Rødovre Mighty Bulls

Rødovre Mighty Bulls
2016–17 Esbjerg Energy season

City	Rødovre
League	Metal Ligaen
Founded	1961
Home arena	Rødovre Skøjte Arena (Capacity: 3,600)
Colors
Head coach	Jesper Duus
Website	http://www.mightybulls.dk/

The Rødovre Mighty Bulls is a Danish professional ice hockey team based in Rødovre, Denmark, playing in the Metal Ligaen, 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The club has won the Danish championship 6 times in 1978, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990 and 1999.^[4]

From 1977-1979, the team was coached by Boris Kulagin, the former coach of the Soviet national ice hockey team. Kulagin joined the Danish team after getting fired as head coach of the Soviet national team following a disappointing 3rd-place finish at the 1977 World Ice Hockey Championships. 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 Tommy Pedersen
29 Jannik Stæhr

Notable former Rødovre Mighty Bulls players

Tommy Pedersen
Bent Hansen
Valeri Bragin
Kim "Musen" Andersen
Olaf Eller
Anatoli Chistyakov
Jesper Duus
Karsten Arvidsen
Juha Riihijärvi
Michael Smidt
Christian Larrivée
Patrice Lefebvre
Morten Madsen
Jannik Hansen
Mikkel Bødker
Lars Eller
Mads Bødker
Sebastian Dahm

Players in bold are NHL alumni.

Metal Ligaen

Teams	Aalborg Esbjerg Frederikshavn White Hawks Gentofte Stars Herlev Eagles Herning Blue Fox Odense Bulldogs Rungsted Rødovre Mighty Bulls SønderjyskE

Seasons	1954–55 1955–56 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 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 1999–2000 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 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

See also IIHF IIHF Continental Cup IIHF European Champions Cup

References

↑ "Rødovre Mighty Bulls". Eurohockey.com. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
↑ "Rødovre Skøjte Arena". Eurohockey.com. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
↑ "Rødovre Skøjte Arena". Eurohockey.com. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
↑ "History". mightybulls.dk. Retrieved 24 November 2016.

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