Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Mens

 

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

Day 5 (19th March 2017)

GMT +1

 

Last Day

 

13:00  Netherlands vs Spain  2-5

16:30  Iceland vs Belgium  3-2

20:00  Serbia vs Australia  1-4

 

 

Final Ranking:

 

  Australia won the gold medal and title thanks the head to head win over Spain. Australia and Spain both finished the championships with 12 points so the result of the direct confrontation between both teams decided about the gold and promotion for the Under 18 Division II Group A next year.

 

Silver Medals for Spain, the Spaniards finished the championships also with 12 points, unfortunately for them their only lose came against Australia, this means Spain will have to remains in U18 Division II Group B also for next season.

 

Bronze medals went to the host nation, Serbia finished the tournament with 9 points the same as the Netherlands, so for the bronze medals there was needed the direct H2H result between them and it worked on Serbian favor 3-2.

 

4th The Netherlands with 9 points and 5th Iceland with 3 points thanks crucial todays win against Belgium will stay in Division II Group B for next year with Serbia and Spain as well

 

Last 6th place remains to Belgium, finishing the tournamet pointless will be relegated to the Mens Under 18 Division III Group A next year.

 

 

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Mens

 

Under 18 Division III Group B World Championships 2017 in Mexico City (MEX)

Day 3 Schedule (19th March 2017)

GMT -6

 

Last Day

 

19:00  Mexico vs South Africa

Day-Off: Hong Kong

 

*Mexico has everything in it´s own hands, any point from this match will qualify them to the Division III A next year, even a lose by 5 goals will be enough. South Africa need to win by 6 goals to take the first place. Hong Kong is already out of the battle for gold.

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Mens

 

Under 18 Division III Group B World Championships 2017 in Mexico City (MEX)

Day 3 (19th March 2017)

GMT -6

 

Last Day

 

19:00  Mexico vs South Africa  7-2

 

Final Ranking:

 

Mexico as expected without any notable troubles dominate the tournament and won a deserved gold, title and promotion to the Mens Under 18 Division III Group A World Championships next year.

 

Silver for Hong Kong with 3 points and bronze for South Africa pointless, losing both games, Hong Kong and South Africa will have to stay in the lowest under 18 category Division III Group B also for the next edition in 2018.

 

The next tournament will be the Mens Under 18 Division III Group A in Chinese Taipei starting tomorrow, more info to come later

 

 

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MEN'S UNDER 18

DIVISION II GROUP B

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Australia gets the gold

From Down Under to top spot

Australia wins promotion for the second year in a row.

 

Australia made it back-to-back promotions after holding its nerve in a dramatic final-day showdown at the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division II Group B in Serbia.

The prolific duo of Findlay Wood and Tyrone Bronte – who bossed the tournament scoring after sharing 23 points between them – fired the Aussies to a 4-1 victory over the host Serbs in the decisive game in Belgrade.

That left Spain reflecting on what might have been after it missed out due to its head-to-head result against the eventual winner.

Going into Sunday’s decisive games, four teams were tied on nine points. Australia, Spain, pre-tournament favourite the Netherlands and the host nation Serbia all had three wins and one loss. Moreover, they all played against each other: Spain faced off against the Dutch to start, before Serbia vs Australia wrapped up the whole event.

It made for a fascinating set of permutations. Australia knew that a 1-2 defeat against the Dutch meant its hopes would be over if the Oranje got a regulation victory over Spain. After 91 seconds, the Netherlands were in front, but Spain – still hoping to claim top spot for itself – eventually managed to rally for a 5-2 victory, paced by a hat-trick from Alejandro Burgos.

The home crowd at the Pionir ice rink gained some additional Spanish support for the evening game. Spain’s 4-3 victory over the Serbs would be enough to take gold to Madrid if Serbia denied the Aussies a regulation-time victory, but Australia’s 4-1 win over the Spanish – courtesy of a Bronte hat-trick and 29 saves from goalie James Downie – gave the team from Down Under the edge if it could earn maximum points in its final engagement.

Serbia settled quicker, capitalising on some Australian anxiety to take an early lead. Andrija Spanjevic played a pass from beyond his own goal line to set Mirko Djumic racing into the Australian zone. Unimpeded by defensemen, he opened the scoring in the fourth minute.

But the deadly duo of Bronte and Wood showed once again why they had spent the week tormenting goalies, combining for two goals in a minute early in the middle stanza to turn the game around.

First, Bronte teed up Wood for the equalizer; 34 seconds later the roles were reversed and Australia was ahead. Serbia responded with a brief flurry of shots on Downie’s net, but ran into penalty trouble. Australia won the subsequent face-off, Bronte’s shot was saved by Jug Mitic and Wood was on-hand to convert the power play after just six seconds. A 3-1 lead put Australia in complete command.

The Aussies still faced problems, not least when Darcy Flanagan was ejected for the game for a check to the head, leading with his shoulder as he crunched an opposing player.

Serbia’s Sergej Curcic sought to dispense some rough justice; more tellingly, Flanagan stormed off the ice, smashing his stick against the wall on his way back to the locker room. Bronte and Wood, though, were unruffled. Short-handed, they combined for Wood’s hat-trick goal after Bronte skated round the back of Mitic’s net.

The only blot on the evening for the strike force came with five seconds left when Bronte failed with a penalty shot that would have made him the outright leading point-scorer in the contest. Instead he had to settle for 12 points and a share of the lead with Spain’s Liam O’Hare. Wood, who was the leading goalscorer with nine, ended with 11 points from five games.

Australia’s head coach, Canada-born Steve Laforet, hailed another step forward for his adopted country’s hockey program. The 41-year-old, for many years a player and later coach with Melbourne Ice, said: “We’ve woken up a lot of countries around the world. We’re not just a little country in the south-east of the world any more, suddenly we’re a big blip on the map for hockey and for our program.”

Speaking during the tournament in an interview on Ice Hockey Australia’s Facebook page, he added: “It’s not just the guys who’ve shown up for this tournament, it’s all the people back home who’ve done all the work to get concepts and systems for us. They’ve all done very, very well for us.”

For many, Australia’s success was a surprise. The team had been relegated from this level in 2015, suffering chastening defeats to Spain (14-4) and Romania (18-3) along the way. But under Laforet, the youth program regrouped to bounce back at the first attempt with victory in Sofia, Bulgaria last year. Now he and his players are believers in their system … and know that it brings results.

“No team is going to change the way we play,” the coach said. “We know our systems. We took a little bit of time off from that [against the Netherlands] and it cost us two goals.”

Australia now advances to Division II Group A for next season, while Spain goes home with silver medals. Despite its defeat in the final game, Serbia has the consolation of a medal placing.

The host nation edged out the Netherlands to take bronze by virtue of a 3-2 win on the opening night thanks to goals from Djumic, Viktor Kastel and Dusan Grkovic. A 3-2 success on the final afternoon saw Iceland consign winless Belgium to last place and relegation to Division IIIA.

 

 

Results Thread

 

 

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After the Mens Under 18 Division II B and Division III B world championships tournaments it´s time for the U18 Division III Group A to be contested this week.

 

6 Nations and host will battle for the gold medals and the only available ticket for next years Mens Under 18 division II Group B World Championships where the winning team will replace Belgium freshly relegated from last weeks Division II B tournament played in Serbia. And to avoid the last place resulting in the relegation to the mens Under 18 Division III Group B World Championships next year in place of Mexico winner of this years U18 Division III B tourney played during last weekend.     

 

 

Mens

 

Under 18 Division III Group A World Championships 2017 in Taipei City (TPE)

Day 1 Schedule (21st March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  Bulgaria vs China

16:30  New Zealand vs Israel

20:00  Turkey vs Chinese Taipei

 

 

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

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MEN'S UNDER 18

DIVISION III GROUP B

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Mexico U18s triumph

Move up to Division III Group A

Mexico moves back up to Division IIIA one year after being relegated.

 

Playing on home ice at the Ice Dome in Mexico City, the Mexican men’s U18 national team swept the competition to win the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship tournament.

The came to play in the short three-team tournament held over the weekend, opening with an 11-1 victory over Hong Kong, and closing things out with a dominant 7-2 win over South Africa.

Defenceman Jorge Ortiz led his team in scoring with four goals and two assists in two games. Hong Kong defeated South Africa 3-2 to claim second place in the tournament and drop the South Africans to third overall.

The tournament win means Mexico will compete in the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division III Group A. 

 

 

Results Thread
 

 

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ROAD TO MEN'S

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

DAYS

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With just 45 days to go until the 2017 IIHF Worlds start in Cologne and Paris we start to have a look at the 16 teams.

Today:

Italy, one of the two promoted teams.

 

ITALY

 

 

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Mens

 

Under 18 Division III Group A World Championships 2017 in Taipei City (TPE)

Day 1 (21st March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  Bulgaria vs China  0-6

16:30  New Zealand vs Israel  2-8

20:00  Turkey vs Chinese Taipei   1-8

 

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Under 18 Division III Group A World Championships 2017 in Taipei City (TPE)

Day 2 Schedule (22nd March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  Turkey vs Bulgaria

16:30  China vs Israel

20:00  Chinese Taipei vs New Zealand

 

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Under 18 Division III Group A World Championships 2017 in Taipei City (TPE)

Day 2 (22nd March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  Turkey vs Bulgaria  3-9

16:30  China vs Israel  3-0

20:00  Chinese Taipei vs New Zealand  3-2 after OT