Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2018

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All 16 rosters posted, you can find them easily in the 2nd post of this thread, just click on the link for the Nation you are searching for.

 

Everything is ready in Denmark some 2 days to go to start the 2018 World Championships

 

 

 

here are the new sets of jerseys of all teams (Home and away matches)

 

Austria

Spoiler

 

 

 

Belarus

Spoiler

 

 

 

Canada

Spoiler

 

 

 

Czech Republic

Spoiler

 

 

 

Denmark

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Finland

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

France

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Germany

Spoiler

 

 

 

Latvia

Spoiler

 

 

 

Norway

Spoiler

 

 

 

Russia

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Slovakia

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

South Korea

Spoiler

 

 

 

Sweden

Spoiler

 

 

 

Switzerland

Spoiler

 

 

 

United States

Spoiler

 

 

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Good luck all neighbors

 

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Our team had this week before the departure to Denmark a teambuilding in the National military training camp in Lešť. Poor guys

 

 

 

here some other pics

 

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Tournament Format

 

 

PRELIMINARY ROUND

 

16 Teams are divided into 2 Preliminary Round Groups A and B.

In both groups every team will play once each opponent of his group, so every team will play at least 7 matches at the world championships.

 

For every win in Regulation Time (60 minutes divided in 3x20 minutes periods) the team will be awarded by 3 points to the group table standing, the losing team will not receive any point (0 points).

Every match must have a winner, so if the game will be still tied after 60 minutes of Regulation Time, a 5 minutes "Sudden death" Overtime will follow (played by 3 vs 3 players), the team which score a goal in the overtime is declared winner and the match is automatically ended, if even after the 5 mintes Overtime the result remains still tied, there a Shoot-Out procedure that must decide the game with a series of 5 vs 5 attempts, if the result remains undecided the Shoot-Out procedure continue with a 1 vs 1 attempts direct KO until the result will be decided. the winner after OT or GWS will be awarded by 2 points, the losing team after OT/GWS will receive 1 point from this game.

 

The tie-breaking system for two teams with the same number of points in a standing will be the direct head to head confrontation game between the two teams, the winner of the game taking precedence. 

Due to the fact that the three-point system does not allow a game to end in a tie, then the following tie breaking procedure is applicable when three or more teams are tied in points in a Championship standing.

Should three or more teams be tied on points, then a tie breaking formula will be applied as follows, creating a sub-group amongst the tied teams. This process will continue until only two or none of the teams remain tied. In the case of two tied teams remaining, the game between the two would then be the determining tie-breaker as the game could not end as a tie.

 

The top 4 teams from both groups will qualify for the Quarterfinals.

 

The tournament will be over after the preliminary round for all teams ranked 5th to 8th from both groups, with the final ranking decided following their positions in the group, 5th teams will be ranked 9th and 10th, 6th teams ranked 11th and 12th., the 7th teams will be ranked 13th and 14th and the last teams from both groups will be ranked 15th and 16th.

 

 

RELEGATION

 

8th Ranked teams from both Preliminary Round Groups will be relegated to next years Division I Group A and will be replaced next year by Great Britain and Italy, freshly promoted countries from this years Div I A tournament held last week in Hungary.

 

IMPORTANT: Slovakia has the Immunity this year !!! thus if Slovakia will finish last in its group and thus among the overall bottom ranked two teams, the overall ranked 14th-placed team would be relegated instead.

 

 

KNOCK-OUT ROUND

 

As explained the top 4 teams from both groups will qualify for the Quarterfinals,

The teams will be paired by cross-over system from the groups, Winner of Group A vs 4th of Group B, 2nsdo g Group A vs 3rd of Group B, 2nd Groups B vs 3rd of Group A and 1st of Group B vs 4th of Group A.

 

the winners of the quarterfinals will qualify for the Semifinals, The winning teams of the semi-final games advance to the gold medal game while the semi-final losing teams play for bronze.

 

In the Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Bronze Medal match, the "Sudden death" Overtime is played 10 minutes with 4 vs 4 Players,

In the Gold Medal Game, the "Sudden death" Overtime is played 20 minutes with 4 vs 4 players

 

 

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MEN'S

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2018

 

 

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Preliminary Round

DAY 1

 

Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Russia vs France
Period-by-Period:
May 4th 2018, h. 16:15, Royal Arena, Copenhaguen

 

Spoiler

 

Sweden vs Belarus
Period-by-Period:
May 4th 2018, h. 20:15, Royal Arena, Copenhaguen

 

Spoiler

 

 

Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

United States vs Canada
Period-by-Period:
May 4th 2018, h. 16:15, Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning

 

Spoiler

 

 

Germany vs Denmark
Period-by-Period:
May 4th 2018, h. 20:15, Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning

 

Spoiler

 

 

*Official Livestreams should be added by tomorrow in the spoilers

 

[Finnator123 292]

I hope that Denmark will make it at least to the knockout round  

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Results after 1st Period

 

Group A in Copenhaguen

Russia - France  3-0 (3-0,-,-)

07:08 Kirill Kaprizov (Dadonov / N. Zaitsev)   1-0

08:18 Pavel Buchnevich (Grigorenko / Nesterov)  2-0

10:22 Yevgeni Dadonov (Kaprizov / Khafizullin)  3-0

 

 

Group B in Herning

United States - Canada  1-2 (1-2,-,-)

00:47 Luc Dubois (Horvat)   0-1

12:23 Ryan O´Reilly (Jo. Bailey)  0-2

13:59 Anders Lee (T. Thompson / Debrincat )   1-2

 

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Results after 2nd Period

 

Group A in Copenhaguen

Russia - France  4-0 (3-0, 1-0,-)

07:08 Kirill Kaprizov (Dadonov / N. Zaitsev)   1-0

08:18 Pavel Buchnevich (Grigorenko / Nesterov)  2-0

10:22 Yevgeni Dadonov (Kaprizov / Khafizullin)  3-0

37:59 Kirill Kaprizov (Datsyuk / N. Zaitsev)   4-0

 

 

Group B in Herning

United States - Canada  3-3 (1-2, 2-1,-)

00:47 Luc Dubois (Horvat)   0-1

12:23 Ryan O´Reilly (Jo. Bailey)  0-2

13:59 Anders Lee (T. Thompson / Debrincat)   1-2

20:43 Dylan Larkin (Kreider / Oesterle)  2-2

30:00 Johnny Gaudreau (Kane / Coleman)  3-2

37:53 Anthony Beauvillier (Eberle / Barzal)  3-3

 

[Finnator123 292]

Why did i predict Russia winning by 4-5 goals??    

[bestmen 2,818]

me too only +4 for Russia , the french team looks strong sometimes that's why i doupted

and +1 for canada this team is also not stable