Battle for playoff spots in Champions Hockey League

07 Oct 2014 | Henrik Lundqvist

Only four games remain of the group stage of the Champions Hockey League. Fourteen of the sixteen playoff spots are already secured.

Sixteen of the forty-four CHL teams make it from the group stage to the playoffs. Fourteen of them are known after today's eighteen games. Nine of them are group winners and five hold the best runner-up spots.

One of the remaining spots will go to the winner in tomorrow's game Kärpät-Liberec. The other one will go to Sparta Praha if they beat Adler Mannheim. If not - Växjö Lakers will get it.

Qualified teams

Group winners:

Vienna Capitals (AUT)
Frölunda (SWE)
Fribourg-Gotteron (SUI)
Tappara Tampere (FIN)
Linköping HC (SWE)
SaiPa (FIN)
Red Bull Salzburg (AUT)
Skellefteå AIK (SWE)
Lukko Rauma (FIN)

2nd teams with best records:

Luleå Hockey (SWE)
Genève-Servette (SUI)
HIFK Helsinki (FIN)
JyP Jyväskylä (FIN)
TPS Turku (FIN)

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