The Rødovre Mighty Bulls is a

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professional

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team based in

Rødovre Rødovre is a town in eastern Denmark, seat of the Rødovre Municipality, in the Region Hovedstaden. The town's population 1 January 2019 was 39,907, and in addition 145 persons had no fixed address, which made up a total of 40,052 in the munic ...

, Denmark, playing in the

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, the top tier of Danish ice hockey. The club was founded in 1961 and play their home games in the Rødovre Skøjte Arena which has a capacity of 3,600 spectators. The club has won the Danish championship 6 times in 1978, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990 and 1999. From 1977 to 1979, the team was coached by

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, the former coach of the

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. Kulagin joined the Danish team after getting fired as head coach of the Soviet national team following a disappointing 3rd-place finish at the

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. Rødovre had used contacts at the Soviet Embassy in Copenhagen, asking them to find a suitable coach for the team. Much to their surprise, they received the famous World Championship winning coach. The fact that such a high level coach was sent to coach in the then lowly Danish league was seen by many as an additional form of punishment for the poor result at the 1977 World Championships. Under Kulagin's guidance, the team won their first Danish title in 1978.

Retired numbers

* 5

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* 29 Jannik Stæhr

Notable former Rødovre Mighty Bulls players

* Bent Hansen * Valeri Bragin * Kim "Musen" Andersen * Olaf Eller * Anatoli Chistyakov *

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* Karsten Arvidsen *

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* Michael Smidt *

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Jannik Hansen Jannik Hansen (born 15 March 1986) is a Danish former professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey), right winger. Hansen began playing professionally at the age of 16 with both the Rødovre Mighty Bulls of the AL-Bank Ligaen, Danish league and t ...

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Mads Bødker Mads Bødker (born August 31, 1987) is a retired Danish professional ice hockey defenceman who lastly played for SønderjyskE of the Danish Metal Ligaen. He has played three seasons with Rødovre Mighty Bulls of the Danish top league AL-Bank Liga ...

* Sebastian Dahm Players in bold are

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alumni.

Championships

* 1978 * 1983 * 1985 * 1986 * 1990 * 1999

References

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