Euro Hockey Tour
Current season or competition: Euro Hockey Tour 2011–12 |
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 The EHT logo |
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| Sport | Ice hockey |
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| Founded | 1996 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Russia |
| Official website | Swehockey.se |
The Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) is an annual ice hockey tournament only open to the national men's teams of the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, and Sweden. Most of the teams use the competition as a preparation for the upcoming World Championships or Olympics, allowing less experienced players to collect valuable ice time in their national colours. The "Euro" part of the tournament's name stands for "European", as the four participating countries all come from Europe.
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[edit] Playing format
EHT consists of four tournaments: Karjala Tournament in Finland, Channel One Cup in Russia, Sweden Hockey Games in Sweden, and Czech Hockey Games in the Czech Republic. Each team plays three games in each of the tournaments, giving a total of twelve games per team. After the four tournaments have finished, the teams are seeded according to their respective combined point total from all four tournaments.
In each tournament, five games are played in the host city, and one game in another participating country. For example, in the 2007 edition of Karjala Tournament, the game between Sweden and Russia was played in Jönköping, Sweden, rather than in Finland, who host the Karjala Cup. Every country is assigned one home game and one away game in those games.
Each team is given three points for a regulation-time win, two points for a overtime or shootout win, one point for a loss in overtime or shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation time. If two or more teams end with the same amount of points, they are seeded based on head-to-head results between the tied teams.
[edit] Prize money
From season 2007–08 to 2010–11, the prize money for each tournament was €120,000 and the EHT season winner received another €120,000.[citation needed]
[edit] Finals in previous years
Medal games were not played until the 2003–04 season. Before that, place order was determined by the tournament standings. The seasons 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2006–07 used a format where the first-placed and second-placed teams played a home-and-home two-game series for the EHT gold and silver medals, while the third-placed and fourth-placed teams played two games for the bronze. In 2005–06, the championship was determined by a single game played at the home of the first-place team. Since 2007–08, no EHT finals have been played.
[edit] Participating teams
Only four European teams compete in EHT:
[edit] Euro Hockey Tour finalists
- 1 Czech tournament not played due to World Cup of Hockey.
- 2 Only points from Karjala Cup, Izvestija Cup and Swedish Hockey Games counted in the final standings due to that the Russian team did not participate in the Pragobanka Cup.
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Medal table
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Medals |
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 Finland |
7 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| Russia |
5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
 Sweden |
2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
 Czech Republic |
1 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
[edit] References
- "Euro Hockey Tour". European Hockey.Net. http://www.eurohockey.net/leagues/nationalteams/eht/. Retrieved 2006-05-01.
- "Euro Hockey Tour history". Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Archived from the original on 2005-12-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20051208105356/http://www.swehockey.se/t2b.asp?p=109215. Retrieved 2006-05-01.
- "Euro Hockey Tour Czech republic". Pro-Hockey CZ. http://www.eht.cz. Retrieved 2006-07-16.
- David Schlegel. "History of Euro Hockey Tour and its tournaments". PRO-HOCKEY Cz, s.r.o. & eSports.cz, s.r.o. http://www.eht.cz/clanek.asp?id=393. Retrieved 2006-09-03.
- "Nytt Euro Hockey Touravtal" (in Swedish). hockeyligan.se. http://www.hockeyligan.se/nyheter.php?nid=10164. Retrieved 2006-12-20.
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
[edit] See also
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