Referee assignments for first legs of eighth-finals
Referee Tobias Wehrli (second from left) will skate Tuesday in Tampere. by Lulea Hockey/CHL via Getty Images
Read below to find out who will be the referees and linsemen for Tuesday's eighth-final playoff games.
Press Release
The Champions Hockey League has announced its assignments of referees and linesmen for the first games of the eighth-final playoff series, which will all be played on Tuesday. The 32 on-ice officials come from eight different countries -- seven CHL member leagues and one referee, Roman Gofman of Russia, as part of the IIHF officials exchange program. The 16 linesmen are all from the home countries where the games are played, while the 16 referees all travel in from abroad.
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 18:30 | JYP Jyväskylä | vs | Skellefteå AIK | R | Stephan Bauer | GER |
| R | Lars Bruggeman | GER | ||||||
| L | Jani Pesonen | FIN | ||||||
| L | Ikka Kiilunen | FIN | ||||||
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 19:45 | Genève-Servette | vs | SaiPa Lappenranta | R | Vladimír Baluška | SVK |
| R | Ladislav Smetana | AUT | ||||||
| L | Nicholas Fluri | SUI | ||||||
| L | Michael Tscherrig | SUI | ||||||
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 18:00 | Sparta Prague | vs | Linköping HC | R | Roman Gofman | RUS |
| R | Anssi Salonen | FIN | ||||||
| L | Miroslav Lhotský | CZE | ||||||
| L | Libor Suchánek | CZE | ||||||
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 18:30 | Kärpät Oulu | vs | Vienna Capitals | R | Andreas Koch | SUI |
| R | Linus Öhlund | SWE | ||||||
| L | Samuli Orava | FIN | ||||||
| L | Hannu Sormunen | FIN | ||||||
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 18:30 | TPS Turku | vs | Lukko Rauma | R | Mikael Nord | SWE |
| R | Mikael Sjöqvist | SWE | ||||||
| L | Masi Puolakka | FIN | ||||||
| L | Sakari Suominen | FIN | ||||||
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 18:30 | Tappara Tampere | vs | Frölunda Gothenburg | R | Marc Wiegand | SUI |
| R | Tobias Wehrli | SUI | ||||||
| L | Joonas Saha | FIN | ||||||
| L | Henri Neva | FIN | ||||||
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 20:05 | Luleå Hockey | vs | Red Bull Salzburg | R | Petri Lindqvist | FIN |
| R | Antti Boman | FIN | ||||||
| L | Emil Yletyinen | SWE | ||||||
| L | Johannes Käck | SWE | ||||||
| Tuesday | 2014-11-04 | 19:45 | Fribourg-Gottéron | vs | IFK Helsinki | R | Robin Šír | CZE |
| R | Manuel Nikolic | AUT | ||||||
| L | Roman Kaderli | SUI | ||||||
| L | Balazs Kovacs | SUI |