Hockey Club Lugano, often abbreviated to HC Lugano, are a professional ice hockey team based in Lugano, Switzerland, and compete in the Swiss Nationalliga A.

History

The first games of HC Lugano were played on the frozen Lake Muzzano . The club was formally founded at a meeting in the Apollo Restaurant on February 11, 1941. Seven years after its foundation, the team left the small lake of Muzzano and moved to the Loreto quarter. The team would be evicted from Loreto because of a lack of support. 1955 found HC Lugano playing on what were, in summer, the tennis courts of the Münger bakery in Paradiso, although they would move to an artificial ice rink, the "Resega", on December 1, 1957.

Lugano have won the Swiss national title four times, in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1990, and have reached the final round of the European Cup twice; in the 1986-87 and the 1990-91 seasons.

Players

Current Squad

As of 24 March 2005

Goaltenders:

• 29 - David Aebischer
• 84 - Michael Flückiger
• 60 - Jonas Müller
• 66 - Ronnie Rüeger

Defencemen:

• 21 - Krister Cantoni
• 72 - Noël Guyaz
• 49 - Andreas Hänni
• 8 - Steve Hirschi
• 22 - Olivier Keller
• 33 - Petteri Nummelin
• 9 - Jame Pollock
• 45 - Kimmo Timonen
• 37 - Mark Tschudy
• 3 - Julien Vauclair

Forwards:

• 19 - Jean-Jacques Aeschlimann
• 30 - Mattia Bianchi
• 55 - Jason Blake
• 89 - Roman Botta
• 13 - Gregory Christen
• 40 - Flavien Conne
• 55 - Paul Di Pietro
• 57 - Keith Fair
• 14 - Régis Fuchs
• 15 - Ryan Gardner
• 7 - Martin Gelinas
• 25 - Benoit Gratton
• 28 - Sandy Jeannin
• 23 - Mike Maneluk
• 44 - Andy Näser
• 16 - Ville Peltonen
• 32 - Sebastien Reuille
• 18 - Alex Tanguay
• 97 - Adrian Wichser

Retired jerseys

• 1 - Alfio Molina
• 2 - Sandro Bertaggia
• 4 - Pat Schafhauser