Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2022

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Cross-post with Ice Hockey discussion Thread

 

 

Important info : IIHF council decided that countries that were not able to participate this year due of covid travel issues will not lost their seeding and will not be relegated.

 

Also and will not be allowed to copete even next year, but since lower division will be adjusted to have 6 teams, many changes were required and basically relegated teams will play again in their respective divisions like this year - yeah Total Chaos

 

 

Adjustments in Division I and below

With Russia and Belarus not able to play in the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program, it was decided to fill up tournaments to the regular number of teams, which is usually six in the groups below the top division.

For the men’s categories that means that teams will move up in the following order to reach the number of teams beside the teams regularly promoted: 1) last-ranked team that was originally relegated, 2) runner-up of the lower division. In the women’s categories the move usually involves one team being the last-ranked team originally relegated that will stay up.

The 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A will thus be played with Italy, Great Britain, Lithuania, Korea, Poland and Romania; Group B with Japan, Ukraine, Estonia, China, Serbia and the Netherlands.

Teams that were not able to participate in the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program due to Covid-19 remain their seeding position in the program. However, for 2023 it is planned that member national associations who do not fulfil their participation commitment will be dealt with according to the regular procedure as by the IIHF Statutes & Bylaws.

 

 

This is how it should look (remember the Division III B and Division IV can be split into 4 and 4 teams, so and will be very likey put back to division four

 

Elite:
Austria
Canada
Czechia
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Norway
Slovenia
Slovakia
Sweden
Switzerland
United States

Russia and Belarus still suspended.

Division IA:
Great Britain (host)
Italy
Korea
Lithuania
Poland
Romania

Division IB:
China
Estonia (host)
Japan
Netherlands
Serbia
Ukraine

Division IIA:
Australia
Croatia
Georgia
Iceland
Israel
Spain (host)

Division IIB:
Belgium
Bulgaria
Mexico
New Zealand
Turkey (host)
UAE

Division IIIA:
Chinese Taipei
Korea DPR
Luxembourg
South Africa (host)
Thailand
Turkmenistan

Division IIIB:
Bosnia-Herzegovina (host)
Hong Kong
Iran
Kyrgyzstan
Malaysia  (Still possible to be put to Division IV)
Singapore  (Still possible to be put to Division IV)

Division IV:
Kuwait (host)
Philippines

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Bronze Medal Match to start in less than half hour

 

Line-ups

 

  Vejmelka - Kampný, Hronek, Ščotka, Kundrátek, Šimek, Sklenička, Jordán - Červenka, Krejčí, Pastrňák - Blumel, Hertl, Zohorna - Smejkal, Kämpf, Vrána - Špaček, Flek, Černoch - 13th forward Stránský

 

playing again witho only 4 defencers !

Swayman - Hughes, Jones, Schmidt, Peeke - Galchenyuk, Hartman, Boldy - Gaudette, Tynan, Bellows - Lafferty, Barber, Farrell, Meyers, Kuhlman - Bordeleau, Hayden, Lettieri - Watson

 

Lafferty and Barber will have again to play as defencers...

 

 

Both teams already played together in Tampere in the preliminary round with Czechia winning by football result 1-0.

 

 

is looking for first medal since 2012 !!! after losing its 11th semifinal in a row at WCH in history (absolute record) want leave this unreal tournament with a medal. USA after losing two defenders for injury are now playing with only 4 blueliners since the half of the preliminary round. Seth Jones is playing literally every match around 30 minutes of ice time, absolutely crazy.

 

Czechs finished in the preliminary round group B 3rd and USA 4th both with 13 points with the head to head result 1-0 for CZE being the decider.

 

CZE beat Germany 4-1 in the QF to lose to Canada yesterday 1-6 in the semi. USA eliminated surprisingly one of the top fav of the tournament, the until then unbeaten Switzerland 3-0 to lose yesterday in the earlier semifinal to host Finland 3-4

 

USA had 3 hours of rest more than the Czechs who are returning to the ice less than 19 hours after their semifinal.

 

Referees of the game Lassi Heikinen of Finland and Fraser Lawrence of Canada, Linesmen Hannu Sormunen (Finland) and Nathan van Oosten (Canada)

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and it started. USA in white, Czechs in red.

 

Czechs chasing their first edal since 2012, during that period the US earned 4 bronze medals.

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Time 09:33 Karlson Kuhlman scored his very first goal in the tournament. USA 1-0 up (Meyers and Peeke with the assists)

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Time 11:06 first powerplay of the match is for team yuesey. Jiří černoch send by the ref to the penalty box for interference, a bit dubious call if you ask me, czechs not happy at all

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Foo Fighters playing in the Nokia Arena again. this means only one thing, 2nd goal for team USA

 

Power-Play goal scored at time 12:14 by Adam Gaudette assisted by Boldy and TJ Tynan

 

2-0

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on board.

 

Only from the 3rd Czech shot on goal in this match Jiří Černoch beat Jeremy Swayman. 2-1 USA at Time 15:19 (Assists for Flek and Stránský) Great move from the czech 4th line. So far their best in this match.

 

2nd goal for Černoch in this tournament.

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Andrew Peeke penalised 2 minutes for Tripping 26 seconds before the end of the 1st period

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and complete meltdown of the Czech PP unit 1...

 

13 seconds in the power play the Czechs cenceeded a goal. Shorthanded goal scored by Karlson Kuhlman, his 2nd of the match (Assisted by Schmidt and Lafferty)

 

Time 19:47 USA 3-1 up

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Score after 1st Period

 

Bronze Medal Game :  (Nokia Arena - TAMPERE)

 

Czech Republic - United States : 1-3  (1-3, -, -)

09:33 Karlson KUHLMAN (Meyers, Peeke) 0:1

12:14 Adam GAUDETTE (Boldy, Tynan) 0:2

15:19 Jiří ČERNOCH (Flek, Stránský) 1:2

19:47 Karlson KUHLMAN (Schmidt, Lafferty) 1:3