Viking Hockey
Encyclopedia
Viking Hockey is an ice hockey
team based in Stavanger
, Norway
. The club was founded in 1998, replacing Viking IK
, which had folded in 1996. They played one season in the GET-ligaen
, 1998-99. The team colors are blue and they play home matches in Siddishallen.
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 based in Stavanger
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. The club was founded in 1998, replacing Viking IK
Viking IK
Viking IK was an ice hockey team in Stavanger, Norway. The club existed from 1968-1996, and played in the GET-ligaen , the top level of Norwegian ice hockey, from 1978-1996. Viking IK went bankrupt after the 1996 season....
, which had folded in 1996. They played one season in the GET-ligaen
GET-ligaen
GET-ligaen is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. The league was known as 1. divisjon until 1990, when it was reorganized and named Eliteserien . That name was held until 2004 when cable TV company UPC became main sponsor...
, 1998-99. The team colors are blue and they play home matches in Siddishallen.
Famous players
- Rob SchistadRob SchistadRob Schistad is a former Norwegian ice hockey player. He was born in Windham, Ontario, Canada, and played for the Stavanger club Viking IK. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team at the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics.-References:'...
- Eirik Cecil Paulsen
- Kyle McDonough
- Tore VikingstadTore VikingstadTore Vikingstad is a Norwegian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Hannover Scorpions in the German league, Deutsche Eishockey Liga.-Club career:...
- Ed Galliani