13 minutes ago, Jan Linha said:

Three pairs will qualify based on the WA Ranking by June 30th. Currently 3 highest ranked NOCs (not those countries that already qualified at least 1 pair) based the fastest time achieved:

 

But still there will be some competitions to improve their time. I guess and maybe also will try to improve their times and qualify through the ranking. Although, I haven't found another event where will be the mixed relay event, I suppose they will be a part of some national championship? 

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40 minutes ago, phelps said:

this series is gonna end up early, I fear 

It looks so, but what a ride for Nitra though. They had to pass through the prequalifying round first and then kicking out the regular season champions from Poprad and dangerous regular season runner-up Michalovce in the semis, now they won both first games in Spišská 3rd from regular season. Trully respectable journey

Tipos Extraliga Final

Game 2:

HK Spišská Nová Ves (3) - HK Nitra (8)  2-5  (0:3, 0:1, 2:1)

Series Standing 0-2

Highlights

7 hours ago, copravolley said:

Zuzana Rehak- Stefecekova in trap women? Canoe slalom?

Shooting and Canoe Slalom are 2 sports which have in common one important factor, they mainly depend on luck.

In shooting especially the Shotgun events are just unpredictable, It is just impossible to make any predictions or locks in this sport, sure Zuzana just like Danka Barteková in Skeet can certainly be considered as contenders, but not as predicted medals, before Tokyo I was certain will medal in mixed trap as our pair was 3 years winning races left and right and then ended 4th at the Olympics losing to unknown american pair in  the bronze game...

Same for Canoe Slalom, We can win 4 golds just like we can fail to qualify to the final in all 4 events. This sport requires many factors to fall into place at the same time, current form, health, track setting, weather and wind conditions during the run and especially luck on the water

Sunday April 21st, 2024 -

Round-Robin Day 4 Schedule (GMT +2)

13:00  Romania vs Great Britain

16:30  Serbia vs Croatia

20:00  Netherlands vs Poland

Saturday April 20th, 2024 -

Round-Robin Day 3 Results (GMT +2)

13:00  Great Britain  4 - 0  Serbia

16:30  Poland  7 - 0  Romania

20:00  Croatia  3 - 5  Netherlands

Provisional Standing After Day 3:

1.    9

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2.   9

3.   6

4.   3

5.   0

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6.   0

Round-Robin Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Germany	5	5(1)	0(0)	25	11	+14	14
Ukraine	5	4(0)	1(1)	18	10	+8	13
Austria	5	3(1)	2(0)	21	14	+7	8
Hungary	5	2(0)	3(1)	21	25	-4	7
Denmark	5	1(0)	4(0)	10	20	-10	3
Japan	5	0(0)	5(0)	11	26	-15	0

The following Nation has qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 World Championship 2025
 

• Germany

The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group A World Championship 2025
 

• Austria
• Denmark
• Hungary
• Ukraine

The following Nation has been relegated to the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group B World Championship 2025
 

• Japan

Saturday April 20th, 2024 -

Round-Robin Last Day Results (GMT +2)

13:00  Ukraine  3 - 2  Austria

16:30  Japan  3 - 6  Hungary

20:00  Germany  6 - 4  Denmark

Sunday April 21st, 2024 -

Round-Robin Day 1 Schedule (GMT +2)

11:30  Netherlands vs France

15:00  South Korea vs Hungary

18:30  Norway vs Austria

Sunday April 21st, 2024 -

Round-Robin Day 1 Schedule (GMT +2)

12:30  Croatia vs Iceland

16:00  United Arab Emirates vs Israel

19:30  Australia vs Serbia

Round-Robin Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Slovenia	5	4(0)	1(0)	29	14	+15	12
Lithuania	5	4(1)	1(0)	16	12	+4	11
Estonia	5	2(0)	3(0)	13	20	-7	6
France	5	2(0)	3(0)	15	19	-4	6
South Korea	5	2(0)	3(0)	15	17	-2	6
Italy	5	1(0)	4(1)	10	16	-6	4

The following Nation has qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group A World Championship 2025
 

• Slovenia

The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group B World Championship 2025
 

• Estonia
• France
• Lithuania
• South Korea

The following Nation has been relegated to the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division II Group A World Championship 2025
 

• Italy

Saturday April 20th, 2024 -

Round-Robin Last Day Results (GMT +3)

12:30  France  2 - 11  Slovenia

16:00  Estonia  3 - 4  Lithuania

19:30  Italy  2 - 4  South Korea

Road to World Championship International Test Matches

Saturday 20th April, 2024

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(Div IA) -   3-2

-   4-5 After Overtime

-   3-2 After Overtime

-   2-3

35 minutes ago, copravolley said:

France played two friendly matches against Italy and their performance was quite average, but we know that these are just friendly matches. I wonder if Poland will fight with Kazakhstan and France to stay in the Elite? What ambitions does Slovakia have at this World Cup? Medal?

1)

The France which played last week games and the France which will be at the worlds are 2 completely different galaxies. is waiting for the answers of their 2 NHLers extremely experienced and very good center Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and also a solid striker and highest ever french drafted in NHL Alex Texier (even if him being now at end of contract make him questionable to accept the invitation for the worlds though) + now Da Costa (one of the best ever french players of all times) they will also add 5-6 interesting names like Auvitu or Jordan Perret. and who know how is the situation with the Canadian born Spinozzi who is working on french papers for 2 years now and still waiting...

No, I can see this french team doing some damages and battle even for the quarterfinals.

2)

Quarterfinals definitely is a must. Whichever team we send the quarters are always the goal. Mandatory. Only Based on that the tournament is then the tournament evaluated as successful or unsuccessful. If we make the last 8 it is fine, if we do not make it it is a failure.

This time we will face quite strong opposition. we have a tough group, and both last time medalists will arrive still influenced by their last year magic journey and would want to confirm it. as already mentioned can be the real deal this year in the quarters places battle, each team which will beat them will have a good plus to its account. will be probably the favorite for gold. The roster they are already building is just scarey. is clearly the other fav of the group. USA and Sweden should earn the first 2 places without too much problems. So there 2 more QF spots which we should play for against LAT, GER and FRA.

The other 2 teams are dangerous too though. is a team which quite regularly cause us troubles (last year they beat us and that was the cause we missed the quarterfinals and direct qualification for the Olympics) and is promoted in the elite for the first time since 2002... so you can imagine how much motivated they will be to show that they are not here by mistake, I guess no team will have an easy game against them (maybe apart USA...) and their first line is quite strong plus with a solid goaltending anything can happen and upsets are definitely not so out of reach.

So you see, this group will be very strong and open, but, let see the final roster each team will send and after that we can make better predictions

52 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Will Kazakhstan play any friendly matches? I was in Prague in June last year and there were Ukrainian flags everywhere, on offices, houses, etc. so you're probably right.

No, as far as I know, they usually play some games against local clubs but nothing internationally is chedulled before the worlds for them.

Yep, that´s why I am quite surprised by the french move, I understand Da Costa is their best player and all... but this may cause some unwanted pressure and problems on their team on and off the ice in . Czech journalists and the public will definitely make them feel it. you can bet on that.

Interesting and unexpected move from the federation.

They called Stephane Da Costa from KHL (He was not called since the start of the war, but somehow they changed their mind now.... well, will not be very popular at the worlds, Czechs will certainly boo him at every moment)

It appears France will be alongside Kazakhstan the only nation having a KHLer in its roster.

kit for the EURO was presented in Munchen

John Hynes named team head Coach for the worlds.

Tim Stutzle will not reinforce He had to refuse the invitation due injury

Martin Pospíšil from Calgary Flames is the 3rd NHLer confirmed for the Worlds after 2022 Overall Draft #1 & 2 picks Slaf and Nemec

#Flames rookie Martin Pospisil will represent Slovakia at worlds.

— Wes Gilbertson (@WesGilbertson) April 19, 2024

Current situation from what I found so far

Saturday April 20th, 2024 -

Round-Robin Day 3 Schedule (GMT +2)

13:00  Great Britain vs Serbia

16:30  Poland vs Romania

20:00  Croatia vs Netherlands

Saturday April 20th, 2024 -

Round-Robin Last Day Schedule (GMT +3)

12:30  France vs Slovenia

16:00  Estonia vs Lithuania

19:30  Italy vs South Korea

Saturday April 20th, 2024 -

Round-Robin Last Day Schedule (GMT +2)

13:00  Ukraine vs Austria

16:30  Japan vs Hungary

20:00  Germany vs Denmark

Tipos Extraliga Final

Game 1:

HK Spišská Nová Ves (3) - HK Nitra (8)  2-3  (0:2, 1:0, 1:1)

Series Standing 0-1

Highlights

Road to World Championship International Test Matches

Friday 19th April, 2024

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-   2-1 After Overtime

- (Div IA)  1-3

(Div IA) -   2-1

-   2-0

Friday April 19th, 2024 -

Round-Robin Day 4 Results (GMT +3)

12:30  Italy  0 - 6  France

16:00  Slovenia  5 - 2  Lithuania

19:30  South Korea  3 - 4  Estonia

Provisional Standing After Day 4:

1.    9

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2.   8

3.   6

4.   6

5.   4

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6.   3