Slovakia’s continued absence from the Champions League: do the numbers justify it?
Despite a proud hockey tradition, Slovak teams are out of Europe’s elite league. The numbers explain why. Read more»
All teams of the Champions Hockey League have played two games each and this weekend they all will play two more. Tonight fourteen games are played around Europe.
It was the Finnish teams that impressed most during the first two rounds. The eight Finnish teams collected 39 out of 48 possible points. Four of them had a perfect record; Kärpät, TPS, JYP and Lukko.
Also on six points after two games are Vienna Capitals, Genève-Servette, Linköping, Skellefteå and Luleå.
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Even though this is a European competition it is the Canadian players that have produced most goals. Actually 47 of the 258 goals so far have been scored by Canadians. Here is a list of goal scored by player nationality.
Canada 47
Finland 43
Sweden 43
Czech Republic 41
USA 24
Switzerland 23
Slovakia 10
Germany 7
Norway 5
Austria 4
Denmark 3
Great Britain 2
Italy 2
Slovenia 2
France 1
Latvia 1
Czech Rep.:
Tipsport extraliga |
1.liga |
2.liga
Slovakia:
Tipsport Extraliga |
1.liga
Sweden:
SHL |
HockeyAllsvenskan
Other: EBEL | Belarus | Croatia | Denmark | Estonia | France | Great Britain | Iceland | Italy | Latvia | Lithuania | MOL-liga | Norway | Poland | Romania | Serbia | Slovenia | Spain | NHL | AHL |
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