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I don't know. Please open my eyes. Did Hungary win too many medals? What about Gyurta Dániel? An Olympic Champion but here he is 26. Cseh László? 4xOlimpic silver medalist. Here? 11. Women's 4x100 relay? 9. Etc. Hungary, the host won a medal and, of course they used doping.
During the last Olympic many of our Olympians were interviewed. All of them waited this WC because it is in Hungary. With it's special atmosphere!
Hungary is a very successful nation in a lot of sports. So a bronze almost 2 sec from the winner is a sweet surprise to me.
Hosszú will win medals. Pleas don't see her races!

That your comments are pathetics  

Ucestvuje sigurno na 100 i 200 bi trebalo. Ali mozda ce samo jednu od te dve zbog stafeta koju su im prioritet ove sezone

15/15 It was very easy
 
 

Little diference

The eastern half can be saved!

The only Ice hockey team and ice rink in central and eastern Africa is dreaming about the winter olympics
 

This USA team looks very well, definitely not the USA teams they send to world championships hockey in the past, this fresh and extremely skilled team is for me a serious contender for (at least) a medal here.  They lost first match with Germany but since then they play a high speed amazing hockey and you really must like this play
 
btw CZE now in troubles after todays lose against SUI...they will probably play Russia in quarterfinal ofc if Finland will not beat Canada tonight to avoid USA
 
 

Congrats Portugal, see you soon Lisbona next year!
Sadly very low result for Gabbani  

well, mens ice hockey world championships preliminary rounds are usually the most unpredictable sport event. Teams playing 7 matches during 12 days is in this extremely physically demanding sport is something very very difficult.
 
And nowadays when all Nations in this category know how to skate and have players in big leagues improving their level and skills. Plus if you add that many usually so-called "strongest" teams play for different reasons without many star players (SVK for example playing here with literally complete "C" team...but this is another story. and the f....g boycott of our stars against the federation etc...) and in the opposite side the so-called "small" teams playing practically each year with the same team composed of their best players, it´s no shocking that we see so many surprising results each year more and more.
 
This is why I always consider this contest as the toughest one of the year. you can not expect anything. todays hockey is very balanced at world championships level

France don't belongs to Frensh anymore 

And it start for less than 3 hours. Finally one superb great sport competition this year 

Cool
 
It´s really easy, here some basic rules for the tournament
 
16 Nations are divided in 2 Preliminary Round Groups A and B.
Group A in Cologne ( )
Group B in Paris ( )
 
In the preliminary round each team will play once against all opponents of his group. Each match must have a winner, so if the game end by a draw after 60 minutes of regulation time (3 periods by 20 minutes) the match continue with the "sudden death" overtime (5 minutes OT played by 3 skating players against 3 !! this is the new rule since this year) when a team score a goal the overtime and match is over, the scoring team won. if no goal is scored the game continue with the shoot-out penalties session. a 3 vs 3 serie, if the game still no decided, the shoot-outs continue with a a direct elimination format 1 vs 1 untill the game is decided (one team score and the opponent doesn´t).
 
For a win in regulation time the team receive 3 points in the standing, For a win i´after overtime or shoot-outs the team receive 2 points, For a lose after overtime or GWS the team receive 1 point, For a lose in regulation time the team not receive any points. The top 4 ranked teams from both groups qualify for the quarterfinals where they will meet in a direct elimination match. The pairing will be formed by cross-over system so winner of group A will face the 4th of Group B, 2nd of Group A will face 3rd of Group B. winner of Group B the 4th of Group A, and the second of Group B the 3rd of Group A. The winners continue in semifinals and so..from the semifinals all matches will be played only in Cologne.
 
The last ranked (8th) teams of both groups will be relegated to next years Division I Group A. BUT ATTENTION! In Group A there one exception. Denmark as the next year top division host is assured to stay in top division however they will be ranked, so that means if Denmark will finish 8th, nothing will happen to them, but automatically the 7th ranked team will be relegated.
 
It´s important to know that the tie-breaker rule is the direct confrontation, this is why all matches must have a winner. the goal scoring has no importance, if 2 teams have the same amount of points, we watch their dircet confrontation result, and the winner is ranked higher.
here the official full tie-breaker formula
 
 
The rules of matches didn´t changed, still 2 teams of 5 skaters + 1 goaltender play ahainst each other and try to score more goals than the opponent, there some penalties given for fouls and mistakes, resulting on power plays (a man afvantage)  ther only 3 possible power plays a traditional 5 against 4players, or 5 against 3 (2 mans advantage) or 4 against 3. There minor penalties of 2 minutes and major penalties of 5 minutes, during a minor penalty if the offended team score the power play is over and the guilty player can return to the game from the penalty box, in a major penalty the offended team play the complete 5 minutes in power play and can score how many goals they want the penalised player will have to sit in the penalty bench the whole 5 minutes. The most often penalty calls are for tripping, hooking, boarding, high sticking, cross-checking or my favorite too many players on ice
 

 
here some examples of the most often fouls
 
Also ice hockey is one of the most inteligent games, because ther 2 extremely important rules! Off-side and Icing
explanation video

 
Hopefully it help you a bit
 

Only 1 day left 

C'mon, they are only one big state in sport   

Like athletes from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Kuwait, Emirates and so on..... 

Islamic solidarity??? lol 
What is next, Games of Christian brotherhood or World Budisth champs 

Who normal want to be part of EU now, except banana countries from european east? I really hope we never become part of that neo liberal freek called EU.
 
ALLEZ MARINE

I don't give a damn about EU anymore. And I can guess many people in Serbia are very skeptical now too. 
 
 
 
I hope Le Pen wins in second round, though it probably will be very, very tough. 
 

MEN'S
DIVISION I GROUP A
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
2017
 
 
 
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Round-Robin
DAY 1
Ukraine 3 - 5 Hungary
Period-by-Period: 1-1, 2-1, 0-3
April 22nd 2017, h. 13:30, Palace of Sports, Kyiv   HIGHLIGHTS  
That first Hungarian goal....
 

 

Happy Easter everyone!! 

Happy Easter
 

Happy Easter!
 

What shame.. no comment for this decision, i hope that Ukraina will be exclused from next contest

well bomb is some.kind of firework, very explosive one