Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2018

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  TEAM SLOVAKIA 

 

 

Goaltenders:

• Roman Durný (MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš),
• Dávid Hrenák (St. Cloud State University/NCAA ), 
• Jakub Kostelný (HK Dukla Trenčín),

Defencers:

• Martin Bodák (Kootenay Ice/WHL ), 
• Martin Fehérváry (IK Oskarshamn ), 
• Samuel Fereta (HC Slovan Bratislava),
• Tomáš Hedera (HC Slovan Bratislava),
• Michal Ivan (Acadie-Bathurst Titan /QMJHL ), 
• Marek Korenčík (Lulea HF ), 
• Dávid Matejovič (HK Nitra),
• Vojtech Zeleňák (Sparta Praha ), 

Forwards:

• Samuel Buček (Chicago Steel/USHL ), 
• Viliam Čacho (HK Dukla Trenčín),
• Miloš Kelemen (HKM Zvolen),
• Filip Krivošík (Lempäälän Kisay ), 
• Peter Kundrík (HK Poprad),
• Adam Liška (Kitchener Rangers/OHL ), 
• Miloš Roman (Vancouver Giants/OHL ), 
• Adam Ružička (Sarnia Sting/OHL ), 
• Erik Smolka (HK Dukla Trenčín),
• Samuel Solenský (Johnstown Tomahawks/NAHL ), 
• Marián Studenič (Hamilton Bulldogs/OHL ), 
• Alex Tamáši (HC '05 iClinic Banská Bystrica),

 

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Less than 24 hours remaining now before the first face-off of the 2018 Under 20 Top Division World Championship in Buffalo, USA.

Here the schedule of Day 1

 

 

2018 IIHF World Junior Championship
In Buffalo, , 26 December 2017 to 5 January 2018

 

Tuesday December 26th, 2017 -

Preliminary Round

Day 1 Schedule (GMT -5)

 

 

Group A

16:00  Canada vs Finland    (in Key Bank Center)

20:00  Denmark vs United States    (in Key Bank Center)

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Rest Day: Slovakia

 

Group B

12:00  Czech Republic vs Russia    (in Key Bank Center)

14:00  Belarus vs Sweden    (in Harborcenter)

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Rest Day: Switzerland

 

 

 

*Tournament Format: The 10 teams are divided into two, five-team groups A and B in the Preliminary Round.

After a single round-robin series in each group, the top four teams from each group advance to the Playoff Round (Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Final)

 

while the fifth-placed team in each group moves to the Relegation Round. (Best of 3 Matches relegation series, the Losing team will be relegated to the next years Men´s Under 20 Division I Group A where they will replace Kazakhstan, promoted Nation from this years U20 Div I A tournament held earlier this month in France)

 

The top four placed teams from the Preliminary will play a cross-over Quarterfinal game: 1A vs. 4B, 1B vs. 4A, 2A vs. 3B and 2B vs. 3A. The winner of each Quarterfinal moves onto the Semi-Finals.

The winner of each Semi-Final game will move onto the Gold Medal Game, while the losers will play in the Bronze Medal Game.

The quarter-final losers will be ranked 5th to 8th according to 1. their position in the group, 2. their preliminary-round record (1. points, 2. goal difference, 3. goals scored).

 

Nations ranked from 1st to 9th will stay in top division also for the ext edition 2019.

 

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I always hate these WC games across the Atlantic ocean.... Damn you, timezones!

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2018 IIHF World Junior Championship
In Buffalo, , 26 December 2017 to 5 January 2018

 

Tuesday December 26th, 2017 -

Preliminary Round

Day 1 Results (GMT -5)

 

 

Group A

16:00  Canada  4 - 2  Finland    (in Key Bank Center)

20:00  Denmark  0 - 9  United States    (in Key Bank Center)

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Rest Day: Slovakia

 

 

Provisional Standing After Day 1:

1. USA  3 pts, 2. Canada  3 pts, 3. Finland  0 pts, 4. Denmark  0 pts.  Slovakia not played yet

 

Group B

12:00  Czech Republic  5 - 4  Russia    (in Key Bank Center)

14:00  Belarus  1 - 6  Sweden    (in Harborcenter)

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Rest Day: Switzerland

 

 

Provisional Standing After Day 1:

1. Sweden  3 pts, 2. Czech Republic  3 pts, 3. Russia  0 pts, 4. Belarus  0 pts.  Switzerland not played yet

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MEN´S UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2018

 

 

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CZECH REPUBLIC  -  RUSSIA   5-4 

Preliminary Round: Group B

 

Goals:

5. Nečas 1-0, 8. Safin 2-1, 26. Zadina 3-2, 38. Chytil 4-2, 47. Král 5-2 - 6. Polodyan 1-1, 10. Sholokhov 2-2, 58. Kayumov 5-3, 60. Syomin 5-4
at Key Bank Center December 26th, 2017. (12:00 h.)

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

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BELARUS - SWEDEN   1-6

Preliminary Round: Group B

 

Goals:

15. Sharangovich 1-1 - 9. Pettersson 0-1, 31. Brännström 1-2, 33. G. Gustafsson 1-3, 35. J. Boqvist 1-4, 43. Andersson 1-5, 52. Andersson 1-6
at Harborenter December 26th, 2017. (14:00 h.)

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

 

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CANADA - FINLAND   4-2

Preliminary Round: Group A

 

Goals:

6. Katchouk 1-0, 7. Steel 2-0, 13. Batherson 3-1, 33. Raddysh 4-2 - 13. Heponiemi 2-1, 28. Jokiharju 3-2
at Key Bank Center December 26th, 2017. (16:00 h.)

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

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DENMARK - UNITED STATES   0-9

Preliminary Round: Group A

 

Goals:

3. Jones 0-1, 6. Bellows 0-2, 9. Mittelstadt 0-3, 12. Yamamoto 0-4, 19. Mittelstadt  0-5, 25. Bellows 0-6, 40. Harper 0-7, 53. Peeke 0-8, 54. Samberg 0-9
at Key Bank Center December 26th, 2017. (20:00 h.)

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

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Here the schedule of Day 2

 

 

2018 IIHF World Junior Championship
In Buffalo, , 26 December 2017 to 5 January 2018

 

Wednesday December 27th, 2017 -

Preliminary Round

Day 2 Schedule (GMT -5)

 

 

Group A

19:00  Slovakia vs Canada    (in Key Bank Center)

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Rest Day: Denmark, Finland, United States

 

Group B

15:00  Switzerland vs Belarus    (in Key Bank Center)

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Rest Day: Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden

 

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yesterday (actually, this morning) I watched the CZE vs RUS game...and it was quite entertaining and with an eventual unexpected winner...

maybe the Czechs were a bit messy on defense and when trying to start their organized attacks, but at the same time they were lethal on counter-attacks and very effective on special teams...

they also have a couple of players (namely, Necas and Kaut) well above the average...

they dominated the game a lot more than the final score might say...meanwhile the Russian were really disappointing over any aspect of the game...no team play, bad defense, awful goaltending...they just had a useless reaction in the ast couple of minutes that was too little and too late...at least yesterday, they definitely deserved the loss (which now could mean a lot of troubles in the playoffs, starting from a now highly possible pairing in the quarterfinal against USA or Canada)...

 

I couldn't watch the game, but I also expected Canada to thrash Finland out, which luckily wasn't the case...so, maybe this time the Finns have a better team than last year...

 

Today I'm quite curious to see how Switzerland and Slovakia start their campaign...and I hope SVK can at least limit the damage like Finland did yesterday against the everlasting favoutite Canadians...