After a new format for the Euro Hockey Tour was unveiled last season, eliminating the Oddset and Czech Hockey Games and replacing the second half of the tournament with a round-robin format between Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czechia, the tournament details have been confirmed to follow the same format for 2015-16.
As in previous years, the Tour begins in Finland with the Karjala Tournament in early November 2015,ย followed by the Channel One Cup in Russia in mid-December. Then, in a three-weekend series of round robins in February and April (which will have games double as part of the Euro Hockey Challenge), each team will face each other once to crown a winner of the Tour.ย The tournament not only helps for continental bragging rights and international conditioning, but especially in the later part of the season acts as a great tune-up for the World Championships.
While all teams will surely put forth a great effort to win the Tour, watch out in particular for Sweden, who will be looking to retain its title clinched last year, and the Russians, looking to take a tournament victory into the World Championships being hosted in Moscow and Saint Petersburg following the Tour.
The schedule for the 2015-16 Euro Hockey Tour is as follows:
Karjala Tournament ๐ซ๐ฎ
Thursday, 05 November
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland vs. Russia ๐ท๐บ
๐ธ๐ช Sweden vs. Czechia ๐จ๐ฟย (at Sweden ๐ธ๐ช)
Saturday, 07 November
๐ท๐บ Russia vs. Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland vs. Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
Sunday, 08 November
๐ท๐บ Russia vs. Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
๐ธ๐ช Sweden vs. Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
Channel One Cup ๐ท๐บ
Thursday, 17 December
๐ท๐บ Russia vs. Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia vs. Finland ๐ซ๐ฎย (at Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ)
Saturday, 19 December
๐ท๐บ Russia vs. Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
๐ธ๐ช Sweden vs. Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
Sunday, 20 December
๐ท๐บ Russia vs. Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
๐ธ๐ช Sweden vs. Finlandย ๐ซ๐ฎ
Euro Hockey Tour Games – locations TBC
11-14 February 2016
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland @ Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
๐ท๐บ Russia @ Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
13-17 April 2016
๐ท๐บ Russia @ Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia @ Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
20-24 April 2016
๐ธ๐ช Sweden @ Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland @ Russia ๐ท๐บ