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 in the finals.

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 Stanley Cup for the first time since 1961.

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