28-522: European Trophy (previously named Nordic Trophy between 2006 and 2009 ) was an annually held ice hockey tournament, traditionally composed of teams from the higher-level ice hockey leagues in countries across Europe. With 32 participating teams from seven countries in 2013, the European Trophy was at the time the biggest active ice hockey tournament in Europe. Starting with the 2014–15 season,
56-678: A Swedish 2009 Nordic Trophy for the Swedish teams; and a Finnish 2009 Nordic Trophy for the Finnish teams. In 2010, the tournament expanded to European countries beyond Scandinavia . Lukko from Finland left, and was replaced by fellow Nordic team Vålerenga from Norway. Adler Mannheim and Eisbären Berlin from Germany, and Czech team Sparta Praha , completed the Capital Division; while Austrian team Red Bull Salzburg , along with SC Bern and ZSC Lions from Switzerland, completed
84-685: A loss in regulation time. The two highest-ranked teams in each division qualified for the playoffs. The European Trophy playoffs , known as the Red Bulls Salute , were the last part of the tournament. It was a single-elimination tournament , where two teams played against each other in order to advance to the next round. In the 2013 tournament, the Red Bull Salute took place in Berlin. There were no classification/placement games, meaning there were only Quarterfinals, Semifinals as well as
112-547: A predefined schedule, and a playoff weekend in December which was an elimination tournament where two teams played against each other to win in order to advance to the next round. The final remaining team was crowned the Red Bulls Salute Champion . If a game was tied after regulation time (60 minutes), an overtime lasting for 5 minutes was played. During overtime, both teams substituted only 4 players on
140-702: The European Hockey League , progressing to the playoff stage each year. Another highlight was winning the IIHF Continental Cup in the 2003–04 season . From 2011 to 2013, Slovan participated in the European Trophy international pre-season tournament. In March 2012, Slovan filed an application to play in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). On 21 June 2012, Slovan Bratislava was officially admitted to
168-467: The European Trophy during the summer months, Slovan opened the 2012–13 season with a home game against Ukrainian HC Donbass on 6 September 2012, losing 2–4 in front of a capacity crowd. The first win was achieved 4 days later by defeating Spartak Moscow 2–1 after a shootout . During the NHL lockout between September 2012 and January 2013, the two defenders Ľubomír Višňovský and Andrej Sekera enhanced
196-532: The KHL , its biggest rival was Lev Prague . The rivalry started when, in their first game, HC Lev 's Zdeno Chára body-checked Slovan's team captain Miroslav Šatan , after which Šatan was out of the lineup for the rest of the season. The fairness of this hit was the centre of many discussions. The games between Slovan and Lev were among the most anticipated of the season for both teams. However, Lev Praha folded after
224-618: The 2013–14 season. This is a partial list of the last ten seasons completed by HC Slovan Bratislava. For the full season-by-season history, see List of HC Slovan Bratislava seasons . Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime/shootout wins, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, L = Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against As of 24 November 2024 These are the top-ten-point-scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed season. Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game These are
252-728: The Central Division. These new teams prompted the changing of the tournament name to European Trophy. In the 2011 tournament, there were 24 teams. Sweden and Finland were represented by six teams each. Luleå HF replaced the Swedish team Malmö Redhawks . From Finland, KalPa was for the first time included in the tournament. Seven teams from the Czech Republic participated: Slavia Praha , Sparta Praha , Mountfield České Budějovice , Bílí Tygři Liberec , ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice , Plzeň 1929 , and Kometa Brno . The German teams Eisbären Berlin and Adler Mannheim remained in
280-461: The European Trophy tournaments, the regular-round winning team was determined by the best record of all teams. 2006 Nordic Trophy The 2006 Nordic Trophy was the first edition of the Nordic Trophy ice hockey tournament. Eight teams, four from Finland and Sweden apiece, played seven games, and the top two teams qualified for the final. Färjestad BK defeated Oulun Kärpät in
308-586: The European Trophy was replaced by the Champions Hockey League , a more formal competition which also included all of the champions of Europe's major national leagues. Sweden and Finland always participated, and they were the only two countries participating when the tournament was named "Nordic Trophy". The tournament began in 2006 under the name "Nordic Trophy" with eight teams, four from Sweden and four from Finland. In 2010, several teams from European countries outside Scandinavia agreed to join
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#1732776471335336-541: The European Trophy. On 18 June it was announced that Piráti Chomutov had taken over Slavia Praha's spot in the South Division. On 14 February 2013, the 2013 tournament was officially announced. It featured exactly the same 32 teams from last year, marking the first time in Nordic/European Trophy history that the teams remained the same from last year. The 32 teams were also divided into exactly
364-609: The Final game. The Red Bulls Salute previously took place in Salzburg and Vienna in 2010 and 2011, and in Vienna and Bratislava in 2012. Before the 2013 tournament, the playoff hosts were always guaranteed a playoff spot (i.e. automatically qualified for the playoffs) and took the playoff spots of the worst 2nd-ranked teams of all divisions in the tournament. After the regulation round, the four division winners received € 25 000 each,
392-481: The KHL, after they fulfilled all necessary conditions. Founded in 1921, they were the oldest KHL team by a large margin, as there were no ice hockey leagues in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics prior to 1946. In May, Slovan signed Rostislav Čada as the new head coach for the first KHL season, who had had a KHL experience from working at Avangard Omsk . After playing two friendly matches against KHL teams and
420-681: The final. HC Slovan Bratislava Hockey Club Slovan Bratislava ( Slovak : Hokejový klub Slovan Bratislava ) is a professional ice hockey club based in Bratislava , Slovakia. In 2012, it left the Slovak Extraliga and joined the international Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). In 2019, it returned to the Tipos Extraliga. The club has won nine Slovak championships (most recently in 2022), one Czechoslovak championship (1979) and one IIHF Continental Cup (2004), making it
448-467: The four second-placed teams €20 000, and the third, fourth and fifth team of each division received €15 000, €10 000, and €5 000, respectively. Additionally, in the final of the Red Bulls Salute, the winning team received €50 000, while the losing finalist got €10 000. In total, €360 000 were given out during the entire 2013 European Trophy tournament. Note that due to the divisioning system in
476-457: The ice at once (except for 3 when either of the teams had a penalized player). If no team scored during the overtime period, a shootout was played, starting with three penalty shots for both teams. If the shootout remained tied after the first three rounds, sudden death rounds were played until a winning team had been determined. In the regular round, the 32 teams were divided into four divisions and each team played once against each other team in
504-504: The name of the club was changed to Slovan Bratislava, which has been kept until today. For many years following World War II, Slovan was the only Slovak representative in the highest Czechoslovak league, and achieved several second-place finishes in the championship. The only title in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League was achieved under coach Ladislav Horsky in the 1978–79 season. Additionally,
532-565: The playoffs were now played in December. The 2012 edition of the tournament is expanded further by eight teams, for a total of 32 teams. Another Swedish team, Brynäs IF joins the tournament this year; Switzerland returns with four teams; another two German teams participate; and another team from Finland joins the tournament. The regulation round is played in July–November, while the playoffs were played in December. Slavia Praha , however, announced on 31 May 2012 that they would be pulling out of
560-400: The same division. Additionally, each team was assigned a "local rival" in the same division, against which they played a second game. Thus, each team played a total of 8 regular round games. Points were awarded for each game, with three points awarded for a win in regulation time, two points for winning in overtime or a shootout, one point for losing in overtime or a shootout, and zero points for
588-572: The same divisions, and the regulation round schedule (before the playoffs) was similar to last year, the only difference being that the home–away team assignings for each game were switched. Due to the 2014 Winter Olympics , the regulation round ended in September 2013 instead of a spread-out schedule ending in November. The European Trophy tournament was divided into regular round games between late July and November, where teams played each other in
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#1732776471335616-626: The second most successful hockey club in Slovak history after their biggest rival HC Košice . The team plays its home games at Ondrej Nepela Arena , also known as Slovnaft Arena . The team is nicknamed Belasí , which means the "sky blues" in English. The sports club Slovan Bratislava was founded in 1919 as a football club, then called 1.CsSK Bratislava. In 1921, a hockey section was founded as "CsSK hockey". It played its first game in December 1924 against Wiener EV from Vienna , losing 6–1. In 1948,
644-596: The start of 2013–14 season, it was announced that the franchise will have a new mascot called Harvy . The mascot's name was determined by fans and its appearance will be of a bald eagle , which is also on HC Slovan's logo. While competing in the Czechoslovak league, Slovan's main rival was HK Dukla Trenčín . While competing in the Slovak Extraliga , Slovan had various rivals around the country, most notably HC Košice and Trenčin In Slovan's first two seasons in
672-525: The team. Slovan ended the season with 78 points as 6th of the Western conference and thus clinched a play-off spot in their first KHL season. In the first play-off round, Slovan played against then-defending champion Dynamo Moscow and lost all four matches. During the regular season, Slovan had sold out 25 out of its 26 home games with an average attendance of 9,977 spectators, which was the seventh-highest average attendance in Europe that season. Before
700-445: The tournament expanded from six to eight teams. A Junior edition was also started, but it was discontinued after 2010. In 2008 , the senior tournament was expanded with two teams, Swedish team HV71 and Finnish team Jokerit . It got expanded again in 2009, when Malmö Redhawks from Sweden and Lukko from Finland joined the tournament. However, the Swedish and Finnish teams were split that year and instead, there were two tournaments:
728-566: The tournament, which changed its name to European Trophy as a result. By the 2013 tournament, eight countries had been represented: Sweden , Finland , Austria , Czech Republic , Germany , Slovakia , Switzerland , and Norway . No team ever won the tournament more than one time. In 2006 and 2007 , the Nordic Trophy consisted of four Swedish teams, Djurgården , Frölunda , Färjestad and Linköping ; as well as four Finnish teams, HIFK , Oulun Kärpät , Tappara and TPS . In 2007,
756-540: The tournament. Besides Red Bull Salzburg , there was now a second team from Austria, the Vienna Capitals . Slovakia was for the first time represented in the European Trophy tournament, with Slovan Bratislava . Norway and Switzerland, however, were no longer represented. The tournament's schedule was also changed; instead of having the playoffs in September right after the regulation round in August–September,
784-479: The youth teams won several championships. After the separation of Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993, Slovan played in the Slovak Extraliga and won eight championship titles over 19 years. In addition to the success achieved in Slovakia, Slovan also performed well internationally, with three Spengler Cup wins in a row in 1972, 1973 and 1974. It is also one of only four clubs to play all four seasons of
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