Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2023

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All 16 teams rosters updated.

 

arrived with 28 and with 26 players. Kazakhstan will have to cut 3 and Denmark 1 player.

 

and arrived with 23 players, both teams can and will add 2 players in the next days.

 

Remember several teams will wait for the situation in the North-American Play-Offs and thus will likely write to the official roster less players and wait to add eventual reinforcements from overseas. ( for sure will for example write only 7 defencers officially and wait for the New Jersey-Carolina NHL Stanley Cup series, we have already presented interest on the reinforcement from Šimon Nemec)

 

 

You can find easily all updated rosters in the First page of this thread here, just click on the Nation you are interested

 

 

 

 

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Czech Goaltenders waiting for the bus

 

 

Českí brankári čakajúci na autobus. pic.twitter.com/GewD4nFlWm

— Tomáš Prokop (@Lewysko) May 11, 2023

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Power Rankings

 

11th May 2023

 

Do you believe in deja vu?

If so, you just might be an optimistic Finnish fan as the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship gets rolling in Tampere and Riga (12 to 28 May).

Head coach Jukka Jalonen is hard to bet against as he looks for his fourth World Championship gold medal with the defending champion Finns.

They also made history last year with their first Olympic gold medal, and deservedly top our first Power Rankings.

Right behind in second place is Canada. It's faced Finland in the last three finals, winning in overtime in 2021 and barely falling short in 2019 and 2022.

Sweden rounds out our top three with a potent blend of NHL, SHL, and Swiss NL talent, questing for its first title since 2018. Bring on the thrills!

 

1		FIN	Finnish parliament votes to win gold again
2		CAN	Ultimately, it’s all about Milan
3		SWE	If only the quarter-finals were in Helsinki!
4		CZE	Before Milan, the Roman Empire will rise again
5		USA	There’s Apple, there’s Disney, and there’s us
6		SUI	It’s our time to shine (silver-style)
7		GER	If he was Swiss, we’d call him St. Moritz
8		SVK	Eighth-place parade, anybody?
9		LAT	Let’s have more fun than in 2021!
10		DEN	Bjorkstrand killed the Avs, so Finland is toast
11		NOR	As usual...we’re here !
12		FRA	Le jour de gloire arrivera-t-il ?
13		AUT	Obviously, you gotta respect Mozart
14		KAZ	We will not win the draft lottery
15		SLO	Number one overall – in our fans’ hearts
16		HUN	There’s no tanking in Tampere

 

The Power Rankings are for the enjoyment of IIHF.com readers, and reflect the progress of teams during the IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship. They are distinct from the official standings and IIHF Women's World Ranking.

 

IIHF.com

 

Edited May 11, 2023 by hckošice

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Team without defence and Goaltending aka Team Slovensko landed in Riga yesterday in some classy fashion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Also first training done yesterday´s evening, as one of the last teams to enter the ice it was more like a kind of just taking away the fatigue from the travel, since the ice was ...well, there was almost no ice after all teams had their training earlier and no ressurfacing was done by the organizers...

 

Look at the ice in the video. I hope sincerely, they are going to fix the ice before tomorrow

 

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Today the trainings in the Riga Arena were even cancelled

 

All teams had to move to the Daugava Arena almost 4 km away from the Riga Arena. Obviously nobody knew that and players had move there in full equipments by bus

 

 

 

and after the training wait for the bus to return back Well, this start hilariously...

 

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Friday May 12th, 2023

Preliminary Round Day 1 Schedule

(GMT +3)

Preliminary Round

Group A
Eastern European Summer Time (GMT +3)

 

Finland vs United States
Period-by-Period:
May 12th 2023, h. 16:20, Nokia Arena, Tampere

 

Sweden vs Germany
Period-by-Period:
May 12th 2023, h. 20:20, Nokia Arena, Tampere

 

Group B
Eastern European Summer Time (GMT +3)

1

Slovakia vs Czechia

Period-by-Period:
May 12th 2023, h. 16:20, Arena Riga, Riga

a

Latvia vs Canada

Period-by-Period:
May 12th 2023, h. 20:20, Arena Riga, Riga

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Šimon Nemec is in.

 

After New Jersey elimination in the NHL Stanley Cup Play-offs against Carolina a couple of hours ago, our team staff already contacted him and he accepted the invitation. Apparently he is already packed and should fly to Riga on Saturday, logically he won´t make it to the first two matches CZE today and LAT tomorrow yet, but he should probably be available from the third match against Canada.

 

Thanks god for him. Our defence is just an absolute crap right now after all refusals because of injury, end of contracts in NHL, KHL players ban and several other reasons we lost already guys like Erik Černák, Martin Fehérváry, Peter Čerešňák, Martin Gernát, Christian Jaroš, Michal Čajkovský (Already Top 6 defenders, whom would be normally easily in our 8 Def corp... but yeah, what can we do....)

 

Thanks god again for Nemec ! The kid, this years NHL draft overall pick number 2 is 19 years old, but hockey IQ already a couple of level higher than all the 8 blueliners we have in Riga together...so to say...

 

 

The staff after Carolina-New Jersey ended game also contacted and invited Tomáš Tatar. His participation is anyway questionable, since he is in end of contract...so very unlikely.

Edited May 12, 2023 by hckošice

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Official song of the worlds

 

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Scores after 1st Period

 

Group A  (Nokia Arena - TAMPERE)

 

Finland - United States : 1-0  (1-0, -, -)

17:07 Teemu HARTIKAINEN (Sallinen, Manninen) 1:0

 

Group B  (Arena Riga - RIGA)

 

Slovakia - Czechia : 2-3  (2-3, -, -)

04:52 Martin CHROMIAK (Kňažko, Cehlárik) 1:0

06:38 Roman ČERVENKA (Kubalík, Chytil) 1:1

10:57 Mislav ROSANDIČ (Lantoši) 2:1

13:48 Lukáš SEDLÁK (Flek, Kundrátek) 2:2

18:48 Lukáš SEDLÁK (Kubalík, Tomášek) 2:3