The Landshut Cannibals are a professional ice hockey team based in Landshut, Bavaria. Currently they are members of the 2nd Bundesliga. The team was founded in 1948 as Eislaufverein Landshut (EVL), but since 2002 the professional team is organised as “Landshut Cannibals”. The EVL is still responsible for non-professional areas, i.e. junior hockey. From 1963 to 1994 the Team was a participant in the Ice hockey Bundesliga and is a founder member of the DEL. The team celebrated two German Championships (in 1970 and 1983) – their greatest success so far.
The home arena of the Landshut Cannibals is the Eisstadion am Gutenbergweg (hockey arena at the Gutenbergweg), where they have played since 1957, after leaving tentative other locations. The arena has since been renovated several times and currently holds 6,750 people.
Landshut’s player development program is counted among the best in Germany, producing numerous well-known hockey players such as “Germany’s hockey player of the century” Erich Kühnhackl, Gerd Truntschka (All Star at the 1987 World Ice Hockey Championships) and longtime NHL players Marco Sturm (Washington Capitals) and Christoph Schubert (Atlanta Thrashers).
Famous quotes containing the word cannibals:
“My travel’s history,
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak—such was my process—
And of the cannibals that each other eat,
The anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)