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2008–09 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup
The 2008–09 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup was the fifth holding of the IIHF European Women Champions Cup (EWCC). Russian team SKIF Nizhny Novgorod of the Russian Women's Hockey League won the tournament for the first time, ending the four-year championship reign of Swedish team AIK Hockey. First round Group A Group B Group C Group D Second round Group E Group F Super Final References Tournament statistics and data from:"2009 IIHF European Women Champions Cup: Tournament Reports" ''webarchive.iihf.com''. International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 12 November 2020."Coupe d'Europe féminine des clubs champions 2008/09" ''hockeyarchives.info'' (in French). Retrieved 12 November 2020.”EWCC (W) - 2008-2009” ''eliteprospects.com''. Retrieved 12 November 2020. External links {{DEFAULTSORT:2008-09 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup Women IIHF European Women's Champions Cup Euro The euro (currency symbol, symbol: euro sign, €; ISO 4217, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round-robin Tournament
A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Merriam Co), p.1980. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, wherein participants are eliminated after a certain number of wins or losses. Terminology The term ''round-robin'' is derived from the French term ('ribbon'). Over time, the term became idiomized to ''robin''. In a ''single round-robin'' schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is frequently called a ''double round-robin''. The term is rarely used when all participants play one another more than twice, and is never used when one participant plays others an unequal number of times, as is the case in almost all of the major North American professional sports leagues. In the United Kingdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Ice Hockey Federation
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; ; ) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 84 member countries. The IIHF maintains the IIHF World Ranking based on international ice hockey tournaments. Rules of play for IIHF events differ from hockey in North America and the rules of the National Hockey League (NHL). Decisions of the IIHF can be appealed through the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. The IIHF maintains its own hall of fame for international ice hockey. The IIHF Hall of Fame was founded in 1997, and has been located within the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1998. Previously, the IIHF also managed the development of inline hockey; however, in June 2019, the IIHF announced that they would no longer govern inline hockey or organize the Inline Hockey World Championships. Functions The main functions of the IIHF are to govern, develop and organize hockey throughout the world. Another duty is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DHC Langenthal
DHC may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Dance Hall Crashers, a popular Ska punk band ** "DHC" is the final song on the band's debut album of the same name (1990) * Discovery Health Channel, part of US Discovery TV channel Aviation * de Havilland Canada, Canadian aircraft manufacturer: ** DHC-1 Chipmunk **DHC-2 Beaver ** DHC-3 Otter **DHC-4 Caribou **DHC-5 Buffalo **DHC-6 Twin Otter ** DHC-7 Dash 7 **DHC-8 Dash 8 Business * Daigaku Honyaku Center, a Japanese manufacturer of cosmetics and health foods * Dalian Hi-Think Computer, a Chinese outsourcing company * DHC Software, a Chinese company Chemistry * Dihydrocapsaicin, a capsaicinoid occurring in pepper * Dihydrochalcone, a chemical compound *Dihydrocodeine Sports * Dudley Hewitt Cup, Canadian ice hockey trophy * Xerxes/DHC, a former Dutch professional football team Other * Dave's Hot Chicken * District heating District heating (also known as heat networks) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espoo Blues
Kiekko-Espoo is a Finnish professional ice hockey club founded in 2018 as a continuation of the Kiekko-Espoo team originally founded in 1984. Kiekko-Espoo men's team plays in the Liiga, where they were promoted for the 2024–25 Liiga season, 2024–25 season, and the Kiekko-Espoo Naiset, women's team plays in the Auroraliiga, where they hold the most championships of any club. Kiekko-Espoo's junior teams play at national league levels in U16, U18 and U20 juniors. The junior teams of Espoo Blues and Kiekko-Espoo played under Kiekko-Espoo Juniorit ry until 2014. In 2017, and , which split from the Espoo Blues junior organization, launched their own junior representative team and founded Kiekko-Espoo ry. The team plays in U16, U18 and U20 junior leagues under the name Kiekko-Espoo. When Espoo United (ice hockey), Espoo United collapsed in the spring of 2018, the organization decided to also establish a representative team for adults in Kiekko-Espoo. It started playing in the 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HC Slovan Bratislava
Hockey Club Slovan Bratislava () is a professional ice hockey club based in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2012, it left the Tipsport Liga (hockey), Slovak Extraliga and joined the international Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). In 2019, it returned to the Tipos Extraliga. The club has won nine Slovak championships (most recently in 2022), one Czechoslovak championship (1979) and one IIHF Continental Cup (2004), making it the second most successful hockey club in Slovak history after their biggest rival HC Košice. The team plays its home games at Ondrej Nepela Arena, also known as ''Slovnaft Arena''. The team is nicknamed Belasí'','' which means the "sky blues" in English. History The sports club ''Slovan Bratislava'' was founded in 1919 as a football club, then called 1.CsSK Bratislava. In 1921, a hockey section was founded as "CsSK hockey". It played its first game in December 1924 against Wiener EV from Vienna, losing 6–1. In 1948, the name of the club was changed to ''Slovan'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HSC Csíkszereda
Hoki Sport Klub Csíkszereda () is a professional ice hockey club based in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. They play in the country's top-level championship, the Romanian Hockey League, and also participate in the international competition Erste Liga, which features teams from Hungary. SC is one of the most successful teams in the domestic championship with 15 titles, including six in a row between 2007 and 2012. History Situated in the Ciuc Basin, one of the coldest regions in the country, it offers an ideal background for winter sports. Skating on meadows flooded by a watercourse began in the 1870s, and the first skating association, the ''Csíkszeredai Korcsolyázó Egylet'' was founded in 1881. The birth of the ice hockey team was in 1929, when some young men saw a film about an ice hockey match and became encouraged to form their own club. Upon hearing of the creation of the new team, Bucharest-based Tenis Club Român invited Csíkszereda to a friendly match, that was won by the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HC Cergy-Pontoise
The Jokers de Cergy-Pontoise (English: Cergy-Pontoise Jesters), formally known as Hockey club de Cergy-Pontoise, are a French ice hockey club based in Cergy, Val-d'Oise and representing the Cergy-Pontoise agglomeration. As of the 2021–22 season, they are the top ranked hockey team in the Paris Region, and the only one playing at the highest level of the French ice hockey pyramid, the Ligue Magnus. History Men's hockey While the multisport Club des sports de glace de Cergy had offered a hockey program since 1977, the independent Hockey club de Cergy-Pontoise was founded in 1981. For the following decades, its flagship men's team toiled in various minor leagues without much fanfare, playing out of Cergy's unspectacular municipal ice rink, a limited seating venue mostly designed for recreational activities. This changed in 2009, when the city was chosen by the French Ice Hockey Federation as the site of its future National Ice Hockey Center, brand new federation headquarters incorp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slough Phantoms
Slough () is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. It is part of the historic county of Buckinghamshire. In 2021, the population of the town was 143,184. The wider Borough of Slough had a population of 158,500. Slough's population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United Kingdom, attracting people from across the country and the world for labour since the 1920s, which has helped shape it into a major trading centre. In 2017, unemployment stood at 1.4%, one-third the UK average of 4.5%. Slough has the highest concentration of UK HQs of global companies outside London. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe, with over 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses. Blackberry, McAfee, Burger King, DHL, Telefonica and Lego have head offices in the town. History The name was first recorded in 1195 as ''Slo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vålerenga IF
Vålerenga () is a neighbourhood in the city of Oslo, Norway, belonging to the borough of Gamle Oslo. Vålerenga is located between the neighbourhoods of Gamlebyen, Jordal, Ensjø, Etterstad and Lodalen. Vålerenga is in particular known for its traditional, small wooden houses, and for its football and ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...-teams: Vålerenga IF Fotball and Vålerenga Ishockey. References Neighbourhoods of Oslo Gamle Oslo {{Oslo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SHK Laima Riga
SHK might refer to: *Schempp-Hirth SHK aerobatic glider *Speaker of the House of Keys of Isle of Man * Sun Hung Kai (other), groups of property and finance companies in Hong Kong *Swedish Accident Investigation Authority The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (, SHK), formerly the Swedish Accident Investigation Board in English, is a Swedish government agency tasked with investigating all types of serious civil or military accidents that can occur on land, ... (''Statens Haverikommission'') * Stichodactyla toxin, a toxin from a sea anemone * The Pentecostal Church of Finland () {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herlev Hornets
The Herlev Eagles are a Danish ice hockey team based in Herlev, part of the Urban area of Copenhagen, that plays in the Metal Ligaen the top tier of the sport in Denmark. The team is based in Herlev and play their home games at the Herlev Skøjtehal, known as PM Montage Arena for sponsorship reasons. History Herlev Ice Hockey club (), of which the Herlev Eagles are a part, was founded in 1968 by Poul Andersen, Jørgen Raae and Torben With after With returned to Denmark having lived in Canada where he developed a love of hockey and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Upon his return in 1964, With was initially involved with a team based in nearby Rødovre, until he decided to found a team in Herlev along with Andersen and his brother-in-law Raae. The team initially played in Rødovre, until 1977 when the Herlev Skøjtehal was built. During the early 1980s Herlev IK played in the 2nd Division, and were often at the head of the table. During the 1981–82 season Herlev signed Canadian duo Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
