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the new hockey season starts today with the 2020/2021 Champions Hockey League Draw...:bounce: :cheer:

 

because of the covid-19 emergency, we have a new format, with the competition starting later than usual (October rather than August) and playing all the competition rounds with the direct elimination head-to-head matchups over 2 legs (Home & Away, aggregate score counting, as usual) until the Final, which will be played as always over one single game (February 9th, 2021...if everything goes well :fingers:)...

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CHL Draw: Frölunda, Luleå and Zürich enter as top seeds

 

The 2020/21 Champions Hockey League season will be launched later today with the Draw to establish the Round of 32 matchups and the path to the Final.

 

Follow all the action via our livestream on Wednesday at 18:00 CEST on the CHL’s official digital platforms.

 

The live show, which will be broadcast on both the CHL website and on the league’s official social media channels, will be presented by Jann Billeter, anchor and reporter for Swiss national broadcaster SRF.

He will be joined on stage by CHL President Peter Zahner and CHL CEO Martin Baumann who will draw the 32 teams randomly to create the 16 pairings that will battle it out to start the season.

 

Ahead of the CHL Draw, all qualified teams have been allocated into two pots according to their achievements in their national leagues and the respective league’s standing in the CHL League Ranking.

 

Reigning CHL champions Frölunda Indians (SWE) sit atop the rankings, and are therefore the highest-seeded team, followed by the regular season winners of the six Shareholder Leagues: Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic and Austria.

 

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Draw Rules

 

There will be two pots containing 16 teams each.

 

Pot 1: Teams ranked 1-16

Pot 2: Teams ranked 17-32

 

The seedings are based upon the CHL Ranking Tool. 

 

Draw order: Teams from Pot 1 will be drawn alternately at random against teams from Pot 2.

 

The Draw will provide the Round of 32 pairings.

 

As the pairings are drawn, they are placed in the Playoff Tree, starting with the top-left bracket, followed by the top-right bracket, the third pairing will be placed in the bottom-right bracket and the fourth in the bottom-left bracket. 

 

Clubs from the same league cannot be drawn into a Round of 32 pairing.

 

Should a league conflict occur, then the club in question will be placed in the next possible pairing available, determined by the help of software.

 

No further Draws will take place; the Playoff Tree leads the teams from the Round of 32 through the Round of 16, the Quarter-Finals, the Semi-Finals and all the way to the Final.

 

2020/2021 CHL Draw explained

 

 

 

2020/21 Playing format 

 

In the 2020/21 Champions Hockey League season, a total of 61 games will be played over the course of nine game days between October and February.

 

The season will start with an immediate knockout Round of 32, which will comprise two-game, home-and-away, aggregate score series up to the Semi-Finals.

 

The season culminates on 9 February 2021 with the ultimate one-game Final to determine the European club champions.

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2020/21 CHL DRAW - LIVESTREAM

 

Join us live from 18.00 CET as we find out who the 32 teams will play in the 2020/21 Champions Hockey League!

 

Teams from Pot 1 will be drawn against those in Pot 2 to decide the Round of 32 match-ups - however, in this round, no clashes between teams from the same league will be allowed.

 

After the draw has been made, we'll have the bracket all the way to the final!

 

 

 

 

 

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2020/2021 Champions Hockey League - 1st Round Pairings

 

:CZE Bílí Tygři Liberec vs :POL GKS Tychy
:SWE Luleå Hockey vs :GER Eisbären Berlin
:SUI ZSC Lions Zurich vs :DEN Sønderjykse Vojens
:FIN Lukko Rauma vs :CZE Sparta Prague
:AUT Red Bull Salzburg vs :FIN Tappara Tampere
:ITA Bolzano Foxes vs :SUI EHC Biel-Bienne
:SWE Färjestad Karlstad vs :GBR Cardiff Devils
:GER Straubing Tigers vs :SUI Genève-Servette
:FIN Kärpät Oulu vs :DEN Aalborg Pirates
:GER Adler Mannheim vs :FRA Grenoble
:SUI EV Zug vs :SWE Skellefteå AIK
:GER Red Bull Munich vs :FIN Ilves Tampere
:CZE Oceláři Třinec vs :BLR Yunost Minsk
:SWE Frölunda Indians vs :BLR Neman Grodno
:SUI HC Davos vs :AUT Vienna Capitals
:SWE Rögle Ängelholm vs :NOR Stavanger Oilers

 

 

The opening games are scheduled to take place on 6 and 7 October 2020, with the return legs a week later on the 13 and 14.

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4 minutes ago, hckosice said:

:SVK  withdrew from the competition. Banská Bystrica as the champion returned the quota and since no other club showed interest, Slovakia decided to withdrew

very, very sad news...especially when considering that Slovakia is a true Hockey Nation, if there's one...

 

I hope this is only a period of a certain kind, with all the troubles related to the covid-19 emergency and everything gets back to usual enthusiasm as soon as possible...:fingers:

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under an Italian perspective, not the luckiest draw for Bolzano Foxes...

 

despite being in the Pot #1 (with all the top 16 european clubs), they have to face already in round #1 a team from the Swiss League...and nothing less than the revelation of the last couple of seasons in that tournament, a team that could also make the CHL quarterfinals last year, where they lost only in the OT to the eventual champions Frölunda Indians...:nopompom:

 

and should they make a miracle and win the series against Biel/Bienne, the second round could end up being a clash against the CHL reigning champions from Sweden...:facepalm:

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