Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Junior World Championship 2023

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Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Junior World Championship 2023

 

Halifax/Moncton (CAN) - 26 December 2022 - 5 January 2023

 

 

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Edited December 17, 2022 by Sindo

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Qualified Nations
 

 

Group A
 

• Austria
• Canada
• Czech Republic
• Germany
• Sweden

Group B
 

• Finland
• Latvia
• Slovakia
• Switzerland
• United States

 

 

 

2022 Championships Results

 

Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2022

 

Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2022

 

 

Tournament Format

 

Due extended sanctions of and IIHF decided that

No team from last years Top division Tournament has been relegated and at same time No team from lower Division I Group A Tournament advanced to this Tournament.

 

Which means same 10 Nations will play the Men´s Under 20 World Championship Top Division Tournament also this year.

 

 

The 10 teams are divided into two, five-team Preliminary groups A and B in the Preliminary Round.

 

After a single round-robin series in each group, the top four teams from each group advance to the Playoff Round while the fifth-placed team in each group will have to play the Relegation Round

 

The top four placed teams from the Preliminary will play a cross-over Quarterfinal game: 1A vs. 4B, 1B vs. 4A, 2A vs. 3B and 2B vs. 3A. The winner of each Quarterfinal moves onto the Semi-Finals.

In the semi-finals the best-ranked team - criteria: 1) placement in the group, 2) points in the preliminary round, 3) goal difference in the preliminary round, 4) goals scored in the preliminary round, 5) seeding coming into the tournament - will play against the lowest-ranked semi-finalist. The 2nd-best ranked semi-finalist will play the 3rd-best ranked semi-finalist. The host if qualified, or otherwise the best-ranked semi-finalist according to beforementioned criteria, shall play the early game. The time slots will officially be determined after the quarter-final games.

 

The winner of each Semi-Final game will move onto the Gold Medal Game, while the losers will play in the Bronze Medal Game.

The quarter-final losers will be ranked 5th to 8th according to 1. their position in the group, 2. their preliminary-round record (1. points, 2. goal difference, 3. goals scored).

Relegation Round

The two last-placed (5th) teams play a best-of-three Relegation Round series.

The third game is only played if needed. The winner of the series plays alongside all 8 Quarterfinalists again at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship, while loser is relegated to Division I Group A next year.



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The common joke in Slovakia last days is:

 

"Bad news slovaks, Juraj Slafkovský is playing good"

 

Yeah, sadly, this means for the nation only one thing, Montreal will not release him for the World Juniors and keep him in the NHL during the tournament.

 

 

There still apparently a mini-mini-mini-mini-mini-tiny-chance the Habs will accept and hear the voices of the whole under-tatras land inhabitants and let the kid go to the worlds, but it will equal probably a christmas miracle if it will happen.

 

 

 

However, the coach announced yesterday the list of 28 players which will prepare in Canada for the WCh, 3 of them will have to leave the team after last Exhibition game in the night from 23rd December to Christmas Eve against Austria.

 

The 24th December will be also the final date our team will announce the final 25 names list for the WCh. At that time we should also know the final and defenitive answer from Montreal Canadiens about Slaf presence at the tournament, but again the chance is so small that it is almost inexistant.

Edited December 15, 2022 by hckošice

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Team Slovakia

 

Goaltenders:

 

Patrik Andrisík (HK Brezno Knights)

Adam Gajan (Green Bay Gamblers, USHL, )

Matej Marinov (Fargo Force, USHL, )

 

Defencers:

 

Šimon Nemec (Utica Comets, AHL, )

Maxim Štrbák (Sioux Falls Stampede, USHL, )

Pavol Funtek (Ketterä, )

Šimon Groch (HK Spišská Nová Ves)

Dávid Nátny (HC 21 Prešov)

Šimon Bečár (Corpus Christi IceRays, NAHL, )

Michal Laurenčík (HC Topoľčany)  *training with the team, not yet registered on the official roster

Jozef Viliam Kmec (Prince George Cougars, WHL, )  *training with the team, not yet registered on the official roster

     

Forwards:

 

František Dej (HC Slovan Bratislava)

Adam Sýkora (HK Nitra)

Alex Čiernik (Södertälje SK, )

Dalibor Dvorský (AIK Stockholm, )

Libor Nemec (Lukko Rauma, )

Marcel Štefančík (Lulea HF, )

Róbert Bačo (Moose Jaw Warriors, WHL, )

Samuel Honzek (Vancouver Giants, WHL, )

Filip Mešár (Kitchener Rangers, OHL, )

Servác Petrovský (Owen Sound Attack, OHL, )

Peter Repčík (Charlottetown Islanders, QMJHL, )

Adam Žlnka (Sioux Falls Stampede, USHL, )     

Martin Mišiak (HC Nové Zámky)  *training with the team, not yet registered on the official roster

Alex Šotek (HC Slovan Bratislava)  *training with the team, not yet registered on the official roster

 

 

*training with the team, not yet registered on the official rosters:

1 of the Defencemen and 1 of the Forwards can be added later during the Tournament to the Official roster in case of Injury

 

**Also as expected, Sadly, Montreal Canadiens did not release Juraj Slafkovský for this Tournament. But this was more-or-less expected. Good for him though, to be still in the NHL.

So at the end 5 this year Drafted players made the team. Š. Nemec, Mešár, Sýkora, Petrovský and Žlnka.

 

***Goal of the Team: Make it to the Quarterfinals (aka avoid the relegation Round) is the main and basic goal

Edited December 26, 2022 by hckošice

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Monday December 26th, 2022

 

Preliminary Round

Day 1 Schedule (GMT -4)

 

Group A
Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)

 

CET 19:30

Sweden vs Austria
Period-by-Period:
December 26th 2022, h. 14:30, Scotiabank Centre, Halifax

 

CET 00:30 (27.12.)

Czech Republic vs Canada
Period-by-Period:
December 26th 2022, h. 19:30, Scotiabank Centre, Halifax

 

 

Group B

Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)

 

CET 17:00

Finland vs Switzerland
Period-by-Period:
December 26th 2022, h. 12:00, Avenir Centre, Moncton

 

CET 22:00

Latvia vs United States
Period-by-Period:
December 26th 2022, h. 17:00, Avenir Centre, Moncton

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Bit of an upset in the opening match of the Tournament as beat 3-2 in Overtime

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while in the second match it looks for a loooong very long one-sided evening for Austria

 

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2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

while in the second match it looks for a loooong very long one-sided evening for Austria

 

Very long

 

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very very long...

 

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and it´s over. 11-0 (Shots on goal: 51-13)

 

hard week ahead of Austria to avoid relegation this time