Champions Hockey League

[SoundAndFury]

This was the last true Champions hockey league. I remember interest was really high, arenas were packed. You cant have "Champions league" and not having KHL teams. It's like having Uefa CL without Premiership or without Real and Barcelona.

I do like watching CHL, good hockey, but you have that feeling something is missing...

Well that's what happens when one country wants to act like they can take over hockey in the entire continent, have every expansion project collapse, start a war because money for the soft power adventures that don't yield any results is running out and they are left playing in their own sandbox with half of the team struggling to even keep up the appearances of their glorified Superleague.

 

[vorky]

Champions Hockey League (2008–09) - Wikipedia

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This was the last true Champions hockey league. I remember interest was really high, arenas were packed. You cant have "Champions league" and not having KHL teams. It's like having Uefa CL without Premiership or without Real and Barcelona.

I do like watching CHL, good hockey, but you have that feeling something is missing...

Agree.

It is more complicated with CHL 2008 .... there is too much dishonest from some guys who are bashing the KHL / original sponsors for its cancelation. Not all truth has been circulating in media. There were multiple reasons for CHL cancelation. Financial crisis, but this issue was not crutial. Original sponsors were not satisfied with marketing partner, therefore the agreement of original sponsors with IIHF about one-year postponement with preferential right of original sponsors in case of re-starting. Later the NHL came to the scene demading the majority ownership in CHL, original sponsors wanted 50/50 share, which was refused by NHL. If you are interested in this history case, try to google. Basically, what is happening now in CHL / European hockey started in these days. Some people running European hockey wanted more power than they ever had. Hoping they will find out in their retirement what bad disservice they did to European hockey. Finally, you can not organise such a tournament without resources. They tried & failed as we can see now, in CHL 2024.

 

[Old Man Jags]

The Sparta Prague coach said after Sparta just won the CHL 2024 quarter finals that absolutely nobody is interested in the CHL. And that’s what teams say who actually are successful in the competition

 

[Albatros]

Just so happens that no Czech team has ever won it. Surely only because they don't want to, and not because their league is weak.