Ice Hockey Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026 Road to Milano-Cortina 2026

[intoronto 5,504]

8 minutes ago, vovanA said:

OMG, can't believe there's a North American team whose name doesn't consist of a toponymy and a random plural noun

It's only temporary as the hockey season starts soon and there was not enough time apparently to rebrand.

[heywoodu 14,794]

5 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Sport teams are like companies in North America. Here they moved their headquarters and are in the middle of rebranding.

Yep, that I was aware of, but to the non-American it always feels so odd when suddenly a whole team is just picked up and moved to a different place and kind of seen as a continuation of the same team, despite being something entirely different  

 

[JoshMartini007 2,521]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Yep, that I was aware of, but to the non-American it always feels so odd when suddenly a whole team is just picked up and moved to a different place and kind of seen as a continuation of the same team, despite being something entirely different  

 

You get weird situations where the current Winnipeg Jets use to be from Atlanta and the team in Utah was originally the Winnipeg Jets before they moved to Arizona.

[heywoodu 14,794]

7 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

You get weird situations where the current Winnipeg Jets use to be from Atlanta and the team in Utah was originally the Winnipeg Jets before they moved to Arizona.

So if you were a Winnipeg Jets fan in the 90's, you became an Arizona Coyotes fan despite it being far away and having nothing to do with Winnipeg anymore, and now that transferred to being a fan of a random other team that happens to be HC Utah, the continuation of the original Jets? Or if you were a Jets fan in the 90's you simply stopped being a fan of anything, until the current Jets came around and one became a fan of that?  

[bestmen 2,775]

Latam cup 

 7-2 

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Well we got the first tuneup  game today.  Slovenia vs Austria. Slovenia scores 16 minutes into 2nd period to take a 1-0 lead. With 53 seconds left in the game Marco Kaspar of Detroit Red Wings assisted by David Reinbacher of Montreal Canadians ties the game. Then 3 minutes into overtime Marco Kaspar scores again to give Austria a 2-1 win.

 

Tomorrow two more tuneups. Norway vs France & Cardiff vs Great Britain, 

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Another tuneup game Norway vs France. Almost just like yesterdays game.  France lead 2-1 after two periods. With 2.41 left in the game Tampa Bay Lighting player Emil Lilleberg tied the score. Then 4 minutes into OT Emil Lilleberg scored to win the game for Norway 3-2 . Also a assist for Mats Zuccarello with the Minnesota Wild

 

 

No result on the Great Britain vs Cardiff game

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[Josh 9,975]

GREAT news! 

 

All of the matches for the Olympic Qualifier will be live-streamed on IIHF YouTube, free of charge!

 

https://youtube.com/@iihf?si=8z-RCFsnSOCqWmQy
 

For all non-competing countries at least, pretty sure it won’t be streamed for all, some probably have rights to their matches or the whole event through various broadcasters and streaming services. 

 

Iesim Latvija !!  (Šilovs & Bługers in particular) 

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Not a good sign for Great Britain in the 2nd tuneup of the day.

 

 

Can't get any details on this one but Cardiff 5 Great Britain 0 !

 

 

Four final tuneups tomorrow for these 6 national teams

 

Austria vs Slovenia

Norway vs France

Belfast vs Great Britain

Pirati Chomutov vs Kazakhstan

 

 

After the above games all that remains is

 

Ukraine vs Hungary 1 game

Denmark vs Latvia a pair of games

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[Josh 9,975]

@stockblock any idea on if Latvia’s games are streamed anywhere?