The smell in this narrow cabin, in which everything started, is still awful. Here you blow dry the sweat away, deep in their gloves. Who dares as a spectator, just to the right of the pub past and risked a glance behind the Scenes of a club that has no fear of contact. For the Hannover Scorpions in 2010, up to the German master ascended are back, shrunk to their normal levels. And you feel it in the upper League North. Will be played in Hannover, but in Melle village belongs to the rural municipality of Wedemark. “Cows, pigs, Wedemark” – this mocking battle-cry have to endure the Scorpions on your way to the top for a long time. He has remained as a Ritual, the players and Fans proud.
the visit of The normal Scorpions home game feels like a trip back in time. At the beginning of the 90s, this naughty had decided to lower Saxony’s Association, in a straight line and the elite sports. You bought especially fun-loving professionals from Canada, in part, with experience from the NHL. They were not a normal club, but a family of hazel Bacher led the Association. There were Pasta nights in President Jochen hazel Bacher at home, where his wife cooked. Son, Eric, hazel, Bacher served as Announcer, sports Director and troublemaker in personal Union with the established hockey a thorn in the eye. Anyone who drives already to the likes of Cologne, Berlin or Mannheim to Melle village, in order to be in a piefigen stadium on the village of ice?
That made it the previous Wedemark Scorpions after various renamings, antics and disputes with the Establishment in 1996 up in the German hockey League (DEL), many of the gates, thanks to some motivating game party and the move to Hannover in a larger hall. The evil question remains: What has brought all this if you make it to the very top, with a coaching legend Hans Zach masters and later a small voice in his village home must return?
counted Among the 1000 viewers, watching an average of the home games of the Scorpions, the least of all the question of the meaning. “Ice hockey is not the most important thing for us. But the drive is still there,“ says Eric hazel, Bacher. From the former Enfant terrible in a family has become a father. As a restaurateur, the club restaurant and the managing Director of the Scorpions, he may be responsible for a budget of around € 750,000. This is in comparison to the adventures of DEL, which was in Hannover on permanent Fund, only the small stuff. And yet will be again very carefully tracked, how much money would be in the case of a rise in the DEL 2 is necessary.
Sporty and it runs in this season properly. Prior to the home game this Sunday 19 at against the tail light ECC Preussen, the Scorpions are in third place in the table, the upper League North. Because Dreaming is fun, even if the farewell from the first League was not a good experience. The DEL-license the Scorpions had to be sold in 2013, at the Schwenninger Wild Wings. The fame of the title had been bought in the end too expensive, and had caused a mountain of debt.
Of the current players of the Hannover Scorpions will hardly know someone, where the Name of your Association is really. In the municipality of Wedemark, approximately 25 kilometres North of Hanover, located, life to date, the main band members of the rock band, the Scorpions. Singer Klaus meine and guitarist Rudolf Schenker found it sometime, it’s funny that a Puckklub on-site is allowed to use its name for its Logo. One day they met, therefore, but in front of the court. And the beautiful idea that the really rich musicians in support of the small country club financially, broke up in front of a loud fight in the air.
Drafty, uncomfortable, to be honest
The 3300 spectators, is the end of the stadium in mellendorf drafty, rather uncomfortable and a beautiful base for honest hockey. Most of all, she offers in the case of the Scorpions, if you can ask your local rivals Hannover Indians, currently on rank two, a leg. The supporting programme of the former master is panning to the level of a village Flag and then melted. So what? The Association has found its centre and its home.
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A former storage room in the stadium, the players have turned on your own in a gym Many a nostalgic photo remembered in the corridors of triumphs in the DEL. But on the Laurel of at the time, a thick layer of dust lies a long time ago. “Here we are again, a little old-school,” says Scorpions-maker Eric hazel, Bacher. “But we need to be with us, no expensive trainers with heels, but want to have a good time.”
