Twice a yr the world of hockey turns to the EHL, the Euro Hockey League, celebrating one of the best of membership hockey. Some will inform you when EHL changed common European membership championships it was the improve in the best way the sport was introduced that made a distinction. Some will inform you the innovation in guidelines it’s recognized for – with the self go on the highest of that record – makes it one thing particular. They may all be proper, however I’m right here to remind you the muse on which all of that is constructed has not modified… Membership hockey is what makes it particular!
As a result of in Europe sport is just not a mere product of the leisure trade. It’s not only a present placed on to entertain the lots… Sport, hockey and our golf equipment are a lifestyle, the village through which we increase our youngsters. Whereas the EHL does carry us one of the best of one of the best in membership hockey. Let’s bear in mind many of the gamers on the market should not professional’s. They’re college students making ready for their very own careers or younger professionals who mix their sport with their working and household life. The few exceptions, who for a short time do reside as full time professionals within the sport of hockey, all know that profession will probably be a brief one and never one that can pay the payments for the remainder of their lives. However for a lot of it does develop into a lifestyle… Our membership is the place we meet our mates, usually our companions in life or enterprise. It’s the place we increase our youngsters and share life with household and mates… That’s what makes our membership life, our membership hockey particular. That’s what we rejoice once we go and cheer for our groups on the EHL…
This additionally means it’s not simply in regards to the high groups starring on the most important occasion of the EHL. Certain they are going to get the larger crowds filling the stadium. But it surely means it’s also in regards to the EHL Hockey ID pageant on the identical venue this Sunday. Additionally it is in regards to the EHL Below 14 occasion on the identical venue on the identical time. And it’s in regards to the occasion for U19 groups organised by the EHCO on the identical venue on the identical time. All of those occasions carry our golf equipment collectively and rejoice membership hockey as the muse for our sport.
The EHCO requested among the groups from their occasion to inform us why they love hockey, what their expectations are for their very own EHCO Cup but additionally who would possibly win the EHL?