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

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  On 2/8/2025 at 9:58 PM, hckošice said:

I knew it was too early to think about Olympics for our girls, there still a lot of work to do, but it is going (slowly) but still going on the right direction, maybe in France 2030 we will be there, maybe 2034

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Hopefully.

[hckošice 15,094]

Fun fact. is super close of having both M & W teams in Milano despite failing to qualify in both of them

 

That will be super weird the chances that it will happen are like 75 % right now I would say

 

If Russia will not be eligible to play (which let be reall, we all know will not be) France will qualify as LL for the Men Tournament and if today vs match will not finish at least in Overtime and/or will not make a miracle by beating France will qualify also as LL for the womens tournament as well. Imagine that luck

[copravolley 317]

French hockey is at a quite high level - you can see the idea and the continuation of the good work by both women and men.

[copravolley 317]

  On 2/8/2025 at 11:11 AM, hckošice said:

too easy qualification for the surprise of no one

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China got rid of all the naturalized players from Canada and the US, so this is no surprise. With them on board, they were on equal lovel with Japan. Without foreign recruitment the Chinese team is worse than Slovakia or Holland.

Edited February 9 by copravolley

[Kerkun 27]

  On 2/9/2025 at 7:19 AM, hckošice said:

Fun fact. is super close of having both M & W teams in Milano despite failing to qualify in both of them

 

That will be super weird the chances that it will happen are like 75 % right now I would say

 

If Russia will not be eligible to play (which let be reall, we all know will not be) France will qualify as LL for the Men Tournament and if today vs match will not finish at least in Overtime and/or will not make a miracle by beating France will qualify also as LL for the womens tournament as well. Imagine that luck

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If  beats  in overtime/PSO, will they both qualify regardless of the other match result?

[hckošice 15,094]

  On 2/9/2025 at 10:06 AM, Kerkun said:

If  beats  in overtime/PSO, will they both qualify regardless of the other match result?

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Very likely yes, assuming the best ranked 2nd will take Russia´s spot, which in this case would be Sweden.

Edited February 9 by hckošice

[hckošice 15,094]

  On 2/9/2025 at 9:49 AM, copravolley said:

China got rid of all the naturalized players from Canada and the US, so this is no surprise. With them on board, they were on equal lovel with Japan. Without foreign recruitment the Chinese team is worse than Slovakia or Holland.

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I am not persuaded they are worse than Slovakia, but yep, definitely worse than Japan. All teams of the final tournaments are worse than Japan except Sweden whichi is +/- at the same level, followed by a small margin by Germany, Denmark, Hungary and France. Then we have a bigger gap ahead of Slovakia, China and some other more or less equal level teams like Norway and Austria. The Netherlands are an anomaly here, they are benefiting here from the rather fortunate circumstances that occurred two years ago resulting in their fluke maintaining in the division, but their real level is I am afraid a bit inferior than what their seeding tend to suggest

Edited February 9 by hckošice

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  On 2/9/2025 at 10:18 AM, hckošice said:

I am not persuaded they are worse than Slovakia, but yep, definitely worse than Japan. All teams of the final tournaments are worse than Japan except Sweden whichi is +/- at the same level, followed by a small margin by Germany, Denmark, Hungary and France. Then we have a bigger gap ahead of Slovakia, China and some other more or less equal level teams like Norway and Austria. The Netherlands are an anomaly here, they are benefiting here from the rather fortunate circumstances that occurred two years ago resulting in their fluke maintaining in the division, but their real level is I am afraid a bit inferior than what their seeding tend to suggest

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China won here against Poland on penalties... Poland recently lost very badly to Slovakia and Latvia at the World Champ. and is definitely the weakest team present here.

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  On 2/9/2025 at 10:28 AM, copravolley said:

China won here against Poland on penalties... Poland recently lost very badly to Slovakia and Latvia at the World Champ. and is definitely the weakest team present here.

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Well, first, Poland is not so bad and at 2, it was the opening match, the first games are often very complicated against weaker sides, because of motivation and all physical forces still present

[hckošice 15,094]

qualified.

 

still on the hot seat