Status cancelled Date(s) February Country Sweden Location Stockholm | Genre sporting event Frequency annual Inaugurated 1991 (1991) | |
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Instances 2017 Sweden Hockey Games | ||
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The Sweden Hockey Games (SHG), in sponsoring context named the Oddset Hockey Games between 2006–2011 and the LG Hockey Games between 2012–2014, is an annual ice hockey tournament held in Sweden. Cancelled after the 2013-2014 season, it was announced on 19 January 2016 that the tournament will restart during the 2016-2017 season.
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Since season 1996–97, the tournament is part of the Euro Hockey Tour in which the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia and Sweden participate. The Sweden Hockey Games tournament has changed name a couple of times: the tournament started in 1991 as Sweden Hockey Games, and in 2006 the name changed to LG Hockey Games as LG Electronics started sponsoring the tournament. In 2012 however, LG dropped out their sponsoring, and Svenska Spel's gambling game Oddset took over, effectively changing the tournament's name to Oddset Hockey Games.
The event is mainly held in the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden, although a few games may exclusively be hosted in other countries. The winner of the tournament receives the Globen Cup – the tournament is sometimes called the Sweden Globen Cup. Only the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia and Sweden are invited to the tournament but from season 1991–92 through 2003–04 Canada also participated.
Winners
* - CIS - Team of Commonwealth of Independent States, ex-Soviet Union
Winner, runner-up and third place is determined by total standing after a round-robin style of play.