Ice Hockey 2022 - 2023 Discussion Thread

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HC Košice Champions League draw ...

 

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Away: vs Red Bull Munich, Rapperswill-Jona Lakers & EHC Biel-Bienne

 

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2027 Wch will be in (Dusseldorf PSD Bank Dome and Mannheim SAP Arena

 

The 2023 IIHF Annual Congress has voted to assign the remaining tournaments of the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program for the upcoming season, and voted to choose the host of the 2027 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.

This vote was, by far, the most awaited decision of the day. The IIHF delegates had to choose between 2 excellent bids : one from Germany and the other from Kazakhstan, but only one winner in the end. After the very convincing presentations from both countries, all the delegates casted their secret ballots, and the winner is … GERMANY!

The IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships of the upcoming years:

• 2024: Prague & Ostrava (Czechia), 10-26 May 2024
• 2025: Stockholm (Sweden) & Herning (Denmark), 9-25 May 2025
• 2026: Zurich & Fribourg (Switzerland), 15-31 May 2026
• 2027: Germany, 14-30 May 2027

 

Regarding the lower-level tournaments, the allocations, voted and chosen by the IIHF congress were :
 

• Bolzano, ITALY (28.04.2024 –04.05.2024) for Division I, Group A
• Vilnius, LITHUANIA (27.04.2024 –03.05.2024) for Division I, Group B
• Belgrade, SERBIA (21.04.2024 –27.04.2024) for Division II, Group A
• Sofia, BULGARIA (15.04.2024 –21.04.2024) for Division II, Group B
• Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN (10.03.2024 –16.03.2024) for Division III, Group A

Division IIIB and IV will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in early October.

 

 

Women's Championship Program

As it has already been announced on 16 April 2023, Utica, N.Y., will host the 2024 IIHF Women's World Championship. Two venues will be used for the 31 games—the Adirondack Bank Center and Utica University Nexus Center. The tentative dates for this top-level tournament are 4-14 April 2024.

 

For the Women’s category, the lower-level tournaments were allocated to :

• Riga, LATVIA (31.03.2024 –06.04.2024) for Division I, Group B
• SPAIN ( 18.03.2024 –24.03.2024) for Division II, Group A
• Istanbul, TÜRKIYE (01.04.2024 –07.04.2024) for Division II, Group B
• Zagreb, CROATIA (11.03.2024 –17.03.2024) for Division III, Group A
• Kohtia Jarve, ESTONIA (24.03.2024 –29.03.2024) for Division III, Group B

Division I, Group A will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual congress in early October. (The 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division I, Group A is yet to be played. Denmark, Norway, Slovakia, Austria, China, and Netherlands will face-off in in Shenzhen, China between the 20 and 26 August 2023.)

 

Men's Under 20 Championship Program

In the men’s U20 category, the top-level 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has already been assigned earlier to Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Budapest, HUNGARY (10.12.2023 –16.12.2023) for Division I, Group A
• Bled, SLOVENIA (11.12.2023  17.12.2023) for Division I, Group B
• Dumfries, GREAT BRITAIN (11.12.2023 –17.12.2023) for Division II, Group A
• Novi Sad, SERBIA  (14.01.2024 –20.01.2024) for Division II, Group B
• Tnuvot, ISRAEL (22.01.2024 -29.01.2024) for Division III, Group A
• Sarajevo, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA (25.01.2024 –28.01.2024) for Division III, Group B

 

 

Men's Under 18 Championship Program

After co-hosting the top men’s senior level tournament, Finland will next welcome the younger generation of ice hockey players in 2024. As it was announced earlier this month, Finland will host the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. The teams will play in the cities of Espoo and Vantaa.

• Tallinn, ESTONIA (14.04.2024 –20.04.2024) for Division I, Group B
•  Sosnowiec, POLAND (17.04.2024 –23.04.2024) for Division II, Group A
• Spain (06.04.2024 –12.04.2024) for Division II, Group B
• Istanbul, TÜRKIYE (04.03.2024 –10.03.2024) for Division III, Group A
• Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA (04.03.2024 - 07.03 2024) for Division III, Group B

Division I, Group A will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in early October.

 

 

Women's Under 18 Championship Program

The top-level tournament for this category will be played in Switzerland between the 6 and the 14  January 2024. The cities and the venues still await to be confirmed.

• SPAIN (08.01.2024 –14.01.2024) for Division I, Group B
• Heerenveen, NETHERLANDS (15.01.2024 –21.01.2024) for Division II, Group A
• Sofia, BULGARIA (08.01.2024 –14.01.2024) for Division II, Group B

Division I, Group A and Division III Group A&B will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual congress in early October.

2025 IIHF Women's World Championship has been allocated to Czechia.

2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been allocated to Canada.
2025 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship has been allocated to Finland.

In a further decision put forth during the IIHF Annual Congress, the delegates voted in favor of Italy to automatically qualify for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

 

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On 5/15/2023 at 6:09 PM, Bearas said:

 as traditionally submitted their bids to host various level world championships and announced countries they are competing against for the hosting rights:

 

Men's IB Division 2024 :  (Vilnius) vs  

Women's IIIA Divisions 2024:  (Elektrėnai),  

Men's U-18 IB Division 2024:  (Klaipėda) vs  

 Update: hosts confirmed:

 

Men's IB Division 2024:  Vilnius

Women's IIIA Divisions 2024:  Zagreb

Men's U-18 IB Division 2024:  Tallinn

 

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2023 IIHF Hall of Fame class

 

Henrik Zetterberg

Cristobal Huet

Brian Leetch

in memoriam: Jimmy Foster

 

Women: Caroline Ouellette

 

Referee: Sandra Dombrowski  

 

Paul Loicq award: Kimmo Leinonen

Bibi Torriani award: Viktor Szelig

 

Special build of the game award: kalervo Kummola

 

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Hillary Knight was selected inaugural Female player of the Year

 

15 years old Nela Lopušanová finished in 3rd place 

 

https://www.iihf.com/en/news/45458/hilary_knight_wins_the_inagural_iihf_female_player?fbclid=IwAR015LtsTalZVQqAMD5K6FiYOe_fmLiR9R8h5qoti1g0175zb61nkUYSbvU

 

Team USA forward Hilary Knight has been voted the IIHF Female Player of the Year for the 2022-23 season. She received 40.9% of the total votes and was the clear and favored winner. Second in the voting was teammate Caroline Harvey, with 18.2%, followed by teen sensation Nela Lopusanova of Slovakia, with 13.6%. Fourth was Finnish captain Jenni Hiirikoski with 11.3%, followed by Sarah Filler (CAN, 9.1%), Emma Soderberg (SWE, 4.5%), and Marie-Philip Poulin (CAN, 2.3%).

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Craig Ramsay signed for another year with Slovakia, wants to retire in a good note at the almost home world champs in Czechia next May 

 

he already beat the previous record of Július Šupler (1993-1996 & 2006-2008) and Ján Filc (1999-2002 (world champion) & 2008-2010 + World Cup off Hockey 2004) whom both coached 122 games, Craig is already at 125 coached matches now.

 

https://www.hockeyslovakia.sk/sk/article/ramsay-pokracuje-slovensky-trenersky-rekord-mu-bude-pripominat-viacero-spomienkovych-predmetov

Edited June 6, 2023 by hckošice

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His handler was posing as a dentist, so he had a perfect excuse for visiting his office every Monday.
 

 

 

An ice hockey player from Poland's major league has been charged with spying for Russia, Warsaw says.

 

The man, a Russian citizen, was arrested on 11 June in Silesia, southern Poland, and is believed to be part of a Russian spy ring.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063406

Edited June 30, 2023 by Grassmarket