2017 IIHF Men´s World Championship

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Hi everyone! I decided to make this new topic for the coming ice hockey world championship.
The elite world championship will begin on 5th May and end on 21th May. However I make this topic now, because the Division I/A began yesterday and I/B begins today. These are smaller World Championships, from where teams can promote to a higher level. I hope that here are some ice hockey fans and you will like this topic
Elite world championship teams:
Group A(Cologne)
Russia
United States
Sweden
Slovakia
Germany
Latvia
Denmark
Italy

Group B(Paris):
Canada
Finland
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Belarus
Norway
France
Slovenia

Division I/A teams:
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Poland
Austria
South Korea
Ukraine

Division I/B teams:
Japan
Great Britain
Lithuania
Croatia
Estonia
Netherlands

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Yesterday were three matches in Division I/A:
Ukraine-Hungary 3:5(1:1, 2:1, 0:3)
South Korea-Poland 4:2(1:0, 1:1, 2:1)
Austria 2:3 Kazakhstan(0:2, 2:0, 0:1)

Poland was for me a surprise that they lost. Ukraine is very good, they are the hosts of the tournament. I think from the first three matches, that three teams will have good chances to promote from Division I/A, Hungary, Austria and Kazakhstan.
I hope that we will be one of them, go boys, go Hungary!

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Today´s matches in Division I/B:
Netherlands-Japan
Croatia-Great Britain
Estonia-Lithuania

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Division I/B, 1.round:
Netherlands-Japan 1-6
Croatia-Great Britain 2-4
Estonia-Lithuania 0-3

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Monday, Division I/B:
Japan-Croatia 4:2
Lithuania-Netherlands 8:0
Great Britain-Estonia 5:1

1. Lithuania 6p
2. Japan 6p
3. Great Britain 6p
4. Croatia 0p
5. Estonia 0p
6. Netherlands 0p

On Sunday were two matches from Division I/A group.
The biggest surprise was again South Korea´s match, they beat Kazakhstan! From now they have a big chance to qualify for the elite World Championship too.
Kazakhstan-South Korea 2:5
In the second match Poland not so easily win against the home nation Ukraine, which is maybe the worst team of the six teams.
Poland-Ukraine 2:1
And yesterday was for us a very important match, Hungary-Austria. We got a goal in power play, but then we could score a goal. In the first and secod period we were absolutely better, but the first ten minutes were absolutely Austria´s minutes, they played better, scored they power plays, and they win 3:1.
Hungary-Austria 1:3

Standings:

1. South Korea 2 2 0 0 0 9:4 6p
2. Austria 2 1 0 0 1 5:4 3p
3. Hungary 2 1 0 0 1 6:6 3p
4. Poland 2 1 0 0 1 4:5 3p
5. Kazakhstan 2 1 0 0 1 5:7 3p
6. Ukraine 2 0 0 0 2 4:7 0p

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Today´s matches:
Kazakhstan-Poland
Hungary-South Korea
Ukraine-Austria.
Go Boys!

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Kazakhstan-Poland 1:0(0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 0:1), it was the first overtime on the World Championship. South Korea won against us, so they are on step closer to the elite.
Hungary-South Korea 1:3(0:0, 1:1, 0:2)
Ukraine-Austria 0:1(0:0, 0:1, 0:0)

1. South Korea 3 3 0 0 0 12:5 9p
2. Austria 3 2 0 0 1 6:4 6p
3. Kazakhstan 3 1 1 0 1 6:7 5p
4. Poland 3 1 0 1 1 4:6 4p
   5 Hungary 3 1 0 0 2 7:9 3p
5. Ukraine 3 0 0 0 3 4:8 0p

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Today´s matches:
Division I/B:
Japan-Estonia
Netherlands-Croatia
Great Britain-Lithuania

Division I/A:
Kazakhstan-Ukraine

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Division I/B:
Japan-Estonia 6:2
Netherlands-Croatia 2:6
Great Britain-Lithuania 5:2

Division I/A:
Kazakhstan-Ukraine 4:2(2:0, 0:2, 2:0)

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[Sir Varga Sándor]

Today´s matches:
We lost against Poland 2:0. So we do not have more chances to qualify for the elite WC.
20:45 Austria-South Korea

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Thursday: Austria-South Korea 5:0
Friday:
Kazakhstan-Hungary 3:1(2:1, 0:0, 1:0)
Austria-Poland 11:0(3:0, 4:0, 4:0)
South Korea-Ukraine 2:1(0:0, 1:1, 0:0-0:0, in shootout 1:0)

1. Austria 5 4 0 0 1 22-4 12p
2. South Korea 5 3 1 0 1 14-11 11p
3. Kazakhstan 5 3 1 0 1 13-10 11p
4. Poland 5 2 0 1 2 6-17 7p
5. Hungary 5 1 0 0 4 8-14 3p
6. Ukraine 5 0 0 1 4 7-14 1p

Austria and South Korea promoted to 2018 IIHF World Championship, and Ukraine relegated to 2018 IIHF World Championship I/B.

In Division I/B:
Friday:
Lithuania-Japan 2:6(0:1, 2:2, 0:3)
Croatia-Estonia 3:4(0:1, 3:2, 0:1)
Great Britain-Netherlands 14:0(3:0, 5:0, 6:0)
Today:
Lithuania-Croatia
Estonia-Netherlands
Japan-Great Britain

[Alexander6666]

Great topic, mate. So for those who wonder on which TV channels will be this championship broadcasted, he is so me extra info:

Canada: TSN, TSN2, RDS
United States: NHL Network
Pan-European: Eurosport2
Czech Republic: Ceske Televize
Finland: MTV3
Russia: NTV Plus
Sweden: SVT, Viasat
Switzerland: SRG

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Sorry, for not posting, because of matches and I had some problems in my life.

Friday:
Group A:
Sweden-Russia 1:2(1:0, 0:0, 0:1, 0:0), after shootout 0:1 for Russia. It was one of the biggest classics, unluckily i couldn´t watch that game.
USA-Germany 1:2(0:1, 0:0, 1:1)-I watched a longer highlights of this match, USA played better, but Germany home won the game, they had a great Greis in the goal.

Group B:
Finland-Belarus 3:2(2:0, 0:1, 1:1)-I watch the longer highlights of this match. Finland played better at the beginning, but they gave place to Belarus, so they could come back in the match, but in the end Finland won the game.
Czech Republic-Canada 1:4(0:1, 0:1, 1:2)-It was my favourite one on Friday. I am a Czech fan so maybe because of that. But it was a great game too. Both goalies saved well, Mrazek and Pickard too, we couldn´t score, so Canada won, but we had more shoots(29:28). This is a good score for the future. Go boys!

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Saturday:

Group A:
Latvia :flag_lv: - :flag_dk: Denmark 3:0(0:0, 1:0, 2:0) - Latvia easily won this game, Denmark had only chances in the 1st period of the game to win the match, Merzlikins saved well.
Slovakia :flag_sk: - :flag_it: Italy 3:2(1:0, 0:1, 1:1, 1:0)-I watched only the highlights of this game. Slovakia in the last minutes of the finishing of the 3rd period scored the goal to 2:2, and they won the game in overtime. And in the end they could hear the Slovenian hymn. Congratulations to organizators in Cologne
Germany :flag_de: - :flag_se: Sweden 2:7(1:1, 1:3, 0:3) - Germans could held the step with Sweden till 2:2, than the Scandinavians easily won the match. It wasn´t an easy match for Sweden.

Group B:

Switzerland :flag_ch: - :flag_si: Slovenia 5:4(4:0, 0:1, 0:3, 0:0), after shootout 1:0. It was an amazing game. Switzerland won already 4:0 in the first period, but then Slovenia could come back to 4:4. However they couldn´t won the game in the overtime and shootout. Pintaric goalie got in the game at 4:0 so Slovenian can thank him this one point.
Belarus :flag_by: - :flag_cz: Czech Republic 1:6(0:2, 1:1, 0:3)-It was our second match. We easily won the game 2:0, but then i don´t know what happened, Belarus nearly come back in the match, but luckily we get the rhythm of the match and won it easily.
Norway :flag_no: - :flag_fr: France 3:2(0:0, 2:1, 1:1)-It was an equalized match, Norway was a bit better, this was the co-host France´s first game, Norway won.

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Sunday will I post tomorrow, because now I´m watching the long highlights of the game Norway-Switzerland

[Sir Varga Sándor]

@Alexander6666

Thank you for it
Plus:
In Hungary: Sport TV
In Slovakia: RTVS

[Sir Varga Sándor]

@Alexander6666

I saw some other channels:
Belarus: Belarus5
Poland: TVP Sport
Russia: MATCH! Arena ru, MATCH! Igra
France: Canal+ Sport
TSN1, TSN2, TSN3
Slovakia: Dajto
Germany: Sport1 de
Croatia: Arena sport 2 hr
Viasat Sport Baltic

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Sunday:
Group A:
Italy :flag_it: - :flag_ru: Russia 1:10(0:2, 1:3, 0:5) - Russia scored a lots of power play goals, they are one of the best in it this year.
USA :flag_um: - :flag_dk: Denmark 7:2(3:1, 3:1, 1:0) - It was equalized match till the half of the second period, then USA easily won this game.
Latvia :flag_lv: - :flag_sk: Slovakia 3:1(1:0, 1:0, 1:1) - Latvia played better, they deserved this match. They are the biggest surprise till now this tournament.

Group B:
Slovenia :flag_si: - :flag_ca: Canada 2:7(0:3, 1:3, 1:1)-Slovenia was no problem for Canada, they easily won.
Finland :flag_fi: - :flag_fr: France 1:5(0:1, 1:2, 0:2)-France can thank their goalkeeper, Hardy this win. He saved more than 40 shots. But Finland do not played well.
Norway :flag_no: - :flag_ch: Switzerland 0:3(0:0, 0:2, 0:1)-Easy Swiss win, they deserved it.

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Monday:
Group A:
Germany :flag_de: - :flag_ru: Russia 3:6(0:3, 0:2, 3:1)-Russia followed their last game, and again played well. But Germany could play a great 3rd period.
USA :flag_um: - :flag_se: Sweden 4:3(2:3, 1:0, 1:0) - It was a great match, i watched only the highlights. It was maybe one of the matches on this tournament so far

Group B:

Belarus :flag_by: - :flag_ca: Canada 0:6(0:1, 0:2, 0:3)-Easy Canadian win, nothing else
Finland :flag_fi: - :flag_cz: Czech Republic 3:4(3:0, 0:0, 0:3, 0:0), after shoot-out 0:1 for Czech Republic - In my opinion this was the best match so far of the tournament. Finnish team played well at the beginning, but then Czech Republic had a surprising last 5 minutes, the score was 3:3, and in the shoot-out Hanzl scored, and Mrazek saved three times. What a match was it!

[RödVitt]

UUUH! What a match from Finland, that have been totally
I couldn't expect this to happen. Got so much critics from everywhere.. But magic happened in Cologne today. Sweden or Switzerland in semifinals. Russia are also through, against Canada or Germany.