European Ice Hockey Championship schedule. The rival of the Russian national hockey team in the World Cup bronze match became known
Nikita Kucherov (left) and Artemy Panarin are bronze medalists of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship. Photo: fhr.ru
Sweden is world champion, Russia is in third place again
On the night from Sunday to Monday, the next World Ice Hockey Championship ended. The Swedes defeated the Canadians in the final, Russia - bronze medalist. Summing up the results of the tournament.
All Hope for the Buffalo Generation
Traditionally, the World Cup is not listed among the best hockey players in the world. Overseas clubs prefer to take care of the health of their staff and do not send the main stars to the teams. Our team regularly becomes an exception to the rule: every year, during the tournament, players of the caliber of Ovechkin, Malkin and Datsyuk joined the national team.
This year, the team did not have any of the three listed leaders. Malkin is still fighting for the Stanley Cup, Ovechkin was injured during the playoffs, Datsyuk, due to his age, is no longer in those conditions. That is why the burden of responsibility in this tournament fell on new stars Russian hockey who became famous after the legendary final MFM-2011 in Buffalo. Kucherov, Panarin, Namestnikov and Vasilevsky were in the application before the start of the tournament, Kuznetsov and Orlov joined during the championship.
Dmitry Orlov (left) and Evgeny Kuznetsov joined the Russian national team Photo: fhr.ru
Also in the team were involved KHL stars: the St. Petersburg trio Dadonov-Shipachev-Gusev, the unyielding Moscow army team Telegin and Andronov, as well as the leader of the Magnitogorsk "Metallurg" and the captain of the national team Sergei Mozyakin. It was the injury of the latter before the start of the tournament that probably affected the team's confidence in the decisive moments of the tournament. But more on that later.
Started for health
In the first match of the group stage, the team had to fight with the future champions - the Swedish national team. After a stubborn struggle during regular time of the match in a shootout was won. This was followed by two defeats in the games with Italy and Germany, 180 minutes without goals and a principled loss to Team USA in the final group stage match.
Russia - Denmark - 3:0. The goalkeeper of the Russians Andrey Vasilevsky designed a “cracker” Photo: fhr.ru
At the end of the group stage, the team made a double impression. On the one hand, the guys very confidently dismantled the outsiders, the attack looked especially powerful: 35 goals scored in 7 games- an impressive figure. On the other hand, the defeat in the match with the Americans deprived the national team of leadership in the group, so before the 1/4 finals the team was waiting for a move to Paris and the Czech team as an opponent.
Adventures in Paris
The Americans paid for the defeat by parting with the already familiar ice of German Cologne and the heat (in every sense) in Paris. There were some adventures: due to a 3-hour train delay and traditional Parisian traffic jams, the team got to training accompanied by police motorcycles and cars.
Unlike our guys, the opponents didn't have to get used to the heat of Paris: the Czechs played all the matches of the group stage at the AccorHotels Arena. Nevertheless, in the match itself, the advantage was for our team. Despite fears of poor defensive play after a poor run against the US, the team played "to zero" and confidently won with a score of 3:0. The next shock match was held by the stellar link Panarin-Kuznetsov-Kucherov, earning 5 points for three.
Russia - Czech Republic - 3:0. Evgeny Kuznetsov and Artemy Panarin Photo: Alexander Safonov, "Championship"
In a parallel game, Canada fought the hosts of the tournament - the German national team. Despite the frivolous attitude to the World Championship overseas, the resource of "maple leaves" is so impressive that the Canadians came to the tournament not only as current champions, but also in the status of the main favorite of the tournament. After making it through the group stage with no problems, the young Canadian stars faced some serious opposition in the quarter-final game. The Germans were close to a sensation, but in a bitter struggle they still lost to the “ancestors” of hockey with a score of 2:1. Thus, in the semi-finals, we were waiting for a hockey classic - Russia vs. Canada.
We started for health. Version 2.0
IN last years The Russian team is experiencing serious problems in matches with the Canadians. Defeat 3:7 at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, 6:1 in Prague in the final of the 2015 World Cup, a fresh defeat in the semi-finals of the World Cup in Toronto. However, before the upcoming semi-final opponents' chances were estimated as equal. Moreover, some Canadian stars seriously feared for the result before the match. Matt Duchain, for example, sensationally declared: "If we do not establish a transition from defense to attack, Russia will destroy us." One way or another, we had a real fight ahead of us.
Toronto. World Cup - 2016. Canada - Russia - 5:3 Photo: REUTERS/John E. Sokolowski
In the first period, the teams looked at each other more, but visually the advantage was more likely for the Russians. The show started in the second third of the match. It must be said that during the first half of the game, the Russians played very disciplined, they never retired (unlike their rivals) and in the end they achieved an advantage. In the middle of the second period, our strongest link Panarin-Kuznetsov-Kucherov played a brilliant combination in the best traditions of Russian hockey, Kuznetsov again scored against the Canadians - 0:1.
A few minutes later, the Canadians once again got an unnecessary removal and were immediately punished. Again, a spectacular combination performed by our hockey players, and Nikita Gusev increases the advantage - 0:2. It must be said that Russia played the second period almost perfectly, unfortunately it was not possible to increase the score, although the opponent swam.
At the end of the period, our hockey players have already earned a dubious removal. Thus, in the third period, the guys came out in the minority. What happened next is history. And the story is sad. Canadians sold most of them with lightning speed. 1:2. Then, during the final 5 minutes, they scored 3 more goals. 4:2, an incredible comeback performed by our eternal rivals. For the second year in a row, Russia stops one step away from the final.
Semi-finals of the 2017 World Cup. Canada - Russia - 4:2 Photo: © Getty Images
And again bronze
After an offensive defeat in the semi-finals, a flurry of criticism fell upon the hockey players of the national team. However, there was no time to relax, because already the next day they had to fight with the Finns in the fight for bronze.
Despite the abundance of damage after a heavy battle with the Canadians and unimportant psychological condition, the team tuned in and kicked off the game again. The Russians played the first half of the meeting with a huge advantage - 4:0 on the scoreboard. Nevertheless, 27 seconds before the end of the second period, the Finns won back one goal, after which the “validol” began again.
During the third period, the Finnish national team played back two more goals, and it became very scary for our team - it would be very difficult to transfer one more "comeback". That is why puck Kucherov, which put an end to the confrontation, was abandoned just in time. 5:3, the Russian team for the second year in a row won the bronze of the World Ice Hockey Championship.
Nikita Kucherov scores fifth goal against Finland Photo: REUTERS true_kpru
In the last, main match of the tournament The teams of Canada and Sweden fought for the world title. The whole match was extremely viscous, with an abundance of struggle and a minimum of effective actions. Both goals were scored in the majority: first, in the end of the second period, the score was opened by the Swedish defender Victor Hedman. Already in the third period, the Canadians realized the majority - Ryan O'Reilly scored.
After a tough fight in overtime the fate of the title was decided in a shootout. 3 saves of the legendary Henrik Lundqvist bring the "tre koonur" victory in the final - The Swedish national team becomes the 2017 Ice Hockey World Champion.
The Swedish team is the 2017 Ice Hockey World Champion Photo: Alexander Safonov, "Championship"
On Friday, May 5, the 81st Ice Hockey World Championship - 2017 starts. Russia - in the status of the leading hockey power - will traditionally fight only for the gold trophy.
Where and when will the 2017 Ice Hockey World Cup take place
The Ice Hockey World Championship will be held from 5 to 21 May 2017. The tournament will be hosted by two countries at once - France (Paris) and Germany (Cologne).
The composition of the Russian team
Head coach of the Russian team Oleg Znarok called the composition of our ice squad at the Ice Hockey World Championship. Refusing to comment on the decision Alexandra Radulova not to participate in the championship, Znarok said that the captain of the Russian team would be Sergey Mozyakin. The captain's assistants will be Vadim Shipachev And Anton Belov. 23 athletes were included in the initial application, the mentor of our team specified.
The gates of the Russian team will defend Andrei Vasilevsky, Igor Shesterkin And Ilya Sorokin.
Responsible for the defense: Viktor Antipin, Anton Belov, Alexei Bereglazov, Vladislav Gavrikov, Artem Zub, Bogdan Kiselevich, Andrey Mironov, Mikhail Naumenkov, Ivan Provorov.
In attack for our team will play: Sergey Andronov, Alexander Barabanov, Nikita Gusev, Evgeny Dadonov, Kirill Kaprizov, Nikita Kucherov, Roman Lyubimov, Sergey Mozyakin, Vladislav Namestnikov, Valery Nichushkin, Sergey Plotnikov, Andrey Svetlakov, Ivan Telegin, Vladimir Tkachev, Artemy Panarin, Vadim Shipachev.
What group is Russia in?
national team Russia playing in a band A together with teams from Germany, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, USA and Sweden.
All games in Group A of the group stage, as well as two quarter-finals, both semi-finals, the match for third place and the final will be held in Cologne (34 matches in total).
In Group B Belarus, Canada, Norway, Slovenia, Finland, France, the Czech Republic and Switzerland will fight for the main hockey trophy. All matches in Group B, as well as two quarter-finals (30 games in total) will be held in Paris.
Schedule of matches of the group stage with the participation of Russia
Where to watch Ice Hockey World Championship games
All games of the Ice Hockey World Championship - 2017 will be shown by the Match TV channel. The first match with the participation of Russia, as well as the semi-finals, the final and the decisive games with the participation of the Russian team will be shown on the main federal channels. Also broadcasts of hockey matches online will be available on the Internet.
The first game with the participation of the Russian team will be shown by Channel One, in the broadcast schedule the announcement looks like this: “17.15. Russia - Sweden. Preliminary stage. Group A in Cologne (Germany). Live Stream".
A detailed schedule of TV broadcasts of the Ice Hockey World Championship can be viewed.
The Ice Hockey World Championship is undoubtedly one of the most popular spring events in the world. sports family. The best teams every year gather to measure their strength on the ice, and all the attention of television cameras is riveted to the players, mentors and judges in striped uniforms. Hockey is always a tough and sometimes brutal men's fight, it is one of the fastest sports, passions on the court sometimes boil so that the referees have to separate the players. The world championship is famous for its high competition, because five or six teams fight for victory in each tournament.
The next championship may bring many surprises and, probably, one goal scored will deprive the trophy.
Where will the Ice Hockey World Championship take place?
Next on hockey will take place in the German city of Cologne and the well-known wonderful city of Paris. The application of France and Germany looked more preferable than the joint candidacy of the Danes and Latvians. The IIHF's 18-vote lead was confirmed in May 2013. Copenhagen and Riga were forced to capitulate when it became known that the French and German sides decided to join forces. Germany is hosting the championship for the eighth time, France for the fourth. The championship venues will be Cologne's Lanxess Arena and Paris's AccorHotels Arena. Each city will take one group.
About sports facilities
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” is a colorful complex where, in addition to sports, concert events are also held. This miracle of architecture accommodates 17,000 people. Interesting fact- The first concert that took place here was the performance of the Scorpions group.
Ice Hockey World Cup Calendar 2017
On this moment There is no exact schedule for the 2017 World Championship, but the rules of the competition have long been known. The teams will be divided into two groups, each with 8 teams. They will play their matches in a circle, in total there will be seven fights in the group stage. The best four teams go to the quarter-final stage according to the principle: the first against the fourth, the second against the third of the "ice squad".
The two teams that took the last places will change their registration and go to the lower division. Only the Danish national team is not threatened with the departure, since the next forum will take place there. After the quarter-finals, two semi-finals follow, their winners will fight for the title of the strongest team.
Losers of the ½ final will play in the consolation final for bronze medals.
Group A(Cologne) will look like this:
- Germany;
- Russia;
- Sweden;
- Slovakia;
- Latvia;
- Italy;
- Denmark.
IN group B(Paris) will measure their strength:
- Canada;
- Finland;
- Czech Republic;
- Switzerland;
- France;
- Belarus;
- Norway;
- Slovenia.
For those who don't know or have forgotten, a hockey match lasts 60 minutes. Remember a phrase from famous song: "a great five and a goalkeeper." On the ice, as a rule, there are two defenders, three forwards (two of them are extreme, one plays in the center) and a goalkeeper. For gross violations, players will be sent off in the form of a two-minute penalty. Teams play three periods of twenty minutes, in case of not determining the best during this time, the lucky winner will be determined in a five-minute overtime. If it also ends in a draw, then a shootout will await us. Shootouts are the equivalent of a football penalty shootout.
In the playoffs, fans will not see such luxury, as the opponents will play a 20-minute OT if the strongest is not determined in regular time. OT will go until someone scores the long-awaited puck.
Applicants
At the Ice Hockey World Championship, we are waiting for the confrontation of sixteen top teams:
- Germany
Let's start our acquaintance with the owners - the "German Bundestim". The well-known hockey player Marco Sturm will coach the team. Germany is one of the most experienced teams of the Old World, the Germans are thirteenth in the world ranking. At the world championships, the team was in prizes twice, back in 1932, and also in 1976. Let's call their most recent achievement 4th place at a home tournament in 2010, at the same time a record attendance at the championship was set, in a duel against the USA in Gelsenkirchen there were 77 thousand 803 people.
The main stars of the team will be players from the National hockey league: goaltender - Thomas Gray (Islanders) with defensemen Korbian Holzer (Arizona) and Christian Ehrhoff (Chicago), as well as team captain Marcel Gotz. As you can see, seven years after the successful performance, the Germans are again returning to the “home walls”.
- Russia
The Germans will have one of the main "contenders" for success in the group - the Russian team. The Russians won the main trophy 5 times, took silver and bronze medals three times. In the ranking, the team is in second place, in 2016 the “red car” won bronze, having outplayed the Americans, but this cannot be called a great success, since the tournament was held for the Russians in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Head coach Oleg Znark has a huge number of star performers at his disposal, including Columbus and Colorado goalkeepers Alexander Vishnevsky and Semyon Varlamov and some of the best attacking links in the NHL: Alexander Ovechkin (Washington), Pavel Datsyuk (Detroit), Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh) and Vladimir Tarasenko (St. Louis). Fans are always demanding of the national team and in 2017 they are waiting for a repeat of the success of 2014, when the team triumphed.
competition for group stage Russians will be American hockey players. The Americans only managed to win the tournament twice in their long history. The last success dates back to 1960. The guys of John Haynes have not taken championship awards for a long time, the last time this happened in 2010, so we are sure that the United States will be hungry for victories at the upcoming World Cup. Particular attention should be paid to Patrick Kane, Zach Parise, Corey Schneider and the top goaltender of the Los Angeles Kings, Jonathan Quick.
- Sweden
The Swedish national team has reached the Ice Hockey World Championship 67 times. The Swedes are nine-time winners of this tournament, "Tre Krunur" (from Swedish - three crowns) won in 2013 in Stockholm. Sweden is one of the most famous teams, they are in the third position in the ranking. The team includes such stars as: Niklas Backström, Henrik Sedin, Nicholas Krunval and the legendary "man in the mask", Henrik Lundqvist.
- Canada
The clear favorite of group B, as well as the championship, all analysts and hockey fans will name the Canadian team. The Maple Leaves took the trophy away from Russia in 2016 and will probably not want to betray themselves in 2017 either. In Canada, hockey is the number one sport and the most legendary players, Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, are honored to have their game numbers immortalized, which means that no one else will wear the red and white colors with the numbers 99 and 66. By the way, only 1976 for the Canadians started playing professionals. It's scary to imagine how many titles they would have won if they had done it earlier. The team can send a lot of stars to Germany: Sidney Crosby, Corey Parry, Ryan Getzlaf, Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Jonathan Toews and many others. No wonder many experts argue that Canada can easily use two equivalent compositions at any time.
- Finland
Another favorite of the tournament is Suomi. The Finns played in the final in 2016 and have one of the most promising and promising squads in the world. This year the Finnish team defeated the Swedes in the final of the Junior World Championship. hockey schools, as well as a well-developed Finnish league, contribute to the progress youth hockey countries. Finland two-time champion world (1995,2011), 1% of the country's population are professional hockey players. In the national team, it is worth highlighting the most experienced Miko Koivu and the “collar” Niklas Bekström, both hockey players play overseas. Also left forward Mikael Granlund carries a high risk. Underestimation of the Finns can ruin many teams, because Suomi are famous for their hot temper and intransigence.
- Czech
Next, let's talk about the Czech team. The Czech Republic has been champion six times. Having replaced the coach, who brought the triumph of 2010, Vladimir Ruzicka, to Vladimir Vuytek, the pattern of the game for the Czechs has not changed much, but they could not pass the quarterfinal stage, stumbling on the Americans. Now the Czechs have a lull with stellar performers, but due to the team spirit, this team is capable of much.
- France
Another host of the future forum is the French team, which lacks stars from the sky. Hockey is not in the first place among the French and, perhaps, holding competitions of this level will affect the development of this beautiful winter sport. "Le Bleus" (from French - blue) is constantly balancing on the verge of the top division and the bottom, so their main task will be to maintain a residence permit and in the "native land" this is very important to implement.
If there are no sensations, then the teams of Slovakia and Switzerland will be strong middle peasants and “drink the blood” of the leaders, the teams of Latvia, Belarus, Italy, Slovenia, Norway will most likely try to complete local tasks and stay in the top division. The Danes, as mentioned earlier, will not leave the elite.
Youth World Championship
On Youth Championship There will be a lot of interesting events at the 2017 World Championship and it is no secret that the talents who successfully played on it will get into the main national team. The tournament will take place in Canadian Montreal and Toronto. It will begin on December 26, and end on January 5 of the next year. The world champions in 2016 were Finnish hockey players who beat their peers from Russia. Participation in the tournament in Canada will be:
- Canada;
- Finland;
- Sweden;
- Russia;
- Czech Republic;
- Slovakia;
- Switzerland;
- Latvia;
- Denmark.
Several significant events took place at the 2016 championship. For example, the young star of the Finnish team Patrick Laine was one of the best players"youth team", and then received a hit in the symbolic team of the adult tournament. Swedish goalkeeper Linus Södrström, American defender Zach Werenski, Finns Olli Juolevi, Jesse Pulujärvi and US forward Austin Matthews also performed well in the youth tournament. It is safe to say that the brightest personalities at the winter championship under 20 will appear on the ice of Cologne and Paris.
Well, we went through the most important aspects on the eve of the hockey holiday. It will be a fantastic sight when the strongest masters take to the ice. ice show”, millions will wait with bated breath for pucks from their favorite team.
The 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship will turn out to be a truly spectacular competition, which will be attended by the most outstanding teams, coaches and various sports specialists who enjoy great prestige. The World Championship each time attracts the attention of a huge number of fans who are able to objectively evaluate the battles of professional hockey players, the intensity of emotions and uncompromisingness in each meeting.
coming ice hockey world championship 2017 will be the most spectacular, in comparison with all the previous ones, since the level of most of the announced teams is almost equal, and this suggests that it will be almost impossible to predict the results of future games.
Where will the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship be held?
The planetary forum for this sport will begin on 05/05/2017, and the final game is scheduled for 05/21/2017. The tournament will be hosted by two countries: Germany (the city of Cologne) and France (the city of Paris). The proposals of these countries seemed to the members of the international federation more attractive than the applications from Latvia and Denmark to host the championship (62 votes against 46).
The main venue of the championship will be the Lanxess Arena (Cologne), which is designed for 18,500 spectators. All meetings of one of the subgroups, the final meeting, the match for bronze, and two semi-final meetings will be held here. In France, namely in Paris, professionals in their field will compete on one of the largest ice rinks- "Bersi", which is able to accommodate 15,000 fans.
All meetings of one of the subgroups, where French hockey players will play, will take place at this place, as well as two quarterfinal matches will be held. It is interesting that Paris will host the world championship only for the third time after 65 years, but the Germans will host these competitions for the seventh time.
Championship Regulations 2017
Already according to the established tradition, the 2017 World Cup will also include the 16 strongest teams, which will be divided into two groups of eight teams. Germany and France, as host countries, have already entered the group, all other places will be given to the best teams, in accordance with the IIHF ranking, which will be fully formed at the end of the 2016 World Cup.
Each of the sixteen teams in the group stage will meet in one match with the opposing team from its subgroup. After that, the eight best teams that managed to place themselves on the first four lines in the subgroups form pairs for the quarterfinals. Teams that pass the quarter-finals will advance to the semi-finals.
prefabricated, defeated in the semi-final battles will meet in the fight for bronze medals, while the teams that won the semi-final matches will meet in major confrontation tournament for the title of "world champion".
I would like to remind you that ice battles last for an hour, that is, three 20-minute periods. In addition, if the leader of the meeting could not be identified, five-minute overtimes are played according to the 4x4 scheme. In this case, the game continues until the first goal, but often it is not possible to score a puck at this time in more than one of the gates. In this situation, the referee assigns post-match shootouts, but they are not arranged at the playoff stage.
In knockout matches, in case of a draw, everything is decided in an additional ten minutes. In the final meeting, this time is increased to twenty minutes.
Tournament Leaders
The Ice Hockey World Championship 2017 will bring together a certain list of teams that year after year claim to win this most prestigious award. So, the list of potential winners includes:
- Canada;
- Finland;
- Sweden;
- Russia.
American hockey players have been considered the favorites of this championship for many years, but from year to year they lack a drop of luck to reach the final meeting. The last time US hockey players managed to become the owner of this trophy back in 1960, but the most best result this team recently - third place in 2013.
The Americans will try to stop the sad statistics for themselves both at the 2016 World Cup and at the 2017 World Cup in Germany, making every effort and opportunity to please their loyal fans with a long-awaited victory.
Russian hockey is now experiencing a generational change. This explains the recent uncertain performances of our team at important international tournaments. Oleg Znarok (the main coach of the national team) is doing everything possible at the moment: playing key links, working on the optimal line-up, the bench, in order to do his best at the upcoming world championship.
Sweden, for the past few years, has been showing a dynamic game where defense dominates attack. But the national team has one unpleasant weakness, as soon as the team reaches the playoff round, it is defeated. Despite this, in 2013, at the world championship, which was held just at their home, Sweden managed to win the gold award.
The team of the Finnish national team is characterized by instability, alternating brilliant planetary tournaments with failures. The Finns lifted the main trophy of this championship for the last time in 2011, then the national team was overtaken by a long period of failures.
Ice Hockey World Cup 2017: Russian team won bronze
In the duel for third place, the Russians beat Finland
A match for bronze medals was played today at the Ice Hockey World Championship. The Russian team beat Finland - 5:3. This is the second consecutive "bronze" of the Russians at the world championships.
Canada and Sweden will play in the final tonight.
Russia - Finland - 5:3 (1:0, 3:1, 1:2)
1:0 - Gusev (Nichushkin, Antipin, 6.58)
2:0 - Tkachev (Zub, Nichushkin, 21.48)
3:0 - Gusev (Dadonov, Panarin, 27.01)
4:0 - Kiselevich (Nichushkin, Namestnikov, 28.16)
4:1 - Rantanen (Filippula, 39.33)
4:2 - Lehtonen (Aho, 41.16)
4:3 - Savinainen (Aho, Rantanen, 45.29)
5:3 - Kucherov (Belov, Kuznetsov, 48.03)
The rival of the Russian national hockey team in the World Cup bronze match became known
Hockey players of the Swedish national team defeated the Finnish team in the semifinal match of the 2017 World Championship and made it to the final of the competition, where they will play with the Canadians.
The meeting, held on Saturday in Cologne, ended with a score of 4:1 (1:1, 2:0, 1:0) in favor of the Swedish team. The winners scored Alexander Edler (2nd minute), Jon Klingberg (25), William Nylander (35) and Joakim Nordström (54). The Finns scored the puck Jonas Kempainen (5).
The Swedish national team will play with the Canadian team in the final match, which will be held on Sunday, May 21, in Cologne and will start at 21:45 Moscow time. The Finns will also compete with the Russian team on Sunday in the match for third place, which will begin at 17:15 Moscow time.
For the first time in the history of world hockey championships, two countries will jointly host the tournament
The head coach of the Russian hockey team Oleg Znarok (foreground right) during open workout commands The Ice Hockey World Championship starts on Friday in Germany and France, the tournament will be hosted by Paris and Cologne.
For the first time in the history of world hockey championships, the two countries will jointly host the tournament. And the Germans have quite great experience its holding - they hosted the championship eight times, of which seven - as a full-fledged host. The last time the tournament was held in Germany was in 2010, when the matches were held in Cologne, Mannheim and Gelsenkirchen.
France has hosted the competition only four times, including the second tournament in 1930. It is officially considered that last championship world championship in this country was held in Grenoble in 1968, then it took place as part of the men's Olympic tournament.
Tournament in memory of Müller
current championship peace will pass on two arenas that, although they were built a long time ago, but they cannot be called out-of-date. The Cologne Lanxess Arena, which is capable of hosting various types of public events, was opened in 1998 and can accommodate hockey games 18.5 thousand people. The palace is the largest hockey arena in the world outside of North America.
The AccorHotels Arena in Paris, better known as the Palais des Sports Bercy, was built in 1984 and renovated in 2015. For the first time, the arena will host major hockey competitions, previously it hosted, for example, the Davis Cup final in tennis, two Final Fours of the European Club Basketball Championship and the Final Four of the Euroleague Basketball, karting competitions. The palace can accommodate 14.5 thousand people for hockey events.
Notable is the logo of the tournament. It has a silhouette German goalkeeper Robert Muller, who died at the age of 28 in May 2009 from a brain tumor. In this regard, the German Hockey League forever assigned him the 80th number, under which Muller played.
In Cologne and Paris, matches of the preliminary stage of both groups, as well as two games of the 1/4 finals will be held. After that, the main events will unfold in Cologne, where the semi-finals, the match for third place and the final will be played. The Russian team will compete in Group A with the hosts of the competition, as well as teams from Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Slovakia, Latvia and the USA.
It is already known that there are practically no tickets left for the first match of the Russians on May 5 with the Swedes, all tickets have been sold for the game on May 8, Germany - Russia. About 1 thousand tickets remained for the final match of the Russian national team with the Americans. Such demand is associated with a large domestic diaspora in Germany.
For domestic teams, Germany should be called a good place in terms of performances at the world championships. The USSR team won tournaments that were then held in Germany (1975, 1983), and Russian team won her first gold in Munich in 1993. In 2010, the Russians reached the final, which was then also held in Cologne.
Waiting for the landing from "Washington"
The Russians announced 22 players for the tournament, which was announced on Wednesday by coach Harijs Vitolins - three goalkeepers, seven defenders and 12 forwards. 28 players arrived in Cologne, of which three could not train in accordance with the regulations of the International Ice Hockey Federation - there can only be a maximum of 25 hockey players on the ice during a lesson.
On Thursday it became known that the coaching staff decided not to include defender Alexei Bereglazov, as well as forwards Kirill Kaprizov and Andrey Svetlakov, in the application yet. Later it became known that defender Mikhail Naumenkov, as well as forwards Valery Nichushkin and Roman Lyubimov, who spent this season in the Philadelphia club of the National Hockey League (NHL), did not get into the application.
The leadership of the national team left three vacant places for the landing from the NHL, hoping that someone would be vacated following the completion of the duel in the second round pair of the Stanley Cup "Washington" - "Pittsburgh", where several Russians play, including the captain of "Washington" Alexander Ovechkin. Loses to Nashville and St. Louis, where one of the best domestic scorers Vladimir Tarasenko plays.
Mozyakin will remember silver Cologne
The average age of the current Russian team is 25 years. In attack, hopes are pinned on the best sniper of the Tampa Bay NHL club and the third sniper of the regular season this season, Nikita Kucherov, who is due to play in the world championship for the first time - before that, he played for the national team only at last year's World Cup, like his partner in Tampa Vladislav Namestnikov. Together with them, SKA forward Nikita Gusev, who began his career in hockey together with Kucherov in the same hockey school, plays on the same line.
The bet is also made on another link, in which a bunch operates in the person of Vadim Shipachyov and Yevgeny Dadonov - both won the Gagarin Cup of the Continental Hockey League last season. Artemy Panarin, forward of the Chicago NHL club, plays with them, who, before leaving for the NHL, played with Shipachyov and Dadonov in SKA.
Took to the national team Main coach Oleg Znarok and defender Ivan Provorov, who just turned 20 this year, but he has already become the main defender of Philadelphia and will also make his debut at the World Championship. The first number among the goalkeepers will be the goalkeeper of "Tampa" Andrey Vasilevsky.
Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk were expected to compete at the World Championships. However, both St. Petersburg army men were pursued by injuries. Datsyuk missed two last round Gagarin Cup - semi-finals and finals, and Kovalchuk played the playoffs with damage and flew to Germany for surgery.
Only its captain, Sergei Mozyakin, can be called a veteran of the team, for whom this season is by right a memorable one. The striker of Magnitogorsk Metallurg set a number of performance records during the season, becoming the best domestic sniper and scoring first in domestic hockey 1000 points. Mozyakin could not become a three-time winner of the Gagarin Cup this year, but has a chance to win the third gold of the world championships in his career. In 2010, Mozyakin became the silver medalist, he is the only one from the current squad who played at that tournament.
The reigning world champion team Canada will begin its title defense in Paris, where it will play in Group B with the hosts, as well as rivals from the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Belarus, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. The head coach of the Tampa Bay club, John Cooper, heads the Canadians. In each line, the "maple leaves" have those who won the world championship last year in Moscow.
French searches
The tournament in Paris and Germany has not yet begun, and has not been without scandal. The Belarusian team, which arrived in Paris from Bordeaux, where the Eurochallenge match was played, was subjected to inspection local police. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry summoned the French ambassador to get an explanation, and then protested. As for the hockey authorities, the organizing committee of the French part of the World Championship apologized to the Ice Hockey Federation of Belarus, and the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Rene Fasel, visited the training session of the Belarusian team and also apologized.
“You know it could be related to both safety and anti-doping cases. We are trying to get a response from the French side,” Fasel told TASS. - Of course, this is not an option when this is arranged right at the station in front of people. We are trying to find the reason why this happened, we hope that this will not happen again.”
Ice Hockey World Cup 2017: quarter-final results, semi-finalists, schedule of matches for May 20
All the semi-finalists of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship have been determined. The quarter-final matches took place on May 18, according to their results, the pairs of the ½ finals of the World Championship became known, the matches of this stage of the tournament will take place on May 20.
The Russian team reached the semi-finals of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship, beating the Czech Republic 3-0 in its quarter-finals, which took place on May 18 in Paris.
According to the 2017 World Cup grid, the rival of the Russian team in the semifinals was the Canadian team, which is reigning champion peace.
Canadians in their quarterfinals defeated the German team, 2:1.
The other pair of semi-finalists were the teams of Finland and Sweden.
The Finnish national team in Cologne beat American hockey players with a score of 2:0, and the Swedes in Paris turned out to be stronger than the Swiss, 3:1.
The semi-finals, as well as the bronze medal match and the final of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Cup, will be held in Cologne.
Ice Hockey World Cup 2017: semi-finals schedule
16:15 Russia-Canada
20:15 Finland-Sweden
The start time of the matches is indicated in Moscow.
Recall that at last year's World Ice Hockey Championship, held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Canadian team won gold, the Finnish team won silver, and the Russian team became a bronze medalist.
The Swedish national team at the 2016 World Cup in the quarterfinals was defeated by the Canadians (0:6), eventually becoming the sixth.
Ice Hockey World Cup 2017 semi-final: who came out, who will play with whom, match schedule, review of the match Russia - Czech Republic on May 18
Ice Hockey World Cup 2017: schedule of play-off matches - semi-finals. The quarter-finals of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship have come to an end. Semi-finalist countries have become known. There are four of them: Russia, Canada, Finland and Sweden.
It should be noted that only the US team is not among the predicted ones. They lost the match today to the Finns. But the most important thing is that our team went further and got the opportunity to win gold. Now everything depends on our guys who will fight to the last.
A little about today's games. The first to play were Russia with the Czech Republic and the USA with Finland, according to wordyou.ru. Our team won 3-0. The first two goals were scored in the first period, and the last - in the third. Dmitry Orlov, Nikita Kucherov and Artemy Panarin distinguished themselves in today's game. The guys played just fine and brought 3 goals into the opponent's goal. USA, despite the forecasts, lost to the Finns with a score of 2-0.
The last to play today were Sweden and Switzerland and Canada and Germany. Both matches were predicted. Sweden defeated Switzerland 3-1 and Canada defeated Germany 2-1. The first and last goal was scored by Germany in the last minutes of the 3rd period, however, this did not save them.
Ice Hockey World Cup 2017: schedule of play-off matches - semi-finals. So, let's sum up. Our team will play in the semi-finals with the Canadian team. It should be noted that the guys will obviously have a hard time, but the whole of Russia believes in them and our victory. The match will take place at 21:15 on May 20, 2017. Sweden and Finland will play on the same day, only at 16-15.
Russia - Czech Republic: review of the match from May 18, 2017
In fact, the whole game was made in the first period. The Czechs actively started the match, trying to put pressure on the Russians in their own penalty area, provoking them to break the rules. And at first they managed to do it - Andronov left our team in the minority already in the 3rd minute, but the opponent failed to take advantage of the chance.
Soon our hockey players leveled the game and already in the 9th minute Orlov picked up the puck in a foreign zone and threw it into the lower right corner from the goalkeeper with a masterful throw.
Six minutes later, Kuznetsov, after a magnificent pass, made a targeted pass to Kucherov, and he shot the goalkeeper with an accurate throw into the near “nine”.
The fans had to wait almost 40 minutes for the third and final puck. Artemy Panarin used Belov's pass, which was highly accurate in terms of accuracy, and went one on one, he did not miss his chance.
3:0 - confident victory of the Russians takes them to the semi-finals of the World Cup, which will be held May 20 in Cologne.
