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Euro Hockey Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2022–23 Euro Hockey Tour
The EHT logo
SportIce hockey
Founded1996
Most recent
champion(s)		 Sweden
Most titles Finland
1st place, gold medalist(s) – 9, 2nd place, silver medalist(s) – 8, 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) – 8
Trophies being awarded from the tournament

The Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) is an annual ice hockey tournament open to only the national men's teams of Czechia, Finland, Switzerland 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.

History

Playing format

Euro Hockey Tour consists of four tournaments:

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 an overtime or shootout win, one point for a loss in overtime or shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation time. In the four tournaments, if two or more teams end with the same number of points, they are seeded based on head-to-head results in games against the tied teams. In the EHT standings however, two or more teams tied in points are seeded based on the better goal difference.

Prize money

The prize money for the winner of each tournament is €50,000 while the second seed gets €30,000, the third seed gets €25,000, and the fourth seed gets €15,000. The EHT season winner receives another €75,000, the team finishing second gets €30,000, and the team finishing third gets €15,000.[1]

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- and second-placed teams played a home-and-home two-game series for the EHT gold and silver medals, while the third- 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.

Participating teams

Four European teams compete in EHT. Czechia, Finland, and Sweden have participated since the tournament was started in 1996. Switzerland replaced Russia in the spring of 2022 after the Russian team was suspended from participation in international tournaments due to the military invasion of Ukraine[2]

Results

Season Winner Runner-up 3rd place 4th place
1996–97[a]  Finland  Sweden  Russia  Czechia
1997–98  Czechia  Sweden  Finland  Russia
1998–99  Sweden  Finland  Czechia  Russia
1999–00  Finland  Czechia  Russia  Sweden
2000–01  Finland  Russia  Sweden  Czechia
2001–02  Finland  Russia  Sweden  Czechia
2002–03  Finland  Russia  Czechia  Sweden
2003–04  Finland  Sweden  Russia  Czechia
2004–05[b]  Russia  Sweden  Finland  Czechia
2005–06  Russia  Sweden  Finland  Czechia
2006–07  Sweden  Russia  Czechia  Finland
2007–08  Russia  Finland  Czechia  Sweden
2008–09  Russia  Finland  Sweden  Czechia
2009–10  Finland  Russia  Czechia  Sweden
2010–11  Russia  Sweden  Finland  Czechia
2011–12  Czechia  Finland  Russia  Sweden
2012–13  Russia  Czechia  Finland  Sweden
2013–14  Finland  Russia  Czechia  Sweden
2014–15  Sweden  Finland  Czechia  Russia
2015–16  Sweden  Finland  Czechia  Russia
2016–17  Russia  Czechia  Finland  Sweden
2017–18  Finland  Czechia  Russia  Sweden
2018–19  Russia  Finland  Sweden  Czechia
2019–20[c]  Czechia  Sweden  Finland  Russia
2020–21  Russia  Czechia  Sweden  Finland
2021–22  Sweden  Finland  Czechia  Russia
2022–23  Sweden  Czechia  Finland   Switzerland
2023–24
  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Czech tournament not played due to 2004 World Cup of Hockey.
  3. ^ Carlson Hockey Games not played due to Coronavirus disease 2019.

Medal table

Country Gold Silver Bronze Medals
 Finland 9 8 8 25
 Russia 9 6 5 20
 Sweden 6 7 5 18
 Czechia 3 6 9 18


References

  1. ^ "Euro Hockey Tour prize money 2012–13" (PDF). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 2013-06-08.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "The Swiss national team will replace Russia on the Euro Hockey Tour in two years". Sport.cz.

See also

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