Team: | Select4-u Devils Nijmegen |
Colour: | background:#FFFFFF; border-top:#262262 5px solid; border-bottom:#ED1C24 5px solid; |
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Logosize: | 185px |
Founded: | 1968 |
City: | Nijmegen, Netherlands |
Arena: | Triavium |
Capacity: | 1,450 |
League: | BeNe League 2015-present Eerste Divisie 2012-2015 Eredivisie 1989-2011 Dutch Cup |
Coach: | Alexander Jacobs |
Ass Coach: | Frank Janssen |
Website: | Select4-u Devils Nijmegen |
The Select4-u Devils Nijmegen is a professional ice hockey club in Nijmegen, Netherlands, they play in the BeNe League, the top-tier league in the Netherlands and Belgium. Formerly the team played in the semi-professional Dutch Eredivisie where they were the 7 time national champions; the most recent championship was in 2009–2010. Home games are played at the Triavium. As of 2019, the team are sponsored by decorating firm AHOUD.
Ice hockey in Nijmegen began in 1968, with the Nijmegen Tigers winning its first national championship in 1984. At the end of the 1980s, several players moved to Rotterdam to join the short-lived Rotterdam Panda's. Beginning in the early 1990s, financial difficulties hurt the Nijmegen Tigers, forcing the team to dissolve and reform in 1994. In 2003, the Tigers went bankrupt. The Nijmegen Emperors joined the Eredivisie in 2004, winning the national championship in 2006. However, the Emperors also went bankrupt in 2006. In 2007, the Devils joined the league with a title sponsor.In the 2009–10 season, the Devils won the Cup (In Dutch, "Beker"), an annual tournament of Eredivisie teams played before the beginning of the regular season, finished the regular season in first place, and won the national championship.
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 | |
2010–11 | 28 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 133 | 115 | 51 | 4th, North Sea Cup | Lost semi-finals to Tilburg (3-1) | |
28 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 128 | 80 | 63 | 1st, Eredivisie | Won National Championship (3-0) | ||
24 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 92 | 83 | 39 | 4th, Eredivisie | Lost semi-finals to Tilburg (3-2), Won Beker Cup | ||
24 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 45 | 107 | 14 | 6th, Eredivisie | Did not qualify |
Updated March 8, 2019.[1]
Goaltenders | |||||||||||
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27 | Jefrey Vermeulen | L | 2010 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | |||||||
33 | Deniz Mollen | L | 2018 | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
Defencemen | |||||||||||
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21 | L | 2018 | Dordrecht, Netherlands | ||||||||
24 | Rick Wijnen | L | 2007 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | |||||||
63 | L | 2016 | Venray, Netherlands | ||||||||
66 | L | 2015 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | ||||||||
69 | Boris van Bergen | R | 2014 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | |||||||
81 | L | 2018 | 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
Forwards | |||||||||||||
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6 | L | F | 2018 | Tilburg, Netherlands | |||||||||
9 | R | C | 2018 | Huntsville, Canada | |||||||||
10 | L | LW | 2018 | Millet, Canada | |||||||||
14 | L | LW | 2018 | Utrecht, Netherlands | |||||||||
15 | R | F | 2013 | De Meern, Netherlands | |||||||||
17 | Kayo van Zoest | L | F | 2018 | Eindhoven, Netherlands | ||||||||
19 | L | C | 2018 | Tilburg, Netherlands | |||||||||
25 | Marcel Kars | R | C | 2018 | Toronto, Canada | ||||||||
41 | L | F | 2017 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | |||||||||
44 | Jay Plamont | L | LW | 2013 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | ||||||||
77 | Harley Verkroost | L | F | 2015 | Netherlands | ||||||||
94 | Jim Gudden | L | F | 2018 | 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
Once (2009–10). (Seven times as Nijmegen Tigers: 1983–4, 1987–8, 1992–3, 1996–7, 1997–8, 1998–9, 1999–2000. Once as Nijmegen Emperors: 2005–06.)
Once (2009)