Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Womens

 

Division II Group B World Championship in Akureyri (ISL)

Day 5 (5th March 2017)

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Last Day

 

13:00  Mexico vs Turkey   5-6

16:30  New Zealand vs Romania  9-3

20:00  Spain vs Iceland  3-1

 

 

 

Mexico won the tournament with 12 points and is promoted to the womens Division II Group A World Championships next year, in the Div. II B they will be replaced by the last team of the Womens Div II A tournament which will be played the first week of April in South Korea.

 

Spain won silver with 11 points,

New Zealand took the bronze medals gaining 10 points throughout the tournament,

Iceland the home team finished out of the podium 4th with 6 points. Also the 5th ranked country Turkey finished with 6 points but the H2H match won by Iceland 6-0 decided that the host country finishedhigher in the final ranking. All teams remains in womens Division II group B World Championships also for the next years edition.

 

Romania finished last pointless and will be relegated to the womens division II group B Qualification tournament next year. they will be replaced in Division II group B next year by Chinese Taipei, winner of this years division II group B qualification played already in december.

 

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WOMEN'S DIVISION II GROUP B

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Viva Mexico!

Div. II B gold highlights women’s rapid progress

The Mexican women’s national team sings their national anthem after winning a game at the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B in Akureyri in northern Iceland.

 

 

It’s only a few years since headlines about women’s hockey in Mexico expressed amazement that such a thing could exist but five years after setting up the national team program, the country is celebrating its first ever gold medal at a full IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship event after winning the qualification tournament in 2014.

Mexico won out in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B in Akureyri, Iceland, topping the six-team group with a game to spare. Victories over the top-seeded Spanish and the host nation set the team on the path to gold, then shutout successes over New Zealand (1-0) and Romania (6-0) put Mexico in an unassailable position before the final day. Not even a 6-5 defeat against a Turkish team battling to avoid last place could dampen the mood ahead of the medal ceremony.

It’s been a long journey in a short space of time – literally, as well as metaphorically, given that the team has traveled to Spain and Iceland to compete in the last three seasons. But head coach Diego de la Garma believes there is more to come from the roster that has just clinched promotion to next year’s Division II Group A.

“Our team is almost like an under-20s roster with five or six senior players added,” he said. “Five of our girls were playing at the U18s in Spain last month, so we’re sure there’s a lot of potential to compete at a higher level next season.”

Many of Mexico’s ice hockey players made the transition from inline hockey when the country decided that the long path to reaching the Olympics might be more realistic for a women’s team. That was in 2012, and the story began with two exhibition games against Argentina (W1, L1). Now, though, de la Garma sees a new generation of players whose experience begins on the ice.

“Our program has been growing every year,” he said. “We’ve got lots of new players, young players, who are taking up the sport – and I think Mexico is falling in love with that.

“It used to be a bit of a taboo here if women played something that is seen as a men’s sport, but people can see how they play the game, how the girls give their hearts to the game, how they have had a lot of success in a little time. That’s a big deal, especially in team sports, because Mexico’s national teams haven’t had much success recently.”

With the country’s football teams, traditionally the biggest source of sporting pride, enduring a relatively fallow period, other sports get a chance to make a mark. “Watching a women’s team winning a tournament, at any level, inspires people,” added de la Garma. “It gets everybody dreaming. It’s won us a lot of fans, not just in Mexico but in Latin America and even around the world. The girls play with so much passion, so much heart, and people respond to it.”

Back home in Mexico – at least 12 hours of flying time away, depending on connections – fans have been following the news from Iceland enthusiastically. “I think our team has really won the hearts of fans back home,” de la Garma added. “Everybody involved with the game has been watching the streams and following the stats, and they’ve been messaging us on social media. The team feels like a big family, and fans respond to that.”

The youth of the team is eye-catching, but there’s solid experience involved as well. First-choice goalie Monica Renteria, 29, had an impressive tournament, giving up just three goals in three games and stopping 96.34 per cent of shots. Claudia Tellez, who finished with 4+4=8 points to claim second place among the team’s scorers is another who was involved from the start, and was a 2016 CWHL Draft pick for the Calgary Inferno. However, she was pipped for the top scorer honours by Maria Chavez, who celebrated her 22nd birthday during the competition. The Rojas twins, Joanna and Giovanna, also had productive tournaments with five and four points respectively: they are two of the four players on the roster who were born in the 21st century.

Once back in Mexico, the immediate focus is on June’s Pan-Am tournament. For Mexican hockey, it’s a valuable chance to showcase the game on home ice, but de la Garma admits that it can be a mixed blessing for the women.

“In the men’s competition, countries like Colombia bring good import players, but for the women it’s not so strong if we don’t have a team from the U.S. or Canada,” he said. “But it helps give our juniors a taste of international action. The under-18s play as a Mexico B team. They experience the pressure and the atmosphere of wearing our country’s jersey, and it gets them dreaming about doing it at a World Championship.”

Other chances to play are limited, a common problem for emerging hockey nations. The women play in the men’s u18 championship to gain extra experience, and have a team in the second division of the five-tier national Sunday Night Hockey league, but opportunities to take on teams from more established hockey nations are rare outside of World Championship trips. The journey to Iceland included a stopover in Toronto and an exhibition game against a local team, an experience that de la Garma feels was invaluable.

The 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B concludes Sunday night with Iceland, New Zealand and Spain battling for the silver and bronze medals. Turkey finished in fifth, buoyed by its final day win over Mexico. Romania, without a victory, drops down to next year’s qualifying group.

 

 

Results Thread

 

 

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Another IIHF World Championship to start tomorrow,

Now it´s time for the men´s Under 18 category to battle for medals and hockey glory in different world championships tournaments during the upcomming days and weeks.

The first one tournament to be contested will be the Mens U18 Division II Group B World Championships in Belgrade Serbia.

 

Originally the tournament was scheduled in the SPENS Arena in Novi Sad, but for some reason the whole tournament has been moved to the Serbian capital Belgrade and will be played in the local Pionir Ice Rink.

 

6 Nations and host will battle for the gold medals and the only available ticket for next years Mens Under 18 division II Group A World Championships. And to avoid the last place resulting in the relegation to the mens Under 18 Division III Group A World Championships next year.

 

 

Mens

 

Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships 2017 in Belgrade (SRB)

Day 1 Schedule (13th March 2017)

GMT +1

 

13:00  Australia vs Iceland

16:30  Spain vs Belgium

20:30  Serbia vs Netherlands

 

Livestream

 

*Tournament format - 6 Teams will play a usual simple Round Robin Tournament. The 1st Nation will qualify for the next years mens Under 18 Division II Group A World Championships, The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Nation will remains in this Division II Group B also for the next year, the 6th ranked Nation will be relegated to the Mens Under 18 Division III Group A world Championships next year.

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On 12. 3. 2017 at 19:31, hckosice said:

Another IIHF World Championship to start tomorrow,

Now it´s time for the men´s Under 18 category to battle for medals and hockey glory in different world championships tournaments during the upcomming days and weeks.

The first one tournament to be contested will be the Mens U18 Division II Group B World Championships in Belgrade Serbia.

 

Originally the tournament was scheduled in the SPENS Arena in Novi Sad, but for some reason the whole tournament has been moved to the Serbian capital Belgrade and will be played in the local Pionir Ice Rink.

 

6 Nations and host will battle for the gold medals and the only available ticket for next years Mens Under 18 division II Group A World Championships. And to avoid the last place resulting in the relegation to the mens Under 18 Division III Group A World Championships next year.

 

 

Mens

 

Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships 2017 in Belgrade (SRB)

Day 1 Schedule (13th March 2017)

GMT +1

 

13:00  Australia vs Iceland

16:30  Spain vs Belgium

20:30  Serbia vs Netherlands

 

Livestream

 

*Tournament format - 6 Teams will play a usual simple Round Robin Tournament. The 1st Nation will qualify for the next years mens Under 18 Division II Group A World Championships, The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Nation will remains in this Division II Group B also for the next year, the 6th ranked Nation will be relegated to the Mens Under 18 Division III Group A world Championships next year.

 

 

U18 Division II B games moved

Div. IIB tourney takes place in Belgrade

Host Serbia and Australia at the Pionir Ice Rink in Belgrade during the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division II Group A. Both countries will be represented at the rink during this week’s U18 tournament.

 

The games of the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division II Group B had to be moved within Serbia from Novi Sad to Belgrade.

Due to technical problems with the cooling system the Serbian Ice Hockey Association announced that the championship cannot take place in Novi Sad and was therefore moved to Belgrade where it will be played at the Pionir Ice Rink.

The tournament is scheduled 13-19 March and includes the U18 national teams from the Netherlands, Spain, Serbia, Iceland, Belgium and Australia.

All games can be followed through a Livestream

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uf this was close.3:2 against Netherlands 

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Mens

 

Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships 2017 in Belgrade (SRB)

Day 1 (13th March 2017)

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13:00  Australia vs Iceland   5-2

16:30  Spain vs Belgium   7-1

20:30  Serbia vs Netherlands   3-2

 

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Mens

 

Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships 2017 in Belgrade (SRB)

Day 2 Schedule (14th March 2017)

GMT +1

 

13:00  Belgium vs Australia

16:30  Netherlands vs Iceland

20:00  Spain vs Serbia

 

Livestream

 

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Mens

 

Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships 2017 in Belgrade (SRB)

Day 2 (14th March 2017)

GMT +1

 

13:00  Belgium vs Australia   1-5

16:30  Netherlands vs Iceland   5-1

20:00  Spain vs Serbia   4-3

 

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32 officials make the cut

IIHF names referees, linesmen for Worlds

 

The IIHF Officiating Committee has selected the 16 referees and 16 linesmen who will call the games at the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.

 

It’s not just players that need make their team rosters for the IIHF’s flagship event. The 32 on-ice officials were selected from a long list of 75 names, based on their performances at international and national competitions during the ongoing hockey season.

 

The line-up of on-ice officials includes a mix of veterans and young, aspiring officials. 20 of them have worked the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship before, including 16 who return from the on-ice officials’ crew at the 2016 World Championship in Russia. They combine for an experience of 61 World Championships.

 

12 officials – six referees and six linesmen – were named to the IIHF’s top event for the first time ever although most of them have officiated in other IIHF events, such as the IIHF World Junior Championship before.

 

The most experienced referee comes from one of the host countries. For Daniel Piechaczek it will be his ninth World Championship. He will be one of two Germans together with linesman Lukas Kohlmuller, who was invited for the first time.

 

Swiss referee Tobias Wehrli will call his eighth Worlds. He called the gold-medal games in 2015 and 2016 and will be one of three returnees from last year’s final, together with referee Roman Gofman and linesman Gleb Lazarev, both from Russia.

 

The most experienced linesman is Ivan Dedyulya from Belarus, who will work games at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship for the ninth time.

 

The officials come from 14 different countries including two non-participation countries (Austria, Netherlands). The Czech Republic and Finland lead in the number of officials with four each.

 

The 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship will take place from 5-21 May in Cologne, Germany, and Paris, France.

 

 

Referees			Linesmen
Lemelin, Mark			Dedyulya, Ivan
Gouin, Oliver			Vanoosten, Nathan
Iverson, Brett			Lhotsky, Miroslav
Hribik, Jan			Suchanek, Libor
Jerabek, Antonin			Jensen, Rene
Fonselius, Stefan			Sormunen, Hannu
Salonen, Anssi			Suominen, Sakari
Piechaczek, Daniel			Kohlmuller, Lukas
Odins, Eduards			Leermakers, Joep
Gofman, Roman			Lazarev, Gleb
Stricker, Daniel			Otmakhov, Alexander
Wehrli, Tobias			Kaderli, Roman
Kubus, Jozef			Sefcik, Peter
Linde, Marcus			Malmqvist, Andreas
Ohlund, Linus			Oliver, Brian
Reneau, Stephen			Ritter, Judson

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The U.S. women's national hockey team said Wednesday that it will not participate in the IIHF World Championship beginning on March 31 in Plymouth, Michigan, citing more than a year of stalled negotiations with USA Hockey to secure what players consider fair wages and support.

The reigning world champions were set to arrive at training camp on March 21. Players said they believe meaningful progress was not being made in the negotiations and, as a result, informed USA Hockey on Wednesday that unless that happens, they will not report to Michigan.

 

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/18906681/us-women-hockey-team-sit-world-championships