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Spengler Cup program unveiled

The program of the 2012 edition of the Spengler Cup, which takes place from December 26 to 31 in Davos, was releaved. Like in last edition, the six teams were divided into two groups, named Torriani and Cattini.

Invited as special guest for its 75th anniversary, HC Fribourg-Gotteron will have the honor of playing the opening match against Russian Salavat Yulaev Ufa on December 26 afternoon. At night Team Canada and Adler Mannheim will open the Cattini group.
Czech HC Vitkovice Steel completes the group Torriani while host HC Davos is the third team of Cattini Group. Here the complete fixture

Spengler Cup participants named

Today the Spengler Cup officials released the names of the participants for this year's Spengler Cup. Favourite for the tournament win is Salavat Yulayev Ufa (KHL). The other participants are Adler Mannheim (DEL), host HC Davos and Fribourg-Gottéron (both NLA), HC Vítkovice (Czech Extraliga) and a team consisting of Canadian players.

European Trophy schedules

European Trophy announced today the schedule for the 2012/13 season. Find the complete fixture list here.

Adler Mannheim fined for incidents against Ingolstadt

DEL record champion Adler Mannheim has been fined by the league to pay €3000 for incidents in their home game against ERC Ingolstadt where fans threw coins on the ice. In addition to this assistant coach Mike Schmidt has to pay €500 for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Mannheim drown their chance in penalties

Adler Mannheim missed out on their chance of making European Trophy finals as they lost their final group game 3-5 against Slavia Praha. Mannheim needed a win to climb over Linköping to second place of South division, but conceded three goals in the 2nd period in a nervous game with 270 penalty minutes (133 to Mannheim, 137 to Slavia).