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Womens Division I Group B World Championships 2017 in Katowice (POL) Day 5 (14th April 2017) GMT +2 Last Day 13:00 Kazakhstan vs Italy 2-1 16:30 Slovakia vs Latvia 8-0 20:00 China vs Poland 6-0 Slovakia won the tournament with 12 points thanks 4 wins from the 5 tourney games. A deserved gold and promotion to the Womens Division I Group A next year. Thankfully the slovak girls showed very decent play and especially a great shooting efficiency. Scoring the most goals of all teams (22) and strong defence conceding only 9 goals were the major points of the quick return to higher division for the in average the youngest team of the tournament. Silver went to Kazakhstan with 10 points, Despite a very bad start with 2 losses, the Kazakhs won all 3 remaining games including a win over Slovakia. In overall it resulted in a great silver medal. And in case the IIHF council will increase in July the Womens top division participants to 10 teams, Kazakhstan will automatically also qualify for dividion IA thanks their second place here. Latvia took the bronze medal, Finishing the championship with 9 points for 3 wins. Latvia fought for promotion untill the end, only Latvia and Slovakia were in the advancing battle before todays last round. China another pre-tournament favourite finished 4th with 8 points, Same as for the Kazakhs, China can regret their first matches which costed them in final a better and expected rank. 5th finished Italy with 4 points, The Italians did the most important. They managed to grab points from games they focused the most, a 3 points won against the hosts and 1 point after GWS lose against the Chinese was enough for the azzuri to stay in this division. Last 6 place go to the host. Poland collected only 2 points in this tournament after the GWS win over Kazakhstan (their 1st ever historic womens win in a Division I category match) it´s unfortunately not enough to avoid the quick relegation after only 1 year in this division back to the Womens Division II Group A next year, where Poland will replace South Korea promoted team from this years Womens Div IIA tournament played like a pre-olympic test in PyeongChang few weeks ago to this Division IB next year.

MEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group B Czech Republic 7 - 4 Belarus Period-by-Period: 2-1, 4-1, 1-2 April 14th 2016, h. 19:30, Arena Spisska Nova Ves, Spisska Nova Ves Czechs win wild one, 7-4 Belarus drops to 0-2 with loss Seven players scored for the Czechs and one of the scorers, Filip Chytil, added two assists in a chippy win over Belarus. The Czechs got their 2017 U18 off to a flying start, jumping out to a 6-1 lead midway through the game and settling for a 7-4 win. Belarus, 7-0 losers last night to the Americans, are 0-2 and in a hole heading into the weekend. Teams combined for 60 penalty minutes in what became a sometimes nasty game that included two misconduct penalties. The Czechs scored two goals in the opening six minutes on goals by Krystof Hrabik and Jan Hladonik, but Belarus went to the dressing room with a bit of life after scoring short-handed with only one second left in the first period. Igor Martynov got the important goal. But in the first eight minutes of the second the Czechs incurred 18 penalty minutes and Belarus six. Despite being short-handed, the Czechs scored the next two goals during brief spells of five-on-five hockey. When Filip Kral made it 4-0 at 10:49, Belarus coach Yuri Faikov pulled Andrei Grishenko in favour of Nikita Tolopilo. The change did little to stymie the Czech attack as they quickly scored two goals just 33 seconds apart. Faikov then reversed his decision and brought Grishenko back in, leaving Tolopilo with a record of 3:12 of playing time and two goals against. Dmitri Kot got a late goal for Belarus to make it 6-2. Late in the third Martynov was awarded a penalty shot and scored, but he disaplayed poor judgement in his celebrations and was handed a rare 10-minute misconduct penalty for taunting, ending his evening. Belarus scored a final goal with nine seconds remaining to make the score a little closer, but the Czechs were clearly the better team. The Czechs play Sweden tomorrow night while Belarus plays the Swedes on Easter Sunday.

MEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group A Switzerland 4 - 0 Latvia Period-by-Period: 2-0, 1-0, 1-0 April 14th 2017, h. 19:30, Poprad Arena, Poprad Swiss in control, win 4-0 Balanced attack neutralizes Latvia The Swiss won their first game of the U18 while Latvia dropped its second straight tonight in Poprad. Switzerland used its speed and playmaking to control the puck and the game, defeating Latvia by a 4-0 score in its first game of the tournament. The loss drops Latvia to 0-2 and already leaves it in a precarious position for next week as it hopes to avoid the relegation round. Nando Eggenberger scored twice for the winners and Gianluca Zaetta stopped all 27 shots for the shutout. The Swiss fired 44 shots on the Latvian goalies. "We came out strong and had a good start," said Nicoo Hischier. "We wanted to win and have a good start to the tournament. Maybe we were a little casual in the second, but we were good again in the third. It's a big win for us." "I feel like we played well, but we had a couple of mistakes and that cost us," admitted Latvian forward Valters Egle. "They scored three goals by passes to the back door. We have to eliminate that. And we have to work on our penalty killing." Eggenberger opened the scoring at 2:57 when he converted a nice pass from Nicolas Muller, beating Janis Voris with a clean shot. The Swiss made it 2-0 at 13:12 on a couple of fine plays during a delayed penalty. Justin Sigrist held onto the puck as he circled the goal, not wanting to give up possession, and his patience paid off. He found Philipp Kurashev clear on the other side and made a great pass to get it there. Kurashev made no mistake and whistled the shot in. Coach Igors Smirnovs pulled Voris and inserted Niklavs Rauza to start the second, but early in the period the Swiss made it 3-0. Sigrist knocked in a loose puck from in close on a power play. Eggenberger scored his second goal of the night early in the third. Driving down the right wing, he flew past a Latvian defenceman and cut in on goal. His bad angle shot fooled Rauza at 3:50. Switzerland plays Finland tomorrow while Latvia has the day off to regroup. Latvia plays Easter Sunday against the Finns in the evening looking to score more than one goal as it has in its first two games. "We know we have to score more," Egle acknowledged. "Hopefully we'll get it going. We also only had two power plays today, so we need to get more chances. I still feel like we can make the quarter-finals." "We have a good team," enthused Hischier. "We have a lot of guys playing in their second tournament, and I think we can surprise some people here."

lol Canadian U18 coach said during the press conference before tomorrows match against Slovakia that he want his team pre-match training to be under some loud music blaring in order to prepare his players for slovak fans quote from TSN.CA

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016/2017 SOUTH KOREA ANYANG HALLA 3rd Asian League Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyang defends title Korean team wins Asia League again The Anyang Halla players celebrate after beating Morskie Lvy Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk from the Russian island of Sakhalin in three games to defend the Asia League title. Anyang Halla has defended its Asia League title after beating Morskie Lvy Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 3-0 in the best-of-five final. It’s the third championship for the Korean team and it’s only the second time a club has won back-to-back championships in the Asia League after now-defunct Kokudo Tokyo in 2005 and 2006. The nine-team league included four club teams from Japan, three from Korea, one from China and one from the Russian island of Sakhalin. In the end it was the two teams that dominated the league who found the way into the gold medal series. Anyang had a 41-7 record in the regular season, Sakhalin was second with a 36-12 record followed by the four Japanese teams Oji Eagles, defending champion Tohoku Freeblades, the Nippon Paper Cranes and the Nikko Ice Bucks. The two other Korean teams High1 from Goyang and the Daemyung Killer Whales missed the playoffs as did the China Dragon. Anyang Halla finished the post season undefeated after beating the Tohoku Freeblades 2-0, 6-2 and 4-1 in the semi-finals where Sakhalin eliminated the Nikko Ice Bucks also in three games. Anyang had home-ice advantage for the first three games in the finals and made use of it. After defeating the team from Sakhalin 6-2 and 4-0 during the weekend, everything looked set for a championship party in Game 3 for the team of Czech coach Patrick Martinec, who was also part of the championship-winning teams in 2010 (as a player) and 2011 (as an assistant coach). But it wasn’t that easy. Eric Regan and Sang Hoon Shin brought Anyang the lead twice but the Russians answered with goals from Timofei Shishkanov and Ruslan Bernikov forcing overtime. There Korean national team veteran Ki Sung Kim scored the championship-winning goal for Anyang Halla on the power play at 2:57 and became the playoff’s top goal scorer with five markers. His teammate Sang Hoon Shin was the scoring leader in the playoffs with ten points while Sang Wook Kim co-lead the regular season in scoring with Tohoku’s Matt Pope, both with 68 points, and was named MVP of the regular season. Former KHL player Ruslan Bernikov, who captained the team from Sakhalin, was the best goal scorer in the regular season with 36 markers. Once dominated by North American imports, the top-five scorers of Anyang were Koreans this year followed by the likes of Mike Testwuide, Eric Regan and Alex Plante, who today received Korean citizenship and could potentially represent the country soon. Brock Radunske missed the last part of the season due to injury. Anyang Halla also had the best goaltender in Matt Dalton, who had a 93.85 save percentage in the regular season – a number that even rose to 95.93 in playoff play and earned him a Playoff MVP award. For the Ontario-born netminder it was his third and strongest season in the Asia League. He has in the meantime obtained Korean citizenship and plays a key role on the Korean national team that will compete in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games on home ice and later this month in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A. With the season finished in the Asia League, it’s now time for the national teams. While Korea will compete for promotion to the top division in Kyiv from 22 to 28 April against Hungary, Kazakhstan, Poland, Austria and host Ukraine, the Japanese national team hopes for an immediate return to the second tier. Japan will play in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B in Belfast from 23 to 29 April against host Great Britain, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia and the Netherlands.

MEN'S UNDER 18 DIVISION I GROUP A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Historic gold for France U18 team goes to top flight first time France won the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group A in Bled and will play in the top division for the first time next year in Russia. French hockey is on the crest of a wave right now, and Les Bleuets – the young Blues – are making history by winning promotion to the top division of the U18 World Championship for the first time. An impressive performance in Bled, Slovenia, saw Romain Guibert’s squad wrap up top spot in the group with a game to spare thanks to a late winner over Norway. Enzo Guebey, a defenceman who plays his junior hockey in Geneva, Switzerland, got the vital marker in the last second, lifting the French out of reach of closest rival Kazakhstan. A 5-0 loss to the Kazakhs in Thursday’s dead rubber did nothing to deflate the euphoria around the team. A morale-boosting warm-up win over Germany set the tone, and France repeated that success with a 4-2 victory in the opening game. Next came Denmark, and the same scoreline again. Hungary caused a scare before going down 6-3 and other results in the group meant that defeating Norway was enough to secure the gold. “Of course, we are very proud, and very happy,” said team manager Christine Duchamp. “Today we didn’t finish quite how we would wish, but this has been a historic tournament for us.” Prior to the tournament, the French camp was optimistic: assistant coach Anthony Mortas spoke of going to Slovenia as a contender rather than an outsider, and that confidence was richly rewarded. “Our federation has done a lot of work over the years and I think we have seen better players emerging each year,” Duchamp added. “Our clubs are working a lot on [developing youngsters] and we felt our team was better than last year, when we only lost games by the odd goal. This year we felt we were stronger, and we had a real chance to win it.” A close relationship between the clubs and the French Ice Hockey Federation has made a big difference. Changes in the rules for the French championship – at all levels, from the top-flight Ligue Magus down – made it easier for U18 and U20 players to get ice time in the senior championships. In Grenoble, Alexandre Texier played 40 games for Bruleurs de Loups in the top league, contributing 10+9=19 points along the way. He took that form to the World Championship, producing five points in five games, while Hugo Sarlin (Angers Ducs), Louis Olive (Amiens Gothiques) and Teemu Loizeau (Lukko Rauma, Finland) scored three goals apiece to lead the team’s goal scoring. “Most of our players this season played for different teams in our men’s leagues,” said Duchamp. “During the season, we saw them improving a lot. Many players in Grenoble had the chance to play in Valences, players from Amiens could play with the farm clubs there. They played against men and it helped our team a lot for this championship.” The rise of French hockey since 2008, when Les Bleus defeated Italy in the relegation round to survive in the elite pool, has been rewarded at a senior level. The men’s national team has since battled its way into a quarter-final (in Minsk, 2014) and is looking forward to co-hosting the 2017 edition next month with Germany. Now it’s time for the youngsters to emulate the senior team and try to establish themselves in the top tier. “When we look at the senior team, it’s inspiring for the young boys,” Duchamp added. “After the seniors won promotion, in that first season they just had to survive year after year in the top division. Then, we could get more ambitious and try to go further. “Next season will be very difficult. We have to go step by step because it’s our first time in the top division. But it’s going to be great experience; now we have to work hard and try to stay at that level. And before that, of course, we want to celebrate what we achieved here.” The 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship is set to take place in the Ural region of Russia, in Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk. Although France skated off with gold, one point ahead of Kazakhstan, the scoring race was dominated by two Norwegians. Mathias Emilio Pettersen, of Omaha Lancers, led the way with 4+8=12 points, ahead of Robin Mathisen (Stavanger IK) on 10. The pair shared nine points in a crushing 10-1 demolition of newly-promoted Hungary. Germany’s Dominik Bokk was third also with 10 points (7+3) and finishing the tournament as top goal scorer. Denmark, relegated from the top flight last season after a heart-breaking shoot-out loss against Latvia, was left to battle for third place with its Nordic neighbour but moved down to fifth spot after a 4-2 loss to Germany on the last day while Norway won bronze. At the foot of the table, Hungary struggled to adapt to life at a higher level and failed to win a single game. Results Thread

Mens Under 18 Top Division World Championships 2017 in Poprad and Spišská Nová Ves (SVK) Day 2 Schedule (14th April 2017) GMT +2 Group A in Poprad 19:30 Switzerland vs Latvia Group B in Spišská Nová Ves 19:30 Czech Republic vs Belarus Livestream Womens Division I Group B World Championships 2017 in Katowice (POL) Day 5 Schedule (14th April 2017) GMT +2 Last Day 13:00 Kazakhstan vs Italy 16:30 Slovakia vs Latvia 20:00 China vs Poland *Slovakia vs Latvia. The decider, the do or die match tomorrow, both teams are the only 2 nations still fighting for promotion, both tied with 9points after 3 wins and 1 lose (both lost to Kazakhstan btw ofc the only Kazakhs wins in this tourney ) So, the winner of the match (doesn´t matter if in regulation time or after OT/GWS) will win gold and qualify to the Womens Division IA next year...so lets hope... **In the bottome side of the table, 3 teams are still fighting for the maintain China, Italy and Poland. The worst position is right now for the hosts, Poland with only 2 points will need to win against China in regular time to avoid the relegation, In other hand, China and Italy are actually with much better cards, both know that any wins for them tomorow will be enough to maintain, China need even only a single point for OT/GWS lose to assure the maintain, and even if Italy lose the previous game with KAZ they will be already automatically safe. Livestream

MEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group B Russia 3 - 1 Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-1, 0-0, 3-0 April 13th 2016, h. 19:30, Arena Spisska Nova Ves, Spisska Nova Ves Russia win opener Russia rallies to beat Sweden, 3-1 Andrei Svechnikov scored twice in the third to help rally Russia past Sweden on opening night of the U18 championships in Slovakia. Goalie Maxim Zhukov stopped 43 of 44 shots and kept his team in the game as Russia found its footing late in the game. In the end, the Russians scored early, midway through, and late in the third to defeat Sweden, 3-1, in an entertaining game in Spisska Nova Ves. Erik Brannstrom got the Swedes on the board at 9:05 of the first on a power play, and that lead held up until early in the third. Shots through two periods were 31-16 for the Swedes, but Zhukov was unbeatable. And then, at 2:13 of the final period, Kirill Maximov tied the game for Russia. Nine minutes later, Svechnikov put Russia ahead, and he scored his second of the game, into an empty net, with two seconds remaining to complete the scoring. Svechnikov also took a late slashing penalty with three minutes remaining to give the Swedes a great chance to tie, but the Russian penalty killers were perfect.

MEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group A Slovakia 4 - 5 Finland Period-by-Period: 0-1, 4-3, 0-1 April 13th 2017, h. 19:30, Poprad Arena, Poprad Finns hold off Slovaks Packed house sees thrilling game Captain Aarne Talvitie's second goal of the game at 12:17 of the third broke a 4-4 tie and gave Finland a huge win to open the U18 championship in Poprad. The goal came off the rush and was set up by a beautiful pass on the left side from Miro Heiskanen. Adam Ziak thought he tied the game for Slovakia with 3:30 remaining, but the referees ruled goalie interference. The game was played before a near capacity crowd of 3,935 that was loud and bositerous from start to finish, and their home team gave plenty of reason to cheer. "It was an amazing feeling to play in front of so many loud fans," Heiskanen said. "It helps us play better as well, but we can play better, for sure." Finland jumped out to an impressive 3-0 lead that looked only like it would increase as the night went on. The Slovaks had other ideas. "We had a really good second period, scored four goals, so we have to be happy with that," Slovakia's captain Martin Fehervary said. "The atmosphere here was really great, so hopefully the fans will be loud like this for every game." The Finns opened the scoring at 9:55 of the first when goalie Juraj Sklenar cleared the puck away from his crease, only to see it land on the stick of Kristian Vesalainen, who wired a quick shot past the surprised goalie. In the second the visitors scored at 3:46 to make it 2-0 when captain Aarne Talvitie snapped a hards shot over Sklenar's glove. Five and a half minutes later, they scored again. This time Vesalainen drilled a shot to the far side on the power play, giving the team a seemingly insurmountable lead. Just 19 seconds later, though, the Slovaks struck back. Goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, who liked to handle the puck but who made several poor clearings in the first, paid the price for another weak clearing around the boards. The puck was expertly picked off by Patrik Hrehorcak, and his shot to the top corner of the stick side made it a 3-1 game. The Slovaks made it 3-2 when Hrehorcak scored again, on a virtually identical play as his first goal. Although this goal came on the power play, he had the puck at the right faceoff dot and wired a high shot to the far side, over Luukkonen's shoulder. But the hosts weren't done yet. Martin Kupec took a harmless point shot, but the puck dribbled under Luukkonen and over the goal line at 15:53. A minute later, Adam Stacho took another weak point shot that Luukkonen flubbed, and all of a sudden that 3-0 Finnish lead was now a 4-3 deficit. "We have to be a lot better when we have the lead," Heiskanen lamented. "We have to make simple plays and get the puck out of our end and into their end." Sklenar made the save of the game late in the period when he robbed Jesse Ylonen with his glove, but later on the same shift Ylonen poked home a loose puck in behind Sklenar to make it a 4-4 game after 40 wildly entertaining minutes.

Mens Under 18 Division I Group A World Championships 2017 in Bled (SLO) Day 5 (13th April 2017) GMT +2 Last Day 13:00 Norway vs Hungary 10-1 16:30 Kazakhstan vs France 5-0 20:00 Denmark vs Germany 5-4 France won gold and promotion for the top division. Even todays lost will not change anything on the French triumph. France with 12 points from first 4 games earned their first ever participation among the world U18 elite next year. Kazakhstan took the silver medals in the last day with 11 points. They missed the gold by only 1 point after losing to Norway in their opener game and beating Denmark only after overtime but in other hand the young Kazakhs are the only team who beat the tournament winners. Denmark will return home with the bronze medals, The young Danes collected 10 points during the tournament, the defeats from france and Kazakhstan costed them the return to the top division. 4th finished Norway with 8 points, Norway fought for the promotion untill the end of the 4th day when they lost to France by a empty netter in the very last second and lost all hopes for the qualifying spot and medal position as well. 5th Germany, one of the co-favorites experienced a very bad tournament with only one but impressive 10-0 win over Hungary, but 4 losing matches send them only for the bottom table fights. In final with 4 points they at least avoided the relegations troubles Hungary finished last 6th pointless. The young Hungarians will be relegated back after only 1 year spending in this division back to the Mens Under 18 Division I Group B next year.

MEN'S DIVISION III WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAY 3 Group A Chinese Taipei 2 - 5 Hong Kong Period-by-Period: 0-3, 1-1, 1-1 April 13th 2017, h. 16:30, Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Bulgaria 5 - 0 Bosnia and Herzegovina Forfeited April 13th 2017, h. 10:00, Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Group A Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Bulgaria 3 3(0) 0(0) 18 3 +15 9 Hong Kong 3 2(0) 1(0) 13 12 +1 6 Chinese Taipei 3 1(0) 2(0) 7 8 -1 3 Bosnia and Herz. 3 0(0) 3(0) 0 15 -15 0 Group B Georgia 19 - 0 United Arab Emirates Period-by-Period: 9-0, 2-0, 8-0 April 10th 2017, h. 13:00, Winter Sports Palace, Sofia South Africa 1 - 3 Luxembourg Period-by-Period: 0-1, 0-0, 1-2 April 10th 2017, h. 20:00, Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Group B Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Luxembourg 3 3(0) 0(0) 26 5 +21 9 Georgia 3 2(0) 1(0) 29 11 +18 6 South Africa 3 1(0) 2(0) 14 9 +5 3 United Arab Emirat. 3 0(0) 3(0) 0 44 -44 0 Semifinals pairing: Luxembourg vs Hong Kong and Bulgaria vs Georgia 5th-8th Places Semifinals pairing: South Africa vs Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chinese Taipei vs United Arab Emirates

Friendly Matches 13th April 2017 Mens Road to World Championships Czech Republic - Norway 6-3 Slovakia - Switzerland 1-2 Finland - Denmark 3-0 Russia - France 0-1 After OT Again this disastrous shooting efficiency....another one of these typical our strange matches, clearly outshooting the opponent... but without scoring you can not win, We absolutely need some strikers to come !!! but well, the good side is it´s still only the preparation..but we clearly have big troubles with scoring, we can have million chances but we will not score goals even if the net will be empty, hopefully some scorers will arrive to help us at worlds.. next test match again against Switzerland Saturday in Žilina and France !!! totally shitty the whole season, but now suddenly they won last week against SUI and now they won in Russia ...Team France seems finally found the right way

what a fantastic atmosphere in the absolutely full arena. What a moment it must be for the guys to play the world champs at home, the moment when they entered to the rink was just exceptional

Now go for the C2 and the world be again awesome, but I am afraid ICF has not the balls like IAAF, so they will remove the best event to replace it by a absolutely no competitive crap just to climb up to IOC ass

ROAD TO MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 DAYS -22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Days to Go, Time to introduce another participating Team of the 2017 World Championships, today its the turn of Belarus, The Belarusians have never finished higher than 6th place at the IIHF world Championships, and will look to improve on their 12th-place finish in 2017. BELARUS

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016/2017 NORWAY STAVANGER OILERS 7th League Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still Stavanger Oilers win sixth consecutive championship For the seventh time in eight years the Stavanger Oilers celebrate the Norwegian title with their golden helmets The Norwegian GET -Ligaen has always been a league of dynasties, dating all the way back to the 1930s when Grane won four titles in five years. The early 1950s were Furuset’s time, the early 1960s Gamlebyen’s and in the late 1960s, the league was dominated by Valerenga as the Oslo-based team won seven straight titles, and eight in nine years but then had to wait for a decade for its next championship. Between 1985 and 1993, Valerenga won the league six times. The late 1990s were the Storhamar era, as the Hamar-based team won four straight titles (and five in six years). We entered the Stavanger Oilers dynasty at the beginning of this decade, and they haven’t yet reached the end as the oiltown’s aptly-named Oilers won their sixth consecutive Norwegian championship, beating Frisk Asker Tigers 5-2 in Game 6 of the best-of-seven final. The two games they dropped to the Tigers were also the only games they lost in the post-season, having swept Stjernen and Sparta Warriors in the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, respectively. The Oilers domination was complete as they also won the regular season title. Pretty good for a team that played its first official game in 2001, in the Norwegian II division. “This is unbelievably huge. It’s fantastic, we’ve been the best team from start to finish, and here we stand. It’s a great group of guys and I’m incredibly proud of them. This is wild,” said the Oiler’s 39-year-old coach Pal Kristian Guldbrandsen, who took the step from assistant to head coach this season, after five years as a player and then six as an assistant coach in the club. “I think we were the best team, and played smart, except when we lost Game 2. This team is full of winners, and they proved it by rallying back in two straight games. Many people might crumble in situations like that, but not these guys. They refuse to lose,” he added. The best team also had the top players. Stavanger’s goaltender Henrik Holm, the 2013 playoffs MVP, posted the best save percentage in the regular season and was the only goalie to start every single playoff game for his team. His goals against average in the 14 games was 1.93 and save percentage 93.0, up from 92.4 in the regular season. The team’s American forwards Mark van Guilder and Dan Kissel finished first and second in both playoff and regular season scoring. Van Guilder won the regular season scoring race with 65 points in 45 games, Kissel was tied for first in goal scoring with 29 goals in 45 games. In the playoffs, they combined for 23 goals and 43 points in 14 games. They also led the plus/minus statistics in a convincing fashion. Van Guilder was plus-25 and Kissel plus-24 in the playoffs. Both were voted into the First All-Star Team, and both earned contacts in Switzerland with NLB team EHC Visp. One other key player also disappears, since the Oilers’ Christian Dahl Andersen, 36, has decided to hang ‘em up, having been a key player on the team during its entire dynasty. His eight Norwegian championships also include one with their 2017 opponent, Frisk Asker, in 2002. “It’s fantastic to win the title with these guys. It’s great to win, but it’s sad that it’s over now,” he says. He wasn’t talking about the Oilers era. We probably haven’t seen the last of them yet.

haha well, the good news are definitely worth to be shared

50km Race walk will stay in the olympics program Matej Tóth just said the unofficial news. source in svk http://sport.aktuality.sk/c/271606/rada-iaaf-dostala-rozum-toth-bude-moct-obhajovat-zlato-na-50-km/

MEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group B Belarus 0 - 7 United States Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-5, 0-2 April 13th 2016, h. 15:30, Arena Spisska Nova Ves, Spisska Nova Ves USA starts off strong Penalty-free Belarus no match in 7-0 loss The United States, gold medallists in six of the last eight WM18 events and bronze medallists last year, started off with an impressive win today. Belarus did not incur a single penalty all game, becoming the first team in tournament history to go penalty free for 60 minutes. Oliver Wahlstrom had two goals for the winners while Grant Mismash and Michael Pastujov had a goal and an assist. Joel Farabee chipped in with two assists. The Americans had a slow start, incurring the only three penalties of the opening period and failing to score, but by the second they got their legs and their momentum. Pastujov opened the scoring early in the second and two other goals followed soon after. Sean Dhooghe got a short-handed marker later and Wahlstrom capped a five-goal period with his second. Shots favoured the Americans, 51-17, and only the fine play of goalie Andrei Grishenko prevented the score from being worse. Belarus turns around and plays the Czechs tomorrow while the Americans have a day off before facing the Russians on Saturday night in what should be a thrilling game.

MEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group A Latvia 1 - 4 Canada Period-by-Period: 1-1, 0-2, 0-1 April 13th 2017, h. 15:30, Poprad Arena, Poprad Canada wins opener Solid outing leads to 4-1 win over Latvia Canada scored the first goal of this year's U18 on a penalty shot, controlled the second and third periods, and skated to an impressive win over Latvia. Although the first period ended 1-1, Canada outshot the Latvians 54-19 overall and controlled the last 40 minutes. Niklavs Rauza was stellar in goal for the Latvians. "We just needed to regroup after the first and listen to our coaches," defenceman Ty Smith said. "We came out much stronger in the second." "The Canadians broke our game plan," Rauza said. "It felt good that I played well, but a win would have been like heaven." The Canadians lost the bronze-medal game last year while Latvia finished ninth, and although both teams might have different aspirations this year, it's fair to say both hope to improve. "In the exhibition games we had some slow starts, but today we really brought our game," said defenceman Jett Woo, at 16 the youngest player on Canada. "We kept pounding in the second and third, and we're really proud about the way we ended the game." Latvia continues its schedule tomorrow against Switzerland while Canada has a day off before playing Slovakia on Saturday night in what should be a marquee game here in Poprad. Stylianos Mattheos opened the scoring at 11:50 on a penalty shot. He was tripped by Daniels Berzins on a clear path to the goal. Mattheos made a quick leg kick and a nice deke on Niklavs Rauza before roofing a forehand over the goalie's glove. "I was trying to get my glove on it," Rauza said, "but when he scored, I thought to myself, 'Wow, that's fast hands.'" The Latvians tied the game late in the period, though. Ian Scott couldn't handle a Deniss Smirnovs slapper, and Rihards Paskausks was right there to knock in the rebound. The Canadians overwhelmed their opponents in the second, outshooting them 25-6 and scoring the only two goals. They got an early power-play marker on a great three-way passing play between Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Mackenzie Entwistle, and Maxime Comtois. Comtois, the only Canadian on last year's team, finished the play with a quick shot at 3:36. Isaac Ratcliffe made it 3-1 five minutes later. He claimed a loose puck off a faceoff and snapped a hard shot past Rauza. Entwistle added to the tally midway through the third on a nice tip-in.

Tomorrow start the Under 18 mens world Championships top division in Slovakia, Everything is prepared and ready in Poprad and Spišská Nová Ves to host the best U18 world players under the Tatras. 10 Nations are divided in 2 preliminary groups and in Group A played in Poprad and and in group B in Spišská Nová Ves. Good luck boys ! Enjoy your home tournament. The expectations are high, and last few weeks the promo actions are rising in whole country, all SVK matches will be ofc broadcasted live in the public channel. this is gonna be a huge moment for the guys, it´s only the second time in history Slovakia host the U18 worlds. Mens Division III World Championships 2017 in Sofia (BUL) Day 3 Schedule (13th April 2017) GMT +3 Preliminary Round Last Day Group A 10:00 Bulgaria vs Bosnia and Herzegovina 5-0 Forfeited 16:30 Chinese Taipei vs Hong Kong *Bulgaria is already qualified for the knockout phase as group winner, Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong will play in a direct macth for the second semifinals spot. Group B 13:00 Georgia vs United Arab Emirates 20:00 South Africa vs Luxembourg *Luxembourg with 6 points is very very close to win the group and move to the semifinals from 1st place, even a lose to South Africa might be likely enough, Georgia and South Africa both with 3 points will fight for the qualification as well, with Georgia in a better starting position since they have better H2H with RSA. UAE has also still very slim theoretical chance, but very unlikely to happen. they need to beat Georgia by a very sci-fi score difference and at same time Luxembourg to destroy South Africa also ba very high margin. Livestream Mens Under 18 Top Division World Championships 2017 in Poprad and Spišská Nová Ves (SVK) Day 1 Schedule (13th April 2017) GMT +2 Group A in Poprad 15:30 Latvia vs Canada 19:30 Slovakia vs Finland Group B in Spišská Nová Ves 15:30 Belarus vs United States 19:30 Russia vs Sweden *Tournament Format: 10 Nations are divided into two, five-team groups 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 - a cross-over Quarterfinal games: 1A vs. 4B, 1B vs. 4A, 2A vs. 3B and 2B vs. 3A , Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match) while the fifth-placed team in each group moves to the Relegation Round. in a best-of-three Relegation Round series. The third game is only played if needed. The winner of the series plays again at the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship, while loser is relegated to Division I Group A. Livestream Mens Under 18 Division I Group A World Championships 2017 in Bled (SLO) Day 5 Schedule (13th April 2017) GMT +2 Last Day 13:00 Norway vs Hungary 16:30 Kazakhstan vs France 20:00 Denmark vs Germany *In fact everything important is already known before this last round. France is the tournament winner and can already celebrate their first ever historic promotion to U18 World Championship top division. Also Hungary is already the official relegated team to U18 Division IB next year. the only remaining questions are who will win the other 2 medals, all other 4 teams are still in the game for silver and bronze. Livestream

Womens Division I Group B World Championships 2017 in Katowice (POL) Day 4 (12th April 2017) GMT +2 13:00 Kazakhstan vs Slovakia 4-2 16:30 Italy vs China 1-2 After GWS 20:00 Latvia vs Poland 5-4

Friendly Matches 12th April 2017 Mens Road to World Championships Czech Republic - Norway 4-0

Our young talent Albert Rusnák scored his first goal in the USA MLS for Salt Lake, and what a goal it was. at 0:25. but the weather

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