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

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They may have to put Russia in the Calgary group to avoid any political issue in Czechia.

 

A group with Canada, Russia and the United States would be deadly. I'd feel sorry for the 4th team

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On 3/17/2026 at 11:28 AM, hckošice said:

Well, let be real for a second here and not fly on parallel universe :p 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. :lol: 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.

 

 

Honestly, I don't think we can be so certain. Both Sweden and Finland made it pretty clear that they would pull out from the tournament last year if Russia played as well. They likely mean it this time too.

 

In addition to that, the NHL making Prague a host city pretty much confirms that they are aware of such a risk. If they allow Russia in, the Czechs would pull out, forcing the league to search for another location, basically shooting themselves in the foot.

 

They can choose between inviting Russia and losing three big teams.

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