Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Mens

 

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

Day 3 Schedule (24th March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  Turkey vs New Zealand

16:30  Bulgaria vs Israel

20:00  China vs Chinese Taipei

 

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ROAD TO MEN'S

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

DAYS

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Slovenia won the Division IA and will be back at the IIHF World Championships.

How will they fare in their group in Paris?

 

SLOVENIA

 

 

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Mens

 

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

Day 3 (24th March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  Turkey vs New Zealand  12-5

16:30  Bulgaria vs Israel  0-3

20:00  China vs Chinese Taipei  4-0

 

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Mens

 

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

Day 4 Schedule (25th March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  New Zealand vs China

16:30  Israel vs Turkey

20:00  Chinese Taipei vs Bulgaria

 

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Mens

 

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

Day 4 (25th March 2017)

GMT +8

 

13:00  New Zealand vs China  0-12

16:30  Israel vs Turkey  6-2

20:00  Chinese Taipei vs Bulgaria  4-2

 

*Before the last day China is already assured to win the tournament and will be promoted to the next year Mens Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships, they will replace Belgium relegated to this Under 18 Division III Group A tournament next year.

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Mens

 

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

Day 5 Schedule (27th March 2017)

GMT +8

 

Final Day

 

13:00  China vs Turkey

16:30  Bulgaria vs New Zealand

20:00  Israel vs Chinese Taipei

 

*China is already the winner and promoted for next years Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships.

**Israel and Chinese Taipei will play a direct match for silver and bronze.

***Bulgaria, New Zealand and Turkey will fight for the maintain in this category, so far Bulgaria and Turkey have 3 points, New Zealand is with 1 point currently in the relegation position.

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Mens

 

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

Day 5 (27th March 2017)

GMT +8

 

Final Day

 

13:00  China vs Turkey   11-1

16:30  Bulgaria vs New Zealand   7-2

20:00  Israel vs Chinese Taipei  4-1

 

 

  China dominated the tournament and with clean 5-0 record resulting in the maximum possible 15 points won the gold and advance to the Men´s Under 18 Division II Group B World Championships next year, they will replace Belgium relegated from this years U18 Div IIB played last week in Serbia.

 

Silver medals went to Israel with 12 points and bronze to the host Chinese Taipei with 8 points.

 

4th finished Bulgaria with 6 points, 5th Turkey with 3 points. Israel, Chinese Taipei, Bulgaria and Turkey will stay in this division also for next year.

 

Last 6th ended New Zealand, The young Ice Blacks finished the tournament with a single 1 point thanks overtime lost against Chinese Taipei. New Zealand is relegated to the lowest Under 18 World Championships division, U18 Division III Group B next year and will replace Mexico promoted Nation from this years U18 Div IIIB tournament held last weekend in Mexico City.

 

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This year there was a Really impressive Haka from the young Ice Blacks against Chinese Taipei

 

 

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MEN'S UNDER 18

DIVISION III GROUP A

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Chinese juniors promoted

U18 team wins in Taipei City

Tough to stop: Chinese Taipei player Chia-Yen Chung follows the tournament’s top scorer Qianyi Huang of China.

 

A few weeks ago China lost the Division III final in the U20 category to Turkey missing out on promotion. The U18 national team took revenge and beat Turkey 11-1 to end the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division III Group A undefeated and earn promotion.

The top-seeded Chinese were hard to stop en route to earning promotion back the Division II. They opened the tournament with a 6-0 blanking of Bulgaria, then beat Israel 3-0 the day after.

In their third game in Taipei City they beat Chinese Taipei 4-0 in a game between political rivals that was overshadowed by several players of the Chinese team starting fights at the end of the game. Jing Wang and Ziqiao Wang were assessed suspensions following that game but China beat New Zealand 12-0 without them.

Turkey’s Nabi Mutanolu became the only player to score a goal in five games against China when he opened the scoring today but the lead only lasted two minutes as China found back into the game and won 11-1. Before the game both Mingwei Ren and Yuhang Zhang were undefeated for 243 minutes combining for 99 saves in four games.

The Chinese players dominated the scoring race, in particular Qianyi Huang, who scored 13 goals and had seven assists in five games in the second U18 tournament for the player from Harbin who also participated in two U20 World Championship tournaments despite being just 17 years old.

Earning promotion was important for the team coached by Alexander Barkov, a former Soviet national team player and father of Finnish NHLer Aleksander Barkov who took over the U18 and U20 national teams just a few months ago.

Several players of the team could be on the senior national team in 2022 when the Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing and for this event the Chinese aim at raising their hockey standard. Next season the Chinese U18 national team will compete in the Division II Group B where it played the past three seasons and where they will meet Spain, Serbia, the Netherlands, Iceland and the team that will be relegated from the Division II Group A.

Host Chinese Taipei surprised on home ice with three wins in four games and earn its first medal since 2014 same as Israel. The two teams, who both had strong goaltending from Sheng-Chun Huang and Yehonatan Reisinger respectively, determined the colours of their medals when they played each other during the last day, Israel won 4-1 and took silver, Chinese Taipei bronze. Bulgaria finished fourth, Turkey 5th and New Zealand is relegated to the Division IIIB.

 

 

Result Thread

 

 

 

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ROAD TO MEN'S

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

DAYS

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With 39 days to go IIHF continue the presentations of the 2017 World Championships participating Countries,

Today it´s Denmarks turn,

This small Nordic nation is producing some big ice hockey talent, and reached the final eight last year,

can they go even further in 2017?

 

DENMARK