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

[phelps 8,281]

4 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

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

I rather fear that they would eventually talk of "great success", "mission accomplished"...announcing the world with triumphant tone "we're back in the hockey elite" 

[hckošice 15,519]

Promoted ! No surprise in the 2nd match of the day, 

 

Italia did the job clean and are back in the elite after 3 years of absence.

 

Congrats and welcome back

 

 

This means also that Poland is already officially eliminated from the promotion race and the last ticket will be played between and   in the last GBR vs POL game

 

If GBR earn at least 1 point (Regulation Time win, Overtime/PSO win or OT/PSO loss) will advance to the Top division alongside Italy.

If POL win the match in Regulation Time, this will mean a 3 teams tie and miraculous redemption promotion for , because of H2H results:

1. UKR : vs GBR 3-4 PSO, vs POL 4-1  -  resulting in 4 points

2. POL : vs UKR 1-4, vs GBR RT win  -  resulting in 3 points

3. GBR : vs UKR 4-3 PSO, vs POL RT Loss -  resulting in 2 points

Edited May 3 by hckošice

[hckošice 15,519]

Saturday May 3rd, 2025 -

Round-Robin Last Day Results (GMT +3)

 

12:30  Japan  3 - 2  Ukraine

16:00  Italy  7 - 1  Romania

19:30  Great Britain  3 - 0  Poland

[hckošice 15,519]

Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Great Britain	5	5(3)	0(0)	19	9	+10	12
Italy	5	3(0)	2(1)	18	11	+7	10
Ukraine	5	3(1)	2(1)	16	10	+6	9
Japan	5	2(0)	3(1)	14	16	-2	7
Poland	5	2(0)	3(0)	8	13	-5	6
Romania	5	0(0)	5(1)	6	22	-16	1

 

The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey World Championship 2026

• Great Britain
• Italy

 

The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey Division I Group A World Championship 2026

• Japan
• Poland
• Ukraine

 

The following Nation has been relegated to the Men's Ice Hockey Division I Group B World Championship 2026

• Romania

[copravolley 498]

Without solid reinforcements from the NHL - at least 2-3 forwards + 1 experienced goalie, I see it very poorly. 

Edited May 3 by copravolley

[copravolley 498]

6 hours ago, phelps said:

I rather fear that they would eventually talk of "great success", "mission accomplished"...announcing the world with triumphant tone "we're back in the hockey elite" 

We were better than Ukraine and Poland, so it's better that we advanced than they did but match vs the UK was a disgrace. I read that Jalonen wants 3-4 players from the NHL in next year and the IIHF is supposed to agree to that without waiting 16 months.

Edited May 3 by copravolley

[copravolley 498]

8 hours ago, hckošice said:

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

 

They also played very well against UK and could have won for 3 points. Japan is always a difficult opponent at this level, i.e. not the highest, because of course Slovakia would beat them playing at 50%.

[intoronto 6,401]

1 hour ago, copravolley said:

We were better than Ukraine and Poland, so it's better that we advanced than they did but match vs the UK was a disgrace. I read that Jalonen wants 3-4 players from the NHL in next year and the IIHF is supposed to agree to that without waiting 16 months.

Who?

[copravolley 498]

57 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Who?

I have no idea. I guess we'll find out soon enough.