Two days before the official meeting in Budapest, the groups of next Continental Cup are known
The hunt for successor of Neman Grodno - winner of last edition earning a spot in Champions League - will start officially next saturday in Budapest, when the teams partecipating in the next IIHF Continental Cup will hold an organizational meeting. But Polish champion GKS Tychy, aiming to organize one of the group of Second Round, published on its website the list of partecipants and the composition of the groups. As in last edition, no team are automatically qualified for Superfinals, unlike what happened in the past, and the venue of last act will be assigned to one of the teams qualified through the three rounds of competition. If the foresight of Tychy is correct, 17 teams entered in the competition, with only Herning Blue Fox (DEN), Dragons de Rouen (FRA) and HC Kremenchuck (UKR) not representing the domestic champion. Denmark and France have champion in CHL, while Ukrainian title holder ATEK Kyiv declined the invitation. A team from Israel - Rishon Ice Devils - is back after the last partecipation of HC Metulla in 2012-13
Here the groups:
First Round
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Group A (02-04 October - Beograd or Sofia) |
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Partizan Beograd |
SRB |
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Rishon Le-Zion Ice Devils |
ISR |
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CSKA Sofia |
BUL |
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Zeytinburnu Belediyesi SK |
TUR |
Second Round
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Group B (23-25 October – Jesenice or Miskolc) |
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HK Mogo |
LAT |
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Jesenice |
SLO |
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Miskolci JJSE |
HUN |
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CH Jaca |
SPA |
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Group C (23-25 October – Tychy or Galati) |
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GKS Tychy |
POL |
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Dunarea Galati |
ROM |
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Coventry Blaze |
GBR |
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Winner Group A |
Third Round
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Group D (23-25 October – Asiago) |
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Herning Blue Foxes |
DEN |
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Ertis Pavlodar |
KAZ |
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Asiago Hockey |
ITA |
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Winner Group B |
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Group E (23-25 October – Rouen) |
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Rouen Dragons |
FRA |
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Shakhtar Soligorsk |
BLR |
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HC Kremenchuk |
UKR |
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Winner Group C |
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Superfinals (10-12 January TBD) |
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Winner Group D Runner-up Group D Runner-up Group E Winner Group E |
Artur Buynitskiy
(F)
HK Gomel
Neman Grodno
Max Psenicka
(D)
HC Skoda Plzen
Portland Winterhawks
Gleb Semyonov
(F)
Omaha Lancers
Red Deer Rebels
Leon Häggström
(D)
Minot MinotaurosIF Sundsvall Hockey
Dominik Salama
(G)
Ciarko STS SanokComarch Cracovia
Hagen Kaisler
(D)
Starbulls RosenheimEC Bad Nauheim
Simon Seidl
(F)
Straubing TigersCedar Rapids Roughriders
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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