Ice Hockey 2020 - 2021 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 16,630]

Our GM Miro Šatan announced today that the Canadian Craig Ramsay will stay as coach of SVK national team also for the next year, his main task/job/mission remaining the same to qualify the country to the Beijing WOG. the deal will include a special clause if he´ll succeed, he´ll coach the team also at the Olympics the next year regardless of other circumstances.

[hckošice 16,630]

The only IIHF World Championship program tournament of the year, the M U20 Top Division tournament will be held in Canada in a special "bubble" and withut spectators in Edmonton...

 

and we already know the schedule....

 

The Tourney will start this time one day earlier than usual. The 25th December Christmas Day

 

 

and it will be

 

who will start the tournament against

 

 

Here the full schedule https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2021/wm20/schedule

 

and more information about the whole system and the special bubbles. The teams btw will have to live in special bubbles in their different countries also before their travel to the competition bubble https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2021/wm20/news/22713/world-juniors-schedule-is-here

 

 

[phelps 8,727]

@hckosice

https://www.parabola.cz/zpravicky/33086/joj-group-ziskala-prava-na-ms-v-hokeji-a-dalsi-sporty/   

[hckošice 16,630]

10 hours ago, phelps said:

@hckosice

https://www.parabola.cz/zpravicky/33086/joj-group-ziskala-prava-na-ms-v-hokeji-a-dalsi-sporty/   

Yep, Sadly it is true, from 2024 to 2028 the WCH will not be in RTVS anymore, which is pretty sad, since I don´t see JOJ covering all matches in TV like RTVS did, but who knows ? maybe they will find a way and RTVS will buy a sub licence or something like it was during the WOG in PyeongChang.

 

However, I just hate when private television company gets the rights to big events. I mean, ok, let them broadcast football leagues, winter sports WC, Athletics Diamond league etc.. but the Ice Hockey WCh, Football WC/EURO and Olympics should remain exclusively for national Public television.

 

In our forums started as expected "discussions" and majority asking loudly :

why we have to pay concession fees when even they can't keep up the Ice Hockey Worlds ?

[phelps 8,727]

so, despite all the covid troubles, some International Hockey was on stage in this weekend...

 

the top tier tournament was the traditional Karjala Cup in Helsinki (FIN), where Russia swept the field with 3 wins over Finland, Sweden (this game only at the penalty-shootout) and Czech Republic...

the Czechs ended up in 2nd place ahead of the Home Team (FIN), Sweden were dead last with only 1 point in the standings (the PSO loss against RUS)...

 

in Krefeld (GER), instead, a "minor edition" of the also traditional Deutschland Cup was played...

unfortunately, many of the invited teams had to withdraw because of the covid situation, so finally it was a 3-team contest between Germany, Top Team Peking (basically, Germany B) and Latvia...

the "regular season" ended with Germany on top of the standings ahead of Latvia and Top Team Peking...

meanwhile today's "final" saw the Latvians taking their revenge over the Germans (after yesterday's loss 2-0), winning the game 3-2 at the overtime and the tournament...

 

Full Results and Rankings can be found in the Forum's Result Section... 

[hckošice 16,630]

10 hours ago, phelps said:

so, despite all the covid troubles, some International Hockey was on stage in this weekend...

 

the top tier tournament was the traditional Karjala Cup in Helsinki (FIN), where Russia swept the field with 3 wins over Finland, Sweden (this game only at the penalty-shootout) and Czech Republic...

the Czechs ended up in 2nd place ahead of the Home Team (FIN), Sweden were dead last with only 1 point in the standings (the PSO loss against RUS)...

 

in Krefeld (GER), instead, a "minor edition" of the also traditional Deutschland Cup was played...

unfortunately, many of the invited teams had to withdraw because of the covid situation, so finally it was a 3-team contest between Germany, Top Team Peking (basically, Germany B) and Latvia...

the "regular season" ended with Germany on top of the standings ahead of Latvia and Top Team Peking...

meanwhile today's "final" saw the Latvians taking their revenge over the Germans (after yesterday's loss 2-0), winning the game 3-2 at the overtime and the tournament...

 

Full Results and Rankings can be found in the Forum's Result Section... 

Perfect Summary

 

I can perhaps add that and played also two back-to-back friendly games with Hungary winning both 5-2 on Thursday and 3-2 Saturday.

 

The Results Links for the Karjala Cup and Deutschland Cup

[hckošice 16,630]

Total despair...

 

Another lost season...

 

Cross-posting from the canacelled sport events due to Coronavirus Outbreak

 

 

[hckošice 16,630]

According to TSN Less than a month of the World Juniors start the team is in forced 14 days quarantine due to covid cases inside the team.

 

Our team will enter the training bubble in Zvolen in Monday, hopefully everybody will be negative

[hckošice 16,630]

And our U20 team started today the final training camp in the special bubble in Zvolen, where they will stay almost 3 weeks brfore the final list of 25 players will travel to Canada for the World Juniors Championships.

 

45 Players in total started today the camp, first cut will be made already this Sunday 6th December when 10 guys will have to end their WCh dream

 

 

[hckošice 16,630]

Fights and brawls are nothing unusual in this sport...between players obviously..

 

but fights between head coaches are definitly nothing regular After the yesterday Slovak Extraliga match between the DVTK Miskolc and HK Detva happened this..

 

The canadian coach of the host team Dave Allison was not really happy with the time out of Detva in the very last seconds of the match and attempt to score one more goal in the last few seconds 4 on 3 power play, Detva was already leading 0-4.

So at the end he "apparently" vulgarly insulted Bokroš, this was enough for the experienced former our U20 National Team coach to run after him.   They had to be separated by the organizers.

 

All players were like : huh, wtf ? nobody knew what to do, no one no one has seen anything like this in their life