Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group B World Championship 2026

[copravolley 498]

9 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Tuesday December 9th, 2025 -

Round-Robin Day 2 Results (GMT +1)

 

12:00   Japan  1 - 2  Poland

16:00   Hungary  3 - 1  Estonia

20:00   Italy  2 - 4  Lithuania

 

Provisional Standing After Day 2:

 

1.    6

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2.   6

3.   3

4.   2

5.   1

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6.   0

Any comments on the game of the next Olympic organizer at home?

[hckošice 15,522]

46 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Any comments on the game of the next Olympic organizer at home?

Well, I doubt, anyone from U20 will be in the Olympics roster 

 

Also, anyway in this age category every year is different one bad class does not reflect the program. I´ve heard the 2007 class will be quite good, definitely better than 2006 .

 

This is a common issue among second tier hockey nations, for obvious reason we do not have the pool of Canada or USA to have every year a top medal contender team, but time to time each of those nations have one good year which can bring great results.

Edited 8 hours ago by hckošice

[copravolley 498]

6 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Well, I doubt, anyone from U20 will be in the Olympics roster 

 

Also, anyway in this age category every year is different one bad class does not reflect the program. I´ve heard the 2007 class will be quite good, definitely better than 2006 .

 

This is a common issue among second tier hockey nations, for obvious reason we do not have the pool of Canada or USA to have every year a top medal contendent team, but time to time each of those nations have one good year which can bring great results.

However, defeats to Lithuania, or probably to Estonia, shouldn't have happened at home- if they had taken this tournament seriously, allowed their players to train at this hockey arena, etc. Secondly, Hungary, France and Austria, for example, have never lost to Lithuania in any age group. Do you ever remember that Slovakia losing to Lithuania in any age group in history?

 

And now we are, losing to rivals with a population the size of Milan? And with no hockey tradition whatsoever, like Slovakia or even Latvia. Another thing is that Ukraine, a country at war for four years, is beating us in most of the youth age groups lately and increasingly among the seniors. To me, these things are unimaginable.

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[intoronto 6,411]

Italy 

[copravolley 498]

2 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Italy 

Exactly- you can even lose to Hungary, or even Poland, but do`not to Lithuania and don`t at home, for God's sake!!! Twenty years ago we were on level with Austria and Switzerland and where are we now?