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

[hckošice 16,605]

February 2026 International break

 

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EUROPEAN NATIONS LEAGUE

 

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Tournament in Oslo

 

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Tournament in Edinburgh

 

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[hckošice 16,605]

February 2026 International break

 

07.02.2026

 

EUROPEAN NATIONS LEAGUE

 

Division B

 

Tournament in Oslo

 

-   5-2

 

1. NOR 5

2. AUT 3

3. HUN 1

 

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Division C

 

Tournament in Edinburgh

 

-   2-4

 -   5-4

 

1. UKR 7

2. SLO 6

3. GBR 5

4. POL 0 

 

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Division D

 

Tournament in Brasov

 

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1. ROU 6

2. ESP 3

3. LTU 0

[Topicmaster1010 6,541]

 

[Topicmaster1010 6,541]

The 2028 World Cup of Hockey will be hosted in  Calgary, Edmonton, and  Prague in February.

 

Calgary and Prague will host the pool rounds and Edmonton will host the finals.

[Bailer 159]

Finland, Sweden and Czechia have informed the NHL they would refuse to participate if Russia was allowed in due to current circumstances. That also opens up a huge opportunity for us to be included.

[Bailer 159]

Also, it will be interesting to see how popular will the tournament be in Europe, the Olympics and the Worlds already have decades of history over here.

Edited 14 hours ago by Bailer

[copravolley 635]

2 minutes ago, Bailer said:

Finland, Sweden and Czechia have informed the NHL they would refuse to participate if Russia was allowed in due to current circumstances. That also opens up a huge opportunity for us to be included.

Slovakia? Is Slovakia more pro-Russian than the Czech Republic as a country? Why?

[Topicmaster1010 6,541]

3 hours ago, Bailer said:

That also opens up a huge opportunity for us to be included.

Not sure if there'll be qualification or not but if there isn't, I'm guessing the 8 countries will be 

• Canada
• USA
• Sweden
• Finland
• Czech Republic
• Switzerland
• Germany
• Slovakia

[bmo 255]

49 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Not sure if there'll be qualification or not but if there isn't, I'm guessing the 8 countries will be 

• Canada
• USA
• Sweden
• Finland
• Czech Republic
• Switzerland
• Germany
• Slovakia

Will be interesting to see how they split up the groups. I have to imagine USA & Canada will both be in the Calgary group. Sweden, Finland & Czechia all in the Prague group maybe?

[hckošice 16,605]

Well, let be real for a second here and not fly on parallel universe  the ONLY chance for Slovakia to take part to this is when Russia will not be invited. 

 

And Seriously, I would not bet a single leaky penny on that to happen.

 

Imagine a tournament run by the most greedy businessemen on earth NHL lords, with the right to invite whoever they want and make whatever rules they want... and not inviting to their own tourney Russia who has more than 50 NHL stars in the league right now including the likes of Kaprizov, Vasilevskiy, Kucherov, Demidov, Malkin or Shestorkin.  Come on ! Not gonna happen, Russians will be there and will make the semis where they will lose to one of the 2 North-Americans before the Canada-USA scripted final.

 

Do not fall into the trap, this is all just for money.

 

And since Germany is a bigger and obviously more interesting market than us and have the superstars Drai and Stutzle to bring they will be picked as 8th over Slovakia on any day. Switzerland being the clear seventh for their bigger amount of NHLers is obviously as well.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by hckošice