European Trophy - hot or not?

27 Aug 2013 | Henrik Lundqvist

With 68 of the 128 European Trophy games played it is now safe to say where the tournament is hot and where it's not. One team is outstanding when it comes to attendance figures - Slovan Bratislava.

Sparta Praha only played one "home game", but the game against Slovan Bratislava was played in Slovnaft Arena, the home arena of the visiting team, with 10 055 spectators attending. So in the stats Sparta Praha has the highest attendance average, while Slovan is second with 9018.

Two teams with only one home game played has an average below 1000. SC Bern that played Pardubice in Adelboden got 750 visitors while only 600 watched the game Liberec-Bern.

As Slovan is the only Slovak team participating Slovakia has the highest attendance figures by country. Then follows Germany with a little less than 3000. In Czech Republic (not counting the game Sparta-Slovan) the European Trophy is coldest with a modest average of 1873.

Average attendance by country
Slovakia 9018
Germany 2953
Sweden 2387
Finland 2247
Austria 2202
Switzerland 2075
Czech Republic 1873

When it comes to what really matters - the standings - only one team still has a perfect result. Färjestad of the West division has won all four games played. The Swedish teams has won 64 points in 28 games - 76.2%. Worst result had the German teams who together only collected 16 out of 48 points.

Percentage of points won by country
Sweden 76.2%
Austria 56.7%
Slovakia 55.6%
Finland 51.2%
Czech Republic 37.8%
Switzerland 37.0%
Germany 33.3%

In the individual player stats Benoit Gratton of Vienna Capitals leads the scoring with 4 goals and 3 assists in 4 games. Best goalie is Christian Engstrand of Linköping who earned two shutouts in as many games, saving 36 shots.

European Trophy continues tomorrow with the game ERC Ingolstadt - Adler Mannheim.