Season preview 2017/18 - Part 1 - The roster
Photo by Olivier Worre
13 September 2017
Summer is over and it's time for a new hockey season. Tornado Luxembourg will continue in French division 3. This year in the group with some new teams.
The roster of the team is mostly same as last season.
Biggest difference is that now we have 7 world champions in the team! Gilles Mangen, Robo Beran, Steven Minden, Colm Cannon, Marcus Eriksson, Thierry Beran and Ronny Scheier are the Tornado players who were representing Luxembourg in Division 3 World Championship last April in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Now someone might be wondering where is Philippe Lepage? That is the most sad news for this season. Due the professional reasons, Lepi will move to Switzerland this autumnn. Luckily Tornado has been known of the high levelgoalies and Gilles Mangen has the needed quality to take more resbonsibilities this season. As a back up Tornado will have Jesper Miquel from Huskies who will take a next logical step to the senior level.
Other lost is that Kraval brothers moved to Czech to continue their studies. They will be probably replaced by other youngsters as it looks like Huskies won't have U20 team this season. This means some juniors might step to the senior level. One of the new faces is Lukas Föhr who has joined to Tornado's practise squad. Last year Lukas played in Aachener with some nice stats.
As it was seen last year in some games and especially in World Championship, with a good teamwork this team has enough talent to beat any team in this level. Bigger together!