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Épinal Hockey Club

ice hockey team in Épinal France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1659618 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Épinal Hockey Club, known as the Wildcats d'Épinal, is a French ice hockey team based in Épinal playing in the FFHG Division 1. The team was formerly known as the Dauphins d'Épinal (Épinal Dolphins), Image Club d'Épinal and Gamyo Épinal for sponsorship reasons when a French video game company, Gamyo, bought the naming rights in 2014. They rename themselves the Wildcats in 2022. The team was founded in 1997 and plays home games at the Patinoire de Poissompré.

On April 19, 2023, they won the title of French champion of FFHG Division 1.

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“Épinal Hockey Club” enters the record as ice hockey team in Épinal France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Épinal, Hockey and Club can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2022, 1997, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Épinal, Hockey and Club.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1659618. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2022, 1997 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Épinal Hockey Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.