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Seibu Prince Rabbits

Year of foundation: 1972
Club status: ceased (club folded for financial difficulties after the 2008-09 season)

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All time leagues: Asia League | Japan Ice Hockey League

Season 2008-2009

This club in 2008-2009: Asia League

Pos	Player name	Born	Height	Weight	Shoots
G	Kazuhito Katayama	25.07.1981	172 cm	76 kg	N/A	Show profile»
G	Naoya Kikuchi	23.08.1975	180 cm	80 kg	right	Show profile»
G	Shiro Matsumoto	03.04.1978	177 cm	78 kg	N/A	Show profile»
D	Yutaka Kawaguchi	05.04.1973	173 cm	78 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Ryuichi Kawai	26.09.1983	180 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Masahiro Kawamura	02.06.1980	180 cm	85 kg	N/A	Show profile»
D	Hiroyuki Miura	31.12.1973	190 cm	89 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Fumitaka Miyauchi	06.11.1972	181 cm	84 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Tomohito Okubo	22.09.1976	177 cm	77 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Yuya Yamada	24.07.1984	179 cm	85 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Kazuyoshi Yamaguchi	17.05.1977	187 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
F	Kiyoshi Fujita	25.06.1972	173 cm	75 kg	right	Show profile»
F	Bin Ishioka	17.01.1984	177 cm	82 kg	left	Show profile»
F	Toru Kamino	31.07.1979	174 cm	81 kg	right	Show profile»
F	Yoshikazu Kashino	26.06.1983	175 cm	75 kg	N/A	Show profile»
F	Yosuke Kon	21.09.1978	180 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
F	Shuji Masuko	08.07.1978	177 cm	82 kg	right	Show profile»
F	Daisuke Obara	04.06.1981	177 cm	82 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Joel Prpic	25.09.1974	200 cm	100 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Richard Rochefort	07.01.1977	179 cm	86 kg	right	Show profile»
F	Tomoki Sakagami	10.04.1985	171 cm	79 kg	N/A	Show profile»
F	Sho Sato	07.09.1983	176 cm	77 kg	left	Show profile»
F	Takahito Suzuki	17.08.1975	173 cm	73 kg	right	Show profile»
C	Go Tanaka	06.10.1983	173 cm	72 kg	left	Show profile»
F	Tomohiko Uchiyama	13.10.1979	170 cm	75 kg	left	Show profile»

Coach name	State	Born	Coach position
Tatsuki Katayama		26.01.1973	Assistant Coach	Show profile»
Chris Wakabayashi		10.12.1972	Head Coach	Show profile»

* no longer in the club

History
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he club was founded as the Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club in Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972. They won the Japan Ice Hockey League and All Japan Ice Hockey Championship in 1974. Since then, they have won the League 13 times and the All Japan Championship 11 times. They moved to Shinagawa, Tokyo in 1984, then to Yokohama, Kanagawa in 1991. They changed their name to the Kokudo Ice Hockey Club according to the change of their parent company's name. They merged with the Seibu Railways Ice Hockey Club in 2003 and moved to the Suntory Higashi-fushimi Ice Arena (renamed to DyDo Drinco Ice Arena in 2006 when the naming rights contract went to DyDo Drico) in Nishitokyo, Tokyo where Seibu had been based. Their parent company Kokudo ceased to exist in 2006 after a merger with Prince Hotels, Inc. They adopted the new name Seibu Prince Rabbits in 2006. The club also had a women's team called the Seibu Princess Rabbits.
On December 19, 2008, Prince Hotels & Resorts officially announced its intention to fold the team at the conclusion of the 2008-09 season, citing funding difficulties in a harsh economic climate.
Prince Hotels & Resorts negotiated with over twenty companies to find a new owner, however, did not succeed due to the economic situation in Japan, and due to the declining popularity of ice hockey itself. Prince Hotels & Resorts announced the disbanding of the team as of March 31, 2009.

from 1972 to 1991: Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club
from 1991 to 2006: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
from 2006 to present: Seibu Prince Rabbits

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