26/12-31/12/2011 – Flyers in Davos
(taken from nhl.com)
The Spengler Cup has been held in the picturesque mountain town of Davos since 1923 and is considered the oldest professional hockey tournament in the world.
The annual Spengler Cup tournament in Davos, Switzerland, is the hockey world’s second-oldest on-going club-team tournament, after the Stanley Cup Playoffs. For fans, the annual six-day event at Vaillant Arena is one continuous party, on and off the ice, from the day after Christmas to New Year’s Eve. But to the participating teams in the five-team invitational event, it’s a grueling test of endurance to play up to five games in less than a week.
Now in its 85th edition, the 2011 tournament pits host team HC Davos against a field consisting of fellow Swiss National League A team Kloten Flyers, KHL team Dinamo Riga, Czech team HC Vitkovice, Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg from Germany’s DEL and Team Canada.