Zoetermeer Panthers is a former semi-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 the 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 Dutch (semi-)professional, top-level hockey league. They played in the Silverdome, an ice sports facility in Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.06 km² . A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

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. They began play for the 2010-2011 season in the Dutch Bekercompetitie, the league leading up to the National Cup championship game. On november 26 the club announced that they would withdraw from the Eredivisie, effective immediately, due to lack of sponsors and poor attendance figures. They currently maintain two teams in the amateur Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie (ice hockey)

The Eerste Divisie is the second level ice hockey league in The Netherlands. It is the top level amateur league, underneath the professional North Sea Cup league.- Group A :* Destil Tilburg Trappers Toekomstteam* Dordrecht Lions* Eindhoven High Techs...

 league.

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Zoetermeer Panthers

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Year Founded 2010 Home Ice Stadium Silverdome (capacity 1,600 seats, 600 standing) City Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.06 km² . A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950...

, 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 Blue, gold, grey Head Coach Marc Visschers Championships none

Season results

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

Season	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts	Finish	Playoffs
2010–11	12	4	1	3	4	44	51	17	--, Eredivisie

Defence

• #41 Adam Blanchette
• #9 Johnny Ebregt
• #7 Adam Gebara
• #10 Wesley Hendriks
• #2 Travis Martell
• #26 Michael van Rijswijk
• #20 Dax van de Velden
• #24 Jeff Winchester
• #14 Nick van Zon

Forwards

• #23 Scott van den Elskamp
• #11 Terry Harrison
• #21 Marcel Kars
• #22 Marc LeFebvre
• #3 Joey Oosterveld
• #94 Andrew Schembri
• #71 Mike Smietana
• #61 Danny Stempher
• #19 Joy Turpijn
• #27 Pascal van de Velde

External links

• Official website (in Dutch
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• Panthers videos
• Dutch Ice hockey Federation (in Dutch
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  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
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• Panthers description on IJshockey.com (in Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
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