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. The first official game took place on the first of February 1942 in Hof and was lost with 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 less 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 stadium belongs to the city Straubing since the foundation of the EHC Straubing. Although the EHC reached the 7. 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 had lost the finals of the 2nd Bundesliga against EV Duisburg in 2005, they won the championship in 2006 and 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 budget 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 of the DEL regular season 2019/20.

Updated February 2, 2021.[2]

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
62		Sena Acolatse	D	R	30	2018	Hayward, California, United States
16		Chase Balisy	RW	L	29	2019	Fullerton, California, United States
44		Marco Bassler	RW	R	21	2019	Landshut, Germany
92		Marcel Brandt	LW	L	28	2018	Dingolfing, Germany
19		Tim Brunnhuber	C	L	22	2019	Eggenfelden, Germany
22		Mike Connolly	C	L	31	2015	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
9		Stephan Daschner	D	R	32	2018	Ingolstadt, Germany
20		Andreas Eder	RW	R	24	2020	Tegernsee, Germany
31		Marco Eisenhut	G	L	26	2020	Deggendorf, Germany
33		Fredrik Eriksson	D	L	37	2018	Örebro, Sweden
36		Brandon Gormley	D	L	28	2020	Murray River, Prince Edward Island, Canada
29		Mitchell Heard	C	L	28	2018	Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
17		Adrian Klein	D	L	17	2020	Neustadt a.d.Waldnaab, Germany
34		Benedikt Kohl	D	R	32	2019	Berchtesgaden, Germany
28		Antoine Laganiere	LW	L	30	2018	L'Île-Cadieux, Quebec, Canada
39		Nick Latta	C	R	27	2020	Schongau, Germany
21		Kael Mouillierat	C	L	33	2018	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
15		T.J. Mulock	RW	R	35	2018	Langley, British Columbia, Canada
40		Mat Robson	G	L	24	2020	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
27		Sandro Schönberger	LW	L	34	2009	Weiden, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
10		Benedikt Schopper	D	L	35	2018	Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany
12		Corey Tropp	RW	R	31	2021	Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, United States
25		Sebastian Vogl	G	L	34	2017	Landshut, Germany
18		Jeremy Williams	RW	R	37	2016	Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
52		Sven Ziegler	RW	R	26	2018	Nürnberg, Germany