Champions Hockey League opens in August 2014 [without KHL Teams]

[Jussi]

When did he?

Go search the Expansion thread, it was mentioned there.

 

[Domenica]

You don't even know how great town Kuopio is. It has fish cocks, culture just as much as any european town, and dialect just as romantic as the Language of Paris.

Hilarious.

 

[Exarz]

No, the whole UK region is not a target for KHL, Medvedev's admitted it even.

Too bad! It feels like the UK region would be a better place to attract better North American players

 

[SurMartin]

Skellefteå - Nottingham 22-1 was not a joke... But the other text was a joke. Good for them if they have 5000 in the stands. Don't expect a miracle from Nottingham, they will be "the Tahiti" of this tournament.

It would not be 22-1, we're probably gonna ice half our junior team in this tournament.

I don't mind the additions, it's not a best on best tournament after all. A Skellefteåfan who "designs" some of Skellefteås tifos (like this) lives near Nottingham nowadays, I'm sure he and his friends would love if we faced them. And I would get a reason to visit.

 

[SCBdude]

It would not be 22-1, we're probably gonna ice half our junior team in this tournament.

I don't mind the additions, it's not a best on best tournament after all. A Skellefteåfan who "designs" some of Skellefteås tifos (like this) lives near Nottingham nowadays, I'm sure he and his friends would love if we faced them. And I would get a reason to visit.

That sure is one sweet tifo

 

[Turkued]

Sheffield

Nothing against Nottingham, but Sheffield is the one English club with the arena, support and potential to leap to the next level. The arena holds just under 12,000 with room for expansion at one end. Good motorway access, dedicated tram stop, capable of pulling from Leeds,, Manchester and, yes, Nottingham if they were in a league a level above. But..

...the Sheffield - Nottingham rivalry is every bit as intense as Jokerit-HIFK. Just on a bit smaller scale, but only a bit.

 

[frank16]

Nothing against Nottingham, but Sheffield is the one English club with the arena, support and potential to leap to the next level. The arena holds just under 12,000 with room for expansion at one end. Good motorway access, dedicated tram stop, capable of pulling from Leeds,, Manchester and, yes, Nottingham if they were in a league a level above. But..

...the Sheffield - Nottingham rivalry is every bit as intense as Jokerit-HIFK. Just on a bit smaller scale, but only a bit.

The Sheffield arena actually holds about 8,650 for hockey events (8,300 seats +350 in boxes) - http://www.sheffieldsteelersihc.co.uk/motorpoint-arena-s14607. Nottingham's arena holds just above 7,000 so not a lot of difference. Nottingham's arena is also much nicer and a much better arena to watch a game of hockey

Games between Nottingham and Sheffield always sell-out. Think there was a game this season when Nottingham sold it out about a month in advance

 

[quartus]

...the Sheffield - Nottingham rivalry is every bit as intense as Jokerit-HIFK. Just on a bit smaller scale, but only a bit.

Seriously, remove a Swedish team and add Sheffield!

 

[IJKPrinciple]

The website is online (there was a placeholder before): http://www.championshockeyleague.net
The Facebook page is active: https://www.facebook.com/championshockeyleague

They also released a video clip:


But I'm not really impressed by it. And also - best players, best teams, etc. What? Without KHL teams or having a match between CHL and KHL champion - you can't claim that, I'm sorry.

 

[Ivan94]

http://www.championshockeyleague.net/news/ready-for-the-draw-how-are-the-teams-ranked/7/

 

[Exarz]

Even though Skellefteå might be the best ranked team, shouldn't Kärpät be ranked as number one since JYP won the European Trophy last season?

 

[Ivan94]

Even though Skellefteå might be the best ranked team, shouldn't Kärpät be ranked as number one since JYP won the European Trophy last season?

"The 44 teams have been ranked and placed into four baskets of 11 teams each. Following the draw, each group will consist of one team from each basket. The following criteria was used to rank the teams:

1. Champions of the six founding leagues,

2. Regular season winners of the six founding leagues,

3. Remaining A- and B-license teams according to placing within their leagues,

4. Wild card teams, according to placing finish within their leagues.

Where teams finished in the same place in their respective leagues, they are ranked according to the IIHF World Ranking of the leagues."

 

[Exarz]

"The 44 teams have been ranked and placed into four baskets of 11 teams each. Following the draw, each group will consist of one team from each basket. The following criteria was used to rank the teams:

1. Champions of the six founding leagues,

2. Regular season winners of the six founding leagues,

3. Remaining A- and B-license teams according to placing within their leagues,

4. Wild card teams, according to placing finish within their leagues.

Where teams finished in the same place in their respective leagues, they are ranked according to the IIHF World Ranking of the leagues."

Edit: Sorry, missed the last part about the world ranking

 

[Jussi]

Since the KHL isn't involved, the proper place to talk about this tournament is in the International Tournaments board and in the thread that's already there: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1500347&page=10

 

[quartus]

Since the KHL isn't involved, the proper place to talk about this tournament is in the International Tournaments board and in the thread that's already there: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1500347&page=10

It was mentioned already in the first posts of this thread that since this is a response to the KHL expansion it was sort of sensible to have a thread of it here.

 

[Jussi]

It was mentioned already in the first posts of this thread that since this is a response to the KHL expansion it was sort of sensible to have a thread of it here.

Since a majority of the posts seem to consist of putting down something that hasn't been in seen yet (in true HFBoards style) and trying to spread negative propaganda, I don't see the point of this thread being in this section anymore. It would be better to either merge with the one I linked or close it.

 

[Killion]

^^^ I agree Jussi, and best we just Close it. Irrelevant to the KHL at this time. Redundant.

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