Yeah, I am rather sceptical. I agrre, This is how it should work in a normal world, but here we are speaking about a world rulled by dollars. NHL is long time now not anymore about sport but about business.   They will find a way to put Russia in Canadian group, and manage the schedule to avoid "sensible" games. Dollar will always buy anything in NHL lords eyes

Yeah just saw the FIH website. What a stupid format. Makes the group stages not very important for weaker teams. 

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most likely they won't even qualify, if the federation gives Ugolini/Giubilei a real chance

no, just look at the calendar and at the official documents it will be 3 groups of 4, the group winners and the best 2nd ranked team straight to the quarterfinals and all the others to the play-in matches (sort of a round of 16, but with less teams)

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Thanks! It's fixed now.

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OCA have put a countdown post couple of Days. Hopefully it will be not postponed again.