Friesland Flyers

Friesland Flyers

City	Heerenveen, Netherlands
League	Eredivisie 1971-present Dutch Cup
Founded	1967
Home arena	Thialf (Capacity: 3,500)
Colours
General manager	Rob van Aalderen
Head coach	Mike Nason
Asst. head coach	Dennis Schreur
Website	www.frieslandflyers.nl
Franchise history
Friesland Flyers

The Friesland Flyers is a ice hockey club located in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The highest playing team, who competes in the Eredivisie, the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands, is a professional team. This team also competes for the Dutch Cup prior to the Eredivisie season. Home games are played in the icehockey arena of Thialf.

History

The Friesland Flyers were founded in 1967 and played their first season in the Eredivisie in 1971-72. The Flyers set the Eredivisie record for the most consecutive championships with 7 between 1976 and 1983.

Heerenveen is the smallest Dutch city currently represented in the Eredivisie (although the Belgian city of Herentals is smaller).

The highest played team has competed, for sponsorship reasons, under several names in the eredivisie. Since 2011 the club is named "Friesland Flyers" (a non-sponsorship name) to show they are not alone the club for the town Heerenveen, but also for whole Friesland.

Names marked with * are sponsorship names.

Competed name	Seasons	Notes
Thialf Heerenveen	1971/72 - 1973/74
* Peters & Jagers Heerenveen	1974/75
* Feenstra Verwarming Heerenveen	1975/76 - 1977/78
* Feenstra Flyers	1978/79 - 1983/84
* Freriks Flyers	1984/85
* BP Flyers	1985/86 - 1989/90
* Forbo Flyers	1990/91 - 1991/92
Flyers	1992/93 - 1994/95	(until January 1995)
* Pelgrim Flyers	1994/95 - 1999/00	(from January 1995)
* Formido Flyers	2000/01 - 2003/04
* Vadeko Flyers	2004/05 - 2007/08
* Hajé Flyers	2008/09 - 2009/10
* A6.nl Flyers	2010/11
Friesland Flyers	2011/12 - 2012/13	(until January 2013 still sponsored by A6.nl; from January 2013 sponsored by UNIS)

Championships

National Championship: 8 times Champion: 1976-77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 2015-16
Dutch Cup: 11 times winner: 1976-77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1997–98, 2001-02, 2015-16

Season results

Recent seasons from 2005-06 to 2012-13.

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
2012–13	36	21	2	3	10	138	97	70	3rd, Eredivisie	Lost semi-finals to Tilburg (0W-3L)
2011–12	14	5	0	1	8	52	63	16	6th, North Sea Cup	Lost qtr.final round-robin to The Hague and Tilburg(0W-1OTL-7L)
2010–11	28	15	4	0	9	118	105	53	3rd, North Sea Cup	Lost quarter-finals to Geleen (0-2)
2009–10	28	15	2	2	9	125	88	51	5th, Eredivisie	Lost quarter-finals to Geleen (0-2)
2008–09	24	11	1	2	10	87	79	37	5th, Eredivisie	Lost quarter-finals to Nijmegen (0-3)
2007-08	24	18	1	1	4	119	53	57	2nd, Eredivisie	Lost finals to Tilburg (1-4)
2006-07	20	8	3	0	9	80	78	30	4th, Eredivisie	Lost semi-finals to Geleen (0-3)
2005-06	20	12	1	3	4	92	56	41	2nd, Eredivisie	Lost finals to Nijmegen (2-3)

2013-14 Roster

#	Nation	Name
Goalies
30	Netherlands	Martijn Oosterwijk
31	Netherlands	Sjoerd Idzenga
Defenders
2	Canada	Brock Matheson
23	Netherlands	Nick de Jong
15	Canada	Andrew Krelove
37	Canada	Nick Kuiper
52	Netherlands	Mark Hoekstra
16	Netherlands	Niels van der Vossen
Forwards
3	Netherlands	Joey Oosterveld
5	Netherlands	Sander Dijkstra
9	Netherlands	Kevin Bruijsten
10	Netherlands	Brent Janssen
11	Netherlands	Aldo van Aalderen
13	Canada	Jade Galbraith
19	Netherlands	Calvin Pohlman
20	Netherlands	Kevin Bruijsten
21	Netherlands	Tony Demelinne
70	Netherlands	Valentijn Bouten
71	Canada	Shawn Collymore
84	Netherlands	Kevin Nijland
97	Netherlands	Marc Nijland

Staff

Chris Eimers – Head Coach
Justin Bekkering – Assistant Coach
Rob van Aalderen – Team manager
Roderick Langendijk – Physiotherapist
Hendrik Beeksma – Equipment
Dirk Lindeboom – Equipment
Erik Schra – Equipment
Kim Zeijlstra – Statistics

Former coaches

Alex Andjelic
Dave Hyrsky
Chuck Norris

Notable players

Alwin Assenberg
Jolke Balt
Jeroen Beeksma
Cole Byers

External links

Heerenveen Flyers official website (Dutch)
Netherlands Ice Hockey Union (Dutch)
website TYSC Tilburg (Dutch)

Eredivisie

Governing Body	Nederlandse IJshockey Bond

Current Teams	Dordrecht Lions Eindhoven Kemphanen Friesland Flyers Geleen Eaters HYC Herentals HYS The Hague Tilburg Trappers

Former Teams	Amstel Tijgers Amsterdam G's Groningen Grizzlies Leuven Chiefs Nijmegen Devils Nijmegen Tigers Rotterdam Panda's Utrecht Dragons White Caps Turnhout Zoetermeer Panthers

Related tournaments	Dutch Cup IIHF Continental Cup

Seasons	1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1949–50 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011-12 2012–13 2013–14

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