7	39	65	6	5th, Eredivisie	Lost semi-final to Nijmegen (0-2)
1981–83	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Did not compete in Eredivisie
1980–81	32	13	-	5	-	14	171	136	31	6th, Eredivisie	Did not qualify
1979–80	18	10	-	3	-	5	102	76	23	4th, Eredivisie	3rd in playoff round (1-2-3)
1978–79	18	11	-	1	-	6	91	76	23	4th, Eredivisie	2nd in playoff round (3-0-3)
1977–78	20	15	-	0	-	5	114	86	30	1st, Eredivisie	2nd in playoff round (4-0-2)
1976–77	24	9	-	1	-	14	127	154	30	6th, Eredivisie	None (regular season determined champion)
1975–76	14	9	-	2	-	7	62	77	12	5th, Eredivisie	None (regular season determined champion)

Defence

• 13 Jeoen Oosterwijk
• 14 Noel Coultice
• 19 Ronald Trip
• 4 Preston Cicchine
• 44 Blair Tassone
• 98 Ricardo Dijkema

Forwards

• 9 Derek Bachynski
• 11 Danny Kerstholt
• 14 Blair Lefebvre
• 15 Ram Sidhu
• 19 Boeke Balt
• 20 Zahir Hupsakee
• 21 Alwin Aschendorf
• 22 Reiner Holthof
• 24 Klaver Jan Middelweerd
• 69 Arjan Peters

Championships

Eredivisie National Championship
once: 1985-86

Eerste divisie championship
twice: 2005-06; 2006–07

External links

• Groningen Grizzlies official website (Dutch
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• Netherlands Ice Hockey Union (Dutch
  Dutch language
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