Pragobanka Tour 1996

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Winner:	Finland

The Pragobanka Tour 1996 was the third edition of the ice hockey tournament that has been taking place in the Czech Republic since 1994 , as a continuation of the Pragobanka Cup . Since this year the tournament has been part of the new Euro Hockey Tour . From that year the national teams of Sweden , the Czech Republic and Finland , which was replaced by Slovakia , played for the unofficial title of the best European national team. The Russian team did not participate this year.

The 1996 games took place from August 14th to 18th in front of a total of 21,522 spectators in Zlín and Tampere . The Finnish national team won the tournament by goal difference when they first participated.

Games

August 14, 1996

Finland Raimo Helminen (23:46) Jere Lehtinen (46:10) Jyrki Lumme (51:19)

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

Sweden Andreas Johansson (36:51)

Tampere spectators: 5,036

August 16, 1996

Czech Republic Martin Ručínský (29:16) Martin Ručínský (37:56)

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

Sweden Niklas Sudström (8:12) Peter Forsberg (15:13) Mattias Norström (26:25) Mats Sundin (59:29)

Zlín spectators: 8,486

August 18, 1996

Czech Republic Radek Bonk (2:54) Petr Nedvěd (31:39) Martin Straka (51:53)

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

Finland Jere Lehtinen (22:52)

Zlín spectators: 8,000

table

Pl.	National team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Finland	2	1	0	1	5: 4	2
2.	Sweden	2	1	0	1	5: 5	2
3.	Czech Republic	2	1	0	1	5: 6	2

The best players

Best scorer

player	team	Gates	templates	Points
	Robert Lang	0	3	3
	Martin Ručínský	2	0	2
	Jere Lehtinen	2	0	2
	Mattias Norström	1	1	2
	Mats Sundin	1	1	2
	Radek Bonk	1	1	2
	Juha Riihijarvi	0	2	2
	Robert Holík	0	2	2
	Robert Reichel	0	2	2

Web links

• Facts from the earlier tournaments 1994-2011. (PDF, 138 kB) In: stats.swehockey.se. Svenska Ishockejförbundet, p. 14 , accessed on September 25, 2013 . 
• Pragobanka Tour 1996 on SFRP's Hockey Archive
• Кубок "Прагобанка" 1996 , final score on Hockeyarchives.ru