Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2021

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IIHF organization at its pure finest.

 

Several teams were expected to fly today to Canada in the prepared planes, but somehow all get stuck at the Vienna airport for more than three hours. Reason: the planes were too small.

 

 

Slovaks, Czechs and Austrians were expected to travel from Vienna together in one plane. Same for Players from Sweden, Finland and Russia on the other plane. However, all six expeditions waited for more than three hours at the airport. The reason? They didn't fit on the plane.

 

 

The plane ordered by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is too small and did not fit the luggage of all three teams. The IIHF planned to settle people further apart and keep their distance, the airline wanted to bring them closer together and help solve the lack of space by putting luggage on board, but the teams did not agree. "All the teams are waiting and there is no solution."

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After more than 3 hours...

finally Boarding !

 

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Big Troubles for .

 

8 Players tested positive today inside the Edmonton Bubble after the mandatory 5 days isolation of all teams 2 Team staff members of the Swedish team are positive as well.

 

According to the protocol will not be allowed to leave the isolation at the hotel until the 24th December and thus will not train. team will have to stay in quarantine until the 21st December. (with the only exception for people who already healed from covid in the past)

 

Should be problem for Germany, they first match of the tournament against Finland is schedulled for the Boxing Day 26th December.

 

Seven hockey players from the Swedish team healed from Covid in the past, so they can start training.

 

For the other teams, this also means the quarantine is not over yet. They all have remain in isolation until next testing tomorrow. Today's scheduled trainings had to be postponed.

 

The whole team was tested negative, that means if tomorrow everyone will be negative again, our guys would be allowed to finally start training. Before our opening match on Christmas Day 25th December against Switzerland, we have schedulled also 2 preparation matches against 22nd December and the 23rd December.

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and our guys had all negative tests, so they were finally alowed to train Look the boys had some great time on the ice, the training was almost 2 hours long

 

that pass at 1:50 yummy

 

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Due to the isolation of and teams, the organizers have changed the schedule of the Test matches

 

There will be only 4 preparation matches, 1 match for all remaining 8 teams (Germany and Sweden will not play test games)

 

So instead of the two schedulled test matches against Russia and Austria the 22nd respectively 23rd December we will have to play only 1 test game aganst in the night from 23rd to 24th December our time

 

Test Matches Schedule : (Times in Central European GMT +1)

 

23. DECEMBER

00.00 Switzerland - Austria /exactly at midnight our time from 22. to 23. december/ 
03.30 Finland - United States

 

24. DECEMBER - Christmas Eve

00.00 Canada - Russia /exactly at midnight our time from 23. to 24. december/ 
03.30 Slovakia - Czech Republic

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another positive case in the team, this time a team staff member. He will have to stay isolated for another 10 days, So far The entire German team will remain in isolation until at least December 24. just 2 days before their opening match against Finland.

 

So far, they have performed a total of 3640 tests in the Edmonton bubble.

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WORLD JUNIORS PRE-TOURNAMENT EXHIBITION

GAMES

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

Game #1

 

 Switzerland   3 - 2 Austria 
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-1, 1-1
December 22nd 2020, h. 16:00 (GMT -7), Rogers Place, Edmonton

 

Goals:

13. Jobin (Salzgeber, Dahler) 1:1, 38. Baragano (Bottini) 2:1, 54. Marchand (Schlapfer, Guggenheim) 3:1 - 36. Bohm (Posch, Pfeffer) 1:1, 55. Wallner (Bohm, Necesany) 3:2.

 

 

 

 

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Game #2

 

 Finland   2 - 3    United States 
Period-by-Period: 1-1, 1-2, 0-0
December 22nd 2020, h. 19:30 (GMT -7), Rogers Place, Edmonton

 

Goals:

2. Parssinen (Niemela, Lambert) 1:0, 39. Niemela (Parssinen, Lambert) 2:3 - 20. Kaliyev (Boldy, Zegras) 1:1, 22. Caufield (Zegras, LaCombe) 1:2, 22. Caufield (Sanderson) 1:3.

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, hckosice said:

WORLD JUNIORS PRE-TOURNAMENT EXHIBITION

GAMES

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

Game #1

 

 Switzerland   3 - 2 Austria 
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-1, 1-1
December 22nd 2020, h. 16:00 (GMT -7), Rogers Place, Edmonton

 

Goals:

13. Jobin (Salzgeber, Dahler) 1:1, 38. Baragano (Bottini) 2:1, 54. Marchand (Schlapfer, Guggenheim) 3:1 - 36. Bohm (Posch, Pfeffer) 1:1, 55. Wallner (Bohm, Necesany) 3:2.

 

 

 

 

TSN website has the full replay of the game...and it's available worldwide...well, at least it works here in Italy (even if only @ 540p for non registered, non-Canadian users)...

 

as in the past few years, I guess that also all the games of the world champs will be available on demand (live is only for registered Canadian users) on their website...

 

this is the page where you can find all the files (right at the bottom...people might need to launch the streaming 2 or 3 times before it starts without errors and/or false geo-blocking claims)...

 

https://www.tsn.ca/live#/

 

p.s. TSN is going to show all the warm-up and World Champs games in 4K definition 

and we're still fighting to have a modest HD TV broadcast of only a few games (except for the lucky Scandinavians) and a SD streaming...  

then, there are people complaining because of sat tv/internet piracy...

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WORLD JUNIORS PRE-TOURNAMENT EXHIBITION

GAMES

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

Game #3

 

 Canada   1 - 0    Russia 
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-0, 1-0
December 23rd 2020, h. 16:00 (GMT -7), Rogers Place, Edmonton

 

Goals:

44. Drysdale (Perfetti, Byram) 1:0.