2021 Spengler Cup

[Hockeyfrilla]

Frölunda adds Tömmernäs & Backman due to Edvinsson & Niederbach is on WJC-duties.

 

[JackSlater]

Anyone know if the Spengler will be aired in Canada? Miss the sun shining on the ice during afternoon games, but more tickets sold is always good.

TSN will have its hilarious Spengler Cup music and dust off Vic Rauter for another year no doubt.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Tömmernäs is a huge add. Backman not so much.

 

[kyle44]

Anyone know if the Spengler will be aired in Canada? Miss the sun shining on the ice during afternoon games, but more tickets sold is always good.

TSN will have its hilarious Spengler Cup music and dust off Vic Rauter for another year no doubt.

Canadian Hockey on TSN Schedule - TSN.ca

 

[Eye of Ra]

Canadian Hockey on TSN Schedule - TSN.ca

Is it gonna be available to watch afterwards on "on demand" ? I think it was previous years, but not sure about this year.

On Demand

 

[Eye of Ra]

Frölunda also added Norlinder and Borgman...

Its gonna be interesting to see what lines they go with. I wanna see:

Friberg - Lundqvist - Mursak
Söderblom - Spacek - Lasch
Olsen - Sundström - Carlsson
Nässen - Lasu - Henriksson
Backman

Tömmernäs - Folin
Borgman - Elliott
Norlinder - Johansson
Olsson - Ekbom/Grönlund

Tomkins in net all games. Not sure what Frölunda sees in Rubin.

 

[SoundAndFury]

It has to be noted nobody plays their best lineup in the Spengler cup almost ever, at least 3-4 players are being rested.

 

[Eye of Ra]

It has to be noted nobody plays their best lineup in the Spengler cup almost ever, at least 3-4 players are being rested.

Frölunda will do it. Its in their mentality to always play the best and give everything they have. Also its first time for them at Spengler Cup.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Frölunda will do it. Its in their mentality to always play the best and give everything they have. Also its first time for them at Spengler Cup.

Is their mentality to be insane? For the team that makes the finals it's 4 games in 6 days. Nobody is putting their key players through that. That's why the teams are making all these additions, to begin with.

 

[Czechboy]

 

[Antiillafire]

Confirmed, they have officially withdrawn. Canadian coach is already back home.

 

[Czechboy]

Confirmed, they have officially withdrawn. Canadian coach is already back home.

That's a shame.. hope it doesn't get cancelled altogether. This was a very Czech heavy tourney! Swedes with Spacek. I think Kovar or Stranksy on a Swiss squad. Sparta loaded with former and future national team members.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Confirmed, they have officially withdrawn. Canadian coach is already back home.

link?

 

[Antiillafire]

link?

 

[PanniniClaus]

Thank you. What's the replacement plan?

 

[Antiillafire]

Thank you. What's the replacement plan?

At this point I’d say they won’t replace Canada and somehow micromanage the changes. I wouldn’t be surprised if the tournament was cancelled either

 

[swissdude]

Ambri will be replaced by Slovan Bratislava, no replacement for Team Canda found yet, search ongoing

 

[Elias40]

 

[Elias40]

Who will replace Ambri? Another Swiss club?

 

[Zamboni Parade]

Looks like the plan is to announce a Canada replacement within the next few hours. I'm not sure how realistic that is but one can hope.
In case of five teams the tournament will revert to the old format where everyone plays everyone else once in a round robin and the top two teams of that stage advance to a final game.

 

[Czechboy]

Why no Ambri?

 

[Zamboni Parade]

Why no Ambri?

The entire roster has been quarantined for ten days.

 

[Czechboy]

The entire roster has been quarantined for ten days.

Thank you!

 

[Eye of Ra]

no canada at spengler cup feels weird. they are always part of this tournament

 

[Zamboni Parade]

Right, so the sixth, uh, 'team' will be a selection of players from Bern, Biel and SCL.

Well I suppose that's fair enough actually, realistically speaking the pool of teams that are available to play in Switzerland throughout the Christmas week at short notice must have been really shallow to begin with so this is probably as good a deal as they were ever going to get. I'm quite surprised they managed to get Slovan to come over to fill in the other spot.