In Loreto, with the players wearing a beautiful woolen bianconera jersey in which the letters HCL stand out, the first real ice puck games were held with performances by, among others, such emblazoned teams as Oxford University and on February 1, 1950, in front of 2,500 people, by those who a few weeks later in London would become the world champions with the maple leaf: the Edmonton-area Canadians of the Waterloo Mercury's opposing the Milan Devils. Despite the game of field hockey gaining momentum, however, city authorities continue to regard Lugano as essentially a soccer town.
The efforts of president Luigi Bellasi in particular were to no avail, so that the lack of political support actually cost the club eviction even from Loreto. In 1955, after a thousand vicissitudes, Lugano played a few matches on what in the summer was the tennis court of the Münger pastry shop in Paradiso. All thanks to two great animators of the family bianconera: Cuccio Viglezio and Guido Keller. Also in 1955, a Noranco garage owner named Albino Mangili put the Noranco facility into operation. And it is in Noranco that the first real acquisition of the history bianconera lands : the Grisonian Beat Rüedi, formerly from Switzerland and several times Swiss champion with Davos.
With Rüedi came the first real example to follow: in addition to playing and coaching, Rüedi skilfully moved around the field in order to realise what was considered a dream in Lugano: the artificial rink. During the three years spent in Noranco, Lugano disputed its first official championships and in 1956 celebrated its first promotion to the first division. President was still Luigi Bellasi, while the omnipresent Cuccio Viglezio and Antonio Bariffi, already player and who would later become the first Ticino's player to hold the position of President of the National League, joined the committee. During the last season at Noranco, Lugano also finds its first Canadian purchase: Bob Mitchell, defenseman taken from the Diavoli di Milano who brings to Lugano those new shots called slapshot! On 1. December 1957, thanks to Ing. Pino Pedrolini's initiative, the first artificial rink was finally inaugurated, north of Cornaredo under the luxurious Trevano Castle, and it was named Resega because there used to be a sawmill in those parts. The Resega was inaugurated with great pomp in the presence of 6500 spectators on 1 December 1957 with the friendly match Switzerland-Italy.
Among those present that day was also the man who thirty years later would take Lugano to the top of Swiss and international field hockey: Geo Mantegazza. Engineer by profession, just by doing the static calculations of the Resega he has the first contact with the family bianconera. The most important event experienced in the early years of the Resega is in those days the Pedrolini Cup, from the surname of the family then owning the facility that hosts the strongest European teams such as Stockholm, Wembley Lions, Paris and Milan Devils. The Resega's inaugural season coincides with the first professional to wear the jersey bianconera: Gene Miller, followed by the funambulist Chinese-Canadian Larry Kwong. At the end of the 1950s, a Swiss youth named Gérald Rigolet, who would later, with Villars and Chaux de Fonds, prove to be one of the greatest goalies in Swiss field hockey history, also passed through Lugano.
