Hannover Scorpions, German Champions 2010. Source.
Tilburg Trappers host Hannover Scorpions, the only club in the 2019-20 Oberliga Nord to have been Deutscher Meister.
Hannover Scorpions currently have four Canadians on their roster: Kevin Miller, Julien Pelletier, Mike Robinson and Mario Valery-Trabucco.
The top-tier Deutsche Eishockey Liga has been relatively free from churn over the past decade. It has had the same number of clubs (14) since 2010 and has operated as a closed shop without relegation or promotion except for cases of financial insolvency. Hannover Scorpions dropped out in 2012, and were replaced by Schwenninger Wild Wings. Hamburg Freezers left in 2016 to be replaced by Fischtown Pinguins.
DEL2 started in 2013 with 12 teams, expanded to 14 the next year, and has maintained that number each year since. Nine of the original 12 are still in it.
The Oberliga is in pretty constant flux. Oberliga Ost, Nord and West were amalgamated in 2015 to make a division of sixteen clubs called Oberliga Nord. Since then that number has risen to eighteen and then been whittled down to twelve.
[Scorpions win 5 - 0.]
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