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Day 2 of the Continental Cup 3rd Round

 

In Group 1, Nottingham Panthers (GBR) qualified team from 2nd round surprisingly won also today against Angers Ducs (FRA) 4-3 and is the first qualified team for the final round, wow, congrats what a achievement for british Ice hockey, Host Odense Bulldogs (DEN) defeated Donbass Donetsk (UKR) 2-1, the Ukrainian champion is already out before tomorrows last day.

 

Nottingham lead the group with 6 points and is already qualified, 2nd ex-aequo are Odense and Angers both with 3 points and score 6-6, tomorrow they will face in a do or die match for the second and last ticket to the final round, Donbass is 4th without points and already out, tomorrow they will play their last this seasons europeans cups match against Nottingham.

 

In group 2, Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR) defeated GKS Tychy (POL) 2-0 and the host Ritten Sport (ITA) Beibarys Atyrau (KAZ) 3-2.

 

1st Ritten with 6 points, 2nd Beibarys and 3rd Soligorsk both with 3 points and 4th Tychy with 0 points all are still in the game for the 2 tickets

Tomorrow Beibarys will face Tychy and Ritten will play Shakhtyor Soligorsk.

 

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Last day of the Continental Cup 3rd Round,

 

In Group 1,

In the direct qualification match the host team Odense Bulldogs defeated the Angers Ducs  3-2 and finish the tournament in second position and qualify to the final round, they will be accompanied by the Nottingham Panthers, the biggest surprise of this edition, won the Group despite todays lost with HC Donbass Donetsk 1-3.

 

Final Standing. 1- Nottingham 6 pts, 2- Odense 6 pts, 3- Angers 3 pts, 4- Donbass 3pts

 

In Group 2,

Beibarys Atyrau won against GKS Tychy   4-2 and advance into the final round together with the Ritten Sport, the host team won against Shakhtyor Soligorsk   3-1.

 

Final Standing. 1- Ritten 9pts, 2- Beibarys 6pts, 3- Soligorsk 3pts, 4- Tychy 0pts.

 

 

The Final round will introduce the traditional 4 teams round-robin tournament and is scheduled for the weekend of 13-15 January 2017,

The host will be determined soon. After today we know that the new Continental Cup winner will be from those 4 (Odense Bulldogs (DEN), Nottingham Panthers (GBR), Ritten Sport (ITA), Beibarys Atyrau (KAZ).

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Panthers end drought

Nottingham, Odense move on to final

 

 

The Nottingham Panthers won in Odense and advance to the final as first British team in seven years, together with host Odense Bulldogs.

 

At the Continental Cup Final they will be joined by the top-two teams from the other group, Ritten Sport and Beibarys Atyrau, the champions of Italy and Kazakhstan respectively. The Continental Cup winner gets the chance to play in the Champions Hockey League 2017/2018.

 

The Sheffield Steelers in 2009/2010 were the last team from Great Britain to make the final round. Since then the representatives from the UK failed to make it that far including the Panthers in 2013/2014.

 

For Denmark it will be the second straight final participation after the Herning Blue Fox making it to the final tournament last year.

 

The Nottingham Panthers won the semi-final tournament in Odense already on Saturday. After two wins in two games no other team had the theoretical chance to claim the tournament win since the Panthers had beaten its two closest followers, Odense and Angers, and the game against until-then-winless HC Donbass wouldn’t change the outcome of these two teams.

 

Two strong periods helped the Panthers win the opening game against host Odense Bulldogs. Oliver Betteridge and Brad Moran netted the puck in the opening frame, Robin Sterner scored to keep Odense in the game. But two unanswered goals in the first half of the second period from Matthew Carter and Petr Kalus gave Nottingham a 4-1 lead.

 

After Sterner’s second goal the British went into the second intermission with a two-goal cushion and Brian McGrattan restored the three-goal lead at 6:23 of the third period. But the game was still not over. Rasmus Lyo scored three minutes later and with the goalie pulled for the last minute of the game Dale Mitchell made it 5-4. The score outlasted the last 51 seconds of the game.

 

In their second game the Panthers were outshot 27-20 by French club Angers Ducs, which started the tournament with a 3-2 win against HC Donbass. Angers got the lead twice thanks to a pair of power-play goals from Canadian import Jonathan Lessard in the first period but Jeffrey Brown scored the 1-1 goal for Nottingham and early in the second period Moran tied the game at two. The middle frame was the Panthers’ strongest and Kristian Kudroc, a towering former Slovak national team defenceman who once played NHL games for the two teams from Florida, scored at 15:23 of the middle frame.

 

That goal changed the game. The Angers Ducs tried hard to come back but Jindrich Pacl, who represented the Czech Republic in the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship, had a strong day in the Panthers’ net. The young goalie got the start after Finnish-Swedish netminder Miika Wiikman had suffered an injury from a collision the day before.

 

McGrattan made it 4-2 in the last period and Gary Leveque’s 4-3 goal with 22 seconds remaining in regulation time came too late – the Panthers were final-bound. Losing the last game to fourth-placed HC Donbass, 3-1, didn’t matter anymore.

 

Angers and Odense battled for the second spot and the second ticket to the final on the last day after having both lost to Nottingham and beaten Donbass in one-goal wins. The hosting Bulldogs were in charge for most of the game and outshot Angers 38-27 but Ducs goalie Leo Bertein made sure the score remained narrow.

 

Rasmus Bjerrum and Oliver Larsen gave Odense the lead but Angers tied the game twice with markers from Mathieu Gagnon and Robin Gaborit. A penalty call against Angers’ Cody Campbell gave the hosts the edge in the dying minutes of the game. Michael Eskesen scored the game-winner with 2:01 left in the third period and with the 3-2 win Odense earned its ticket to the final.

 

Odense’s American forward Tony Romano led the tournament in scoring as he does in the Danish league. Angers’ Lessard and Nottingham captain Moran, a Canadian forward who once played a couple of NHL games for Columbus and Vancouver, led the event in goals with three markers apiece.

 

The Nottingham Panthers and the Odense Bulldogs will see each other again in the final tournament from 13-15 January 2017 together with Ritten Sport and Beibarys Atyrau. The host will be determined soon.

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Ritten’s boys win at home

Italian, Kazakh champs advance

Jason Williams scored the game-winning goal for Ritten Sport in the last minute of the game against Beibarys Atyrau goaltender Adam Svoboda while Albert Vishyakov and Denis Makarov look by. Both teams will advance to the final

 

 

Italian champion Ritten Sport won its home tournament and will advance to the final tournament together with second-ranked Beibarys Atyrau.

 

They will be joined by the top-two teams of the other group, the Nottingham Panthers and the Odense Bulldogs.

 

Ritten’s “Buam” as the team is nicknamed, which means boys in the local German dialect, were the only team out of the two semi-final tournaments to advance with a sweep.

 

The team opened with a 4-3 victory against last year’s finalist GKS Tychy. Jason Williams, a former NHL forward who represented Canada at the 2006 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, opened the scoring midway through the game and when the Poles came back in the third period and scored the lead, it was him who tied it up at three with over five minutes left in regulation time. With 46 seconds left his fellow countryman Jared Gomes scored the game-winning goal to the happiness of the 1,500 fans who filled the small Arena Ritten.

 

Ritten had another tight game on Saturday and despite being outshot 33-23 by Kazakh champion Beibarys Atyrau, the Italians won the game 3-2, again with a last-minute game winner. Beibarys got the lead twice through Maxim Sharifyanov and Albert Vishyakov but Ivan Tauferer and Daniel Tudin tied it up and with 25 seconds left in regulation time Williams scored the game-winning goal.

 

Everything remained open on the last day with Ritten, Beibarys Atyrau as well as Belarusian representative Shakhtyor Soligorsk in the race for tournament win and a spot in the final. Ritten was again outshot by Shakhtyor, 34-28, but was the more efficient team. Bradley Cole capitalized on a power play at 16:48 of the opening frame but when Shakhtyor had the chance to open the second period on a man advantage, Viktor Andrushenko tied the game after 28 seconds.

 

Daniel Tudin scored the game winner for Ritten during his team’s next power play at 13:42 and Gomes made it 3-1 at 4:10 of the third period to seal his team the win.

 

Thanks to the wins Italy will again be represented in the final tournament. The club already played and hosted in the competition two years ago but ended up in third place in the semi-final round on home ice. This time it worked out for the boys also thanks to its new players.

 

Williams was the scoring leader of the tournament with three goals and six points, Gomes was third behind Vishyakov.

 

Beibarys Atyrau is the second team from the tournament to advance to the final. It will be the first final participation for the team two years after league rival Yertis Pavlodar made it that far. Beibarys had a 4-1 comeback win against Shakhtyor Soligorsk on the opening day.

 

Vishyakov, Ilya Malyushkin and Tomas Vak each had one goal and two points.

 

On the last day against GKS Tychy the Kazakhs opened a two-goal gap with markers from Maxim Korobov and Nikita Tsirulev but the Poles came back and tied the game at two. National team forward Mikhail Panshin scored the 3-2 game-winner with 98 seconds left in regulation time and Vishyakov made it 4-2 with a shot into the empty net.

 

Shakhtyor Soligorsk finished the tournament in third place winning its only game 2-0 against winless Tychy.

 

The final tournament will be played 13-15 January 2017 at a venue to be determined.

 

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WTF

 

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Barry Trotz the coach of the Washington Capitals has a very strong pain threshold he looks like he didn´t even noticed that he got the puck in his head

 

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Marko Daňo after last nights match

 

 

 

here the moment

 

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2019 WJC hosts announced

Tournament coming to Vancouver, Victoria

 

Sidney Crosby celebrates the gold-winning overtime goal at the 2010 Olympics. Rogers Arena in Vancouver will host the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship together with Victoria.

 

 

Hockey Canada announced on December 1 that the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship has been allocated to Vancouver and Victoria.

It is the second time in history that the World Juniors will take place in the Western province of British Columbia. In 2006, Vancouver co-hosted the tournament along with Kelowna and Kamloops. That year, Victoria, the provincial capital, got two exhibition games (USA-Sweden and Sweden-Norway) at Bear Mountain Arena.

The announcement came at Rogers Arena, the site of the 2010 Olympic hockey tournament (known then as “Canada Hockey Place”). Also the home of the Vancouver Canucks, it will host 19 games, including the medal round.

“This is symbolic of what the game should really be at the end of the day – the experience of a lifetime,” said Hockey Canada CEO Tom Renney. “We want to make it an athletic experience like none other, so that children continue to want to try to play hockey. That is the bigger game we play.”

The Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre will host 14 games in Victoria. The 2005-completed building, with a capacity of 7,400, is home to the WHL’s Victoria Royals.

“It was just an automatic to go to Victoria,” said Barry Petrachenko, the Victoria-based CEO of BC Hockey and a co-chair of the organizing committee along with Vancouver Giants majority owner Ron Toigo. “I think it’s going to mean a lot to the city. Victoria is a hockey town, and it’ll be great to bring this event to our city.”

Toigo reminisced nostalgically about Canada’s second straight gold medal in 2006 under head coach Brent Sutter: “To win in the manner they did – in this building here, against Russia, 5-0 – it was just a great experience for everybody. When that was over, we said: ‘That was a lot of fun. We’d like to do this again.’”

The 2006 tournament enjoyed a then-record attendance of 325,138. The current record is 455,342 from the 2012 tournament in Edmonton and Calgary.

Others on hand for the announcement included Hockey Canada COO Scott Smith, acting Vancouver mayor Raymond Louie, British Columbia deputy premier Rich Coleman, and Vancouver Canucks president and 1988 World Junior gold medalist Trevor Linden.

Coleman said the provincial government would provide $2.3 million CAD to the tournament, with $300,000 allocated for legacy programs for BC youth hockey. As in 2006, the government will also supply a $10-million guarantee to the event.

“Last time, it wasn’t called on because of TV revenues and the success in Vancouver,” said Coleman. “It was never touched. But for the success of an event like this, it’s important to know that governments will step up and be partners.

Vancouver and Victoria beat out three strong competing bids: Edmonton-Calgary, London-Windsor, and Winnipeg-Saskatoon.

“When you put on an international event of this magnitude, everybody’s wearing Canadian jerseys,” Toigo said. “Everybody’s proud of being Canadian. It’s just a real good event for the community at large. It’s good for the economy as well.”

The 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship will also take place in Canada. Sites will be announced at a future date.

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Nice to see another our talent doing very well. our draft prospect 17 years old Adam Ružička and his very nice goal in Ontario Hockey League

 

 

 

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Ritten to host final

Continental Cup venue decided

 

The 2017 IIHF Continental Cup Final will take place in Ritten. The bid from Italy was selected among several applicants.

 

The tournament will be hosted from 13th to 15th January in Ritten, a town near Bolzano in the northern Italian region of South Tyrol.

 

The IIHF has reviewed the hosting applications and considered the ranking of all qualified teams after the semi-final tournaments, the standard of previous organizations, arenas, accommodation situation as well as the proposed tournament dates since not all applicants had their venue available for the originally agreed dates of 13-15 January.

 

Ritten Sport is a second-time participant in the Continental Cup but already successfully hosted two semi-final events in 2014 and 2016 and qualified for the final tournament for the first time. It will be the second time that the Continental Cup Final will take place in Italy after 2003 when Milan co-hosted the event with Lugano, Switzerland.

 

The finalists battling for the Continental Cup are host Ritten Sport, the Nottingham Panthers from Great Britain, Kazakh champion Beibarys Atyrau and the Odense Bulldogs from Denmark who qualified through the semi-final tournaments in November. The game schedule will be announced soon.

 

The winner of the 2017 IIHF Continental Cup will get the chance to play in the Champions Hockey League 2017/2018 pending formal approval by the CHL board as it was the case with the last three winners – the Stavanger Oilers from Norway in 2014, Neman Grodno from Belarus in 2015 and the Rouen Dragons from France in 2016.

 

The 2016/2017 season is the Continental Cup’s 20-year-anniversary season. Click on the right or here for a video looking back at the past winners.

 

 

Continental Cup 2016/17 Complete results thread Here