HYC Herentals is a professional ice hockey team based in Herentals, Belgium. They play in the BeNe League and are known, for sponsorship reasons, as ERA Renomar HYC Herentals.

ERA Renomar HYC Herentals
CityHerentals, Belgium
LeagueBeNe League
2015-present
Eredivisie
2012-2015
North Sea Cup
2010-2012
Belgian Hockey League
1971-2012
BelgianCup
Founded1971
Home arenaSport Vlaanderen Netepark
(capacity: 1600)
ColoursRed, white
   
Head coachSami Lipsonen
Asst. coachesVincent Morgan
Nils Vroemans
CaptainMitch Morgan
WebsiteHYC Herentals
Franchise history
1971 - PresentHYC Herentals

History

edit

The club was founded in 1971. They won their first of nine Belgian Hockey League titles in 1981.[1] In 1986, Herentals won the inaugural Belgian Cup. They have won the cup eight more times since. In 2010, it switched from the Belgian Hockey League to the North Sea Cup, a combined Belgian-Dutch elite league. When the North Sea Cup disbanded only two years later in 2012, it joined the Eredivisie.

North Sea Cup/Eredivisie Results

edit

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 12 0 4 20 155 190 40 5th, Eredivisie Did not qualify
2011–12 14 5 2 0 7 58 71 19 4th, North Sea Cup Won Belgian Championship (3-0)
2010–11 28 4 0 2 22 89 188 14 8th, North Sea Cup Lost Belgian championship to White Caps Turnhout (2-4)

Roster

edit

Updated February 26, 2019.[2]

Goaltenders
Number Player Catches Acquired Place of Birth
32   Kevin van Looveren L 2006 Herentals, Belgium
90   Arne Waumans L 2017 Belgium
Defencemen
Number Player Shoots Acquired Place of Birth
20   Emiel Goris L 2011 Herentals, Belgium
13   Nils Vroemans L 2009 Ekeren, Belgium
23   Thijs van Laere L 2009 Herentals, Belgium
9   Peter Bartek R 2018 Slovakia
42   Lowie Cuylaerts L 2016 Herentals, Belgium
46   Brent Bogaerts R 2016 Herentals, Belgium
65   Arne van Espen L 2017 Belgium
2   Chad Piccart L 2016 Lille, Belgium
Forwards
Number Player Shoots Position Acquired Place of Birth
67   Mitch Morgan (C) L LW/RW 2015 Herentals, Belgium
7   Vincent Morgan L F 2005 Herentals, Belgium
10   Ben Vercammen (A) L LW 2003 Herentals, Belgium
11   Jordy van Dyck L F 2008 Herentals, Belgium
17   Yente Franssen L F 2010 Lier, Belgium
52   Jacques de Ceuster L LW 2016 Herentals, Belgium
3   Ben Coolen R F 2016 Turnhout, Belgium
12   Jul van Mele L F 2012 Belgium
64   Preston Shupe (A) L C 2018 Weyburn, Canada
95   Kyle Brothers L F 2018 Watford, Canada
4   Jef van den Bosch L F 2017 Belgium
76   Arne Vervoort L F 2017 Belgium

HYC Herentals 2

edit

As with many ice hockey clubs in the Benelux countries, HYC Herentals operates teams at several levels. The HYC Herentals second team played in the Belgian Hockey League.

Belgian Hockey League results

edit

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 18 6 0 0 12 61 112 18 7th, Belgian Elite League Lost quarter-final to Turnhout White Caps (0W-2L)

Achievements

edit
  • Belgian champion: (15) 1981, 1984, 1985, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
  • Belgian Division II champion: (1) 2005.
  • Belgian Cup (13): 1986, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020.
  • BeNe League (2): 2016, 2019.[3]

References

edit
  1. ^ History Archived 2013-07-06 at the Wayback Machine on hyc.be
  2. ^ "HYC Roster". hyc.be (in Dutch). Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  3. ^ Team profile on eurohockey.com
edit