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The Elite Ice Hockey League has three championships: regular season champion, playoff champion, and Challenge Cup champion.
What is the Challenge Cup? It's a tournament played during the regular season and includes all ten EIHL teams. The first part is a group stage with three groups, two of three teams each and one of four teams. In the three-team groups they play each other four times for a total of eight games per team. In the four-team group they play each other twice for a total of six games per team. The top eight teams go on the Challenge Cup playoffs, with the final occurring in March. Last year Belfast beat Fife in the final. See here for all of last year's results.
Today Fife host Glasgow Clan in a Challenge Cup group stage match.
Glasgow Clan were started in 2010 as Braehead Clan, after Braehead Arena in Renfrew where they play. Their head coach is former NHLer Jason Morgan. They wear purple, black and white. One of their players is 38-year-old Stephen Dixon of Halifax, Nova Scotia, who has played for the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins, Portland Pirates, Brynäs, Amur Khabarovsk, Ässät, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, Yugra, Luleå, Tappara, Grizzlys Wolfsburg, and Cardiff Devils.
Fife Flyers' 2023-24 Challenge Cup group stage games:
2023/9/23 Glasgow Clan 4 - 0 Fife Flyers
2023/9/24 Fife Flyers [5 - 1] Glasgow Clan
2023/9/30 Fife Flyers vs Belfast Giants
2023/10/7 Fife Flyers vs Dundee Stars
2013/10/8 Dundee Stars vs Fife Flyers
2013/10/13 Belfast Giants vs Fife Flyers
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