Men's Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

Not a salty question at all... But why did we go in 2006 from 14 to 12 teams at the olympics ? Was it the IOC, was it the NHL ?

[intoronto 5,645]

6 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Not a salty question at all... But why did we go in 2006 from 14 to 12 teams at the olympics ? Was it the IOC, was it the NHL ?

I believe after 2002 is when the IOC started issuing qualifying standards/quotas for winter sports. I'd guess the drop to 14 was partly to cut quotas and to standardize with all other team sports except soccer.

[hckošice 14,835]

ROAD TO BEIJING 2022

 

 

FINAL QUALIFYING ROUND

 

 

LAST DAY RESULTS

 

Group D
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Austria 4 - 1 Poland
Period-by-Period: 2-1, 1-0, 1-0
August 29th 2021, h. 13:30, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

Slovakia 2 - 1 Belarus
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 0-1, 1-0
August 29th 2021, h. 17:30, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

Group D Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Slovakia	3	3(0)	0(0)	9	3	+6	9
Belarus	3	1(0)	2(0)	6	5	+1	3
Austria	3	1(0)	2(0)	7	8	-1	3
Poland	3	1(0)	2(0)	3	9	-6	3

 

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Group E
Eastern European Sumer Time (GMT +3)

 

Hungary 2 - 1 Italy
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 1-0, 1-1
August 29th 2021, h. 13:00, Arena Riga, Riga

 

Latvia 2 - 1 France
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 0-0, 1-1
August 29th 2021, h. 17:00, Arena Riga, Riga

 

Group E Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Latvia	3	3(0)	0(0)	17	1	+16	9
France	3	2(0)	1(0)	8	5	+3	6
Hungary	3	1(0)	2(0)	5	15	-10	3
Italy	3	0(0)	3(0)	1	10	-9	0

 

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Group F
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Slovenia 4 - 1 South Korea
Period-by-Period: 0-1, 3-0, 1-0
August 29th 2021, h. 12:00, Jordal Amfi, Oslo

 

Norway 0 - 2 Denmark
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-1, 0-1
August 29th 2021, h. 16:00, Jordal Amfi, Oslo

 

Group F Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Denmark	3	3(0)	0(0)	17	4	+13	9
Norway	3	2(0)	1(0)	11	7	+4	6
Slovenia	3	1(0)	2(0)	11	12	-1	3
South Korea	3	0(0)	3(0)	3	19	-16	0

Nations Qualified to the Mens Ice Hockey Tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games

 

• Canada
• China
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• Germany
• Latvia
• ROC
• Slovakia
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United States

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

6 minutes ago, intoronto said:

I believe after 2002 is when the IOC started issuing qualifying standards/quotas for winter sports. I'd guess the drop to 14 was partly to cut quotas and to standardize with all other team sports except soccer.

Which is silly, considering that the winter olympics don't really have a quota problem... They could easily handle the extra teams. Oh well...

[hckošice 14,835]

2 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Which is silly, considering that the winter olympics don't really have a quota problem... They could easily handle the extra teams. Oh well...

Absolutely, now they added two more teams for the womens hockey which is really silly, considering how non competitive it is, instead they easily can add even 4 more teams to the mens tournament, the second tier of this sport is now so even and competitive that it is simply unfair to have only 12 teams in basically one of the only 2 team sports of the whole games (and hockey is arguably the most popular and phare sport of the winter olympics)

 

Really sad for this french generation esecially Bellemare who will probably never had the chance to represent his country at the games, in other hand the likes of Texier or Roussel can still aim for Cortina.

[hckošice 14,835]

BEIJING 2022 GROUPS

 

GROUP A

 

• Canada
• China
• Germany
• United States

 

GROUP B

 

• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• ROC
• Switzerland

 

GROUP C

 

• Finland
• Latvia
• Slovakia
• Sweden

 

[NearPup 3,052]

26 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Not a salty question at all... But why did we go in 2006 from 14 to 12 teams at the olympics ? Was it the IOC, was it the NHL ?

Even ignoring quotas, the 1998 and 2002 formats sucked. It was especially bad for teams outside the top 6 because they couldn’t get NHL players for the first round.

[hckošice 14,835]

ROAD TO BEIJING 2022

 

Denmark off to Olympics

 

 

75 years is a long time to wait for anything.

Denmark joined the IIHF in 1946, and since then has never reached the Olympic Games. That time is over after the Danes defeated rivals Norway 2-0 in the deciding game of the Final Olympic Qualification Group F tournament, earning their first-ever trip to the pinnacle of international ice hockey.

Forward Frederik Storm scored the game winner and goaltender Sebastian Dahm posted a 26-save shutout against the Norwegians to help drive their team to a historic qualification.

"It's huge," said Storm after the game. "We hav esuch a good group here and we finally managed to succeed adn qualify. I've played in three qualificaiton tournaments and we never made it before, so to do it with this group is amazing." 

"I'm just so relieved, we have been chasing this for years," said Dahm.

The game started fast and furious with end-to-end action through the opening period, although no pucks ended up in the net.

The game within the game was without a doubt the goaltending duel between Henrik Haukeland for Norway and Dahm, with neither netminder giving up a score through nearly two periods despite serious pressure at both ends of the ice.

Denmark nearly went down early when Sebastian Dahm’s clearing attempt was intercepted in the Danish zone, giving up a wide-open scoring opportunity that was saved by a diving block from Jesper Jensen Aabo.  

At the other end, in the second period Henrik Haukeland had to stand tall on two breakaway opportunities by Denmark to keep the score at 0-0.

But the breakthrough finally came with just over two minutes left in the second period, when Markus Lauridsen spotted the Norwegian defence out of position from his own zone and rifled a pass up to Frederik Storm waiting in the Norwegian end. Storm gained possession and outraced defenceman Erlend Lesund to the goal, beating Haukeland between the legs for the 1-0 lead.

The Danes kept up the offensive pressure in the final frame, while at the other end locking up Norway and preventing the home team from getting any quality scoring chances.

Then it would be their star player Nikolaj Ehlers who would put the game on ice with another breakaway score on a great pass form Frans Nielsen with 3:12 remaining, sending Denmark into the Olympic Games and a new tier of elite ice hockey.

 

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[Olympian1010 7,977]

23 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Which is silly, considering that the winter olympics don't really have a quota problem... They could easily handle the extra teams. Oh well...

There’s a quota cap on the Winter Olympics, just like there is at the Summer Olympics. The current cap is 2900 quotas. 

[hckošice 14,835]

4 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Even ignoring quotas, the 1998 and 2002 formats sucked. It was especially bad for teams outside the top 6 because they couldn’t get NHL players for the first round.

100 %.

 

We had only 12 players from our league in Salt Lake because the NHLers were available only from the 2nd round, our GM however succeded thanks his conections with some NHL GMs to allow players to come for a match and return back to their club, I will never forget Stumpel, Demitra and Palffy after last night NHL game travelling the whole USA the morning, arrive the early evening to Salt Lake, totally exhausted played a match at the Olympics and the same night returned to their NHL team to play the next day there...

 

We lost all 3 games despite having one fantatsic team but not allowed to play, some guys arrived our last match but could not make it to ice in time, so just were in the stands to see how we lost to Austria and were eliminated...

 

We were allowed to play with the full team only for the 13th place match against France, we won 7-1 with some 60 shots on goal difference or so...we were so pissed there that the same year we baceame three months later world champions with our full team...the next lobby from our governing bodies helped and in Torino the NHLers were allowed to play during the whole tournament