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SonderjyskE wins first Continental Cup for Denmark Danish small-town club SonderjyskE Vojens wrote history for its country by becoming the first club from Denmark to win an IIHF-sanctioned European club competition. In front of 4,107 fans on home ice at Fros Arena, SonderjyskE made it three wins in three games after beating Cracovia Krakow 3-1. The win also gives SonderjyskE Vojens a ticket to the Champions Hockey League for the 2020/2021 season. “It’s an unbelievable experience. We’re so proud of this weekend and finally in the history book. We’re the first team from Denmark to win this, so we’re very proud. We always believed it. It was our goal [to win the Continental Cup] and we finally made it,” said Daniel Nielsen, who scored two of the three goals. “We were so pumped. We were ready to go. I had a lucky bounde on the second goal but I take it.” The start was important in this game. SonderjyskE Vojens had to go to overtime the night before while Cracovia Krakow was destined to finish in last place no matter what result even though the players were determined not to finish with another loss. The Danes started well and in the 4th minute occupied the Cracovia zone for a while and with several shots. Eventually the puck went in when Frederik Bjerrum’s shot from the right boards was deflected by MacGregor Sharp. “It’s nice to get to a good start in a game like this. That’s huge. It’s an unreal feeling [to win the Continental Cup]. We beat some pretty good hockey clubs this weekend in all three games. I’m proud of the team. We were underdogs but we all believed and it happened,” team captain Sharp said. “Having home ice is huge. We’ve some of the best fans I’ve seen. It keeps the energy going especially on the third day to win three on three.” Cracovia was in defence mode while the SonderjyskE players bombarded Cracovia goaltender Miroslav Kopriva from all angles. It took almost eight minutes until Cracovia had something like a shot on goal. The shot count was 13-0 by then. However, Cracovia improved during the period and had chances itself when the host club became undisciplined. Bjerrum and Konsta Makinen for hooking and Mike Little for delaying the game all took “easy” penalties within just 65 seconds giving Cracovia a lengthy 5-on-3. But the Poles didn’t capitalize on it and ended the situation when Marek Tvrdon earned himself an unnecessary hooking call. Goaltender Nicolaj Henriksen helped his team in this situation and was close to a shutout with his 28 saves. “It was pretty easy for me. They didn’t have a lot of big chances. Big shout out to the defence,” Henriksen said. “It is kind of a dream come true. Not every day do you get the chance to win a European cup, it’s just amazing!” SonderjyskE came out with energy from the dressing room again when the second period started. Cracovia had trouble getting the puck out of the zone against an aggressively forechecking Danish line. Daniel Hansen got the puck at the end boards after hitting Cracovia defenceman Marek Pac and Daniel Nielsen converted it to increase the lead to 2-0. History repeated in the third period when the puck went in after already 50 seconds. While playing 4-on-4 Daniel Nielsen coming from the right found a small gap between Kopriva’s pad and the goal post to make it a three-goal cushion for SonderjyskE. Cracovia Krakow like in the other games kept up and was fighting but lacked efficiency in front of the net. Adam Domogala managed to spoil Henriksen’s shutout when he scored with 106 seconds left to play after a centering pass from Mateusz Bepierszcz but it was too little too late. With SonderjyskE’s first European club trophy Denmark became the 12th country after Slovakia, Switzerland, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Austria, France, Ukraine, Norway, Great Britain and Kazakhstan to have a Continental Cup winner. IIHF.COM

Japan storms to gold Japan’s dazzling skills and lightning speed brightened up a grey and rainy week in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, as they raced through the 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division II Group A with an unblemished record. In front of a full house of 2,387 at the Pramogu Arena, Japan defeated hosts Lithuania 5-2 during the final game of the tournament to secure the gold medals and promotion to the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group B. Japan’s first line led the way against Lithuania, with centreman Teruto Nakajima flanked by forwards Yu Sato and Chikara Hanzawa notching three points each. Nakajima was also the tournament’s top scorer with 5+8 in five games while Hanzawa - voted Best Forward of the tournament - followed closely on 7+5. Earlier in the U20 Division IIA, Japan had opened their promotion campaign by beating Great Britain 6-3 before blanking both Romania and Spain 8-0 and then scoring double digits against Serbia in a 10-2 win. Being in a class of their own in Vilnius, Japan found the back of the net on 37 occasions while conceding only seven in five games. Netminder Eiki Sato was selected as the Best Goaltender of the tournament, aided by solid defending that saw Japan go through a spell of 134:23 minutes without conceding a goal. Heading into their Sunday night showdown against hosts Lithuania, Japan needed a single point to finish top. Lithuania, on the other hand, required a regular-time win to leapfrog Great Britain and Japan and get their hands on the gold medals. The new President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, had barely taken his seat next to Dainius Zubrus, Lithuania’s hockey president and legend, up on the tribune before Japan had opened the scoring. 17-year-old Yu Sato saw his effort find a way past an unlucky Nikita Kuzminov and into Lithuania’s net after just 13 seconds. Buoyed by their dream start, Japan soon after staved off a two-minute minor penalty as Lithuania battled energetically with high forechecking in an attempt to put pressure on Japan’s build up play. Heading into the halfway stage of the first frame, Japan doubled their lead as Rioto Takeya snapped a shot from the right boards through traffic fooling Kuzminov after 9:28. Backed by a sea and yellow and black up the stands supporting their home favourites, Lithuania’s uphill struggle became steeper with 4:11 left to play of the first frame. Yu Sato charged in towards the net from the left side with Hanzawa stabbing home the puck to stretch their lead of 3-0. Lithuania’s head coach Doug Boulanger reacted as Kuzminov in Lithuania’s net was replaced with the more experienced Laurynas Lubys entering the fold. “This was the hardest game for us in this tournament,” said Japan’s head coach Teruhiko Okita. “Lithuania is an offensive team with good players and there were also a lot of people coming to watch the game which many of our players are not used to,” he continued. With Lithuania now having to chase the game, they matched Japan evenly for long spells of the second period. Shots were tied 9-9 but once again it was the Japanese who capitalized. Thanks to a brilliant piece of combination of skill and quick transition, Hanzawa picked out Yu Sato, who flew down the left wing and ripped a wrister high past Lubys for his second of the evening to silence the home crowd. But this crop of Lithuanian youngsters was to show great resilience as they refused to wilt down. Heading into the third frame, they got a lifeline when Timonas Mazulis was picked out by Martynas Grinius in front of Japan’s net to pull one back for Lithuania at 48:08. The roles were reversed with 6:58 left to play of the frame. Japan’s Yuto Taneichi serving a tripping minor and Grinius scored on a rebound by Eiki Sato to send the home crowd back to their feet with "Lietuva! Lietuva!" ringing out from the stands. Japan’s head coach Okita took a time-out to cool heads and despite Lithuania frantically trying to claw themselves back into the game, any faint hopes of a comeback were crushed with 2:09 left of the game when Nakajima hit the final nail in the coffin with his 5-2 goal. “We played well during the first and second period. Then in the third they came back, but we took a time-out and once again talked about what we needed to do,” said Japan’s Hanzawa as he singled out the key-component in Japan’s recipe for success in Vilnius. “All our guys play for the team. We are not selfish, but always playing for each other as a hard working team.” Half of the current crop of players skating to gold in Lithuania will be eligible for Japan at the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group B. Meanwhile nine out of 22 will be available play for them during the 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group A playing in Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia between 13-19 April this year as Japanese hockey aims for a place at the Olympic Winter Games in 2026 and 2030. Behind the runaway winners, Great Britain improved on last year’s third spot by finishing with the silver medals, despite the omission of Arizona Coyotes draft pick Liam Kirk. Following their two defeats against Great Britain and Japan, hosts Lithuania had to settle for bronze, while newly promoted Serbia, who could have gotten something out of four out of their five games in Vilnius, finished winless to return straight back to Division IIB. IIHF.COM

Updated and completed

Updated and Completed

Team Day 3 Return in Pics Day 4 Schedule

Team Day 3 Results Still no medals for our delegation, nor any Top 10 result today, but a lot of sport passion and fighting spirit was shown from our competing athletes. Once again for the 3rd day in a row the best result has been achieved by Alpine skier Rebeka Jančová who today bravely competed in the Giant Slalom achieving a very nice 14th place with starting bib 33. but I decided to honor in todays results review our 2 ice hockey girls helping their respective teams to lead the Round-Robin of Women´s NOC´s 3x3 Ice Hockey Tournament after 5 of the 7 rounds Zuzana Dobiášová is leading with her Team Blue the Round-Robin ahead of team Black including Nikola Janeková, with 2 rounds still to be played both are already assured to qualify for the Semifinals

SonderjyskE Vojens Ishockey First ever Continental Cup Winner

Final Round 4 teams, Round-Robin, the Top ranked team will be the IIHF Continental Cup 2019/20 Champion Final-Four in Vojens () (GMT +1) Last Day Sunday 12.01.2020 - Results 15:30 Cracovia Krakow (POL) - Sonderjyske Vojens (DEN) 1-3 19:00 Nottingham Panthers (GBR) - Neman Grodno (BLR) 4-3 Final Standing: 1. Sonderjyske 7, 2. Nottingham 7, 3. Grodno 4, 4. Krakow 0

Monday January 13th, 2020 - Preliminary Round Day 1 Schedule (GMT +2) LIVESTREAM Group A: 17:00 Mexico vs New Zealand 20:30 Bulgaria vs Iceland Group B: 10:00 Turkey vs Chinese Taipei 13:30 Australia vs South Africa 

Final Standings 1. Japan 15 ------------------------------------- 2. Great Britain 11 3. Lithuania 9 4. Romania 6 5. Spain 4 ------------------------------------- 6. Serbia 0 The following Nation have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group B World Championship 2021 Japan The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division II Group A World Championship 2021 Great Britain Lithuania Romania Spain The following Nation has been relegated to the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division II Group B World Championship 2021 Serbia

Sunday January 12th, 2020 - Round-Robin Last Day RESULTS (GMT +2) 12:00 Great Britain 5 - 2 Serbia 15:30 Romania 4 - 1 Spain 19:00 Japan 5 - 2 Lithuania

That team goal song is just so addicting lol @Werloc why you never introduced us this jewel ? the part from 2:05 is played after every Lithuanian goal

Stage 12 in Val di Fiemme (ITA) Men´s Individual Normal Hill: 1. Karl Geiger 285.2 2. Stefan Kraft 280.5 3. Dawid Kubacki 278.2 Full Final Result HERE

qualified

I´m perfectly fine to return to the Downhill (and even a real long and hard one) and the leaders starting first in the 2nd part but then also we must return to a 2 runs slaloms. Alpine Combined was great event in the Albertville, Lillehammer and Nagano era. I would be more than happy to have this format back again

Once again, this is the new Alpine Combined version supposed to be more "equal" after peoples started crying all over and over, that now only slalom specialists can win blah blah...interesting, nobody was bashing in the past when they had even 2 slalom runs...however, now when they decided to do that introducing the rule of the eventual super-g winners starting first in the slalom run, they had to logically level up a bit the chances also for the slalom specialists to balance a bit the competition, so the AC super-G will be from now more like longer Giant Slalom than real Super-G, like you had the chance to see today.

[hide] Day 4 questions - Deadline - January 13th, h. 9:00 (GMT+1) #31 Deadline - January 12th, h. 9:00 (GMT+1) Will the athletes from one NOC meet each other in any of the men's or women's Ice Hockey Mixed NOC 3-on-3 Tournament semifinals? [YES] #32 Will the winner of Ice Dance Free Dance be the same as in the Rhytm Dance? [YES] #33 What will be the biggest stone difference in a single curling game of Day 4? (step - 1) [12] #34 What will be the time difference between men's and women's winner of Speed Skating 1500m? (step - 1 sec) [2.31] #35 Which country will have its 2nd best athlete ranked highest in the men's Giant Slalom? [AUSTRIA] Day 5 questions - Deadline - January 14th, h. 9:30 (GMT+1) #36 Will both of the Slalom winners be leading after the 1st run? [NO] #38 How many athletes will win their first Ski Mountainnering medal in the Mixed NOC Relay? (step - 1) [3] #39 How many goals will be scored in all of the Ice Hockey Mixed NOC 3-on-3 Tournament semifinals? (step - 1) [37] #40 Which nation will lead the Biathlon medal table after the sprints? [RUSSIA] [/hide]

PROVISIONAL STANDING AFTER DAY 3 Sunday 12.01.2020 Total Medal Events: 6 Cumulative Medal Events: 14 1. SUI 4 - 2 - 2 2. RUS 3 - 2 - 1 3. FRA 2 - 2 - 2 4. JPN 2 - 0 - 1 5. AUT 1 - 1 - 2 6. SWE 1 - 0 - 2 7. NED 1 - 0 - 0 -. NOR 1 - 0 - 0 9. CHN 0 - 1 - 1 -. ISR 0 - 1 - 1 11. FIN 0 - 1 - 0 -. ITA 0 - 1 - 0 -. SLO 0 - 1 - 0 -. ESP 0 - 1 - 0 15. BLR 0 - 0 - 1 -. GEO 0 - 0 - 1

Event 14/81 FIGURE SKATING Men´s Singles: 1. Yuma Kagiyama 239.17 2. Andrei Mozalev 237.94 3. Daniil Samsonov 215.21 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 4 in Val di Fiemme (ITA) Men´s Team Sprint Normal Hill Gundersen: 1. NORWAY 1 (Joergen Graabak/Jarl Magnus Riiber) 33:19.0 2. GERMANY 1 (Fabian Riessle/Vinzenz Geiger) 34:02.8 3. AUSTRIA 2 (Lukas Greiderer/Martin Fritz) 34:03.3 Full Final Result HERE

2 Goals - 2-31

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qualified. Congrats @MHSN

Stage 6 in Dresden (GER) Men´s Teamsprint Freestyle: 1. FRANCE 1 (Renaud Jay/Lucas Chanavat) 14:30.66 2. SWEDEN 1 (Marcus Grate/Johan Haeggstroem) 14:30.75 3. RUSSIA 1 (Andrey Krasnov/Gleb Retivykh) 14:30.84 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 6 in Dresden (GER) Women´s Teamsprint Freestyle: 1. SWEDEN 1 (Maja Dahlqvist/Linn Svahn) 15:43.70 2. SWITZERLAND 1 (Laurien Van der Graaff/Nadine Faehndrich) 15:43.79 3. SWEDEN 2 (Evelina Settlin/Linn Soemskar) 15:46.97 Full Final Result HERE