Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2025

[hckošice 15,519]

2029 World Champs will be in Bratislava and Košice

 

99% of the delegates voted for at the IIHF congress today (we was also the only bidding country though...) Slovakia abstained from voting

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12 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Also a fun fact (unless you're Canadian): This is the first time a Canadian team featuring Sidney Crosby has failed to win a gold medal since 2006

I am Canadian and I did in fact not find this fact fun.

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Saturday May 24th, 2025

Knockout Round Day 2 Schedule

 

Knockout Round

 

Semifinals
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Sweden vs United States
Period-by-Period:
May 24th 2025, h. 14:20, Avicii Arena, Stockholm

Switzerland vs Denmark
Period-by-Period:
May 24th 2025, h. 18:20, Avicii Arena, Stockholm
 

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20 hours ago, Agger said:

What do you mean? We have the upper hand! 

We've won 2 of the last 3 games!  

 

Historical meetings of Canada 🇨🇦 vs 🇩🇰 Denmark: pic.twitter.com/NKKB3Fspxe

— Hockey Worldwide (@H0ckeyWorldwide) May 22, 2025

[ElDiablo 4]

Its Semi Finals Days everyone on Saturday. Hope everyone enjoy it

 

🇸🇪 Sweden vs 🇺🇸 USA

 

🇨🇭Switzerland vs 🇩🇰 Denmark

 

See you later for which teams will play for Bronze and then Gold tomorrow

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this US team!!!   

 

p.s. gotta tell you...the USA have won the world hockey champs among the men only twice, and one of those wins were actually the 1960 Olympic Games

 

the only "standalone" world title for them came in 1933...yes, guys! you read it correctly: 1933...good 92 years ago 

 

and guess what also happened in 1933? Oh, yes! you're right! an ordinary man with moustache was crowned (that time, up North in Germany)   

 

do you notice some similarities with 2025?   

[Federer91 3,023]

Hmm, didn't knew that  Switzerland have been so good at hockey  They have been waltzing the whole tournament from what i see. Are they actually really good, or it's the usual case of the best players not doing the IIHF WC?  A.k.a are they in contention for the Olympic title in 8 months?

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17 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Hmm, didn't knew that  Switzerland have been so good at hockey  They have been waltzing the whole tournament from what i see. Are they actually really good, or it's the usual case of the best players not doing the IIHF WC?  A.k.a are they in contention for the Olympic title in 8 months?

 

Yes, compared to other countries, Switzerland has most of their top NHL players here. The only notable guy missing is their best defenseman, Roman Josi, who's injured right now. However, this year, most of the top countries had a good amount of their top players here with this being the year before the Olympics so what Switzerland has been doing is very impressive.

 

Next year, an Olympic title would probably not be realistic with all the best NHL players playing but they will definitely be in medal contention. They're definitely one of the teams that's given Canada the most trouble during their Olympic games. They'll have a very good top line and defense.

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5 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Hmm, didn't knew that  Switzerland have been so good at hockey  They have been waltzing the whole tournament from what i see. Are they actually really good, or it's the usual case of the best players not doing the IIHF WC?  A.k.a are they in contention for the Olympic title in 8 months?

 is  kryptonite.

 

They aren’t usually in one of the strongest teams, but over the past two decades they have been a team that can upset anyone on a good day.

 

I don’t think they are a contender in Milan, but it wouldn’t be totally shocking for them to win a medal.

[ElDiablo 4]

5 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Hmm, didn't knew that  Switzerland have been so good at hockey  They have been waltzing the whole tournament from what i see. Are they actually really good, or it's the usual case of the best players not doing the IIHF WC?  A.k.a are they in contention for the Olympic title in 8 months?

They beaten Team USA 3-0 in group stage funnily enough.