IIHF Continental Cup 2006
The IIHF Continental Cup 2005 /06 was the ninth edition of the discharged by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF competition. On September 23, 2005 to January 15, 2006 discharged participated in this tournament 21 teams from 21 countries. The final round was held from 13th to 15th January 2006 at the Hungarian Székesfehérvár.
Three final round participants were set, the host Alba Volán Székesfehérvár and the ZSC Lions Zurich from Switzerland and the HK Lada Togliatti from Russia, representing the highest ranked countries according to the IIHF World Ranking in 2005 who had registered for the tournament. The other finalists were determined in three qualifying rounds.
- 2.1 Group G
- 3.1 Winning Team
Qualification
First round
The matches of the first round took place until September 25, 2005 of 23. As a venue for group A served the Romanian capital Bucharest and Ankara in the games of Group B were discharged. However, of the eight registered teams took part in a not in the competition, which was then replaced by a playing out of competition team.
Group A
In group A, the Estonian representative HK Stars Tallinn renounced a start in the competition. To compensate for the loss, those responsible committed the Romanian team of CS Progym Gheorgheni for the tournament. However, the games Gheorghenis were not included in the tournament standings.
Ultimately, the tournament hosts CSA Steaua Bucharest won against the two remaining associates and qualified for the second round. After Steaua had already clinched the second victory on the second day of the tournament and was certainly qualified traveled the Croatian representative KHL Medveščak Zagreb from before the final game of Bucharest. This does not anyway depth in the rating game against Gheorgheni was therefore counted with 0:5 goals against Zagreb.
Complicating the tournament games were the bad ice conditions, there had to be installed one week before the start of a new compressor and the person responsible therefore lacked the time to prepare the ice surface accordingly.
Group B
The discharged in Ankara Group B saw the Spanish club CH Jaca reach the second round. Only in the final group game against the hosts Polis Akademisi Ankara they secured the group. This had beaten considerably in the tournament with the home crowd in the back and a Canadian guest player in goal.
For a curiosity the team Maccabi Lod Amos made from Israel. Since the club's management had booked flight tickets from Istanbul back home, the team needed a six hour drive for the transfer of Ankara there. Therefore, they could not compete for the final group game against the HK Slawia Sofia. The game was evaluated with 5:0 and two points for Sofia.
Second Round
The second round of the Continental Cup was played in three groups from 14 to 16 October 2005. The Group C matches were held in the Lithuanian Elektrėnai, the Group D games in Grenoble, France as well as the meetings of Group E in Minsk, Belarus.
The winner of Group A, CSA Steaua Bucharest, qualified to take part in Group F, while the Club Hielo Jaca took part in the hosting of the group E.
Group C
The played in Elektrėnai Group C saw the HK Riga 2000 reached the third round. You could win all the games and created sovereign made it into the group F of the third round. In the first tournament game they were able to defeat the later runners GKS Tychy clearly with 7:2. Against the qualifiers CSA Steaua Bucharest and host SC Energia Elektrėnai also followed high victories, making the team the tournament ended with a goal difference of 27:6.
Group D
The tournament Group D won the host French club Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble. In a conceivable narrow group in which three of the six games ended in a draw, they collected five of a possible six points. After the first day of the tournament, all games were finished without a winner, won the Coventry Blaze and the hosts on the second match their respective games. Thus met each other on the final day, the top two of the group, where Grenoble with a 2-0 victory securing the ticket for the third round.
A total of 12,223 spectators attended the six tournament games.
Group E
The third free place in the third qualifying round was able to secure the Belarusian representative HK Junost Minsk. Minsk won in its own hall on the first matchday 4-0 Kaszink - Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk, underpinning the claim to a place in the third round. With the same result, the encounter between the HK Sokol Kiev and Club Hielo Jaca qualifier ended. Since Minsk victorious went on the second day of the match against Jaca and Ust-Kamenogorsk Kiev defeated, Minsk needed from the final duel against Kiev only a counter. However, by a narrow 2-1 victory they claimed the top position. As chance the team from Jaca proved in the tournament. The three significant defeats they managed a single goal.
A total of 8,600 spectators attended the six tournament games.
Third Round
The third round of the Continental Cup was held from November 20, 2005 in Jesenice, Slovenia on 18. Addition to the host, the three winners of the second round of the tournament participated.
Group F
In the semifinal, the three qualifiers for the previous round met the hosts HK Acroni Jesenice. On the first day of the tournament the HK Riga 2000 defeated the HK Junost Minsk and Jesenice beat significantly the Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble. By a 4-3 victory with a simultaneous defeat of the hosts on the second day Riga sit alone at the first table position. Therefore Jesenice needed in the final duel against Riga a win to still reach the Super Final. However Riga won this game and thus secured the sovereign remaining free space. Behind Riga to Minsk Junost could be placed on the second rank.
A total of 8,100 spectators attended the six tournament games.
Super Final
The Super Final was held until January 15, 2006 at the Hungarian Székesfehérvár of 13. Set were Alba Volán Székesfehérvár as host, the Swiss participants ZSC Lions Zurich and the HK Lada Togliatti from Russia. Togliatti had celebrated winning the European Cup in the season 1996/97 his biggest international success, while Zurich had won in 2001 and 2002, the Continental Cup. In addition, the winner of the third round, the Latvian champion HK Riga 2000 was qualified.
On the first day of the tournament the ZSC Lions Zurich defeated the host Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 3-2 and the favorite HK Lada Togliatti stopped the winning streak of HK Riga 2000 with a 4-1 win. The second match against Székesfehérvár Togliatti could win just as Zurich Latvian Brussels residents had to admit defeat and thus could almost buried hopes on the third win of the Continental Cup. Thus, the Russians were before the last game with a two point lead alone at the top. Through a clear 7:2 victory in the penultimate tournament Riga increased the pressure on Togliatti again, which thus at least needed a point to not be of direct comparison of the teams in then three dependent. By a narrow 1-0 victory Lada Togliatti won finally serenely in a second European Cup in club history.
A total of 14,310 spectators attended the six tournament games.
Group G
Awards
Player Trophies
Winning team
Goalkeepers: Vasily Koschetschkin, Alexei Semenov
Defender: Denis Bodrov, Mikhail Buturlin, Artur Garipov, Māris Jass, Alexei Jemelin, Marat Kalimulin, Andrei Krutschinin, Dmitri Vorobiev, Pavel Woroschnin
Attacker: Denis Abdullin, Yevgeny Bodrov, Alexander Bumagin, Alexander Buturlin, Ilya Dokschin, Vadim Golubtsov, Yevgeny Ketow, Anton Kryssanow, Andrij Michnow, Yakov Ratschinski, Stanislaw Schmakin
Head Coach: Pyotr Vorobyov Assistant Coach: Valeri Shaposhnikov, Anatoly Jemelin