Channel One Cup (ice hockey)

The Channel One Cup ( former names Izvestia Cup, Baltika Cup, Rosno Cup) is held annually in Moscow and other Russian places ice hockey tournament, in which usually the national teams from Sweden, Finland, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union ) and the Czech Republic to participate (formerly Czechoslovakia ). The tournament is organized as a four-nation tournament as part of the Euro Hockey Tour. At this tournament series also includes the Czech Hockey Games in the Czech Republic, Karjala Cup in Finland and the oddset Hockey Games in Sweden.

History

The tournament was first organized as the International Ice Hockey Tournament on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. In the following year performed as an international ice hockey tournament, took over in 1969 on a proposal of the sports commentator Boris Fedosov the editor of the Soviet newspaper Izvestia sponsorship for this sporting event, under the name Izvestia Cup 1969 The event also got -. Likewise an idea Fedossows - a mascot, a snowman with hockey sticks.

With Canadian ice hockey team and the former national ice hockey team of the FRG took at this time - at least at irregular intervals - more teams in the tournament. After the withdrawal of Izvestia as a sponsor, jumped from the Baltika Cup 1997, the Russian brewery Baltika as name and funders, so that the cup name russian Кубок пивоваренной компании Балтика ( " Cup of beer brewing company Baltika " ) wore. Then, sponsored from the Rosno Cup 2004 for two years of the insurance company ROSNO the event. Since the Channel One Cup 2006, the Cup is named after the Russian television channel 1

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