Ambrì-Piotta versus Davos in Swiss league play. Source.
It's Spengler Cup time again. This is the 97th Spengler Cup if you count the years when it wasn't played; otherwise it's the 93rd. (It wasn't played in 1939, 1940, 1949 or 1956.)
HC Davos have won the cup 15 times, most recently in 2011. Although they have always been the host club for this cup, they have not always played in it. Currently fourth in the Swiss NLA.
Team Canada have also won 15 times, most recently in 2017. Craig MacTavish is head coach. The roster is here. Thirteen play in the Swiss league, plus one each from the KHL, the SHL, the Liiga, the EBEL, the Slovak Extraliga, the AHL, the ECHL, US college and Canadian college hockey.
HC Ambrì-Piotta. Ambrì-Piotta play in the top Swiss league, and are rivals to HC Lugano, the other big team in Italian-speaking Ticino. Ambrì-Piotta have been Swiss champions once, in 1962. Currently they are in ninth place in the NLA. Canadian NHL veteran Matt D'Agostini plays for them.
HC Oceláři Třinec appeared in last year's tournament and lost to Davos in the quarterfinals. They are fifth in the Czech Extraliga. Canadian Patrick Kudla plays for them.
Salavat Yulaev Ufa were runners-up in 2007 and 2014. Right now they're third in the Chernyshev Division of the KHL.
TPS Turku took part in the 2001 and 2002 Spengler Cups. They are fifteenth in the Finnish Liiga. TPS is possibly the only hockey club on Earth to have a medicine ball in its logo.
Ambrì-Piotta and Třinec both appeared in the 2019-20 Champions Hockey League. Neither one made it past the group stage.
[Team Canada beat Třinec 4 - 0 in the final.]
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