Straubing Tigers

In 1941, the then 14-year-old Max Pielmaier and his friends Max Pellkofer and Harry Poiger founded the first hockey team in Straubing.[1] The first official game took place on the first of February 1942 in Hof and was lost by a score of 0:1. In the following year there were several games against other Bavarian teams. The game against Landshut on 31 January. 1943 was the last game during the second World War, because the young players also had to join the military after that.

After the end of the war the players of Bann Straubing decided to join the TSV 1861 Straubing. Their home games were played on a pond near the medieval Pulverturm (powder tower) in Straubing where the ice stadium Eisstadion am Pulverturm is located today.

The construction of the Eisstadion am Pulverturm began in 1967 and consisted of an open ice rink surrounded by stands. The first game in the new arena was played on the 13. November 1967 against Preussen Berlin. The TSV Straubing started their first Season in the Kunsteis-Bayernliga where they got to the second place. The TSV Straubing rose to the Regionalliga (3. league) in 1970 and the Oberliga (2. league) in 1971, but had to go back to the third league when the 2nd Bundesliga, which replaced the Oberliga, was founded with fewer teams than the Oberliga had. They got back to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1975 when they won the playoff finals against the EV Regensburg.

The EHC Straubing was founded when the hockey team split from the TSV Straubing in 1981. The ice hocky stadium has belonged to the city of Straubing since the foundation of the EHC Straubing. Although the EHC reached the 7th place in the Season 1982/83 they had to start again in 4. league because of financial problems. The EHC Straubing adapted the nickname "Die Tiger" (the tigers) in 1994 and mainly played in the Oberliga (third league) until they rose back to the 2nd Bundesliga in the year 2000. The professional section split from the EHC Straubing when it had to register bankruptcy in April 2002 and the Straubing Tigers AG was founded. Since then the EHC trains the junior teams of the Straubing Tigers and also contains a hobby team.

After Straubing lost the finals of the 2nd Bundesliga against EV Duisburg in 2005, they won the championship in 2006 and were promoted to the DEL for the first time in history. Straubing is by far the smallest town which has a team in the DEL and also has one of the lowest budgets in the entire league. When the Straubing Tigers reached a playoff rank for the first time in 2012 they miraculously won the quarter finals against the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg with a sweep and got to the semi-finals where they lost to the later German champion Eisbären Berlin. With one of the lowest budgets in the entire league Straubing regularly manages to get to the playoffs since 2012 and even qualified for the Champions Hockey League when they finished in the top three in the 2019–20 season.

Updated 16 January, 2023.[3]

No.	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
90		Luke Adam	C	L	32	2022	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
91		Jason Akeson	RW	R	32	2021	Orleans, Ontario, Canada
71		Trent Bourque	D	L	24	2022	Burlington, Ontario, Canada
92		Marcel Brandt	D	L	30	2018	Dingolfing, Germany
1		Florian Bugl	G	L	20	2022	Landshut, Germany
19		Tim Brunnhuber	C	L	24	2019	Eggenfelden, Germany
22		Mike Connolly	C	L	33	2015	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
9		Stephan Daschner	D	R	34	2018	Ingolstadt, Germany
98		Bastian Eckl	RW	L	22	2022	Regensburg, Germany
10		Garrett Festerling	C	R	36	2022	Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada
17		Adrian Klein	D	L	19	2020	Neustadt a.d.Waldnaab, Germany
34		Benedikt Kohl	D	R	34	2019	Berchtesgaden, Germany
32		Cody Lampl	D	R	36	2021	Ketchum, Idaho, United States
7		Taylor Leier	LW	L	28	2021	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
88		JC Lipon	RW	R	29	2022	Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
23		Brandon Manning	D	L	32	2021	Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
35		Hunter Miska	G	L	27	2022	Stacy, Minnesota, United States
8		Joshua Samanski	F	L	20	2021	Erding, Germany
65		Ian Scheid	D	R	27	2021	Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
27		Sandro Schönberger (C)	LW	L	36	2009	Weiden, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
74		Travis St. Denis	C	L	30	2021	Trail, British Columbia, Canada
6		Parker Tuomie	RW	L	27	2021	Haßfurt, Germany
77		Travis Turnbull	C	R	36	2022	Chesterfield, Missouri, United States
26		Yannik Valenti	RW	R	34	2021	Bad Tölz, Germany
89		Mark Zengerle	C	R	33	2022	Rochester, New York, United States
13		Mario Zimmermann	D	L	21	2021	Altötting, Germany