Totallympics 55 Posted May 23, 2022 #1 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,260 Posted May 29, 2022 #2 Share Posted May 29, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,211 Posted May 29, 2022 #3 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I felt they should have made the two Division I groups with only 5 teams. Now when Russia and Belarus return there will be a massive shake-up unless the IIHF wants to pull a Slovakia and have them start from the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_D 874 Posted May 30, 2022 #4 Share Posted May 30, 2022 2023 IIHF Ice hockey WC was pulled from St. Petersburg and moved to Riga & Tampere. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2022/wm/news/36477/to_tampere_riga_in_23_to_switzerland_in_26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,260 Posted June 15, 2022 #5 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Head coach Craig Ramsay will continue with Today he signed for another year with automatical renewal for upcoming season if both sides satisfied ! as he said: "I could not say NO. My wife, children and my close family were not surprised with my decision, they knew I could not refuse. I couldn't, I didn't reach the point where I could end my mission in Slovak hockey yet. I want to continue what we started" Zobraziť tento príspevok na Instagrame Príspevok, ktorý zdieľa Hockey Slovakia (@hockeyslovakia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,260 Posted July 2, 2022 #6 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Adam Sýkora is the first pick of this year Import Draft Picked by Medicine Hat Tigers. https://chl.ca/article/64-players-selected-2022-chl-import-draft Followed by another Slovak, Martin Mišiak seleced by Saginaw Spirit. 3rd was Czech Jiří Kulich. In total 11 Slovak kids were selected, The biggest amount in recent years. Overal 64 players were selected representing 13 different countries, the biggest number being 23 players from Czechia. Fun fact the Top 10 was entirely made of Slovak and Czech Players, never happened before (obviously the lack of Russian picks has a lot to do with that) and the first 2 non-CZE/SVK players selected were 2 Italians @phelps Tommaso De Luca at 13th place and Tommy Purdeler at 17th and 1 Latvian. First Swiss selected 23rd, First Finn 35th and First Swedish 39th, First German at 59th !!! Bulgaria with first ever selected player @Federer91 Every year the 60 Canadian Junior Clubs of the WHL, QMJHL and OHL have the right to draft 2 Non-North American players The CHL Import Draft 2022 Link https://chl.ca/draft Drafted Slovaks in the CHL Import Draft 2022: 1. Adam SÝKORA (Medicine Hat) 2. Martin MIŠIAK (Saginaw) ... 5. Ondrej MOLNÁR (Erie Otters) 8. Jakub CHROMIAK (Sudbury) 10. Samuel HONZEK (Vancouver Giants) 12. Žigmund ZÖLD (Val-d´Or) 15. Roman KUKUMBERG (Chicoutimi) 31. Alex ČIERNIK (Lethbridge) 54. František RIDZOŇ (Quebec) 58. Alex ŠOTEK (Hamilton) 68. Dalibor DVORSKÝ (Sudbury) phelps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted July 2, 2022 #7 Share Posted July 2, 2022 nice to read that there are still a few Italian guys playing hockey... tbh, I don't know anything about those 2...but I hope that they can have some good future ahead of them (and I hope they try the North-American experience, which is still a big if, knowing our youngsters)... hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,757 Posted July 2, 2022 #8 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Ivan Fedotov also drafted, but not in the same way. A Russian ice hockey star who signed a million-dollar contract with an American team was rounded up by Russian plain-clothes policemen and taken to an army enlistment office yesterday before he's expected to be sent to fight in Ukraine. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10975571/Russian-ice-hockey-star-signed-play-forcibly-drafted-Putins-army.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted July 31, 2022 #9 Share Posted July 31, 2022 I know we already had the Division III junior worlds earlier this week, but from today things get a lot more serious... it's time for the first top tier tournament of the season, the Hlinka-Gretky Cup... this year, all the games are played in Red Deer, Alberta... this is the official website with all the schedules, score and infos: https://www.hlinkagretzkycup.ca/en-ca Czech Republic and Finland are playing the opening match right now (they're playing the OT, after the 3-3 tie in regulation)... unfortunately, no stream is available for this game... JOJ Sport is going to show live all the Slovak NT matches, TSN has a couple of games/day in Canada (and maybe they'll be available also to the international audience without a VPN at least ondemand -like the Junior Worlds around Christmas in the past)... unfortunately, I haven't found any other worldswide available TV network/stream for this tournament... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted August 1, 2022 #10 Share Posted August 1, 2022 2022 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup ( Red Deer, Alberta) Day #1 Results Group A Canada b. Switzerland 14-0 (8-0, 4-0, 2-0) Group B Czech Republic b. Finland 4-3 SO (1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 0-0, 1-0) USA b. Germany 8-1 (2-0, 3-1, 3-0) Standings Group A Canada, 3 pts (1 GP, 14 GF, 0 GA, +14 GD) Slovakia, 0 pts (0 GP, 0 GF, 0 GA, 0 GD) Sweden, 0 pts (0 GP, 0 GF, 0 GA, 0 GD) Switzerland, 0 pts (1 GP, 0 GF, 14 GA, -14 GD) Group B USA, 3 pts (1 GP, 14 GF, 0 GA, +7 GD) Czech Republic, 2 pts (1 GP, 4 GF, 3 GA, +1 GD) Finland, 1 pt (1 GP, 3 GF, 4 GA, -1 GD) Germany, 0 pts (1 GP, 0 GF, 14 GA, -7 GD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts