Pragobanka Cup 1997

Pragobanka Cup
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Winner:	Czech Republic

The 1997 Pragobanka Cup was the fourth edition of the ice hockey tournament that has been taking place in the Czech Republic since 1994 . The tournament had been part of the new Euro Hockey Tour since last year . This year, for the first time, the national teams of Sweden , the Czech Republic , Russia and Finland competed for the unofficial title of the best European national team.

The games of 1997 took place from August 28th to 31st in front of a total of 24,930 spectators in Zlín . The Czech national team won the tournament for the third time.

Games

August 28, 1997

Finland Lasse Pirjetä (8th) Antti-Jussi Niemi (10th) Juha Riihijarvi (12th) Jussi Tarvainen (17th) Kimmo Rintanen (23rd) Mikko Eloranta (24th) Ville Peltonen (34th) Juha Riihijarvi (54th ) )

8: 1 (4: 1, 3: 0, 1: 0)

Sweden Patrik Juhlin (7th)

Zlín spectators: 1,284

August 28, 1997

Czech Republic Radek Bělohlav (2nd) Jiří Zelenka (8th) František Kučera (17th) Petr Ton (27th) Jiří Vykoukal (38th)

5: 0 (3: 0, 2: 0, 0: 0)

Russia

Zlín spectators: 4,699

August 29, 1997

Finland Kai Nurminen (14th, 23rd)

2: 2 (0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 0)

Russia Alexei Morozov (37th, 42nd)

Zlín spectators: 1,608

August 30, 1997

Czech Republic David Výborný (5th) Josef Beránek (9th, 21st) Ondřej Kratěna (28th) Petr Ton (55th)

5: 2 (2: 0, 2: 2, 1: 0)

Sweden Patrik Juhlin (33.) Kim Johnsson (34.)

Zlín spectators: 6,642

August 31, 1997

Russia Alexei Morozov (12th) Alexander Prokopjew (50th) Alexei Morozov (54th, 60th)

4: 2 (1: 0, 0: 2, 3: 0)

Sweden Anders Huusko (26th) Andreas Karlsson (39th)

Zlín spectators: 3,447

August 31, 1997

Czech Republic Tomáš Vlasák (5th) Roman Meluzín (16th, 26th) Petr Ton (30th) Pavel Patera (35th) Petr Ton (59th)

6: 3 (2: 1, 3: 1, 1: 1)

Finland Janne Ojanen (10th, 24th) Marko Kiprusoff (47th)

Zlín spectators: 7,250

table

Pl.	National team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Czech Republic	3	3	0	0	16: 05	9
2.	Finland	3	1	1	1	13: 09	4th
3.	Russia	3	1	1	1	06: 09	4th
4th	Sweden	3	0	0	3	05:17	0

The best players

Best scorer

player	team	Gates	templates	Points
	Petr tone	4th	2	6th
	Josef Beránek	2	4th	6th
	Alexei Morozov	5	0	5
	Juha Riihijarvi	2	3	5
	Janne Ojanen	2	2	4th
	Radek Bělohlav	1	3	4th
	Roman Meluzin	2	1	3
	Andreas Karlsson	1	2	3
	Pavel Patera	1	2	3
	Ville Peltonen	1	2	3
	Jiří Vykoukal	1	2	3
	Libor Procházka	0	3	3

Web links

Note: None of the sources give all results and table statuses completely correctly.

• Facts from the earlier tournaments 1994-2011. (PDF, 138 kB) In: stats.swehockey.se. Svenska Ishockejförbundet, p. 13 , accessed on September 25, 2013 (with the Swedish team). 
• Pragobanka Tour 1997 on SFRP's Hockey Archive
• Кубок "Прагобанка" 1997 , final score and roster of the Russian team on Hockeyarchives.ru