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Denmark: Orient Lyngby are danish champs 2004/05

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June 20, 2005

Emil Kousgaard
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All teams played their last round in the danish hockeyleague in the weekend. Before the round it was allready settled that Orient Lyngby HC regained the championship and Copenhagen HC took the silver. In a close race Slagelse HC ended up with the bronzemedals followed by S�rbymagle, Marselisborg and Gentofte on the last spot. The tournement was build up with 4 matches against each team and without a final4.

The danish champions form Orient Lyngby are both representing Denmark in next years Indoor Club Hockey Cup in D�rkheim and in next years Outdoor Hockey Challenge1 (the place is not yet decided). In september the danish national team will try to gain promotion at the ��European Nations Challenge II in Valletta (Malta) after being outside the European Outdoor championship for several years.

In the following weekend the Cup winners Cup will be played in Slagelse.

FINAL STAND - 1. ��DIVISION MEN
M W D L Score P
1 Orient Lyngby 20 16 1 3 150-59 49
2 K�benhavn 20 10 4 6 84-54 34
3 Slagelse20 8 5 7 70-59 29
4 S�rbymagle 20 8 4 8 74-59 28
5 Marselisborg 20 8 3 9 54-74 27
6 Gentofte 20 1 1 18 35-162 4

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Peter Jones 06-21-2005��1:08 pm	Report this post
`High Scoring Danish League Congratulations to Orient Lyngby on doing the Indoor / Outdoor double. I was amazed to see the high number of goals scored and conceded by all the teams. While Orient clearly dominated the league, their average score works out to about 7.5 to 3. Even the bottom team that was clearly hammered, averaged almost two goals a game. Any comments on why so many goals? Peter`

Emil Kousgaard
06-22-2005��4:28 am Report this post

Tradition for many goals One explanation could be that danish hockeyteams in generel are more focused on scoring goals themselfes than prevent the other teams form scoring because there is a tradition for playing offensive hockey. Another explanation is that Orient Lyngby has some real good goalgetters like Casper Guldbrandsen scoring about 50 goals in 20 matches. But also some of the youngsters from the other clubs are good at scoring goals and used to score many goals from the indoor hockey. The standard of the goalkeepers are also pretty high so that is not reason for the many goals in danish hockey. At the same moment I don't remeber a single game ended up 0-0 which indicates that the teams go out to win and score as many goals as possible! If you look at the german bundesliga it is also very often to results like 5-4 or 4-3 which I think is good for the game of hockey and offcourse for the spectators!

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