Storhamar Hockey, often referred to by its

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Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

team based in

Hamar Hamar is a List of cities in Norway, town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet Counties of Norway, county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Hedmarken. ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The club currently plays in the

Fjordkraft-ligaen Eliteserien, known as Fjordkraftligaen due to sponsorship, is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association. It comprises 10 clubs and works on the premise of promotion and relegation, in which the tw ...

, the highest level of Norwegian hockey. The club has won seven regular season titles and seven national championships since its founding on 18 March 1957. Storhamar play their home games in the

CC Amfi CC Amfi, also known as Nordlyshallen ("The Northern Light Hall"), is an indoor sports arena in Hamar, Norway. It is mostly used for ice hockey and is the home arena of Storhamar Hockey. It has also been used for short track speed skating, figure ...

. The club also includes the largest junior department in Norwegian ice hockey. The team colours are yellow and blue.

History

The

1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 6. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 195 ...

inspired local Hamar youth to form a hockey club in the area. The first ice rink was constructed in 1955, and Storhamar was formally accepted into the

Norwegian Ice Hockey Association The Norwegian Ice Hockey Association (in Norwegian, ''Norges Ishockeyforbund'' (NIHF) is the governing body of all ice hockey, sledge hockey and in-line hockey in Norway. NIHF has its office at Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo. The current president is ...

two years later. To date, the club has won the Norwegian Championships (playoffs) seven times,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

and

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

. The most notable player in franchise history is

Erik Kristiansen Erik Kristiansen (born 12 March 1961 in Furnes, Norway) is a former Norwegian ice hockey player. Playing career He played 20 seasons with the Storhamar Dragons of Hamar, Norway. He also played 97 games for Norway's National team (IIHF World Cham ...

who played 20 seasons scoring 509 goals and 406 assists in 649 games. The best known player internationally from Storhamar is

Patrick Thoresen Patrick Thoresen (born 7 November 1983) is a Norwegian professional ice hockey left winger who is currently playing for the Storhamar in the Fjordkraftligaen. He resides in Hamar, Norway, where he grew up, during the off season. He has a younge ...

. During the 2016–17 playoffs, Storhamar Hockey was involved in the longest professional hockey match ever recorded, taking 217 minutes and 14 seconds to defeat

Sparta Warriors Ishockeyklubben Sparta Sarpsborg, commonly referred to as the Sparta Warriors, is a Norwegian ice hockey team based in Sarpsborg, Norway. They currently play in the GET League. They play their home games in the Sparta Amfi arena and is Norway's ...

2-1. The game ended in the 11th period when

Joakim Jensen Joakim Jensen is a retired Norwegian professional ice hockey player who spent most of his career with Storhamar of the Norwegian GET-ligaen. Jensen scored the overtime game-winning goal against Sparta Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτ ...

scored for Storhamar.

Season-by-season results

''This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by Storhamar. For the full season-by-season history, see

List of Storhamar Dragons seasons Storhamar Hockey is a Norwegian ice hockey club based in Hamar. They are members of the highest Norwegian ice hockey league, Eliteserien (known as GET-ligaen for sponsorship reasons). Their home arena has been Hamar OL-Amfi since 1992. Ice hockey in ...

.''

Players

Team captains

* Michael Smithurst - 2000-03 * Mikael Tjälldèn - 2003-05 * Mads Hansen - 2005-06 * Mattias Livf - 2006-08 *

Pål Johnsen Pål "Magic" Johnsen (born March 17, 1976 in Hamar) is a retired Norwegian hockey player, who most of his career played for the Storhamar Dragons in the GET-ligaen (top league in Norway). Johnsen made his debut for the senior team as a 16-year-old ...

- 2008-13 * Mads Hansen - 2013-15 *

Christian Larrivée Christian Larrivée (born August 25, 1982) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in the North American minor leagues until 2006, when he moved to Europe. Born in Gaspé, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, Larrivée played junior hockey for ...

- 2015-17 *

- 2017 *

Kodie Curran Kodie Curran (born December 18, 1989) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing with Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Playing career Before starting his professional career, Curran played fiv ...

- 2017-18 *

- 2018-

Retired numbers

Head coaches

* Lasse Beckman * Lenny Eriksson * Lennart Åhlberg *

Göran Sjöberg Göran "Flygis" Sjöberg (born June 8, 1960) is a retired Swedish ice hockey player and coach. From 2005 to 2007, he was assistant coach in the Swedish Elitserien club HV71. Playing career Sjöberg has played for Brynäs IF (two seasons) and V ...

* Petter Thoresen * Lars Molin *

Petter Salsten Petter Salsten (born 11 March 1965) is a Norwegian ice hockey player, coach and sports official. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in 1988, 1992, and 1994. He played for the clubs Furuse ...

* Aleksandr Smirnov *

Rune Gulliksen Rune Gulliksen (born January 23, 1963) is a former Norwegian ice hockey player. He was born in Fredrikstad, Norway. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = ...

* Peter Johansson

Records and statistics

Statistics for regular season only. * – current active player

Scoring leaders

Most league matches

Last updated: 19 January 2021
Source: silarkivet.no

Team

Norwegian Championship Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

* 1994–95 * 1995–96 * 1996–97 * 1999–00 * 2003-04 * 2007-08 * 2017-18

Individual

NIHF

Golden Puck Guldpucken (''The Golden Puck'') is awarded annually to the ice hockey player of the year in Sweden. It is similar to the NHL's Hart Memorial Trophy. Normally it goes to a player in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the top-level ice hockey league ...

winners * Øyvind Løsamoen - 1983/84 *

- 1984/85 *

Ole Eskild Dahlstrøm Ole Eskild Dahlstrøm (born 4 March 1970 in Oslo, Norway) is a former professional Norwegian ice hockey player. Playing career Dahlstrøm broke onto the Norwegian hockey scene 1987/88 playing for Furuset. The following season, still as a junio ...

- 1995/96 *

- 1996/97 *

- 1999/00

GET-ligaen Eliteserien, known as Fjordkraftligaen due to sponsorship, is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association. It comprises 10 clubs and works on the premise of promotion and relegation, in which the tw ...

Playoff MVP * 2006/07, 2014/15 -

* 2007/08 - Ruben Smith All Star team selections * Åge Ellingsen, 1985, 1986, 1989 *

, 1985 *

, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 * Nikolai Davydkin, 1993 *

Jim Marthinsen Jim Marthinsen (born 15 April 1956) is a retired Norwegian hockey goaltender who played for Vålerenga Ishockey and for the Norwegian national team. He participated at the Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux ol ...

, 1995, 1996 *

Martin Åhlberg Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...

, 1995 *

, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003 * Tom Erik Olsen, 1996 * Aleksandr Smirnov, 1997 * Mika Rautio, 1998 *

, 2000 *

Antti Rahkonen Antti is a Finnish masculine given name derived from the Greek name ''Andreas''. In Estonia, the variant Anti is more common. It is uncommon as a surname. People with the name include: Given name * Antti Autti (born 1985), Finnish snowboarder * ...

, 2004 *

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, 2006 * Mads Hansen, 2006 * Patrick Yetman, 2006 *

Trevor Koenig Trevor Koenig (born 10 December 1974) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He last played for the Dundee Stars in the UK Elite Ice Hockey League. Koenig was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Koenig currently coaches the Mighty Bulls' U7 a ...

, 2011 * Tommy Johansen, 2012

Previous seasons' rosters

* Storhamar Dragons roster 2009/10

References

External links

Official website (section in English)
{{Sport in Hamar Ice hockey teams in Norway Ice hockey clubs established in 1957 Sport in Hamar 1957 establishments in Norway GET-ligaen teams