Euro Hockey Tour
Current season, competition or edition: 2021–22 Euro Hockey Tour | |
 The EHT logo | |
| Sport | Ice hockey |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Russia |
The Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) is an annual ice hockey tournament open to only the national men's teams of the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia and Sweden. Most of the teams use the competition as a preparation for the upcoming World Championships or Olympics, allowing less experienced players to collect valuable ice time in their national colours.
History[]
Playing format[]
Euro Hockey Tour consists of four tournaments:
- Karjala Tournament in Finland
- Channel One Cup in Russia
- Sweden Hockey Games in Sweden
- Czech Hockey Games in the Czech Republic
Each team plays three games in each of the tournaments, giving a total of twelve games per team. After the four tournaments have finished, the teams are seeded according to their respective combined point total from all four tournaments.
In each tournament, five games are played in the host city, and one game in another participating country. For example, in the 2007 edition of Karjala Tournament, the game between Sweden and Russia was played in Jönköping, Sweden, rather than in Finland, who host the Karjala Cup. Every country is assigned one home game and one away game in those games.
Each team is given three points for a regulation-time win, two points for an overtime or shootout win, one point for a loss in overtime or shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation time. In the four tournaments, if two or more teams end with the same number of points, they are seeded based on head-to-head results in games against the tied teams. In the EHT standings however, two or more teams tied in points are seeded based on the better goal difference.
Prize money[]
The prize money for the winner of each tournament is €50,000 while the second seed gets €30,000, the third seed gets €25,000, and the fourth seed gets €15,000. The EHT season winner receives another €75,000, the team finishing second gets €30,000, and the team finishing third gets €15,000.[1]
Finals in previous years[]
Medal games were not played until the 2003–04 season. Before that, place order was determined by the tournament standings. The seasons 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2006–07 used a format where the first-placed and second-placed teams played a home-and-home two-game series for the EHT gold and silver medals, while the third-placed and fourth-placed teams played two games for the bronze. In 2005–06, the championship was determined by a single game played at the home of the first-place team. Since 2007–08, no EHT finals have been played.
Participating teams[]
Only four European teams compete in EHT:
Results[]
- ^ Only points from Karjala Cup, Izvestija Cup and Swedish Hockey Games counted in the final standings due to that the Russian team did not participate in the Pragobanka Cup.
- ^ Czech tournament not played due to 2004 World Cup of Hockey.
- ^ Carlson Hockey Games not played due to Coronavirus disease 2019.
Medal table[]
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Finland |
9 | 7 | 7 | 23 |
| Russia |
9 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
 Sweden |
4 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
 Czech Republic |
3 | 5 | 8 | 16 |
References[]
- ^ "Euro Hockey Tour prize money 2012–13" (PDF). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 2013-06-08.[permanent dead link]
- "Euro Hockey Tour". European Hockey.Net. Retrieved 2006-05-01.
- "Euro Hockey Tour history". Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Archived from the original on 2005-12-08. Retrieved 2006-05-01.
- "Euro Hockey Tour Czech republic". Pro-Hockey CZ. Retrieved 2006-07-16.
- David Schlegel. "History of Euro Hockey Tour and its tournaments". PRO-HOCKEY Cz, s.r.o. & eSports.cz, s.r.o. Retrieved 2006-09-03.
- "Nytt Euro Hockey Touravtal" (in Swedish). hockeyligan.se. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2006-12-20.
See also[]
| Euro Hockey Tour seasons | |
|---|---|
| Karjala Tournament Part of EHT since 1996 | |
 Channel One CupPart of EHT since 1996 | |
| Sweden Hockey Games Part of EHT since 1997 | |
| Czech Hockey Games Part of EHT since 1997 | |
- Euro Hockey Tour
- Ice hockey tournaments in Europe
- Sports competition series
- 1996 establishments in Europe
- Recurring sporting events established in 1996