Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Division I Group A World Championship 2025

[Dragon 2,026]

Bit of history with  and  

In 1993 Britain were promoted to Group A when they beat Poland 4-3. Winning goal was scored on a powerplay when the GB coach asked for the Polish goalie's stick to be measured and a foul was called when it was found be illegal.

[hckošice 15,502]

Thursday May 1st, 2025 -

Round-Robin Day 4 Results (GMT +3)

 

12:30  Italy  1 - 5  Great Britain

16:00  Poland  1 - 4  Ukraine

19:30  Romania  3 - 5  Japan

 

Provisional Standing After Day 4:

 

1.    9

2.   9

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3.   7

4.   6

5.   4

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6.   1   Relegated to Men´s Division I Group B WCh 2026

[hckošice 15,502]

Saturday May 3rd, 2025 -

Round-Robin Last Day Schedule (GMT +3)

 

12:30  Japan vs Ukraine

16:00  Italy vs Romania

19:30  Great Britain vs Poland

[hckošice 15,502]

Japan with 2 goals in a couple of seconds out of nowhere decided to kill Ukraine

 

3-1 Japan at the half of the match. UKR need one point to advance after 18 years back to the elite

Edited May 3 by hckošice

[hckošice 15,502]

Ukrainians demonstrated an absolute textbook way of fucking up everything you build a whole week 

 

ongrats to Japan to play the best match of the last 2 decades right today when thay played for absolutely nothing

 

[hckošice 15,502]

In other hand as we say the sadness of some is the happiness of other, need a win over relegated Romania to secure the return among elite now !

 

[hckošice 15,502]

Live Table

 

GBR 9

UKR 9*

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ITA 7

JPN 7*

POL 6

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ROU 1

 

UKR and JPN Played all matches.

 

 

Next to go ITA vs ROU

 

Any Regular Time Win for ITA will promote them to the elite regardless of the last GBR-POL match outcome.

Overtime or PSO win for ITA will mean a temporary 3 teams table tie, all with 9 points

H2H results : GBR-UKR 4-3 PSO, UKR-ITA 3-2 PSO, ITA-GBR 1-5.  so GBR 5, UKR 3, ITA 1

but this is completely pointless, since the last match would be GBR vs POL and whatever the result will be it wil change the outcome, if GBR win in RT or after OT/PSO, GBR and UKR will qualify, if POL win after OT/PSO GBR and UKR wil qualify, if POL win in Regular Time, all 4 nations would be tied with 9 points

H2H results would be:

UKR: vs GBR 3-4 PSO, vs ITA 3-2 PSO, vs POL 4-1 so 6 points

GBR: vs UKR 4-3 PSO, vs ITA 5-1, vs POL loss so 5 points

ITA: vs GBR 1-5, vs UKR 2-3 PSO, vs POL 4-1 so 4 points

POL: vs UKR 1-4, vs ITA 1-4, vs GBR win, so 3 points

which would mean promotion for UKR and GBR

 

So Italy need to win in Regular Time against Romania, any other result would eliminate them

 

[hckošice 15,502]

4 minutes played and yes...

 

RIP Romania

 

[phelps 8,278]

why? why the hell Ukraine decided to fuck everything up like that?   

 

now the plan to ask IOC to veto Italy to participate to the 2026 Olympic tournament would be almost out of reach 

 

still, I hope Butt...ehm, Bettman impose himself and force IOC (and our Federation, above all...our worst enemy) to accept an Italian team made of 23 NHLers (even if they don't have anything to do with our Country...they just have to have an Italian sounding name...and there are about 50 to choose from currently in the NHL rosters ) to save NBC's ass and money

[Gianlu33 5,276]

The only thing I regret is that the Italian federation will say everything is fine and sweep the dust under the carpet....