- Victoria Cup
The Victoria Cup is intended to be an annual game or series of games played between professional
ice hockey teams from Europe and the North AmericanNational Hockey League (NHL). In 2008, the inaugural Cup will be a single game playoff between the 2008 European Champions Cup winner and an NHL club. In subsequent years teams of the EuropeanChampions Hockey League will play one or more NHL challengers in an undetermined format. The winner of the Cup will receive 1,000,000 Swiss francs. [ € 623.505 or $ 984.640 onApril 20 ,2008 .]History
The Victoria Cup was announced in 2007 as one of the highlight events to celebrate 2008, the 100th Year Anniversary of the
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The cup is named after the Victoria Skating Rink inMontreal ,Canada , where the first recorded organised indoorice hockey game was played on March 3, 1875.2008 Victoria Cup
On October 1, 2008, the first Victoria Cup was awarded to the
New York Rangers , winners of a single game playoff against theMetallurg Magnitogorsk , winners of the 2008 European Champions Cup [cite web |url=http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=228084&hubname=nhl |title=McKenzie: NHL's European plans finalized |date=January 24, 2008 |last=McKenzie |first=Bob |publisher=TSN.ca |accessdate=2008-01-28] played at thePostFinance Arena inBern ,Switzerland . The game was played under IIHF rules.cite web |url=http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/rangers-challenge-metallurg.html |title=Rangers challenge Metallurg |date=January 26, 2008 |accessdate=2008-01-28 |publisher=IIHF] Referees were split between the NHL and the IIHF.The match was preceded by an exhibition game on September 30, 2008, between host
SC Bern and theNew York Rangers , won by the Rangers. This was the first time a Swiss club has played a NHL team. The Rangers will follow the Victoria Cup game with two NHL regular-season games against theTampa Bay Lightning team inPrague ,Czech Republic on October 4 and October 5 at the Sazka Arena. [cite web |url=http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=351323&page=NewsPage&service=page |title=Four NHL teams to open the 2008-09 regular season in Europe Oct. 4-5 |publisher=NHL.com |date=January 26, 2008 |accessdate=2008-01-28]Trophy
The IIHF commissioned a new trophy designed by GDE Bertoni which designed the FIFA World Cup trophy. The Victoria Cup is a gold cup with twelve Perspex – a thermoplastic material – light blue hockey sticks, six on each side, sitting on a marble case and forming a “V” coming up and out of the Cup. The names of the winning clubs will be engraved on the back of the sticks. [cite web |title=Victoria Cup unveiled |publisher=IIHF |date=September 30, 2008 |accessdate=2008-10-01 |url=http://www.iihf.com/channels0809/victoria-cup/news/news-singleview-club-continental-cup/article/victoria-cup-unveiled.html?tx_ttnews񛮬kPidx5D=1918&cHash=d7eb4ea658 ]
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External links
* [http://www.victoria-cup.com/ Victoria Cup website]
* [http://www.iihf.com IIHF]
* [http://www.nhl.com/ NHL]
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