Cologne - The hockey team will puschen their sport in the months ahead. The Olympic qualification in 2010 and is packed after the Games in Vancouver following the World Cup in Germany. For the opening match at Schalke have traveled more than 60,000 tickets gone.
But in the German Ice Hockey League DEL bare existence there is fear on all fronts. The Kölner Haie's take on the most violent since the financial crisis and the bankruptcy sporting happen. The German Ice Hockey suffering. EXPRESS shows where it burns.
Cologne HaieIm cut 2,000 spectators come less to the home games. Patron Heinz-Hermann Göttsch stuff is no longer the financial hole of an estimated € 1.5 million, announces its financial retreat for the year 2010. Great NHL-Stars will give the KEC ot more. CEO Thomas gauge: "Every team, whether football, handball or hockey, is facing at present, because all have calculated differently in the past year. But I know we will overcome the crisis, others can not manage you. "
Düsseldorfer EG to the home games are scheduled less than 1,000 fans. Managing Director Elmar Schmellenkamp says that the coming season, it should be backed up, but: "If this continues, we will not survive this." Deadly for the DEG was moving from the Brehm Road in the new ISS Dome. Just over 5000 fans lost in the 13 000 spectators Temple. Schmellenkamp: "The new, beautiful, large warehouses should lead the league in a better future, instead the opposite happened."
Hamburg Freezers FreezersZwar have strong Anschutz Entertainment Group in the back, but only in this season there are losses with ticket sales of 1.2 million euros. These revenues take a Eishcokey club essential, since there are only about 200,000 € per season television money. In comparison, a football club first division collects up to € 28 million in television money.
Nuremberg Ice Tigers Ice TigersDie have filed for bankruptcy in November because no sponsor could be found to the rescue. Nuremberg's CEO Norbert Schumacher: "We were insolvent and, therefore, legally obliged to take this difficult path." Now, liquidator Volker Böhm say that.
In March, again stands at a meeting of the DEL-16 members. As the crisis will be subject.
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