2007–08 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup
The IIHF European Women Champions Cup 2007/ 08 was the fourth edition of the conference organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF competition. On 5 October 2007 discharged until February 3, 2008 tournament was attended by 21 teams from 21 countries. The final round was held from January 29 to February 3, 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.
A final round participants was set, the hosts and defending champions AIK Solna. The four other finalists were determined in two qualifying rounds.
- 2.1 Group E
- 2.2 Group F
- 4.1 Best Scorer interior
- 4.2 Best goalkeepers
- 5.1 Winning Team
Preliminary round
The preliminary round matches were held to 7 October 2007 of 5. As a venue for group A, the Bulgarian Sofia acted, in the Slovakian Martin the matches in Group B were held in Cergy the pairings of group C were held and the group D was played in the Czech capital Prague.
Group A
The meetings of the Group A took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. After three days of the tournament, the Kazakh champion Aisulu Almaty sat with three wins and a goal difference of 13-0 against the sovereign by competitors. The decisive ultimately win the tournament duel could clearly win the Kasachinnen on the first day of the tournament with a 4-0 win over Austrian representative EHV Sabres Wien. The host HK Sofia secured the third place, as the Games of the fourth team, the Herlev Hornets from Denmark, counted each 5-0 for the opponent.
The team from Herlev was not brought to the required minimum number of agents. Actually, they had won the encounter with 55:0 against Sofia and Vienna beaten 6-5. Counter Aisulu Almaty But they had clearly lost 8-0 and were therefore only occupies the second place.
Group B
The preliminary round Group B was played in the Slovakian Martin, where the hosts of the MHC Martin on the first day of the tournament laid the foundation for reaching the second round. They defeated the later runners Terme Maribor 5-2. The same day, the ladies of the SHK Laima Riga won very clearly against the during the whole tournament clearly inferior ladies of Turkish Master Büyükşehir Belediyesi Ankara SK. Since Maribor hit on the second day of the tournament Riga, the Slovaks needed in the last game against Riga, just a counter to safely reach the second round. This was achieved with a defeat in the penalty shootout against Riga, which therefore had to be content with third place itself.
Group C
In Group C, the French champion and Turinerausrichter HC Cergy -Pontoise sat confidently through with three wins from three games. Behind it placed the Norwegian champions Vålerenga IF Oslo, who narrowly lost the decisive battle against the French women on the second day of the tournament 1-2. Without chances of reaching the second round remained Slough Phantoms and Dreamland Queens Tallinn.
Group D
The played in Prague Group D saw the hosts of the HC Slavia Prague reach the second round. The Czechs were able to win all encounters clearly for itself. Here, the opening victory against the Eagles HC Bolzano proved to be crucial for reaching the second round. No chance remained the ladies of Miercurea Ciuc SC from Romania and the UTE Marilyn Budapest, Hungary.
Second round
The matches of the second round were held to 2 December 2007 of 30 November. As a venue for the Group E served the Russian Dmitrov, near the capital, Moscow, and the group F was played in Berlin. It qualified in each case the two teams in the first positions of a group for the Super Final.
Group E
The games in Group E, for last year's runner Moskovskaya Oblast Tornado acted as host, were held in Dmitrov. In addition to the above the preliminaries qualified Slovaks of MHK Martin and the Kazakh champion Aisulu Almaty hosts as well as the Finnish champions Espoo Blues were also set for the tournament.
For a surprise in the tournament, the ladies of the Aisulu Almaty, who won their games against Espoo and Moskovskaya Oblast in the shootout and after a clear 7:1 victory over the MHK Martin as winner of the tournament went to the Super Final ensured. By a 1-0 defeat of the hosts in the final group game against the Espoo Blues they failed at an early stage because with this result as a table runner Espoo solved the additional Final ticket.
Group F
The intermediate round-robin tournament in Group F was hosted by the German champions OSC Berlin and took place in Berlin in Wellblechpalast. In addition to Berlin last year's finalist HC Lugano in Switzerland was set for the tournament. About the preliminary competition, also the HC Cergy -Pontoise and the HC Slavia Prague had qualified.
Cergy- Pontoise and Prague had traveled as an outsider to Berlin, where it already Prague in the first game of the HC Lugano made more difficult than expected and a 2-2 lasted until the last third, but then defeated 6-2. Likewise Berlin could beat the French representative on the first day of the tournament. Thus, it came the next day to a duel of the two undefeated teams, which denied the Swiss women victorious. Since simultaneously Prague won the Game against Cergy- Pontoise, Lugano was qualified as the first member of the group F on the Super Final. On the final day, therefore, the second finalists decided in the match between the hosts and the Prague city. There, the Germans were victorious in a competitive game in the shootout and traveled the first German team in the history of European Women Champions Cup for the final tournament. Cergy, however, was inferior to the other teams could take clear and in the end only the fair play trophy.
Super Final
The Super Final was held from February 3, 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden on 29 January. Set was the host and defending champion AIK Solna. There were the four qualifiers for the previous round, the Swiss champions HC Lugano, the German champions OSC Berlin, the Finnish master Espoo Blues and Aisulu Almaty Kazakh as representative.
In the very first game of the first competition day it came to a meeting of the two Scandinavian representatives, the defending champion and host of the capital with 4:2 could decide for themselves. The following day, then attacked the remaining three teams in the competition. During the AIK Solna had no play, the Swiss representative HC Lugano won against the OSC Berlin and the Espoo Blues could gain three points for the first time after the previous day defeat against Aisulu Almaty. On Matchday two games were again set in which each Solna and Espoo imports her second victory.
The following day, only one meeting was then scheduled, so the following two days of competition, one team had a free day. So, it was a victory for the third success in the third tournament celebrating, making the first teams already had no chance to win the tournament. The Vorschlusstag the Super Final was the competitors Solnas then use to reduce the gap again. Since Lugano but lost for the second time and Espoo had lost the direct comparison against Solna, the Swedes were already before the last date fixed as a tournament winner and thus a place for the fourth time in a row overall and the Cup. Your sovereign tournament victory they underpinned with a win over the OSC Berlin. In second place, the Espoo Blues landed before Aisulu Almaty.
A total of only 900 spectators attended the ten tournament games.
Statistics
Best Scorer interior
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, G = Goals, V = templates, Pts = Points, / - = Plus / Minus; Fat: Turnierbestwert
Best goalkeepers
Abbreviations: Sp = Games, TOI = Ice Age ( in minutes), GT = Goals against, SO = shutouts, Sv % = held shots (in%), GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Fat: Turnierbestwert
Awards
Player Trophies
Winning team
Goalkeepers: Josephin Lennström, Madeleine Schelander
Defenders: Emilia Andersson, Linnéa Bäckman, Emelie Berggren, Maria Hortell, Hanna Lindström, Katarina Timglas, Suvi Vacker
Attackers: Maritta Becker, Gizela Blom, Sandra Claesson, Deborah corner Fjord, Nanna Hamell, Isabelle Jordansson, Kathrin Lehmann, Maria Rooth, Danijela Rundqvist, Malin Sonefors, Pernilla Winberg
Head Coach: Henrik Cedergren