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2021 Men's Hockey Playoff Champions

Kovalchuk and crew celebrate Avangard's first Gagarin Cup. And look, there's Tretiak.

Russian KHL: Avangard Omsk

Svenska Hockeyligan: Växjö Lakers

Finnish Liiga: Lukko

Swiss NL: Zug

Deutsche Eishockey Liga: Eisbären Berlin

Czech Extraliga: Trinec

Slovak Extraliga: Zvolen

Asia League Ice Hockey: cancelled

Austrian ICE Hockey League: KAC Klagenfurt

Belarus: Yunost Minsk

Britain: cancelled

BeNe League: cancelled

Denmark: Rungsted

France: Dragons de Rouen

Alps Hockey League: Ljubljana

Norway: cancelled

Poland: JKH GKS Jastrzębie

Hungarian Erste Liga: HSC Csikszereda

Latvia: HK Olimp/Venta 2002

Ukraine: Donbass

Iceland: SA Víkingar

Allan Cup: cancelled

Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey: cancelled

Jets Sens

Source.

    Ottawa versus Winnipeg in Stanley Cup challenge games:

1903/12/30    Ottawa HC 9 - 1 Winnipeg Rowing Club

1904/1/1        Ottawa HC 2 - 6 Winnipeg Rowing Club

1904/1/4        Ottawa HC 2 - 0 Winnipeg Rowing Club

    Ottawa Nationals versus Winnipeg Jets (I):

1972/11/9      Ottawa 1 - 4 Winnipeg        regular season

1972/12/1      Winnipeg 3 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

1973/1/28      Ottawa 4 - 5 Winnipeg        regular season

1973/3/6        Ottawa 5 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

1973/3/16      Winnipeg 1 - 6 Ottawa        regular season

1973/3/18      Winnipeg 2 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

    Ottawa Civics versus Winnipeg Jets (I):

1976/1/11      Winnipeg 6 - 5 Ottawa        regular season

    Ottawa Senators (II) versus Winnipeg Jets (I):

1993/2/1        Ottawa 4 - 4 Winnipeg         regular season

1993/2/22      Winnipeg 6 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

1993/2/23      Ottawa 2 - 8 Winnipeg        regular season

1993/11/5      Winnipeg 6 - 7 Ottawa        regular season

1994/1/8        Ottawa 2 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

1994/3/4        Ottawa 1 - 6 Winnipeg        regular season

1995/11/22    Ottawa 1 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

1996/2/8        Winnipeg 6 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

    Ottawa Senators (II) versus Winnipeg Jets (II):

2011/9/26      Ottawa 1 - 3 Winnipeg        exhibition

2011/10/20    Ottawa 4 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

2011/11/29    Winnipeg 4 - 6 Ottawa        regular season

2012/1/16      Ottawa 0 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2012/3/26      Winnipeg 4 - 6 Ottawa        regular season

2013/1/19      Winnipeg 1 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

2013/2/9        Ottawa 0 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

2013/3/17      Ottawa 4 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

2013/9/15      Winnipeg 1 - 3 Ottawa        exhibition

2014/1/2        Ottawa 4 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

2014/3/8        Winnipeg 3 - 5 Ottawa        regular season

2014/9/30      Winnipeg 2 - 1 Ottawa        exhibition

2014/11/8      Ottawa 1 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2015/3/4        Winnipeg 1 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

2015/9/29      Winnipeg 4 - 3 Ottawa        exhibition

2015/11/5      Ottawa 3 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2016/3/30      Winnipeg 1 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2016/10/3      Winnipeg 4 - 2 Ottawa        exhibition

2017/2/19      Ottawa 2 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

2017/4/1        Winnipeg 4 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2017/9/27      Winnipeg 5 - 3 Ottawa        exhibition

2017/12/3      Winnipeg 5 - 0 Ottawa        regular season

2018/4/2        Ottawa 5 - 6 Winnipeg        regular season

2019/2/9        Ottawa 5 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2019/2/16      Winnipeg 3 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

2020/2/8        Winnipeg 5 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2020/2/20      Ottawa 1 - 5 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/1/19      Ottawa 3 - 4 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/1/21      Ottawa 1 - 4 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/1/23      Winnipeg 6 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

2021/2/11      Winnipeg 5 - 1 Ottawa        regular season

2021/2/13      Winnipeg 1 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2021/4/5        Winnipeg 4 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

2021/4/12      Ottawa 4 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/4/14      Ottawa 2 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/5/3        Ottawa 2 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

[2021/5/8        Winnipeg 2 - 4 Ottawa        regular season]

(Home team first.)

2021 Women's Hockey Champions

Wisconsin's Brette Pettet is from Kentville. Source.

Isobel Cup: Boston Pride

NCAA: Wisconsin

Russia: KRS Vanke Rays or Agidel Ufa

Sweden: Luleå/MSSK

Finland: Kiekko-Espoo

Switzerland: Lugano

Germany: ESC Planegg-Würmtal

Japan: Peregrine

EWHL: KMH Budapest

U Sports (Canadian university) did not play, and there is still no Canadian pro league.

The 2021 Women's Worlds, which were to be staged in Halifax and Truro in April, had been postponed until May, and now are either further postponed or cancelled, depending on who you talk to.

Canucks Sens

Canucks and Sens in 2017, the centennial of Vancouver's Stanley Cup. Source.

2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Stanley Cup final between the old Ottawa Senators and the Vancouver Millionaires of the PCHA, played entirely in the Denman Arena in Vancouver. The games were:

1921/3/21      Vancouver Millionaires 3 - 1 Ottawa Senators

1921/3/24      Vancouver Millionaires 3 - 4 Ottawa Senators

1921/3/28      Vancouver Millionaires 2 - 3 Ottawa Senators

1921/3/31      Vancouver Millionaires 3 - 2 Ottawa Senators

1921/4/4        Vancouver Millionaires 1 - 2 Ottawa Senators

(Home team is listed first.)

Due to Civid tthe Canucks did not play between March 24th and April 18th, and they fell eight games behind the Sens, though still one point ahead of them.

[Canucks 0 - 3 Senators.]

Sens Oilers

Risto Siltanen. Source.

The Oilers have pretty much had their way with Ottawa this season.

Sens vs Oilers so far this season:

2021/1/31      Oilers 8 - 5 Senators

2021/2/2        Oilers 4 - 2 Senators

2021/2/8        Senators 1 - 3 Oilers

2021/2/9        Senators 2 - 3 Oilers

2021/3/8        Oilers 3 - 2 Senators

2021/3/10      Oilers 7 - 1 Senators

2021/3/12      Oilers 6 - 2 Senators

2021/4/7        Senators [2 - 4] Oilers

2021/4/8        Senators [1 - 3] Oilers

(Home team first, like in Europe.)

Ottawa Nationals vs Alberta Oilers, WHA 1972-73:

1972/10/11    Nationals 4 - 7 Oilers

1972/11/5      Oilers 3 - 5 Nationals

1972/11/26    Nationals 1 - 2 Oilers

1972/12/15    Oilers 3 - 4 Nationals

1972/12/17    Oilers 3 - 1 Nationals

1973/2/25      Nationals 3 - 2 Oilers

(Source.)

Which Finns have played for Edmonton?

Markus Granlund    (34 games, 2019 - 20)

Mikko Koskinen    (111 games, 2018 - present)

Jussi Jokinen    (14 games, 2017 - 18)

Jesse Puljujarvi    (137 games, 2016 - 19)

Lauri Korpikoski    (71 games, 2015 - 16)

Iiro Pakarinen    (134 games, 2014 - 18)

Jesse Joensuu    (62 games, 2013 - 15)

Lennart Petrell    (95 games, 2011 - 13)

Teemu Hartikainen    (52 games, 2010 - 13)

Joni Pitkanen    (63 games, 2007 - 08)

Mikko Luoma    (3 games, 2003 - 04)

Tony Salmelainen    (13 games, 2003 - 04)

Kari Haakana    (13 games, 2002 - 03)

Jani Rita    (36 games, 2001 - 06)

Jussi Markkanen    (102 games, 2001 - 07)

Janne Niinimaa    (399 games, 1997 - 2003)

Marko Tuomainen    (4 games, 1994 - 95)

Kari Takko    (11 games, 1990 - 91)

Reijo Ruotsalainen    (26 games, 1986 - 90)

Risto Jalo    (3 games, 1985 - 86)

Esa Tikkanen    (522 games, 1984 - 93)

Raimo Summanen    (132 games, 1983 - 87)

Kari Jalonen    (3 games, 1983 - 84)

Matti Hagman    (147 games, 1980 - 82)

Jari Kurri    (754 games, 1980 - 90)

Kari Makkonen    (9 games, 1979 - 80)

Risto Siltanen    (226 games, 1978 - 82)

Hannu Kamppuri    (2 games, 1978 - 79)

Sens Flames

#18 Tim Stützle was the NHL's rookie of the month for February. Source.

Ottawa host Calgary.

Tim Stützle previously played for Adler Mannheim. Have any other Germans made the Senators' squad? Yes: Erich Goldmann (1 game, 1999-2000) and Christoph Schubert (268 games, 2006 to 2009).

Names of the Senator's rinks:

1. Ottawa Civic Centre. The WHA's Ottawa Nationals and Ottawa Civics played there.

2. Palladium (during construction). A palladium is a statue of Pallas Athena, the most famous example being the one brought from Troy to Rome by Aeneas. It doesn't have much to do with buildings. The word palladian does apply to buildings, if they look like buildings designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). The Canadian Tire Centre does not look like a building designed by Andrea Palladio.

a.k.a. Corel Centre (1996-2006). Corel is an Ottawa high tech company best known for Corel Draw.

a.k.a. Scotiabank Place (2006-2013). Scotiabank owns much of the Caribbean.

a.k.a. Canadian Tire Centre (2013-present). Canadian Tire is worth about $20 billion and has its own currency.

Sens versus Flames so far this season:

February 25    Ottawa 6 - 1 Calgary

February 27    Ottawa 3 - 6 Calgary

March 1           Ottawa 5 - 1 Calgary

March 4           Calgary 7 - 3 Ottawa

March 22         Ottawa [2 - 1] Calgary

March 24         Ottawa [3 - 1] Calgary

(Home team listed first.)

I was going to follow the AHL's Canadian Division, but then they went and put the Stockton Heat in it, which ruined it for nationalism purposes.

The ECHL's Newfoundland Growlers are on hiatus this season. The Brampton Beast decided to shut down permanently. But next year there will be a team in Trois-Rivières.

40th All Japan Women's Hockey Championship

Peregrine versus Daishin, October 17, 2020. Source.

It's the 40th All Japan Women's Hockey Championship, running from the 11th to the 14th of March. The teams are Vortex Sapporo, Obihiro Cranes Ladies, Kensetsu Peregrine, Kushiro Bears, Takasu Clinic Mikage Gretz, Daishin, Toyota Cygnus and Seibu Princess Rabbits.

March 11

Match No. 1:    Peregrine [11 - 0] Vortex

Match No. 2:    Cygnus [7 - 0] Mikage Gretz

Match No. 3:    Daishin [6 - 1] Kushiro Bears

Match No. 4:    Obihiro Cranes [2 - 12] Seibu Princess Rabbits

March 12

Match No. 5:    [Vortex 4 - 1 Mikage Gretz]

Match No. 6:    [Kushiro Bears 0 - 2 Obihiro Cranes]

Match No. 7:    [Peregrine 1 - 2 Cygnus]

Match No. 8:    [Daishin 3 - 4 Seibu Princess Rabbits]

March 13

Match No. 9:    [Vortex 0 - 6 Kushiro Bears]

Match No. 10:  [Mikage Gretz 0 - 4 Obihiro Cranes]

Match No. 11:  [Cygnus 1 - 0 Daishin]

Match No. 12:  [Peregrine 3 - 2 Seibu Princess Rabbits]

March 14

Match No. 13:  [Vortex 5 - 2 Mikage Gretz]

Match No. 14:  [Kushiro Bears 3 - 1 Obihiro Cranes]

Match No. 15:  [Daishin 1 - 6 Seibu Princess Rabbits]

Match No. 16:  [Cygnus 2 - 3 Peregrine]

Source.

EHC Winterthur

Keep track of Wintherthur on their webcam.

EHC Winterthur was founded in 1929. In 1963 they merged with EHC Veltheim to form Rot-Weiss Winterthur, but in 1980 they reverted to their original name.

Winterthur take their red and white colours from the city's coat of arms, like EHC Visp, and have a lion on their crest, like most of the league.

Both EHC Winterthur and FC Winterthur play in the second tier of their respective sports.

[Ajoie 5 - 2 Winterthur.]

Winterthur in the NLB/Swiss League:

2019-20    44    10    0    0    33    1    0    101    207    -106    31    11th, SL

2018-19    44      7    0    2    31    2    2      99    153      -54    29    10th, SL

2017-18    46      7    1    0    27    8    3    109    194      -85    34    10th, SL

2016-17    48    14    1    0    31    1    1    121    195      -74    46      9th, NLB

2015-16    45      6    1    0    34    2    2      99    196      -97    24    10th, NLB

1969-70    14      3    1          10                  48      91      -43      7      7th, NLB East

1962-63    14      2    0          12                  23      86      -63      4      8th, NLB East

1961-62    14      2    0          12                  32    101      -69      4      8th, NLB East

Sources: Wikipedia, Hockey Archive

EHC Winterthur in the Swiss Cup:

1957/11/17    R1    Veltheim 3 - 5 Petit-Huningue

1958/11/16    R1    Bienne 6 - 1 Winterthur

1958/11/23    R1    Gottéron 7 - 0 Veltheim

1959/11/?      R1    Veltheim 0 - 5 Bassersdorf

1959/11/14    R2    Winterthur 3 - 8 Gottéron

1960/11/12    R1    Kloten 8 - 4 Veltheim

1960/11/13    R1    Winterthur 20 - 3 Aarau

1960/11/18    R2    Winterthur 1 - 12 Bern

1961/10/28    R1    Veltheim 0 - 11 Illnau

1961/11/4      R1    Lugano 3 - 2 Winterthur

1962/11/3      R2    Lucerne 7 - 2 Winterthur

1963/10/26    R1    Rot-Weiss Winterthur 8 - 3 Petit-Huningue

1963/10/30    R2    Rot-Weiss Winterthur 1 - 5 Dübendorf

1964/10/24    R2    Dübendorf 1 - 4 Rot-Weiss Winterthur

1964/10/31    R3    Rot-Weiss Wintherthur 3 - 5 Uzwil

2014/10/1      R1    Winterthur 1 - 7 Zug

2015/9/30      R1    Winterthur 1 - 2 Lugano

2016/9/27      R1    Winterthur 2 - 5 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

2017/9/19      R1    Winterthur 0 - 2 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

2018/9/19      R1    Winterthur 1 - 4 Zug

2019/9/10      R1    Winterthur 0 - 9 ZSC Lions

Source: French Wikipedia

Visp

EHC Visp in the Sixties. Source.

Ajoie visit the shiny new Lonza Arena in Visp for a game against EHC Visp.

EHC Visp was founded in 1939, was Swiss champion in 1962 and won the Swiss Cup in 1964. They have been in the NLB/Swiss League since 1999.

Visp is a town in German-speaking half of the southern Swiss canton of Valais. The club takes its colours from the town's coat of arms: red and white with lions. Reminder: lions are not native to Switzerland. The French name of the town is Viège.

Sepp Blatter is from Visp.

[Visp 3 - 2 Ajoie.]

2020-21 Swiss Cup results:

2021/2/7        Bern 3 - 2 Genève-Servette        semi-final

2021/2/28      ZSC Lions [2 - 5] Bern                     final

Visp in the Swiss Cup:

1956/11/21    PR    Visp 31 - 1 Blue Stars Lausanne

1956/11/24    R1    Visp 9 - 6 Bern

1957/1/9        R2    Servette 3 - 2 Visp

1957/11/24    R1    Lugano 4 - 5 Visp

1957/11/28    R2    Visp 4 - 3 Ambrì-Piotta

1958/1/14      QF    Visp 2 - 3 ZSC Lions

1958/11/16    R2    Visp 6 - 3 Bern

1959/1/13      QF    ZSC Lions 6 - 2 Visp

1959/11/14    R2    Visp 11 - 0 Urania Genève Sport

1959/12/29    QF    Visp 6 - 2 La Chaux-de-Fonds

1960/2/2        SF    Visp 8 - 2 Lausanne

1960/3/12        F    Visp 2 - 5 ZSC Lions

1960/11/24    R2    Visp 4 - 3 Servette

1960/11/30    R3    Sierre 0 - 7 Visp

1961/1/12      QF    La Chaux-de-Fonds 1 - 8 Visp

1961/1/26      SF    Visp 6 - 1 Villars

1961/2/23        F    ZSC Lions 5 - 3 Visp

1961/11/5      R2    Breitlachen 1 - 10 Visp

1961/11/12    R3    Crans-Montana 3 - 7 Visp

1961/11/28    QF    Villars 6 - 2 Visp

1963/1/2        R4    Langnau 4 - 5 Visp

1963/1/7        QF    Visp 6 - 4 Bern

1963/2/5        SF    Young Sprinters 6 - 4 Visp

1963/11/13    R3    Genève-Servette 2 - 3 Visp

1963/12/26    QF    Ambrì-Piotta 4 - 5 Visp

1964/1/6        SF    Lugano 0 - 4 Visp

1964/3/4          F    Visp 5 - 2 ZSC Lions

1964/12/1      R4    Gottéron 4 - 6 Visp

1965/1/20      QF    Villars 2 - 0 Visp

1965/12/8      R4    Visp 7 - 4 Lugano

1965/12/26    QF    Villars 3 - 5 Visp

1966/1/18      SF    Visp 2 - 4 Grasshoppers

1972/2/5        R2    Villars-Champéry 4 - 2 Visp

1972/2/8        R2    Visp 6 - 7 Villars-Champéry

2014/10/1      R1    Visp 6 - 4 Red Ice

2014/10/29    R2    Visp 4 - 2 Davos

2014/12/15    QF    Visp 2 - 6 ZSC Lions

2015/9/30      R1    Brandis 1 - 4 Visp

2015/10/27    R2    Dübendorf 2 - 7 Visp

2015/11/25    QF    Visp 2 - 3 Bern

2016/9/27      R1    Visp 4 - 8 Langnau Tigers

2017/9/19      R1    Visp 3 - 2 La Chaux-de-Fonds

2017/10/22    R2    Visp 2 - 4 Davos

2018/9/19      R1    Visp 2 - 4 Genève-Servette

2019/9/10      R1    Visp 6 - 3 La Chaux-de-Fonds

2019/10/20    R2    Visp 1 - 4 Zug

2020/10/4      R1    Thun 3 - 6 Visp

2020/11/7      R2    Visp 1 - 4 Fribourg-Gottéron

(Source: French Wikipedia)

Thurgau

HC Thurgau emerge from the lion's mouth. Source.

Ajoie visit HC Thurgau at the Eishalle Güttingersreuti in Weinfelden, Thurgau Canton, in the Swiss northeast.

Formed from three earlier clubs, HC Thurgau bill themselves as representatives of the whole canton. They wear green and yellow with a lion emblem, drawn from the cantonal coat of arms. Unfortunately this makes them look a lot like EHC Olten, and when they play GCK it's a case of lion versus lion, so taking one thing with the other they come across as a bit of a generic Swiss hockey club.

They entered the NLB in 1992, and since then they have played every season but one in the second tier.

Ajoie have made up most of their games in hand and are now in second place, five points behind Kloten. Thurgau are fifth.

[Thurgau 3 - 4 Ajoie.]

Thurgau in the Swiss Cup:

2014/10/1      Thurgau 0 - 4 Davos

2015/9/29      Thurgau 1 - 5 Kloten

2016/9/28      Thurgau 0 - 7 Lugano

2017/9/19      Thurgau 2 - 6 Kloten

2018/9/19      Thurgau 0 - 5 Ambrì-Piotta

2019/9/10      Thurgau 0 - 6 Zug

2020/10/4      Thurgau 1 - 3 Kloten