2007 IIHF European Champions Cup
The IIHF European Champions Cup 2007, the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF was the third edition of the current successor to the European Hockey League competition. He was held in the ice arena in St. Petersburg, Russia from 11 to 14 January 2007.
Representatives from the six best European nations after the IIHF World Ranking were qualified for the 2006 IIHF European Champions Cup. They played for a prize money of 800,000 Swiss francs. The participating teams were from Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Finland and Switzerland. 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 36,800 spectators attended the 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. First draw matches were decided by a maximum of five minutes of extra time in mode 4 -on- 4 player and possibly by the shootout. In the final overtime period consists of a maximum of ten minutes.
Ragulin Division
In the Ragulin Division - named after the former Soviet player Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin - sat the Finnish representative HPK Hämeenlinna with victories over the competitors MsHK Zilina and HC Sparta Prague by reaching the final.
Hlinka Division
The Hlinka Division - named after the former Czechoslovak player and coach Ivan Hlinka - saw the Russian representative Ak Bars Kazan confidently reach the finals with two wins. The team from the region of Tatarstan sat down with victories over Färjestad BK from Sweden and the HC Lugano in Switzerland by sovereign.
Final
In the finals it came to the meeting of the two group winners from Hämeenlinna and Kazan, the Kazan clearly with 6:0 chose for themselves and thus also in the third year of hosting a Russian team won the title. Outstanding in the victory was the Finnish goalkeeper Mika Noronen, which suffered no goals after coming on in the first group match in the whole tournament.
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: Artur Bagautdinow, Alexander Eremenko, Mika Noronen
Defender: Ray Giroux, Ilya Nikulin, Mr. Novák, Andrei Perwyschin, Vitaly Proshkin, Hennadij Razin, Yevgeny Rjassenski, Igor Schtschadilow
Attacker: Alexei Badjukow, Mikhail Junkow, Dmitri Kasionow, Enver Lisin, Alexei Morozov, Dmitri Obukhov, Danis Saripow, Mikhail Zhukov, Sergei Zinoviev, Alexander Stepanov, Alexei Tereshchenko, Vladimir Vorobyov
Head Coach: Sinetula Bilyaletdinov