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

[Olympian1010 7,888]

Not @hckošice changing his avatar after that win 

[hckošice 14,739]

FINAL QUALIFYING ROUND

 

LAST DAY RESULTS

 

Round-Robin
August 29th - September 1st, 2024
12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the Men´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2026

 

Group D

Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Austria   PSO4 - 3  Hungary
Period-by-Period: 0-3, 1-0, 2-0, Overtime: 0-0, Penalty Shoot-Out: 1-0
September 1st 2024, h. 14:00, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

Slovakia   3 - 1  Kazakhstan
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 1-1, 0-0
September 1st 2024, h. 18:00, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

Group D Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Slovakia	3	3(0)	0(0)	12	5	+7	9
Kazakhstan	3	2(0)	1(0)	8	6	+2	6
Austria	3	1(1)	2(0)	6	7	-1	2
Hungary	3	0(0)	3(1)	8	16	-8	1

 

 

Group E

Eastern European Summer Time (GMT +3)

 

Slovenia   6 - 2  Ukraine
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 1-2, 3-0
September 1st 2024, h. 13:00, Arena Riga, Riga

 

Latvia   5 - 2  France
Period-by-Period: 2-1, 3-0, 0-1
September 1st 2024, 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)	14	5	+9	9
France	3	2(0)	1(0)	14	8	+6	6
Slovenia	3	1(0)	2(0)	9	11	-2	3
Ukraine	3	0(0)	3(0)	5	18	-13	0

 

 

Group F

Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Great Britain   3 - 2  Japan
Period-by-Period: 3-0, 0-2, 0-0
September 1st 2024, h. 12:30, Aalborg Arena, Aalborg

 

Denmark   4 - 1  Norway
Period-by-Period: 0-1, 2-0, 2-0
September 1st 2024, h. 16:30, Aalborg Arena, Aalborg

 

Group F Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Denmark	3	3(1)	0(0)	10	4	+6	8
Norway	3	2(0)	1(0)	11	8	+3	6
Great Britain	3	1(0)	2(0)	6	11	-5	3
Japan	3	0(0)	3(1)	6	10	-4	1

 

The following Nations have qualified for the Men´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2026

 

• Denmark
• Latvia
• Slovakia

Edited 2 hours ago by hckošice

[hckošice 14,739]

Thanks god the streak can continue. We never missed the hockey Olympic tournament since the independence in 1993.

 

from Lillehammer 1994 to Beijing 2022 and now we continue with 9th consecutive appareance in Milano/Cortina 2026.

 

In other hand we should not have to play this humiliating qualifiers first, but this is another stuff. We still owe this one to Switzerland and we will pay it back one of those days. No worries

 

 

First 25 qualified athletes for Milano-Cortina

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by hckošice

[Josh 10,132]

25 minutes ago, hckošice said:

 

as best 2nd of the final qualifiers

Russia being excluded for … France would be such a shame, personally I’m hoping for their inclusion as I want to see the best of the best present. They have a lot of good NHL players too.

[hckošice 14,739]

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[heywoodu 14,842]

41 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Not @hckošice changing his avatar after that win 

Thank god, that 'official period of mourning' avatar was getting worrying  

 

Spoiler

Hoping it was of course 'only' related to sports and not to things like people actually having died.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by heywoodu

[copravolley 221]

By the way, why does Russia still have a chance at the Olympics ticket and Belarus doesn't? In theory, each team should have an equal chance and, for example, maybe they should play a play-off games for that place in a format like Russia-Belarus-France-Norway?

[Josh 10,132]

1 minute ago, copravolley said:

By the way, why does Russia still have a chance at the Olympics ticket and Belarus doesn't? In theory, each team should have an equal chance and, for example, maybe they should play a play-off games for that place in a format like Russia-Belarus-France-Norway?

Because Russia earned their ticket through combined results at the last two World Chamipionships, and Belarus didn't 

[copravolley 221]

55 minutes ago, Josh said:

Because Russia earned their ticket through combined results at the last two World Chamipionships, and Belarus didn't 

The last time Russia played was in February 2022 in Beijing at the Olympics, and Belarus probably even earlier. We don't know what form these teams are in, which players will decide to play at the Olympics, etc. For example, Italy in football, less than a year after winning Euro 2021, didn`t qualify for the World Cup after losing at home to North Macedonia...

Edited 41 minutes ago by copravolley

[Josh 10,132]

21 minutes ago, copravolley said:

The last time Russia played was in February 2022 in Beijing at the Olympics, and Belarus probably even earlier. We don't know what form these teams are in, which players will decide to play at the Olympics, etc. For example, Italy in football, less than a year after winning Euro 2021, didn`t qualify for the World Cup after losing at home to North Macedonia...

Well yeah, but I’d honestly be surprised if Russia weren’t in medal contending form, they always are. Russia has been one of the top nations in ice hockey for many many years and there’s no reason to think otherwise. 

 

They have a good non-NHL team (they did win gold in Beijing after all…), and with NHL players finally returning to the Olympics they’ll be even stronger. Some of the players like Kucherov have spoken about the upcoming Olympics and are quite keen to represent their countries if given the chance of course.