2008 IIHF European Champions Cup
The IIHF European Champions Cup 2008, the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF was the fourth and final edition of the current successor to the European Hockey League competition. He was held from 10th to 13th January 2008 at St. Petersburg, Russia.
The event in 2008 was the last, as from the 2008/ 09 Champions Hockey League succeeded the competition. The winner HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk played in the summer against the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League for the Victoria Cup. All games were in the Ice Arena St. Petersburg, the home ground of SKA St. Petersburg discharged.
Representatives were qualified from the top six European nations after the IIHF World Ranking 2007 For the IIHF European Champions Cup. The participants therefore were the teams MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik in Sweden, HC Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic, HC Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia, HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk of Russia, Kärpät Oulu from Finland and the HC Davos in Switzerland. For Kärpät it was already the third part, Davos for the second. Teams from Germany and Austria did not qualify due to the poor performance of the national team. In the IIHF Continental Cup champion and the other invited teams from other European leagues were able to participate.
A total of 29,420 spectators attended the seven tournament games.
- 3.1 Best Scorer
- 3.2 Best Goalkeeper
- 4.1 Winning Team
Group stage
In the preliminary round, three teams played in two groups to the final.
Hlinka Division
The Hlinka Division - named after the former Czechoslovak player and coach Ivan Hlinka - saw the Czech representatives HC Sparta Prague confidently reach the finals with two wins. Already after the first two group games they stood firm as group winners. The final game between HC Davos and Kärpät Oulu then no longer had any significance.
Ragulin Division
In the Ragulin Division - named after the former Soviet player Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin - sat the Russian representative HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk through against HC Slovan Bratislava in Slovakia and MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik in Sweden. After Magnitogorsk and Bratislava had their opening games against each Örnsköldsvik won, it came in the final group game for direct confrontation in which it came to the final. Magnitogorsk sat down thanks to a narrow victory in the shootout eventually through and reached the final.
Final
In the finals it came to the meeting of the two group winners from Magnitogorsk and Prague, which ruled Magnitogorsk 5-2 for itself and therefore also in the fourth year of hosting a Russian team won the title. However, the Russians were able to ensure the victory until the final minutes with two goals in the orphaned Prague Gate.
After 1999 and 2000, the club, the Silverstone Trophy secured from the Urals for the third time.
Statistics
Best Scorer
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, G = Goals, V = templates, Pts = Points, / - = Plus / Minus, SM = penalty minutes; Fat: Turnierbestwert
Best Goalkeeper
Abbreviations: Sp = Games, TOI = Ice Age ( in minutes), GT = Goals against, SO = shutouts, Sv % = held shots (in%), GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Fat: Turnierbestwert
Awards
Player Trophies
All- Star team
Winning team
Goalkeepers: Andrej Mesin, Travis Scott
Defender: Vitaly Atjuschow Yevgeny Biryukov, Vladislav Buljin, Vladimir Malenkich, Ivan Savin, Alexander Selujanow, Martin Strbak, Yevgeny Varlamov
Attacker: Yuri Babenko, Yevgeny Fyodorov Yevgeny Gladskich Ravil Gusmanow, Alexei Kaigorodow, Igor Korolev, Jaroslav Kudrna, Nikolai Kuljomin, Jan Marek, Igor Mirnow, Denis Platonov, Sergei Sewostjanow
Head Coach: Valery Postnikov