Posts About "Champions Hockey League"
5 Reasons to Watch the Champions Hockey League Championship
February 9th, 2016 The 2015-16 Champions Hockey League (CHL) tournament wraps up on Tuesday with a championship game between the Finnish Liiga's Karpat Oulu and the Swedish league's Frölunda Gothenburg. It's been a dramatic tournament with some incredible stories, but the CHL isn't quite as popular in North America as Europe, so many aren't familiar...
Champions Hockey League Final: Players to Watch
February 8th, 2016 On February 9th, Finnish team Karpat Oulu and Swedish Frolunda Gothenburg are battling for the Champions Hockey League title, the crown of Europe. Frolunda has eliminated current Swiss Champion HC Davos in the semi-final with ease and will make it to the final the second straight year. Frolunda has therefore been in every CHL final since...
Champions Hockey League Draws Round of 32
September 9th, 2015 The second year of the reborn Champions Hockey League is underway with an expanded field and updated format. The group stage concluded over the weekend and on Tuesday, the CHL announced the seedings for the field of 32, which will start up on September 22. Among the notable match-ups in the playoff portion of the CHL tournament,...
Luleå Win the Champions' Hockey League Cup
February 6th, 2015 The Swedish Luleå are the European Cup holders and winners of the IIHF’s Champions’ Hockey League 2014-15. The team won the finals against Frölunda Gothenburg last Tuesday, 3 February 2015. Thus, they have re-captured the CHL cup, which already was in their hands after the successful 2012-13 season. Notwithstanding the fact that...
Luleå and Frölunda to Play in the CHL’s Final
January 23rd, 2015 Two Swedish teams, Frölunda Gothenburg and Luleå Hockey, have paved their way into the final of the IIHF-led Champions Hockey League, an international competition of the European countries’ top teams. The final game of this tournament is to be played on February, 3 in the northern Swedish city of Luleå, the home town of one of the...
Europe’s Champions Hockey League Expects Semi-Finals
December 21st, 2014 The European Champions Hockey League has managed to engage into its tournament the best hockey teams of the Old Continent (with the exception of Russian clubs). Currently the league is past the quarter-finals’ stage and is set for the intensive and most interesting semi-finals to be played in January 2015. Until the semifinals the...
Champions Hockey League Starts Anew in Europe
August 26th, 2014 The International Ice Hockey Federation and major European ice hockey stakeholders, clubs re-launched the Champions Hockey League last week. The re-launch in August 2014 follows the league’s initial failure to last more than one season caused by financial troubles in 2009 due to the worldwide economic downturn. The first games of...
Get To Know The New Champions Hockey League
August 20th, 2014 On August 21st the new Champions Hockey League will kickoff with 15 games - the first of which will be a clash between the Czech side Viktovice and German team ERC Ingolstadt. It will be a great chance to see many of the best European teams battling to become the winner in what is yet another attempt to establish a serious European...
Europe To Finally Have A True Club Champion
December 20th, 2013 Next year will be the inaugural season of the Champions Hockey League, which will consist of 40 teams vying to be crowned the number one European club. The Founding Members The new pan-European competition is a cooperative between the IIHF, the six founding leagues and the 26 founding teams, which receive an automatic qualification...
