2008 Victoria Cup The 2008 Victoria Cup was the first edition of the Victoria Cup challenge , played on October 1 , 2008 , between the 2008 European Champions Cup , Metallurg Magnitogorsk , and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) , at the PostFinance Arena in Berne , Switzerland . The game was played under IIHF rules . The Rangers won the challenge as they battled from a 3 - 0 deficit to win the game 4 – 3 . The match was preceded on September 30 , 2008 by an exhibition between host SC Bern and the New York Rangers , meant to commemorate the centennial of the Swiss Ice Hockey Association . However the additional game , the first ever between a Swiss team and an NHL team , ended up competing with the main event at the box office . With tickets steeply priced , neither game sold out and a number of Swiss fans favored the SC Bern game , which drew a significantly larger audience ( 16 , 022 ) than the actual Victoria Cup game . The New York Rangers defeated SC Bern in this game 8 - 1 . The Rangers followed the Victoria Cup game with two NHL regular - season games against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Prague , Czech Republic , on October 4 and 5 at the O Arena . Both games were won 2 – 1 by the Rangers . Game description . The goalies in the game were Henrik Lundqvist for the New York Rangers and Andrei Mezin for Metallurg Magnitogorsk . At 1 : 28 of the first period , Metallurg ' s Denis Platonov scored a goal past Lundqvist to give them the lead . With 18 : 07 gone in the first , with the Rangers ' Paul Mara in the box for holding , Vladimir Malenkikh made it 2 - 0 for Magnitogorsk on the power - play . In the second period , Nikolai Zavarukhin scored another power - play goal at 30 : 20 to give Magnitogorsk a 3 - 0 lead over New York , this time with Petr Prucha in the box for holding . Late in the second , Metallurg ran into penalty trouble as Alexei Kaigorodov and Zavarukhin found their way to the box for holding . The two - man power - play led to a goal at 39 : 37 for Chris Drury . In the third , penalty troubles continued to plague Magnitogorsk . At 45 : 45 Dan Fritsche scored for the Rangers to make the score 3 - 2 . Then , with Metallurg ' s Stanislav Chistov in the penalty box for hooking , Drury scored his second power play goal of the game at 50 : 13 . With the score tied 3 - 3 , the Rangers were badly out - shooting Metallurg . In the last minute , Ryan Callahan picked off a sloppy pass by defenseman Vladimir Malenkikh at Metallurg ' s blue line and came in alone on goalie Mezin . In a " shoot - out move " , he faked a backhand shot , switched to his forehand and managed to wrap the puck around Mezin ' s outstretched right leg for the game - winning goal at 59 : 40 . Lundqvist stopped 22 of 25 shots for the win , while Mezin stopped 40 of 44 shots for Magnitogorsk . According to Lundqvist , " I think we should have won the game , and we did . I think we were the better team . They got some easy goals the first period and made it tough on us . That ' s on me , but the way we came back in this game was great to see . I think we learned a lot . It gave us confidence moving forward , and now we don ' t have to hear about it . " The Victoria Cup Trophy was accepted on behalf of the team by Nikolai Zherdev and Dmitri Kalinin , the two Russian players on the Rangers . The Rangers received $ 1 , 000 , 000 for their victory .