Normally, the tournament is kind of like one of those old TV shows "whatever happened to..." as former NHLers, AHLers or past juniors and university hockey players ply their trade in the more relaxed atmosphere of European hockey. The tournament also has the added bonus of a pay cheque for Paul Romanuk, who once a year returns to the TSN screens, bringing us the play by play and background of the names that lead us all to go, ah that's where he is.
Not this year however, where many of the names on your TV set and called out by Romanuk will sound rather familiar
Europe has become the storage shed of NHL players this year, with many of the locked out players heading to points east, north, south and west across the continent, for some this week will make for a bit of a reunion of the ex-pats as the Spengler tournament brings them all together in Davos, Switzerland.
Six teams are entered in the Spengler Cup, five club squads and one coalition of the Canadians playing for European based teams.
You can pick up some background on the tournament from the Hockey Canada website and from the Spengler Cup site itself.
We'll update the scoreboard below and offer up items of note from the Spengler as the tournament moves on.
Friday, December 28th
HC Fribourg-Totteron vs HC Vikovice Steel
Adler Mannheim vs HC Davos
Thursday, December 27th
Canada 5 vs HC Davos 0
HC Vitkovice Steel 4 vs Salavat Yulaev Ufa 5 (OT)
Wednesday, December 26th
HC Fribourg 5 - Salavat Yulaev Ufa 1
Canada 1 - Adler Mannheim 2 (OT)
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