Continental Cup continues

Asiago & Rouen host; all games streamed live

20.11.2015
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The Rouen Dragons and Asiago Hockey, who met in the 2014 IIHF Continental Cup Final, will host the two groups of the third round this week. Photo: Christian Robaeys

The IIHF Continental Cup moves into the third and final preliminary round today, with a trip to the Super Final on the line.

Eight teams are split into two groups, playing round robin tournaments in Asiago, Italy and Rouen, France. The top-two teams from each group will advance to the final tournament.

All six games of the tournament will be streamed live. A tournament pass can be obtained for €4.49. Click here to access the stream.

Group D will be hosted at PalaOdegar in Asiago, Italy, where host Asiago Hockey will play Denmark’s Herning Blue Fox, Kazakhstan’s champion Yertis Pavlodar and the qualifier Mogo Riga from Latvia.

Asiago last time played in the Continental Cup two years ago and hopes to repeat history by winning its home tournament and advancing to the finals. Already two years ago they faced Yertis Pavlodar and won that game 3-1.

Two other places in the finals will be given to the best two teams of Group E in Rouen, France. Regular Continental Cup participant Rouen Dragons will host the event that also includes Belarusian champion Shakhtyor Soligorsk, Ukrainian champion HK Kremenchuk and GKS Tychy from Poland, which qualified after winning its second-round event on home ice.

Also in Rouen six games will be played in the round-robin tournament from Friday to Sunday to determine two finalists.

Also in Rouen the organizer will offer a live stream for all six games. They can be watched for €2.49 per game here.

After the arrival of all teams in Asiago and Rouen and team registration on Thursday evening the clubs are ready to battle for advancing to the final tournament, which will be staged from 8 to 10 January 2016 at one of the participants’ venue to be determined.

The Continental Cup winner can earn an invitation to the Champions Hockey League 2016/2017 pending formal approval by the CHL board. Last year Neman Grodno from Belarus won the Continental Cup and moved up.

They started well into the Champions Hockey League with a 2-0 blanking of German champion Adler Mannheim in front of an enthusiastic home crowd in Grodno but then lost the other games against Mannheim and Vitkovice Ostrava.

Click here to follow the games on our live ticker, for the roster and stats updates: Group D, Group E.
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