The 2009 Victoria Cup was the second edition of the Victoria Cup challenge, played on September 29, 2009 between the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League winner

ZSC Lions The Zürcher Schlittschuh Club Lions are a professional ice hockey team located in Zürich, Switzerland, playing in the National League (NL). Their home arena is the 12,000-seat Swiss Life Arena. The team was founded in 1930 and played at the ...

and the

Chicago Blackhawks The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago. The Blackhawks compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (N ...

of the

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(NHL). The ZSC Lions won the game 2–1.

ZSC Lions

The ZSC Lions qualified to play for the 2009 Victoria Cup by winning the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League competition. The ZSC Lions from Switzerland won the competition by beating Russia's

Metallurg Magnitogorsk Metallurg Magnitogorsk () is a professional ice hockey club based in Magnitogorsk, Russia. It is a member of the Kharlamov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). The club also competed in the Champions Hockey League (2008–09), Champion ...

in the finals. Metallurg Magnitogorsk played in the inaugural 2008 Victoria Cup game.

Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks were named on May 10, 2009 to represent the NHL. The Blackhawks made it to the Western Conference Finals in 2009, eventually losing to the Detroit Red Wings. They would go on in the 2010 season to clinch the 2nd seed in the Western Conference and win the

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for the first time since 1961. The Chicago Blackhawks were founded in 1926 and are one of the "Original Six" teams of the NHL. This was the Blackhawks' first game against a European club in Europe. The Blackhawks had played in Europe before, having played two exhibition games in 1992 in

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against the NHL

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. The Blackhawks played an exhibition game at Hallenstadion on September 28 against HC Davos, which they won 9 - 2.

Game summary

Scoring summary

Penalty summary

Team rosters

: Lukas Flueler dressed for the ZSC Lions as the back-up goalie and did not enter the game.
Antti Niemi dressed for the Chicago Blackhawks as the back-up goalie and did not enter the game. ;Source
ZSC Lions

Chicago Blackhawks

Officials

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- Vyacheslav Bulanov, Daniel Marouelli *

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- Frantisek Kalovoda, Tim Nowak

Notes

External links

Victoria Cup website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Victoria Cup Victoria Cup (ice hockey) 2009–10 in European ice hockey

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2009–10 NHL season 2009–10 in Swiss ice hockey