Not Bitcoins, but gold: After 17 years Rungsted is back on the top of Danish ice hockey.
photo: Rungsted Seier Capital
The Rungsted team has a colourful past, with numerous name changes along the way. What started out as Rungsted IK became Rungsted Cobras that turned into Nordsjaelland Cobras for five seasons before the team became Rungsted Cobras again for a season, and then simply Rungsted for two seasons until in 2015 it got its current name Rungsted Seier Capital.
The team has capital in its name, and it plays its games at the Bitcoin arena, and a player on the roster, 27-year-old Nikolaj Rosenthal – the son of one of the team’s owners – who led the team in goals in both the regular season and the playoffs, even gets paid in bitcoin but in the hockey world, the only thing that matters is gold, and that’s what they got when they swept SonderjyskE Vojens in the final series.
The championship was the fourth in the club’s history but the second in the 21st century. The Rungsted Cobras snatched the title in 2002. The other two championships are from 1955 and 1963. The team hadn’t even been to the final since 2002.
Rungsted won Game 4 1-0 with Robin Bergman’s only shot on goal with about seven minutes remaining. Rungsted had only twelve shots on goal in the game. The goal was Bergman’s second game-winning goal of the playoffs.
“It’s been a fantastic season. Our goal was to make it to the final four so we’d get home ice advantage in the quarterfinal,” Rosenthal told Danish BT when the team had secured their regular season win.
“In the past we’ve had an imported goalie but now we have a Danish one in Thomas Lille and that means that we’ve had skaters as imports and we hit a homerun with each one of them. Everyone’s been better than expected, and at the same time, our Danish players have stepped up,” he added.
For Rosenthal, it was a week he’ll never forget. On Monday, he became a father to son, Colin, on Tuesday he played in a final game, and on Friday, he became a Danish champion in hockey, won the playoffs goal scoring title – he scored 14 goals in Rungsted’s 19 playoff games – and was named playoffs MVP.
“This is absolutely amazing. Naturally, it’s nice to win the scoring title and be named MVP but it feels even better to look at our fans and my team celebrate the title, and stand there with the golden helmets on their heads. We’re the champions, and we even won the regular season, too. I am speechless,” Rosenthal told Danish TV2.
“This is probably the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me. The team has been so tight, I’ve never experienced it before,” he added.
It’s been a long road for Rungsted, but maybe that’s why the championship tastes all the better.
“It’s fantastic. I’ve played in Rungsted for ten years and 95 per cent of the time we haven’t been even close to winning anything, and here we are now, Danish champions,” said Joachim Holten-Moller.
The team has capital in its name, and it plays its games at the Bitcoin arena, and a player on the roster, 27-year-old Nikolaj Rosenthal – the son of one of the team’s owners – who led the team in goals in both the regular season and the playoffs, even gets paid in bitcoin but in the hockey world, the only thing that matters is gold, and that’s what they got when they swept SonderjyskE Vojens in the final series.
The championship was the fourth in the club’s history but the second in the 21st century. The Rungsted Cobras snatched the title in 2002. The other two championships are from 1955 and 1963. The team hadn’t even been to the final since 2002.
Rungsted won Game 4 1-0 with Robin Bergman’s only shot on goal with about seven minutes remaining. Rungsted had only twelve shots on goal in the game. The goal was Bergman’s second game-winning goal of the playoffs.
“It’s been a fantastic season. Our goal was to make it to the final four so we’d get home ice advantage in the quarterfinal,” Rosenthal told Danish BT when the team had secured their regular season win.
“In the past we’ve had an imported goalie but now we have a Danish one in Thomas Lille and that means that we’ve had skaters as imports and we hit a homerun with each one of them. Everyone’s been better than expected, and at the same time, our Danish players have stepped up,” he added.
For Rosenthal, it was a week he’ll never forget. On Monday, he became a father to son, Colin, on Tuesday he played in a final game, and on Friday, he became a Danish champion in hockey, won the playoffs goal scoring title – he scored 14 goals in Rungsted’s 19 playoff games – and was named playoffs MVP.
“This is absolutely amazing. Naturally, it’s nice to win the scoring title and be named MVP but it feels even better to look at our fans and my team celebrate the title, and stand there with the golden helmets on their heads. We’re the champions, and we even won the regular season, too. I am speechless,” Rosenthal told Danish TV2.
“This is probably the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me. The team has been so tight, I’ve never experienced it before,” he added.
It’s been a long road for Rungsted, but maybe that’s why the championship tastes all the better.
“It’s fantastic. I’ve played in Rungsted for ten years and 95 per cent of the time we haven’t been even close to winning anything, and here we are now, Danish champions,” said Joachim Holten-Moller.