Jussi
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I suppose, they'll play the first two tournaments at October-November, and the rest - right before WC and Olympics. Nevertheless, they'll cancel all the EHT rather than just two tournaments.
Actually 2009-10 was when they still had the Czech tournament during pre-season in September and the Swedish tournament in April before the Worlds. Since the pre-season tournament was moved to pre-Worlds, one tournament will most likely be dropped. The Finnish and Russian tournaments in November and December respectively are pretty much locks but the question is who will host the one before Worlds? These EHT events do bring money for the hosting federation and I guess it will depend on which tournament is more profitable and which federation needs the money more. Since Sweden got two Worlds in a row, it could be that Czechs will get the last EHT event. There simply isn't time to have two tournaments where there used to be one.