The Nordsjælland Cobras were a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 professional ice hockey team that used to play in the top Danish ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 league AL-Bank Ligaen. After filing for bankruptcy at the end of the 2009-2010 season, the team was excluded from the following season.

History

They changed name from the Rungsted Cobras to the Nordsjælland Cobras in 2004, but they are still based in Rungsted

Rungsted

Rungsted is a neighborhood in the city of Hørsholm in the Hørsholm Municipality of Øresund, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The center of Hørsholm is located two kilometers west of Rungsted...

. The team won the Danish national championship in 2003.

According to the club, the shortfall is due to sponsorship money that has not been paid due and the current economic crisis has left club owners unable to cover the shortfall. In an effort to help, Cobras' arch-rival Rødovre Mighty Bulls

Rødovre Mighty Bulls

Rødovre Mighty Bulls is the professional ice hockey team of the Rødovre Skating and Ice hockey Club...

 has announced it will play an exhibition game during the national team break (now through February 10) against the Cobras, with all proceeds going to the Cobras. On April 7, 2011, they announced that they will delay their comeback to AL-Bank Ligaen by a year.

Squad 2008-09

Goaltenders

• 1 Henrik Juul
• 39 Johan Asplund
  Johan Asplund (ice hockey)
  Johan Asplund is a goaltender for the Nordsjælland Cobras hockey team in the Danish Oddset Ligaen. He has also played seven seasons in Elitserien for Brynäs IF and most recently Timrå IK.- Professional career :...
  
  

Defenders

• 4 Joachim Holten
• 7 Mikkel Holten
• 13 Casper Brandis
• 15 Christopher Norre
• 31 Branislav Kvetan
• 47 Thomas Johnsen
• 55 Justin Kurtz
  Justin Kurtz
  Justin Kurtz is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the EHC Black Wings Linz of the Austrian Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
  

Forwards

• 6 Rasmus Brendstrup
• 10 Nick Samsøe
• 11 Morten H. Poulsen
• 12 Lasse Degn
• 16 Mads Linke
• 18 Kasper Weis
• 19 Patrick Jarrett
• 21 Bjørn Østergaard
• 22 Andreas Sabroe
  Andreas Sabroe
  Andreas Sabroe is a Danish ice hockey player currently playing for the Nordsjælland Cobras in the Oddset Ligaen. Sabroe began his career with the Gladsaxe Bears in 1999. He moved to Rungsted IK in 2001 before joined the Cobras in 2004....
  
  
• 81 Richard Hallgren

Staff

• Head Coach: Gunnar Leidborg
• Assistant Coach: Dag Wenstrom
• Physio: Anne Dorthe Madsen
• Orthopedist: Michael Rud Lassen
• Chiropractor: Ole Wessung
• Doctor: Anders Bertelsen
• Kit Manager: Per Samsøe
• Advisor: Kenneth Pedersen
• Building Maintenance: Ole Christensen
• Admin. Director: Frank Kyhl Johansen
• Marketing Manager: Julie Grath
• Sales Manager: Sisse Nagel
• Accounts Department Manger: Anne Grete Vilhelmsen

Former players

• Kory Baker
• Peter Becher Nielsen
• Fraser Clair
• Brad DeFauw
  Brad DeFauw
  Bradley Russell DeFauw is an American former professional ice hockey winger.- Career :DeFauw was drafted in the second round, 28th overall, by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft...
  
  
• Kasper Degn
• Lasse Degn
• Kerry Ellis-Toddington
• Magnus Eriksson
• Milan Gajic
  Milan Gajic
  Milan Gajic , is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Victoria Salmon Kings.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Emil Jensen
• Anders Joensen
• Niklas Karmhag
• Tobias Kisum
• Grady Moore
• Peter Nielsen
• Mikko Niinikoski
• Johan Olsson
• Nicklas Plambeck
• Christoffer Rasmussen
• Mattias Remstam
• Jonathan Sjölund
• Daniel Wallin
• John Wikström