The 2011
Spengler Cup
The Spengler Cup is an annual invitational ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, the Spengler Cup is often cited as the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world. The event is hosted by the Swiss tea ...
was held in
Davos
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Davos (, ; or ; rm, ; archaic it, Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos R ...
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Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
from December 26 to December 3, 2011. All matches were played at host
HC Davos
Hockey Club Davos is a professional Swiss ice hockey club based in Davos, Switzerland. Davos plays in the National League (NL). The team is usually a strong force in the league and often bolster their roster with Swiss national team players and ...
's home
Vaillant Arena
Eisstadion Davos is an indoor arena in Davos, Switzerland. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of HC Davos. It holds 7,080 people, of which 3,280 are seated. Every year the Spengler Cup is played in this arena.
Major renova ...
. The number of teams was expanded in 2010 from 5 to 6 in comparison to previous seasons, and split into two groups of three. The two groups, named Torriani and Cattini, were named after legendary Swiss hockey players
Bibi Torriani
Richard "Bibi" "Riccardo" Torriani (1 October 1911 – 3 September 1988) was a Swiss ice hockey player and coach, and luge athlete.
He played for HC Davos from 1929 to 1950, and served as captain of the Switzerland men's national ice hockey tea ...
and
Hans Cattini.
HC Davos
Hockey Club Davos is a professional Swiss ice hockey club based in Davos, Switzerland. Davos plays in the National League (NL). The team is usually a strong force in the league and often bolster their roster with Swiss national team players and ...
won the event for a record 15th time.
Teams participating
The list of teams that have been confirmed for the tournament are as listed:
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HC Davos
Hockey Club Davos is a professional Swiss ice hockey club based in Davos, Switzerland. Davos plays in the National League (NL). The team is usually a strong force in the league and often bolster their roster with Swiss national team players and ...
(host)
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Team Canada
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Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga ( lv, Rīgas Dinamo) is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It is a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LLU.
The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of ...
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EHC Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams
Grizzlys Wolfsburg are a professional ice hockey club of the German professional ice hockey league Deutsche Eishockey Liga. They play their games at Eisarena in Wolfsburg.
History
Wolfsburg earned their first promotion to the DEL in 2004. How ...
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HC Vítkovice Steel
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Kloten Flyers
EHC Kloten is an ice hockey team based in the city of Kloten in Switzerland. The team plays in the National League (NL). It has one of the best youth systems in Swiss ice hockey as its youth teams have won 19 championships during the last 50 year ...
The division of the teams into the two groups and the subsequent schedule were determined on 2 September 2011.
Match Officials
Here is the list of match officials that have been confirmed for the tournament:
Group stage
Key
*W (regulation win) – 3 pts.
*OTW (overtime/shootout win) – 2 pts.
*OTL (overtime/shootout loss) – 1 pt.
*L (regulation loss) – 0 pts.
Group
Torriani The House of Della Torre (Torriani or Thurn) were an Italian noble family who rose to prominence in Lombardy during the 12th–14th centuries, until they held the lordship of Milan before being ousted by the Visconti of Milan, Visconti.
History
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All times are local (
UTC+1
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).
Group Cattini
All times are local (
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** B ...
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Knockout stage
Key: * – final in overtime. ** – final in shootout.
Quarterfinals
All times are local (
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** B ...
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Semifinals
All times are local (
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** B ...
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Final
All times are local (
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** B ...
).
Champions
All-Star Team
Statistics
Scoring leaders
Television
Several television channels around the world will cover many or all matches of the Spengler Cup. As well as most Swiss channels, here is a listing of who else will cover the tournament:
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Schweizer Fernsehen
Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; "Swiss Television") is the German-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for German-speaking Switzerland. It has its head office in Zürich. ...
(Switzerland, host broadcaster)
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The Sports Network
The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English language sports specialty channel established by the Labatt Brewing Company in 1984 as part of the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. Since 2001, it has been majority-owned by comm ...
(Canada)
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LTV7 (Latvia)
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Eurosport 2
Eurosport 2 is a French sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport 1, which is a division of the Eurosport Network and a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where te ...
,
British Eurosport
Eurosport 1 is a French television sports network channel which is a division of Eurosport and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and became majority shareholder in the Eurospo ...
, Eurosport Asia and Pacific, and
Eurosport HD
Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its international sports unit, it operates two main channels— Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territories, ...
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Nova Sport (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
References
External links
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2011–12
2011–12 in Swiss ice hockey
2011–12 in German ice hockey
2011–12 in Canadian ice hockey
2011–12 in Czech ice hockey
December 2011 sports events in Europe