League Asia League Ice Hockey Owner Nippon Paper Group, Inc. | Head coach Syunji Tanaka Founded 1949 | |
Home arena Kushiro Ice Arena (capacity 3,000) General manager Kaoru Shimanuki,Osamu Ono Location Kushiro, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan Arena Kushiro Ice Arena (capacity 3,000) | ||
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The Nippon Paper Cranes (日本製紙クレインズ, Nippon Seishi Kureinzu) are an Asia League Ice Hockey team based in Kushiro City in Hokkaidō, Japan.
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History
The club were founded as Jūjō Paper Kushiro Ice Hockey Club in 1949. They adopted the new name Nippon Paper Cranes in 1994 when Jūjō Paper and Sanyō Kokusaku Pulp merged to form Nippon Paper.
They won the inaugural Asia League in the 2003-04 season, and have won it three more times since then. They also have won the All Japan Championship six times.
Honours
Current roster
updated September 10, 2009
Year-by-year record
complete records for previous seasons
*prior to the 2008–2009 season, there were no shoot-outs and games ended in a tie
Past import players
References
Nippon Paper Cranes Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA