Martin McDowell's Blog

My best friend, who is a great sports enthusiasts and a professional thrips stalker (joke might say much more knowledgeable things on the matter but I decided to have my dab in it myself.

I have not been following the Slovene or any other hockey scene in recent years and I was surprised to find that two of Slovene’s biggest hockey clubs play in the Austrian league EBEL. In fact, I see they even have a Hungarian team in this season’s line-up. All they need is a Croatian team and they can have themselves a nice little Austruhungarian hockey empire .

For those who don’t know the Austrohungarian empire, it was a dual empire that included territories of many today countries like Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Germany…

But just a few days ago I was even more surprised to learn that one of our teams Union Olimpija (called Union Laibach in German) has even managed to top the ranks in the EBEL league. Now I shouldn’t spread this kind of info but I heard from many Slovenes that their first hand experience with Austrians was that they look down on Slovenes so I guess this new hockey development must be quite a bit upsetting to them to say the least.
Mind you, the Austrians always seemd to be much better than our team when they played in the Alpine league so it undoubtedly surprised many of the Slovene fans