Unfortunately, the Greek league did not finish according to the schedule announced by the Hellenic Ice Sports Federation.

The teams with the best results of the Northern Group (PAOK and ARIS) informed the federation on April 6th that unfortunately due to financial problems they will not be able to travel to Athens in order take part in the semi-finals against the best teams in the South (Iptameni and Albatross). So the semi-finals were not able to take place before the Worlds.

The World Championship held in Cape Town, where payers of all 4 semi-finalists were participating, lasted from April 11th to April 21st, 2013 (the athletes got home on April 23rd after a long trip). As all athletes know, after a world championship where athletes have played five tough games in one week, it is necessary to recover even for a few days.
Unfortunately, the rink closed down on April 28 2013 and there was no time to play the semis and the finals.

Therefore, the Hellenic Ice Sports Federation decided that champion is the team with the best results and better statistics in the regular season.

Surely it would have been ideal to have finished the National Championship on the ice, but due to various problems, the federation had to find a solution in order for Greece to name a champion for 2013. The decision taken by the federation is completely fair since again, IPTAMENI ATHENS, proved that they are the undisputed best team in Greek Ice Hockey!

Georgios Kalyvas, captain of the team, has his 20 year anniversary today as player of IPTAMENI ATHENS!.. and many more to come!

IPTAMENI ATHENS would like to wish you GOOD LUCK and GREAT RESULTS! 

The Hellenic Ice Sports Federation annouced the athletes that will take part in the 2013 World Championship and it came to no surpirse that most players were from IPTAMENI.

The athletes are:
Dimitris Kalyvas, Orestis Tilios, Georgios Kalyvas, Spyros-Dalibor Ploutsis, Nikolaos Chatizgiannis, Alexandros Valsamas-Rallis, Pavlos Kasampoulis, Georgios Kouleles, Iasonas Pachos, Marios Lybertos, Ioannis Koufis.

Click here for the other players of the Naitonal Team.

IPTAMENI and ALBATROS are the 2 teams that advance to the Semi-Finals of the Hellenic National League from the Souther Division. They await the result of the Aris-PAOK game in order to finalize the games of the Semis.

After the end of the regular season and just before the playoffs, IPTAMENI Athens are undefeated having 10 wins in 10 games. The team has proven that despite some significant absences, like the Captain of the National Team and the Iptameni leading scorer the past years, Dimitris Kalyvas, Themistocles Lambridis, Jason Pachos, George Koulele and Panagiotis Iatridis and the trades of George Fiotakis and others, the team has depth and remains the best team in the Greek League. Despite the missing players it remains the best team of all time.

In this year’s Championship, George Kalyvas, Iptameni Captain, is the top scorer after 10 games, having scored 20 goals and 26 assists. He is followed by Orestis Tilios with 21 goals and 18 assists. Pavlos Kasampoulis with 14 goals and 15 assists. Fresh legs are provided also by Ilias Kafouros, who was absent for one year, having scored 6 goals and 17 assists. Nikolaos Chatzigiannis, Assistant Captain of Iptameni, follows with 12 goals and 6 assists. Another “old-timer” is back having returned after many years of absence, and is none other than Mario Lyberto who has scored 11 goals and 9 assists. He is followed by Lazaros Efkarpidis with 11 goals and 5 assists. Alexandros Valsamas-Rallis, who had started very strong with 7 goals and 4 assists, but then got injured and has been out for 5 games. George Kouleles with 4 goals and 6 assists, the Angelos Tzitzis with 6 goals and 3 assists, Ioannis Koufis with 6 goals and Diogenis Souras with 3 goals and 2 assists. Last but not least, Spyros-Dalibor Ploutsis, goalkeeper of the team and also the main goalkeeper of National Team, with 1 assists.

Regarding Spiros-Dalibors’ duties in nets, he has 13 goals against and has 3 shut-outs in 10 games, the best statistics of all goalkeepers in the Hellenic Championship.

The final scores of the regular season of the 2013 Hellenic National Championship:

• IPTAMENI – AVANTES 5:0
• IPTAMENI – MADCOWS 8:2
• IPTAMENI – TARANDOS 17:1
• IPTAMENI – WARRIORS 25:0
• IPTAMENI – ALBATROS 4:1
• IPTAMENI – AVANTES 13:2
• IPTAMENI – MADCOWS 8:3
• IPTAMENI – TARANDOS 18:4
• IPTAMENI – WARRIORS 23:0
• IPTAMENI – ALBATROS 8:0

The Avantes goalie did not show up to the game, therefore the game was forfeited, 5-0 in favor of Iptameni.

After the first round, IPTAMENI Athens have 10 wins in 10 games with 124 Goals For and 13 Goals Against!

Despite the poor performance of the team, IPTAMENI managed to beat Madcows with 8:2.

One game before the end of the regular season, IPTAMENI are the leaders of the Southern Group having won all 9 of their first games.

Next game against AVANTES, who are not able to compete against IPTAMENI, therefore victory is certain.

They continue to win and continue to break records, beating Tarandos 17-1, a score that resembles a handball game more than a hockey game. With this win, they broke the previous record reaching 34 wins in 34 games and having scored 497 goals. Also, IPTAMENI has allowed 41 goals in 34 games, in average 1 goal per game!

IPTAMENI ATHENS: The greatest team of Greek Ice Hockey history of all times!

It’s great living when history is being made.

The IPTAMENI ATHENS are breaking one record after another.

With today’s victory over the Warriors, IPTAMENI reached 33 wins in 33 games! A record that will be hard to break for another team in Greek Ice Hockey. Also, with today’s 25 goals, the team reaches 479 goals in 33 games! (Around 14 goals per game). Another record that will be hard to break. As for the defensive abilities of the team, they have let in 40 goals in 33 games.

All of the above clearly shows that despite the many absences of key players, like the captain of Team Greece Dimitris Kalyvas, the team has depth and is remains the best team in the history of Greek Ice Hockey.