Ice Hockey 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,899]

EURO HOCKEY TOUR FINAL STAGE

Wednesday 01.05.2019 - SCHEDULE

 

EURO HOCKEY TOUR

(STAGE 4/4 - CARLSON HOCKEY GAMES ) - 4 Nations Round-Robin Tournament

Day 1

15:00  Sweden - Russia   (*Played in Stockholm, SWE (GMT +2))

EURO HOCKEY TOUR 2018/19 Cumulative Standing after Games 9/12: 1. RUS 19, 2. FIN 13, 3. CZE 11, 4. SWE 11

 

[phelps 7,706]

Swedish SHL, Finals: playing on the road seems to be a hurdle that just can't be overcome...in game #5 of the SHL Finals, in fact, once again it was the home side to dominate and win the match...

Frölunda scored the opening goal after 10 minutes and then they didn't look back anymore, by the 30th minute the score was 4-0 for them, leaving Djurgårdens without any chance to even think about a possible comeback...

the second half of the game was just cosmetic...it only helped some players to improve their personal stats...

final score: Frölunda HC, 6 b. Djurgårdens IF, 2

thanks to this result, now Frölunda lead the series 3-2 and have 2 consecutive chances to clinch the title (the possible game #7 at home included)...

 

game #5 highlights

https://www.shl.se/play/video/51426646

[ChandlerMne 1,041]

2 hours ago, phelps said:

Swedish SHL, Finals: playing on the road seems to be a hurdle that just can't be overcome...in game #5 of the SHL Finals, in fact, once again it was the home side to dominate and win the match...

Frölunda scored the opening goal after 10 minutes and then they didn't look back anymore, by the 30th minute the score was 4-0 for them, leaving Djurgårdens without any chance to even think about a possible comeback...

the second half of the game was just cosmetic...it only helped some players to improve their personal stats...

final score: Frölunda HC, 6 b. Djurgårdens IF, 2

thanks to this result, now Frölunda lead the series 3-2 and have 2 consecutive chances to clinch the title (the possible game #7 at home included)...

 

game #5 highlights

https://www.shl.se/play/video/51426646

Your analysis of national leagues are great.

Do you watch matches live?

[phelps 7,706]

26 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Your analysis of national leagues are great.

Do you watch matches live?

 

yes, when it's possible (actually, more than live, I watch them delayed, so I can cut all the pauses off and save some time)...

 

apart from the NHL (I can watch all of their games on NHL.tv), I normally watch KHL, Swiss NLA, Czech and Slovak Extraliga(s) quite regularly because I can reach the TV channels broadcasting most of their matches...

 

EBEL and DEL only for those games broadcasted on free TV/streaming (mainly/almost only during the playoffs) and SHL unfortunately only for saturday's playoffs games on TV4 Sweden (and only if KodiMod's IPTV list works, which isn't always the case)...

 

anything else, it's only about watching highlights and reading newspapers/websites articles about it (trying to gather the most details -stats, fun facts and things like that- I can)...

 

p.s. the Finnish Liiga is the most difficult one to follow...and not only because of their language...they only post very short highlights of very few matches on Youtube...live matches are basically impossible to find in reasonable picture quality outside Finland and even the regular highlights on the official website are heavily geo-blocked (I mean, you need a really good VPN to watch them, things like Hola and other free stuff don't work with Liiga's website)...

Edited May 1, 2019 by phelps

[hckošice 14,899]

EURO HOCKEY TOUR FINAL STAGE

Wednesday 01.05.2019 - Results

 

EURO HOCKEY TOUR

(STAGE 4/4 - CARLSON HOCKEY GAMES ) - 4 Nations Round-Robin Tournament

Day 1

15:00  Sweden - Russia   6-4   (*Played in Stockholm, SWE (GMT +2))

 

Provisional Standing After Day 1*: 1. SWE 3, 2. RUS 0...... FIN, SWE 

EURO HOCKEY TOUR 2018/19 Cumulative Standing after Games 10/12*: 1. RUS 19, 2. SWE 14, 3. FIN 13*, 4. CZE 11*

*- Teams played 1 match less

 

[hckošice 14,899]

EURO HOCKEY TOUR FINAL STAGE

Thursday 02.05.2019 - SCHEDULE

 

EURO HOCKEY TOUR

(STAGE 4/4 - CARLSON HOCKEY GAMES in Brno (GMT +2)) - 4 Nations Round-Robin Tournament

Day 2

17:30  Finland - Czech Republic  

EURO HOCKEY TOUR 2018/19 Cumulative Standing after Games 10/12*: 1. RUS 19, 2. SWE 14, 3. FIN 13*, 4. CZE 11*

*- Teams played 1 match less

 

[hckošice 14,899]

EURO HOCKEY TOUR FINAL STAGE

Thursday 02.05.2019 - Results

 

EURO HOCKEY TOUR

(STAGE 4/4 - CARLSON HOCKEY GAMES in Brno (GMT +2)) - 4 Nations Round-Robin Tournament

Day 2

17:30  Finland - Czech Republic   3-2

 

Provisional Standing After Day 2: 1. SWE 3, 2. FIN 3, 3. CZE 0, 4. RUS 0

EURO HOCKEY TOUR 2018/19 Cumulative Standing after Games 10/12: 1. RUS 19, 2. FIN 16, 3. SWE 14, 4. CZE 11

 

[phelps 7,706]

Finnish Liiga, Finals: "refuse to lose"...HPK Hämeenlinna did religiously followed this motto...and therefore yesterday Kärpät Oulu didn't have any chance to enjoy the title...

HPK won a very tense and heavily conditioned by tactics and fear (actually, quite boring, too) game #6 of the Liiga Final Series on the home ice by a score of 1-0 (thanks to a goal scored by Valtteri Puustinen in the 29th minute of play)...

and because of that, now the series is tied 3-3 and it's all down to the decisive game #7, where anything can really happen...

it's a real shame that it's almost impossible to follow that game in reasonably good conditions outside Finland...

the Championship Game is scheduled for Tomorrow, May 4th in Oulu @ 5 p.m. local time, 4 p.m. CET

 

game #6 highlights

 

 

[phelps 7,706]

Swedish SHL

 

Frölunda HC are Swedish Champions!

 

There's always a lot of pressure when you get to play the final series of a championship.

And there's even more when you're at game #6 at your home, down 2-3 and with a packed stadium pushing your heart and your body to go beyond your actual skills.

This must be the feeling that brought Daniel Brodin to begin the match more than "on fire", which led him to get a stupid penalty after only 8 seconds of play.

Penalty that gave Frölunda the chance to open the score after less than 2 minutes, thanks to a goal scored by Samuel Fagemo.

This goal put even more pressure on Djurgårdens' coach and players and led them to make some more mistakes. So, 5 minutes later the gust team doubled up their lead with their star, Ryan Lasch (who was also named Playoffs MVP, after the end of the game).

The first period was really intense and full of action, with the home side having a desperate reaction which led them to shorten the distance just after the mid-point of the period, but Frölunda last night were on a mission and almost immediately restored the 2-goal margin thanks to a goal scored by Max Friberg.

This was basically the turning point of the game: Djurgårdens couldn't match that anymore, their fans were taken out of the game and slowly but steadily Frölunda started to take the full control of the action.

When the Norwegian Mats Rosseli Olsen scored the goal that gave the hosts a 4-1 lead after only 5 minutes of play into the second period, it was clear that it was all over, that Djurgårdens didn't have anything left in tank of both the physical and mental reserves.

The final 35 minutes were just a long and anxious wait for Frölunda and their fans and a painful one for Djurgårdens and their fans.

There was only a short moment when the home fans had the illusion that a miracle could still happen, after Emil Bemström scored the goal of the temporary 2-4, but it was just a question of a few minutes, before Rosseli Olsen netted his second goal of the night and definitively sealed the deal for the troop from Göteborg.

It's the 5th Swedish title for Frölunda.

 

Final Score of game #6: Djurgårdens IF, 2 vs Frölunda HC, 6 (1-3, 0-1, 1-2)

 

Final Series Recap

 

Frölunda HC b. Djurgårdens IF  4-2 (5-3; 1-5; 5-2; 2-3; 6-2; 6-2)

 

game #6 highlights

https://www.shl.se/play/video/51558120

[hckošice 14,899]

EURO HOCKEY TOUR FINAL STAGE

Saturday 04.05.2019 - SCHEDULE

 

EURO HOCKEY TOUR

(STAGE 4/4 - CARLSON HOCKEY GAMES in Brno (GMT +2)) - 4 Nations Round-Robin Tournament

Day 3

14:00  Russia - Finland

18:00  Czech Republic - Sweden

EURO HOCKEY TOUR 2018/19 Cumulative Standing after Games 10/12: 1. RUS 19, 2. FIN 16, 3. SWE 14, 4. CZE 11