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2007–08 EIHL season
League
Elite Ice Hockey League
Sport
Ice hockey
Duration
September - March
Regular season
Champions
Coventry Blaze
Playoffs
Champions
Sheffield Steelers
Challenge Cup
Champions
Nottingham Panthers

EIHL seasons

← 2006-07


2008-09 →


The 2007–08 Elite Ice Hockey League season began September 5, 2007 and ran until April 6, 2008. It was the fifth season of Elite League competition.


The defending league champions were the Coventry Blaze, who were also the holders of the Challenge Cup. The Nottingham Panthers looked to defend the Play Off Championship they won for the first time in eighteen years in 2007.




Contents






  • 1 Movements between Elite League teams


  • 2 Charity Shield


  • 3 Challenge Cup


    • 3.1 Group stage


      • 3.1.1 Group A


      • 3.1.2 Group B




    • 3.2 Semi Finals


      • 3.2.1 Winner A (Nottingham) vs Runner Up B (Newcastle)


      • 3.2.2 Winner B (Sheffield) vs Runner Up A (Cardiff)




    • 3.3 Final




  • 4 League


  • 5 Playoffs


  • 6 Footnotes





Movements between Elite League teams[edit]















































































































Player From To Date

Ukraine Pavel Gomenyuk
Hull Stingrays Newcastle Vipers April 19

Ukraine Sergiy Rublivsky
Hull Stingrays Newcastle Vipers April 24

United Kingdom Mark Richardson
Cardiff Devils Nottingham Panthers May 1

United Kingdom Ashley Tait
Coventry Blaze Sheffield Steelers May 9

United Kingdom Jonathan Weaver
Newcastle Vipers Coventry Blaze May 9

Canada Doug Shepard
Basingstoke Bison Sheffield Steelers May 10

United Kingdom Slava Koulikov
Hull Stingrays Basingstoke Bison May 14

United Kingdom Phil Hill
Sheffield Steelers Cardiff Devils May 17

United Kingdom Russ Cowley
Cardiff Devils Coventry Blaze May 29

Canada Derek Campbell
Manchester Phoenix Newcastle Vipers May 31

United Kingdom Paul Moran
Sheffield Steelers Belfast Giants May 31

Sweden Johan Molin
Manchester Phoenix Nottingham Panthers June 4

United Kingdom Marc Levers
Belfast Giants Nottingham Panthers June 6

Slovakia Matus Petricko
Nottingham Panthers Cardiff Devils June 6

Canada Curtis Huppe
Belfast Giants Coventry Blaze June 12

Canada Jeff Hutchins
Belfast Giants Newcastle Vipers July 3

Canada Jeremy Cornish
Newcastle Vipers Sheffield Steelers July 16


Charity Shield[edit]


The season began on September 5, 2007 with a "Charity Shield" style game between the 2006–07 league champions and Challenge Cup winning Coventry Blaze and the playoff champions Nottingham Panthers at the National Ice Centre.[1] The Panthers defeated the Blaze 7-6 to win the inaugural event.








































































































September 5


Nottingham

7 – 6

Coventry


National Ice Centre (19.30)
First period Ref: Michael Hicks

0-1 Cloutier (Weaver, Ndur) 00.52
Att: 3,500+

0-2 Huppe (Cloutier, Cowley) 05.44

1-2 McAslan (Pelletier, Drouin) SH 13.19

1-3 Martin (Moore) PP 13.57

2-3 Drouin (McAslan, Neilson) SH 15.42

3-3 Drouin (Meyers, Richardson) 18.45
Second period

4-3 Pelletier (Myers) 25.15

4-4 Stewart (Martin, Moore) 4-on-4 32.12

4-5 Cowley (Stewart, Moore) 35.15

5-5 Stancok (Richardson) PP 36.25
Third period

5-6 Carlson (Weaver) SH 40.38

6-6 Neilson (Drouin) PP 41.18

7-6 Drouin (Neilson, McAslan) PP 48.56


Challenge Cup[edit]


For the preliminary round, teams were divided into two groups of five with teams playing each of their opponents once with two homes games and two away games. The home and away games for each club were determined by a random draw.[2] The top two in each group advanced to the semi finals of the competition.



Group stage[edit]



Group A[edit]





































































Team P W L T GF GA Pts
1 Nottingham Panthers 4 3 0 1 12 7 7
2 Cardiff Devils 4 2 1 1 13 9 5
3 Coventry Blaze 4 1 1 2 9 6 4
4 Basingstoke Bison 4 1 2 1 14 18 3
5 Belfast Giants 4 0 3 1 9 17 1


Group B[edit]





































































Team P W L T GF GA Pts
1 Sheffield Steelers 4 3 1 0 15 9 6
2 Newcastle Vipers 4 3 1 0 12 7 6
3 Manchester Phoenix 4 2 2 0 15 11 4
4 Edinburgh Capitals 4 2 2 0 7 10 4
5 Hull Stingrays 4 0 4 0 6 18 0


Semi Finals[edit]



Winner A (Nottingham) vs Runner Up B (Newcastle)[edit]



























Date
Home
Away
Result
Venue
1 November 20 Nottingham Panthers 5 Newcastle Vipers 4 Final
National Ice Centre
2 November 30 Newcastle Vipers 1 Nottingham Panthers 5 Final
Metro Radio Arena

Nottingham won 10–5 on aggregate


Winner B (Sheffield) vs Runner Up A (Cardiff)[edit]



























Date
Home
Away
Result
Venue
1 November 28 Cardiff Devils 4 Sheffield Steelers 4 Final
Cardiff Bay Ice Rink
2 December 5 Sheffield Steelers 2 Cardiff Devils 0 Final
IceSheffield

Sheffield won 6–4 on aggregate


Final[edit]



























Date
Home
Away
Result
Venue
1 January 23 Sheffield Steelers 3 Nottingham Panthers 6 Final
Sheffield Arena
2 February 20 Nottingham Panthers 3 Sheffield Steelers 4 Final
National Ice Centre

Nottingham won 9–7 on aggregate


League[edit]

















































































































Regular season standings
GP
W
L
OTL
GF
GA
Pts
Coventry Blaze 54 41 11 2 217 157 85
Sheffield Steelers 54 38 14 2 190 128 78
Nottingham Panthers 54 33 18 3 172 133 69
Belfast Giants 54 33 19 2 184 150 68
Newcastle Vipers 54 28 22 4 159 174 60
Cardiff Devils 54 26 25 3 164 174 55
Manchester Phoenix 54 23 28 3 162 179 49
Edinburgh Capitals 54 19 32 3 155 208 41
Basingstoke Bison 54 16 33 5 172 222 37
Hull Stingrays 54 13 34 7 119 197 33


Playoffs[edit]








































































































































































Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
                 

1

Coventry Blaze

4
8
Edinburgh Capitals
2

1

Coventry Blaze

4

5
Newcastle Vipers
2
4
Belfast Giants
6

5

Newcastle Vipers

7
1
Coventry Blaze
0


2

Sheffield Steelers

2

2

Sheffield Steelers

9
7
Manchester Phoenix
8

2

Sheffield Steelers

2

6
Cardiff Devils
1
3
Nottingham Panthers
6

6

Cardiff Devils

7


Footnotes[edit]





  1. ^ "The Official Site of the GMB Nottingham Panthers Ice Hockey Team". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-07-24..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "bmibaby Elite Ice Hockey League". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-24. Text " News - bmibaby Elite League confirm 2007/08 competitions " ignored (help)







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