stockblock 22 Posted October 12, 2023 #21 Share Posted October 12, 2023 13 hours ago, hckošice said: The placement of in this round means only one thing, that IIHF is counting with Russia & Belarus return... Hungary is 19th in the ranking. We know that teams ranked up to 17th plays the Final Qualifying Round ( is 14th) so as such if BLR was not eligible to play another nation would have taken its place, and since the next one is (18th) which is obviously automatically qualified to the games as Host country, the next one to move up to the Final Qualifiying round would have been Hungary, so no need to be a nuclear physicist to understand IIHF is already counting with to qualify directly to the Olympics and to play the FInal Qualifying Round which would be played in Slovakia... Simple maths Final Qualifying Round is likely going to be D- SVK, BLR, KAZ, 3rd Qualifier E- LAT, FRA, AUT, 2nd Qualifier F- DEN, NOR, SLO, 1st Qualifier Still, hope dies last...people use to say... so, still we (I) hope this scenario will not occur at the end and Slovakia will qualify directly Think your right. If by hope they do give both the boot then i suspect the top two ranked that did not win in Round 3 would get a 2nd chance. hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockblock 22 Posted October 24, 2023 #22 Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) On 10/11/2023 at 11:45 PM, hckošice said: The placement of in this round means only one thing, that IIHF is counting with Russia & Belarus return... Hungary is 19th in the ranking. We know that teams ranked up to 17th plays the Final Qualifying Round ( is 14th) so as such if BLR was not eligible to play another nation would have taken its place, and since the next one is (18th) which is obviously automatically qualified to the games as Host country, the next one to move up to the Final Qualifiying round would have been Hungary, so no need to be a nuclear physicist to understand IIHF is already counting with to qualify directly to the Olympics and to play the FInal Qualifying Round which would be played in Slovakia... Simple maths Final Qualifying Round is likely going to be D- SVK, BLR, KAZ, 3rd Qualifier E- LAT, FRA, AUT, 2nd Qualifier F- DEN, NOR, SLO, 1st Qualifier Still, hope dies last...people use to say... so, still we (I) hope this scenario will not occur at the end and Slovakia will qualify directly Another change to Round Two South Africa to Round 2 replacing Kyrgyzstan who earlier replaced UAE Group K Estonia, Iceland, Bulgaria, South Africa Group L Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, Thailand Group M Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Chinese Taipei Edited October 24, 2023 by stockblock hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockblock 22 Posted October 31, 2023 #23 Share Posted October 31, 2023 On 10/11/2023 at 11:45 PM, hckošice said: The placement of in this round means only one thing, that IIHF is counting with Russia & Belarus return... Hungary is 19th in the ranking. We know that teams ranked up to 17th plays the Final Qualifying Round ( is 14th) so as such if BLR was not eligible to play another nation would have taken its place, and since the next one is (18th) which is obviously automatically qualified to the games as Host country, the next one to move up to the Final Qualifiying round would have been Hungary, so no need to be a nuclear physicist to understand IIHF is already counting with to qualify directly to the Olympics and to play the FInal Qualifying Round which would be played in Slovakia... Simple maths Final Qualifying Round is likely going to be D- SVK, BLR, KAZ, 3rd Qualifier E- LAT, FRA, AUT, 2nd Qualifier F- DEN, NOR, SLO, 1st Qualifier Still, hope dies last...people use to say... so, still we (I) hope this scenario will not occur at the end and Slovakia will qualify directly Finally Official https://blob.iihf.com/iihf-media/iihfmvc/media/2023/owgq/2026_owg_men_qualification_hosting_231023.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avlar 132 Posted October 31, 2023 #24 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Decision on rus and blr teams participation in 2026 Olympic hockey tournament is expected by March 2024. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockblock 22 Posted November 14, 2023 #25 Share Posted November 14, 2023 On 10/11/2023 at 11:45 PM, hckošice said: The placement of in this round means only one thing, that IIHF is counting with Russia & Belarus return... Hungary is 19th in the ranking. We know that teams ranked up to 17th plays the Final Qualifying Round ( is 14th) so as such if BLR was not eligible to play another nation would have taken its place, and since the next one is (18th) which is obviously automatically qualified to the games as Host country, the next one to move up to the Final Qualifiying round would have been Hungary, so no need to be a nuclear physicist to understand IIHF is already counting with to qualify directly to the Olympics and to play the FInal Qualifying Round which would be played in Slovakia... Simple maths Final Qualifying Round is likely going to be D- SVK, BLR, KAZ, 3rd Qualifier E- LAT, FRA, AUT, 2nd Qualifier F- DEN, NOR, SLO, 1st Qualifier Still, hope dies last...people use to say... so, still we (I) hope this scenario will not occur at the end and Slovakia will qualify directly THis is getting crazy... Very Weird compared to other years. Now Mexico drops out of Group L.... REPLACEMENT IS Georgia !!!!! hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockblock 22 Posted November 14, 2023 #26 Share Posted November 14, 2023 First Iraq vs Singapore for the right to join GROUP O was cancelled. No word from IIHF why. Then Group N (UAE, Kyrgystan, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Georgia) & Group O (Thailand, Chinese Taipei, Bosnia, South Africa, Iraq) were cancelled wiithout a explanation by IIHF. As a result Chinese Taipei, Thailand, UAE were promoted to round 2. Again no explanation Then UAE drops out replaced by Kyrgystan. Again no explanation. Then Kyrgystan drops out replaced by South Africa. Again no explanation. Now Mexico drops out replaced by Georgia. Again no explanation. Never seen these kind of changes before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,214 Posted November 14, 2023 #27 Share Posted November 14, 2023 It's just another example of sport struggling, post-Covid/inflation. Before sport federations would join tournaments without securing funding expecting to get the money needed (either through investors, government or the players). Now they are finding out those sources are less likely to fund their trip, especially for Division III/IV teams which have no chance at qualifying to the Olympics. stockblock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockblock 22 Posted November 18, 2023 #28 Share Posted November 18, 2023 Anyone hearing anything about the tournament scheduled for Iceland in December ? That volcano that everyone is saying is near eruption is only 31 miles from the place where the tournament is scheduled. Are we facing another cancellation ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,267 Posted December 11, 2023 #29 Share Posted December 11, 2023 (edited) 2nd QUALIFYING ROUND Round-Robin December 14th - December 17th, 2023 12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the 3rd Qualifying Round Group K Greenwich Mean Time (GMT ) Bulgaria 0 - 21 Estonia Period-by-Period: 0-3, 0-8, 0-10 December 14th 2023, h. 15:30, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Iceland 9 - 0 South Africa Period-by-Period: 3-0, 3-0, 3-0 December 14th 2023, h. 19:00, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Estonia 9 - 2 South Africa Period-by-Period: 1-1, 5-1, 3-0 December 15th 2023, h. 15:30, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Iceland 4 - 3 Bulgaria Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-2, 2-1 December 15th 2023, h. 19:00, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik South Africa 4 - 1 Bulgaria Period-by-Period: 0-0, 1-0, 3-1 December 17th 2023, h. 13:30, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Estonia 6 - 0 Iceland Period-by-Period: 3-0, 2-0, 1-0 December 17th 2023, h. 17:00, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Group K Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Estonia 3 3(0) 0(0) 36 2 +34 9 Iceland 3 2(0) 1(0) 13 9 +4 6 South Africa 3 1(0) 2(0) 6 19 -13 3 Bulgaria 3 0(0) 3(0) 4 29 -25 0 Edited December 17, 2023 by hckošice maestro and stockblock 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,267 Posted December 11, 2023 #30 Share Posted December 11, 2023 (edited) 2nd QUALIFYING ROUND Round-Robin December 15th - December 17th, 2023 12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the 3rd Qualifying Round Group L Central European Time (GMT +1) Spain 15 - 2 Thailand Period-by-Period: 6-0, 6-2, 3-0 December 15th 2023, h. 16:30, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Netherlands 8 - 2 Georgia Period-by-Period: 2-1, 2-1, 4-0 December 15th 2023, h. 20:00, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Thailand 1 - 23 Netherlands Period-by-Period: 1-6, 0-7, 0-10 December 16th 2023, h. 16:30, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Spain 5 - 1 Georgia Period-by-Period: 1-0, 3-1, 1-0 December 16th 2023, h. 20:00, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Netherlands 3 - 4 Spain Period-by-Period: 1-0, 2-3, 0-1 December 17th 2023, h. 16:30, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Georgia 10 - 0 Thailand Period-by-Period: 3-0, 4-0, 3-0 December 17th 2023, h. 20:00, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Group L Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Spain 3 3(0) 0(0) 24 6 +18 9 Netherlands 3 2(0) 1(0) 34 7 +27 6 Georgia 3 1(0) 2(0) 13 13 0 3 Thailand 3 0(0) 3(0) 3 48 -45 0 Edited December 17, 2023 by hckošice maestro and stockblock 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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