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The Cardiff Devils will represent the EIHL in the Champions Hockey League in the 21/22 season.

https://www.championshockeyleague.com/e ... iff-devils

This is based on the Devils having the highest points per game average of the 19/20 campaign before it was curtailed.

The group stage draw is 19th May 5pm, below are all the sides qualified:

HC Bolzano (Italy - Play in Austrian League)
Klagenfurter AC (Austria)
EC Salzburg (Austria)
HC Yunost Minsk (Belarus)
HC Oceláři Třinec (Czech Republic)
HC Sparta Praha (Czech Republic)
BK Mladá Boleslav (Czech Republic)
SønderjyskE (Denmark)
Rungsted Seier Capital (Denmark)
Lukko Rauma (Finland)
HIFK Helsinki (Finland)
TPS Turku (Finland)
Tappara Tampere (Finland)
Rouen Dragons (France)
Adler Mannheim (Germany)
EHC München (Germany)
Eisbären Berlin (Germany)
Frisk Asker (Norway)
JKH GSK Jastrzębie (Poland)
Frölunda Indians (Sweden)
Rögle BK (Sweden)
Växjö Lakers (Sweden)
Leksands IF (Sweden)
Skellafteå AIK (Sweden)
EV Zug (Switzerland)
HC Lugano (Switzerland)
HC Fribourg-Gottéron (Switzerland)
Lausanne HC (Switzerland)
Cardiff Devils (United Kingdom)
HC Donbass Donetsk (Ukraine)

The final two places to sort will go to one of each of the two matchups below:

Genève-Servette HC or ZSC Lions Zurich of Switzerland

Grizzlys Wolfsburg or Fischtown Pinguins of Germany

Cardiff are in pot 4 of 5. 5 pots this year as the teams from nations in the final stage of Olympic qualifying will be drawn together in the group stage for scheduling purposes.

CHL DRAW MADE:

Group A:
Växjö Lakers
Sparta Praha
TPS Turku
Fischtown Pinguins

Group B:
Frölunda Indians
HIFK Helsinki
BK Mladá Boleslav
ZSC Lions Zürich

Group C:
Lukko Rauma
Adler Mannheim
Lausanne HC
Cardiff Devils

Group D:
EV Zug
Rögle BK
EHC Red Bull München
SønderjyskE

Group E:
Eisbaren Berlin
HC Lugano
Skellefteå AIK
Tappara Tampere

Group F:
HC Oceláři Třinec
Leksands IF
HC Fribourg-Gottéron
HC Yunost Minsk

Group G:
Rungsted Seier Capital
Rouen Dragons
Klagenfurter AC
HC Donbass Donetsk

Group H:
EC Red Bull Salzburg
JKH GKS Jastrzębie
Frisk Asker
HC Bolzano

HC Yunost Minsk have been removed from the CHL due to concerns for the safety of club staff travelling into Belarus in the current political climate.

They have been replaced by Slovakian side HC Slovan Bratislava.

Cardiff have 4 players & staff out of tonight’s opener vs Adler Mannheim with Covid protocol.

Head Coach Jarrod Skalde
Assistant Coach Neil Francis
Forward Ben Davies
Forward Josh Batch


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So the Devils were shutout on home ice 5-0 by Adler.

By all accounts, Mannheim were not stretched at all in the game. Devils recorded just 9 shots on goal the entire game which explains a fair bit of dominance by the DEL side,

Devils' Matt Register logged up an astonishing 30:04 minutes of ice time in the game!

Much better performance last night for Cardiff as they defeated Lausanne 4:1.

This result leaves the Devils third in their group; behind Lukko and Mannheim. Lukko trounced Mannheim 5:1 last night to make it two from two.

In other games, SønderjyskE were beaten 10-0 on home ice by EV Zug...ouch!

Watched both games and Cardiff were really poor first game against the German team, but in the second they really turned it on and looked very strong, fast capable team!
Benny had a few 'head-in-the-clouds' moments against Adlar but he looked every bit a quality player in the second.
Cardiff have some very good, quick players especially Standford in their team not sure about the big NHL guy Dupont??? but the NM is excellent! so good luck to them, that result will give them the confidence to progress.

Cardiff playing in the CHL gives them a great pre-season. They easily won their 2nd game.

We will have played 2 games by the time we play Cardiff on a banner raising night where in my experience we’ve not won many games in recent times on these types of nights.

Cardiff will have had a head start playing in the CHL and I expect they will come out very fast.