- Seibu Prince Rabbits
The nihongo|Seibu Prince Rabbits|SEIBUプリンス ラビッツ|Seibu Purinsu Rabittsu are an
Asia League Ice Hockey team based in Nishi-Tokyo City inTokyo ,Japan . The Rabbits have played at theDyDo Drinco Ice Arena since 2006-07.History
The club was founded as the Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club in
Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972. They won theJapan Ice Hockey League andAll Japan Ice Hockey Championship in 1974. Since then, they have won the League 13 times and the Championship 9 times. They moved toShinagawa, Tokyo in 1984, then toYokohama, 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 theSuntory Higashi-fushimi Ice Arena inNishitokyo, Tokyo where Seibu had been based. Their parent company Kokudo ceased to exist in 2006 after the merger withPrince Hotels, Inc. . They adopted the new name Seibu Prince Rabbits in 2006. The club also has a women's team called the Seibu Princess Rabbits.Notable players
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Hiroyuki Miura , drafted by theMontreal Canadiens in 1992, the first ever Japanese drafted into theNHL .
*Yutaka Fukufuji , who was drafted by theNational Hockey League 'sLos Angeles Kings and became the first Japanese-born player to appear in an NHL gameImport players
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Chris Bright 2003-05, RW
*flagicon|USADan Daikawa 2003-04, D
*flagicon|CANJoel Prpic 2003-present, D (Former Bruins/Avalanche)
*flagicon|CANChris Yule 2003-08, F
*flagicon|CANRichard Rochefort 2007-present, CExternal links
*ja icon [http://www1.princehotels.co.jp/icehockey/ Official website]
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