Canterbury Red Devils

Canterbury Red Devils
City Christchurch
League New Zealand Ice Hockey League
Founded 2005
Operated 2005–present
Home arena Alpine Ice Centre
Colours               
General manager New Zealand Jake Lane
Head coach New Zealand Anatoli Khorozov
Captain New Zealand Hayden Argyle
Website Reddevils.co.nz
Championships
Regular season titles 4 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2014)
NZIHL Champion 4 (2009, 2012, 2013, 2014)

The Canterbury Red Devils is an ice hockey team based in Christchurch, New Zealand and are members of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League. The club plays their home games at the Alpine Ice Centre. Since their foundation in 2005 the team have won both the regular season title and the playoffs on four occasions with their most recent coming in the 2014 NZIHL season.

History

The Canterbury Red Devils were founded in 2005 and joined the New Zealand Ice Hockey League (NZIHL) for its inaugural season.[1] In their debut season the Red Devils finished the regular season in last place and failed to qualify for the playoffs.[2] They again missed the playoffs in 2006 after finishing third in the standings.[3] In 2007 the Red Devils won their first regular season title, edging out the Botany Swarm on goal difference.[4] The team advanced their fist finals appearance however lost to the Swarm.[4] The Red Devils won their second regular season title in 2008 however went on to lose to the Swarm in the final.[5] In 2009 the team won their third straight regular season title and advanced to the final against the Southern Stampede.[6] The Red Devils defeated the Stampede to claim their first playoffs title.[6] The 2010 and 2011 seasons saw the Red Devils finish the regular season in third place, losing out to the second placed team only on head-to-head win ratio.[7][8] The team returned to the playoffs in 2012, winning their second playoffs title after defeating the Stampede in the final.[9] The Red Devils went on to win the 2013 and 2014 playoffs, defeating the Dunedin Thunder in both finals and also claiming their fourth regular season title in 2014.[10][11] Following their 2014 playoffs win the Red Devils became the first NZIHL club to claim three titles in a row. The 2015 season saw the Red Devils finish the regular season in second place and lose to the Stampede in the finals.[12]

Season by season results

Season GP W OTW T OTL L GF GA PTS Finish Playoff Ref
2005 6 0 – 0 – 6 17 38 2 4th Did not qualify [2]
2006 6 1 – 1 – 4 22 26 9 3rd Did not qualify [3]
2007 10 7 – 1 – 2 63 37 26 1st Lost final (Botany Swarm) [4]
2008 12 9 – 2 – 1 93 48 32 1st Lost final (Botany Swarm) [5]
2009 16 14 – 0 – 2 133 35 28 1st Won final (Southern Stampede) [6]
2010 16 8 0 – 2 6 92 75 26 3rd Did not qualify [7]
2011 16 10 1 – 1 4 77 62 33 3rd Did not qualify [8]
2012 16 7 3 – 2 4 80 68 29 2nd Won final (Southern Stampede) [9]
2013 16 9 2 – 1 4 93 63 32 2nd Won final (Dunedin Thunder) [10]
2014 16 12 0 – 1 3 79 58 37 1st Won final (Dunedin Thunder) [11]
2015 16 9 1 – 2 4 96 64 31 2nd Lost final (Southern Stampede) [12]

NZIHL Awards

Players and personnel

Current roster

Team roster for the 2015 NZIHL season[13]

# Nat Name Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
9 New Zealand Hayden Argyle (C) D L 29 2010 Gore, New Zealand
31 New Zealand Richard Bigsby G L 22 2015
98 New Zealand Shaun Brown F L 18 2015
1 New Zealand Michael Coleman G L 25 2012 Christchurch, New Zealand
52 Slovenia Igor Cvetek D L 29 2015 Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia
14 New Zealand Liam Dallimore F R 19 2013
43 New Zealand Chris Eaden (A) F R 25 2007 Christchurch, New Zealand
28 New Zealand Justin Findlay G L 28 2009 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
17 New Zealand Justin Fuller F R 23 2015 Christchurch, New Zealand
3 New Zealand Matthew Gaffikin D R 24 2015
23 New Zealand Joshua Greenwood F R 23 2010 Christchurch, New Zealand
6 New Zealand Dale Harrop (A) F R 27 2007 Christchurch, New Zealand
97 New Zealand Liam Jackson F R 18 2015
8 New Zealand Mason Kennedy D R 18 2014
38 New Zealand Joel Keogh-Cope F L 29 2015
19 Slovakia Peter Kopecký F L 27 2015
32 United States Nicholas Kuqali D R 30 2015 Dallas, Texas, United States
10 New Zealand Jaxson Lane F R 21 2014 Christchurch, New Zealand
2 New Zealand Jamie Lawrence D R 23 2011 Auckland, New Zealand
55 New Zealand Daniel Lee G L 19 2013
18 New Zealand Josh Louw D R 19 2014
71 Finland Antti Ojanen F L 29 2015 Espoo, Finland
12 Estonia Alexander Polozov F L 30 2015 Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
61 New Zealand Anton Purver F R 28 2008 Christchurch, New Zealand
7 New Zealand Jacob Ratcliffe F R 18 2013 Canterbury, New Zealand
87 New Zealand Jimmy Sinclair F R 28 2015
5 New Zealand Brett Speirs F R 33 2013 Hamilton, New Zealand
22 New Zealand Tomas Tappin D R 22 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand
4 New Zealand Dean Tonks F L 27 2014 Birmingham, United Kingdom
15 New Zealand Hayden Whyte F R 22 2015

Team captains

For more details on team captains in ice hockey, see Captain (ice hockey).
  • Hayden Argyle, 2012–present[14]

Head coaches

  • Jonathon Whitehead, 2010[15]
  • János Kaszala, 2011[16]
  • Anatoli Khorozov, 2012–2013[17]
  • Stacey Rout, 2014[18]
  • Anatoli Khorozov, 2015–present[17]

General managers

  • Jake Lane, 2015–present[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Red Devils". Canterbury Red Devils. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  2. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2004 - 2005". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  3. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2005 - 2006". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  4. 1 2 3 "NZIHL Team Standings 2006 - 2007". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  5. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2007 - 2008". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  6. 1 2 3 "NZIHL Team Standings 2008 - 2009". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  7. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2009 - 2010". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  8. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2010 - 2011". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  9. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2011 - 2012". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  10. 1 2 "2013 New Zealand Ice Hockey League". New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  11. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2013 - 2014". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  12. 1 2 "NZIHL Team Standings 2014 - 2015". Elite Prospects. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  13. ↑ "Canterbury Red Devils". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  14. ↑ "Hayden Argyle". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  15. ↑ "Jonathon Whitehead". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  16. ↑ "János Kaszala". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  17. 1 2 "Anatoli Khorozov". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  18. ↑ "Stacey Rout". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  19. ↑ "Jake Lane". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2016-04-25.

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