Europe - Champions Hockey League 8/10
Inviato: 08/10/2008 - 13:41
Eisbären Berlin - Kärpät Eisbären Berlin -0.5 @ 2.15 (Expekt)
[i]When Eisbären and Kärpät meet each other for the first time in the Champions Hockey League on Wednesday, it will be a clash between two clubs who have been very successful at a national level. There are other similarities as well.
Kärpät have won the Finnish league title four times in the last five seasons. Eisbären is closing in on that, with their three German league titles the last four years. Both teams are therefore regular dynasties in their home countries, with both financial and hockey muscles that make other clubs jealous. And both are products of one strong man. In Oulu, he’s GM Juha Junno, in Berlin, GM Peter Lee.
One of them is going to get disappointed on Wednesday.
Kärpät is boldly gone where no CHL team has ever gone before, and where no team has ever beaten the Eisbären. A new world, the O2 World.
The club from Berlin has only played two games at their new home arena, O2 World, so far this season, yet they did manage to impressively put 11 goals past Augsburg without reply, to officially open the arena in September. They also picked up a win against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg, leaving them unbeaten at home heading into the Champions Hockey League opener.
Head coach Don Jackson, who was recently awarded an Order of Merit by the city of Berlin, is hoping for and expecting a full house.
“You are the best.â€
[i]When Eisbären and Kärpät meet each other for the first time in the Champions Hockey League on Wednesday, it will be a clash between two clubs who have been very successful at a national level. There are other similarities as well.
Kärpät have won the Finnish league title four times in the last five seasons. Eisbären is closing in on that, with their three German league titles the last four years. Both teams are therefore regular dynasties in their home countries, with both financial and hockey muscles that make other clubs jealous. And both are products of one strong man. In Oulu, he’s GM Juha Junno, in Berlin, GM Peter Lee.
One of them is going to get disappointed on Wednesday.
Kärpät is boldly gone where no CHL team has ever gone before, and where no team has ever beaten the Eisbären. A new world, the O2 World.
The club from Berlin has only played two games at their new home arena, O2 World, so far this season, yet they did manage to impressively put 11 goals past Augsburg without reply, to officially open the arena in September. They also picked up a win against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg, leaving them unbeaten at home heading into the Champions Hockey League opener.
Head coach Don Jackson, who was recently awarded an Order of Merit by the city of Berlin, is hoping for and expecting a full house.
“You are the best.â€