European Elite League Champions 2010-11

Yesterday, Eisbaren Berlin captured the DEL Championship, sweeping regular season champion Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the final.  The result was significant, not only because Berlin won the championship in the same year they won the first ever pre-season European Trophy tournament, but because it officially marked the end of the European club hockey season.  All that's left now are a couple of international tournaments, most significantly the IIHF World Championships in Bratislava and Kosice, Slovakia.  I'll be doing recaps for the top leagues as part of my off-season coverage, but I figured I'd get a head start on this by simply offering up a list of the champions for the various leagues.  The plan is to give each team a full feature as well (playoff champions only).

European Elite Club Champions 2010-11

League	Regular Season Champions	Playoff Champions
KHL	Avangard Omsk	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Elitserien	HV71 (Jonkoping)	Farjestad BK
SM-Liiga	JYP (Jyvaskyla)	HIFK (Helsinki)
Tipsport Extraliga	HC Ocelari Trinec	HC Ocelari Trinec
NLA	HC Davos	HC Davos
DEL	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	Eisbaren Berlin
Slovnaft Extraliga	HC Kosice	HC Kosice
EBEL	EC KAC (Klagenfurt)	EC Red Bull Salzburg
IIHF Continental Cup	-	Junost Minsk
Spengler Cup	-	SKA St. Petersburg
European Trophy	HV71 (Jonkoping)	Eisbaren Berlin

As you can see, three teams won their league's coveted 'double' this year, while Eisbaren Berlin pulled off a unique one (and so did HV71, although I'm not sure the European Trophy group stage really counts).  If there were a Champions Hockey League, in front of you you'd be seeing a majority of the participants for next year.  Instead, it's just a list of what were the best teams on the continent this season, and nothing more.