2021 Euro Hockey Challenge

2021 Euro Hockey Challenge was the 10th edition of the Euro Hockey Challenge. It was played in April 22 - May 15, 2021 and was won by the Czech Republic.
== Participants ==
Central Division	Nordic Division	Continental Division
(AUT) 	(DEN) 	(BLR)
(BLR) 	(NOR) 	(FRA)
(CZE) 	(SWE) 	(LAT)
(GER) 	 	(RUS)
(SVK) 	 	(SUI)
== Format of the tournament ==
Teams were divided into three divisions:
* Central Division
* Nordic Division
* Continental Division
In every division are usually 4 teams. They play twice each other (six games in total per team). After all games in every division, all statistics are summed up into one table of all divisions. The best team of this table is the Euro Hockey Challenge champion.
For the 2021 tournament, Austrian team was replaced by Belarus for the third week of the tournament due to same dates of the third week of this tournament and the World Championship Division IA. Although the World Championship Division IA was canceled this year, Belarus still replaced Austria in the third week.
In 2021, Finland did not participate in the Euro Hockey Challenge due to COVID-19 pandemic, so there were only three teams in the Nordic Division.
There were also several changes in the Continental Division for the 2021 edition. France was replaced by Belarus for its games against Russia and France did not play its games against Latvia. Latvia played only its two games against Switzerland. As a result, Russia played only its two games against Switzerland and two games against Belarus and Switzerland was the only team in the Continental Division to play all its games.
== Games ==
=== Central Division ===
Date 	Match 	Score
April 22, 2021	AUT - CZE	0:5 (0:1, 0:2, 0:2)
April 24, 2021	CZE - AUT	7:2 (1:1, 1:1, 5:0)
April 24, 2021	SVK - GER	4:3 SO (0:2, 2:1, 1:0 - 0:0 - 3:1)
April 25, 2021	SVK - GER	2:1 (0:0, 1:1, 1:0)
April 29, 2021	GER - CZE	1:4 (0:0, 1:2, 0:2)
May 1, 2021 	GER - CZE	4:5 (2:1, 1:1, 1:3)
May 1, 2021 	SVK - AUT	3:1 (0:0, 1:0, 2:1)
May 2, 2021 	SVK - AUT	2:0 (2:0, 0:0, 0:0)
May 6, 2021 	CZE - SVK	2:0 (0:0, 0:0, 2:0)
May 7, 2021 	CZE - SVK	2:1 (0:0, 1:1, 1:0)
May 7, 2021 	GER - BLR	1:4 (0:2, 1:0, 0:2)
May 8, 2021 	GER - BLR	2:0 (1:0, 0:0, 1:0)
=== Nordic Division ===
Date 	Match 	Score
April 28, 2021	SWE - DEN	4:2 (2:0, 1:0, 1:2)
April 29, 2021	SWE - DEN	2:3 (0:2, 2:0, 0:1)
May 3, 2021 	NOR - SWE	2:5 (1:1, 0:2, 1:2)
May 4, 2021 	NOR - SWE	3:5 (2:2, 1:1, 0:2)
May 6, 2021 	DEN - NOR	4:0 (0:0, 0:0, 4:0)
May 12, 2021 	DEN - NOR	3:4 OT (1:2, 2:0, 0:1 - 0:1)
=== Continental Division ===
Date 	Match 	Score
April 23, 2021	RUS - BLR	6:3 (0:0, 6:1, 0:2)
April 24, 2021	RUS - BLR	2:0 (1:0, 1:0, 0:0)
April 30, 2021	SUI - RUS	3:1 (1:0, 0:1, 2:0)
May 1, 2021 	SUI - RUS	1:0 (0:0, 1:0, 0:0)
May 7, 2021 	SUI - FRA	0:0 (canceled)1
May 8, 2021 	SUI - FRA	0:0 (canceled)1
May 14, 2021 	LAT - SUI	0:3 (0:1, 0:2, 0:0)
May 15, 2021 	LAT - SUI	1:2 (0:1, 1:0, 0:1)
1 - Game canceled due to a positive case of COVID-19 in French team
== Final standings ==
Position	Team	GP	W	WOT	LOT	L	GF:GA	PTS
#1 	 	6 	6	0 	0 	0	25:8 	18
#2 	 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	9:2 	12
#3 	 	6 	3	1 	0 	2	12:9 	11
#4 	 	4 	3	0 	0 	1	16:10	9
#5 	 	4 	2	0 	1 	1	12:10	7
#6 	 	4 	2	0 	0 	2	9:7 	6
#7 	 	6 	1	0 	1 	4	12:19	4
#8 	 	4 	1	0 	0 	3	7:11 	3
#9 	 	4 	0	1 	0 	3	9:17 	2
#10 	 	0 	0	0 	0 	0	0:0 	0
#11 	 	2 	0	0 	0 	2	1:5 	0
#12 	 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	3:17 	0
Category:Tournaments
Category:2021 in ice hockey
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