colonel_korn
Luuuuuuuuuu....lay?
http://www.slamsports.com/Slam040617/hky_iihf-cp.html
Interesting idea...not sure how well it would work though. I don't watch any European club teams but would they really be competitive with the Stanley Cup champs? Fasel draws the comparison between the CSKA-Habs games in the 70's, but back then most European players stayed in Europe so I imagine the club teams were stronger. Now that the vast majority of skilled European players are in the NHL, I'm not sure if it would be much of a contest.
ZURICH (CP) -- The inaugural Super Six club championship of Europe will be played in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 13-16, 2005, and the International Ice Hockey Federation says it hopes eventually to arrange to have the European champion play the Stanley Cup winner to determine world club supremacy.
"Many fans are still talking about the great games between CSKA Moscow and the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s and 1980s and the potential of games like these is even bigger today," says IIHF president Rene Fasel.
Interesting idea...not sure how well it would work though. I don't watch any European club teams but would they really be competitive with the Stanley Cup champs? Fasel draws the comparison between the CSKA-Habs games in the 70's, but back then most European players stayed in Europe so I imagine the club teams were stronger. Now that the vast majority of skilled European players are in the NHL, I'm not sure if it would be much of a contest.