2016–17 Odense Bulldogs season

2016–17 Odense Bulldogs
2016–17 record	11–7–2
Home record	6–3–0
Road record	5–4–2
Goals for	56
Goals against	46
Team information
Coach	Peter Johansson
Assistant Coach	Mads True
Captain	Michael Eskesen
Alternate captains	Simon Grønvaldt Dale Mitchell
Arena	Bryggeriet Vestfyens Arena
Team leaders
Goals	Tony Romano (19)
Assists	Dale Mitchell (18)
Points	Dale Mitchell (25)
Penalties in minutes	Dale Mitchell (64)
Goals against average	Tadeas Galansky (2.40)
< 2015–16

The 2016–17 Odense Bulldogs season is the 26th season in the Danish Hockey League since the team was promoted in 1990.

There has been a lot of redeployments during the summer. Bulldogs did not extend the contract with coach Brad Gratton, and signed Frederikshavn coach Peter Johansson on a two-year contract.^[1]

Furthermore, a big amount of players have left the club, including stars as Ryan McDonough, Sean Wiles and John Armstrong. However, Bulldogs has signed a lot of new players, such as the former Bulldogs-player Michael Eskesen.

Pre-season

Schedule and results

2016–17 Game Log: 3–6–0 (Home: 0–3–0; Road: 3–4–0)
#	Date	Home	Score	Visitor	OT	Decision	Attendance	Record
1	16 August	Odense	1–3	Esbjerg				0–1–0
2	19 August	Gentofte	2–4	Odense				1–1–0
3	26 August	Bayreuth	6–3	Odense				1–2–0
4	27 August	Most	2–4	Odense				1–3–0
5	28 August	Crimmitschau	5–3	Odense				2–3–0
6	2 September	Odense	1–3	Rungsted				2–4–0
7	9 September	Aalborg	3–2	Odense				2–5–0
8	13 September	Frederikshavn	1–4	Odense				3–5–0
9	15 September	Odense	1–5	Gentofte				3–6–0

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
5	Gentofte Stars	18	7	3	2	6	43	44	−1	29	Qualification to Metal Ligaen Play-offs
6	Herning Blue Fox	18	7	1	5	5	49	43	+6	28
7	Odense Bulldogs	17	6	3	2	6	50	42	+8	26
8	Esbjerg Energy	18	5	2	3	8	53	49	+4	22
9	Rødovre Mighty Bulls	17	3	2	2	10	44	72	−28	15

Updated to match(es) played on 25 November 2016. Source: Metal Ligaen
Rules for classification:

Schedule and results

2016–17 Game Log: 11–7–2, 32 Points (Home: 6–3–0 ; Road: 5–4–2)
September: 1–1–1, 3 Points (Home: 0–1–0 ; Road: 1–0–1) # Date Home Score Visitor OT Decision Attendance Record Pts 1 23 September Odense 1–2 Aalborg Galansky 1,282 0–1–0 0 Report 2 27 September Frederikshavn 3–2 Odense OT Galansky 929 0–1–1 1 Report 3 30 September Esbjerg 1–2 Odense SO Galansky 1,151 1–1–1 3 Report
October: 7–2–1, 16 Points (Home: 4–1–0 ; Road: 3–1–1) # Date Home Score Visitor OT Decision Attendance Record Pts Recap 4 4 October Odense 0–1 Gentofte Galansky 768 1–2–1 3 Report 5 7 October Odense 2–0 SønderjyskE Galansky 1,409 2–2–1 6 Report 6 11 October Odense 3–2 Herning SO Galansky 493 3–2–1 8 Report 7 14 October Odense 5–4 Rungsted SO Galansky 1,092 4–2–1 10 Report 8 16 October Gentofte 1–3 Odense Galansky 327 5–2–1 13 Report 9 18 October Odense 3–4 Rødovre Galansky 897 5–3–1 13 Report 10 21 October Herlev 4–7 Odense Galansky 617 6–3–1 16 Report 11 22 October Odense 5–1 Herlev Galansky 955 7–3–1 19 Report 12 28 October Rødovre 2–4 Odense Galansky 1,256 8–3–1 22 Report 13 29 October SønderjyskE 4–3 Odense OT Galansky 2,102 8–3–2 23 Report
November: 2–4–0, 6 Points (Home: 2–1–0 ; Road: 0–3–0) # Date Home Score Visitor OT Decision Attendance Record Pts Recap 14 9 November Rungsted 3–2 Odense Galansky 1,084 8–4–2 23 Report 15 11 November Herning 5–4 Odense Galansky 1,325 8–5–2 23 Report 16 12 November Odense 3–1 Esbjerg Galansky 1,205 9–5–2 26 Report 17 25 November Aalborg 4–1 Odense Galansky 1,812 9–6–2 26 Report 18 26 November Odense 4–2 Frederikshavn Galansky 872 10–6–2 29 Report 19 29 November Odense 0–2 Aalborg Galansky 891 10–7–2 29 Report
December: 1–0–0, 3 Points (Home: 0–0–0 ; Road: 1–0–0) # Date Home Score Visitor OT Decision Attendance Record Pts Recap 20 2 December Frederikshavn 0–2 Odense Galansky 1,214 11–7–2 32 Report 21 6 December Esbjerg Odense 22 9 December Odense Gentofte 23 13 December SønderjyskE Odense 24 16 December Odense Herning 25 20 December Rungsted Odense 26 22 December Odense Rødovre 27 29 December Odense Herlev 28 30 December Herlev Odense
January: 0–0–0, 0 Points (Home: 0–0–0 ; Road: 0–0–0) # Date Home Score Visitor OT Decision Attendance Record Pts Recap 29 3 January Frederikshavn Odense 30 6 January Odense Rungsted 31 10 January Odense SønderjyskE 32 13 January Gentofte Odense 33 15 January Aalborg Odense 34 20 January Esbjerg Odense 35 21 January Odense Esbjerg 36 24 January Odense Frederikshavn 37 27 January Odense Aalborg 38 31 January Frederikshavn Odense
February: 0–0–0, 0 Points (Home: 0–0–0 ; Road: 0–0–0) # Date Home Score Visitor OT Decision Attendance Record Pts Recap 39 5 February Odense Gentofte 40 15 February SønderjyskE Odense 41 17 February Herning Odense 42 18 February Odense Herning 43 21 February Rungsted Odense 44 24 February Odense Rødovre 45 28 February Herlev Odense Legend:   Win (3 points)   Overtime/Shootout win (2 points)   Loss (0 points)   Overtime/Shootout loss (1 point)

Player statistics

Updated 26 November 2016

Skaters

Regular Season[2] Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM Tony Romano 18 19 6 25 +11 10 Dale Mitchell 18 7 15 25 +9 62 Sebastian Strandberg 15 4 15 19 +6 10 Rasmus Bjerrum 18 7 4 11 +5 4 Robin Sterner 18 3 4 7 −1 28 Rasmus Lyø 18 1 6 7 +2 6 Mathias Thinnesen 17 2 4 6 −1 8 Michael Eskesen 18 0 6 6 +9 10 Simon Grønvaldt 17 1 4 5 +2 8 Jonas René Hansen 18 2 2 4 0 4 Mikkel Ankjær Nielsen 18 2 2 4 −1 22 Martin Larsen 15 2 1 3 +2 33 Henrik Nielsen 18 1 2 3 +3 8 Oliver Larsen 16 0 3 3 +5 31 Frederik Sørensen 15 1 1 2 −4 14 Frederik Høeg 18 1 1 2 −3 0 Andreas Pedersen 18 1 1 2 +2 12 Mads Schaarup 18 0 2 2 +1 29

Goaltenders

Regular Season

Player	GP	GAA	SV%
Tadeas Galansky	18	2.41	.910

Continental Cup

Group stage

The Group D tournament was played in Odense, Denmark from 18–20 November 2016.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NOT	ODE	ANG	DON
1	Nottingham Panthers	3	2	0	0	1	10	10	0	6	Qualification to Super Final		—	5–4	4–3	1–3
2	Odense Bulldogs	3	2	0	0	1	9	8	+1	6			4–5	—	3–2	2–1
3	Ducs d'Angers	3	1	0	0	2	8	9	−1	3			3–4	2–3	—	3–2
4	HC Donbass	3	1	0	0	2	6	6	0	3			3–1	1–2	2–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 20 November 2016. Source: IIHF.com

Matches

18 November 2016 20:00

Odense

4–5 (1–2, 1–2, 2–1)

Nottingham

Odense Isstadion, Denmark

Game reference
	Tadeas Galansky	Goalies	Miika Wiikman	Referees: Robin Berg Brett Sheva Linesmen: Claus Hansen Simon Mølgaard
	0–1 12:52 – O. Betteridge (R. Lachowicz, P. Kalus) R. Sterner (S. Grønvaldt, R. Bjerrum) – 13:29 1–1 1–2 16:58 – B. Moran (L. MacMillan, P. Kalus) 1–3 25:15 – M. Carter (A. Nikiforuk, R. Lachowicz) 1–4 29:43 – P. Kalus (A. Nikiforuk) R. Sterner (R. Bjerrum, H. Nielsen) – 33:17 2–4 2–5 46:23 – B. McGrattan (R. Farmer) R. Lyø (F. Høeg) – 49:43 3–5 D. Mitchell (M. Thinnesen, O. Larsen) – 59:09 4–5
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	33	Shots	34

19 November 2016 19:00

Odense

2–1 (1–1, 0–0, 1–0)

Donbass

Odense Isstadion, Denmark

Game reference
	Tadeas Galansky	Goalies	Yevgeni Tsaregorodtsev	Referees: Denis Naumov Brett Sheva Linesmen: Lasse Dahlerup Simon Mølgaard
	0–1 11:44 – R. Blagoy T. Romano (O. Larsen, D. Mitchell – 15:53 1–1 T. Romano (S. Strandberg, M. Larsen) (PP) – 45:57 2–1
	10 min	Penalties	14 min
	23	Shots	31

20 November 2016 16:00

Angers

2–3 (1–0, 0–1, 1–1)

Odense

Odense Isstadion, Denmark

Game reference
	Léo Bertein	Goalies	Tadeas Galansky	Referees: Robin Berg Denis Naumov Linesmen: Oliver Blach Claus Hansen
	0–1 00:55 – R. Bjerrum (T. Romano) M. Gagnon (G. Leveque) (PP) – 28:13 1–1 1–2 29:15 – O. Larsen (T. Romano, D. Mitchell) R. Gaborit (M. Gagnon) – 29:41 2–2 2–3 57:59 – M. Eskesen (D. Mitchell, T. Romano) (PP)
	12 min	Penalties	10 min
	27	Shots	38

References

1. "Peter Johansson bliver ny cheftræner" (in Danish). www.bulldogs.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
2. "2016–2017 – Odense Bulldogs – Players – eliteprospects.com – Stats". Elite Prospects.