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Euro Hockey Tour
2015–16 Euro Hockey Tour
EuroHockeyTourLogo
Sport Ice hockey
Founded 1996
No. of teams 4
Most recent champion(s) Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic

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.

Playing format[]

EHT consists of four tournaments: Karjala Tournament in Finland, Channel One Cup in Russia, Oddset Hockey Games in Sweden, and Kajotbet 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 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-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.

Participating teams[]

Only four European teams compete in EHT:

Euro Hockey Tour finalists[]

Season Winner Runner-up 3rd place 4th place
2015–16 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Russia.svg Russia
2014–15 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Russia.svg Russia
2013–14 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2012–13 Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2011–12 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2010–11 Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
2009–10 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2008–09 Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
2007–08 Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2006–07 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Finland.svg Finland
2005–06 Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
2004–051 Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
2003–04 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Russia.svg Russia
2002–03 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2001–02 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
2000–01 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
1999–00 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
1998–99 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Russia.svg Russia
1997–98 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Russia.svg Russia
1996–972 Flag of Finland.svg Finland Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Flag of Russia.svg Russia Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
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.

Statistics[]

Medal table[]

Country Gold Silver Bronze Medals
Flag of Finland.svg Finland 8 6 5 19
Flag of Russia.svg Russia 6 6 3 15
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 4 6 3 13
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 2 2 9 13

References[]

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia

See also[]

External links[]

Euro Hockey Tour
Kajotbet Hockey Games

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Karjala Tournament

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Channel One Cup

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