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*BAD WORDS !!!                   THE GOLD MEDAL WAS YET AGAIN SO CLOSE, BUT SO FAR TO FINLAND 

Thank you Mira Potkonen!! 

On 23.5.2016 at 08:01, hckosice said:

World Ranking 2016

Canada remains first

Finland, USA move up in World Ranking

 

With its 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship win Canada also defended first place in the 2016 IIHF Men’s World Ranking.

 

Thanks to the gold-medal win Canada even extended its lead with 3495 points while Russia has 3380. Finland and the U.S. are third and fourth respectively now. Both moved up one spot at the expense of Sweden, which fell from third to fifth place after missing out on the semi-finals this year.

 

The four following places remained the same with the Czech Republic (6th), Switzerland (7th), Slovakia (8th) and Belarus (9th). Germany, one of the hosts next year, moved up from 13th to 10th place after reaching the quarter-finals for the first time in five years followed by Norway, which remained in 11th place. Denmark also made a move forward after reaching the quarter-finals, from 15th to 13th place, while Latvia (12th), France (14th) and Slovenia (15th) dropped down. Kazakhstan, Austria, Italy, Hungary and Poland complete the top-20.

 

Note: The groups for the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship are not determined yet and will be announced in the upcoming days following meetings with the stakeholders involved in the event that will take place 5 to 21 May 2017 in Cologne, Germany, and Paris, France.

 

but at this moment the groups for 2017 IIHF WCh are:

A- ( ? ) in Cologne, Germany

B- (   ?) in Paris, France

The Groups are determined by this key

A- 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16 of the annual IIHF ranking

B- 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15 of the annual IIHF ranking

Both Host countries must be agreed, and this year we have an exception with both co-hosted countries, they will meet in the next days to determine the groups. France already announced that they wish to Have Canada in Paris and Germany want Russia in Cologne, if it happen the groups will be like in this post.

 

 

here the new released world ranking as of May 22nd, 2016

2016 IIHF Men's World Ranking

1		Canada	3495
2		Russia	3380
3		Finland	3355
4		United States	3290
5		Sweden	3275
6		Czech Republic	3210
7		Switzerland	2910
8		Slovakia	2870
9		Belarus	2820
10		Germany	2815
11		Norway	2765
12		Latvia	2730
13		Denmark	2700
14		France	2655
15		Slovenia	2530
16		Kazakhstan	2470
17		Austria	2440
18		Italy	2345
19		Hungary	2325
20		Poland	2175
21		Japan	2140
22		Ukraine	2105
23		South Korea	2090
24		Great Britain	2020
25		Lithuania	1900
26		Croatia	1825
27		Netherlands	1825
28		Estonia	1755
29		Romania	1735
30		Spain	1550
31		Serbia	1520
32		Belgium	1300
33		Mexico	1290
34		Israel	1250
35		Iceland	1240
36		Australia	1160
37		China	1075
38		New Zealand	1000
39		Bulgaria	870
40		North Korea	825
41		Turkey	805
42		South Africa	795
43		Luxembourg	680
44		Georgia	635
45		Hong Kong	545
46		Bosnia and Herzegovina	390
47		United Arab Emirates	340
48		Ireland	65
49		Greece	60
50		Mongolia	50

 
IIHF Men's World Ranking as of 22 May 2016.

 

Why Team Finland is ranked 3rd and Russia 2nd? I'm still wondering... 

I need a drink. Or two... 

Thank god we have Laine and Aho for future WC tournaments.

U18 gold, U20 gold and WC Silver is rather solid result in this hockey season though. We'll have our revenge..... 

GRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!  

I'm so nervous right now   25mins to go.

One more win. This is it. The moment what millions of finns have waited for the past 2 weeks. Gold medal match.

3rd GOLD MEDAL IS SO CLOSE!!!! I CAN FEEL IT!!! 

20 minutes to go. 20 minutes. We have 2 goal lead. This getting very intense. I think that Russia will attack with more aggressively in the last 20 mins. GO FINLAND!!!!

Maybe IIHF was drunk while doing those changes 

I mean really!  

Czechs losing..... man...

4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Of couse i know some of those bands, especially Nightwish, but i was talking about pop music. The other scandinavian countries have great pop/electric/house artists, so why does Finland have an other "style", why doesnt Finland have any/many great electric/pop/house artists? Do you have any idea?

 Darude, have you heard about him?

GG Easy   Koskinen was amazing 

IIHF Men's Ice Hockey World Championships 2016
 

 Various Cities (RUS) - 06.05.2016 - 22.05.2016 

Official Site


 

Preliminary Round

16 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nation from each Groups will qualify for Quarterfinals, 8th Nations from each groups will be relegated to IIHF Men´s Division I Group A World Championships 2017.


Group B

Day 3 Results

 

 Finland  5 - 1  Germany  

(Score by Period: 2-0, 2-1, 1-0)

8th May 2016, h. 16:15 (GMT +3), Arena Yubileiny, St. Petersburg


Day 4 Results
 

 Finland  3 - 2  United States      

(Score by Period : 2-1, 0-0, 1-1)

9th May 2016, h. 20:15 (GMT +3), Arena Yubileiny, St. Petersburg



Day 6 Results
 

 Finland  3 - 0  Hungary      

(Score by Period : 0-0, 1-0, 2-0)

11th May 2016, h. 20:15 (GMT +3), Arena Yubileiny, St. Petersburg


Day 6 Results
 

 France  1 - 3  Finland   

(Score by Period : 0-0, 0-3, 1-0)

14th May 2016, h. 12:15 (GMT +3), Arena Yubileiny, St. Petersburg


Day 10 Results
 

 Slovakia  0 - 5  Finland      

(Score by Period : 0-0, 0-2, 0-3)

15th May 2016, h. 20:15 (GMT +3), Arena Yubileiny, St. Petersburg
 

Group B Provisional Standing After Day 10

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	W(OT)	W(OT)	LOSE	SCORE	GOAL DIF	POINTS
1	Finland	6	6	0	0	0	25:6	+19	18
2	Canada	5	5	0	0	0	30:4	+26	15
3	Germany	6	3	0	1	2	18:18	0	10
4	United States	6	3	0	0	3	20:15	+5	9
5	Slovakia	6	2	0	0	4	12:21	-9	6
6	France	5	1	1	0	3	11:16	-5	5
7	Hungary	6	1	0	0	5	10:27	-17	3
8	Belarus	6	1	0	0	5	13:32	-19	3

Koskinen 2 min penalty for Delaying? C'moon 

I missed the 1st day and i'm already 12th after day 8 in ice hockey prediction contest    

PATRIK LAINE!   5 matches and 9 points!   5+4 so far 

Now that i've read an article about Pihlström's 2+2 penalty, i kinda understand it. He was heading towards Holtzer after he fell because of him. He was looking for some revenge.

From the group B only Slovakia, Finland and Canada have won all matches so far 

Just now, hckosice said:

 

terrible mistake of the referee. The German literally use a perfect wrestling pin move and the ref excluded your player but it´s nothing new..the officials are quite often the weakest part of the tournament

I really hope that the referees in the World Cup of Hockey KNOWS HOW TO MAKE CALLS

Pihlström gets 2+2 for doing pretty much nothing wrong??!?!? REALLY????

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE IIHF WORLDS?!?             My predictions are WAY off course