The 81st Ice Hockey World Championship will be held in 2017. The dates of its holding are from May 5 to May 21, 2017. The third time it is held by two countries - France. France will organize matches in Paris, Germany in Cologne.
V last time Paris hosted the Ice Hockey World Championship for a very long time - 65 years ago. In 1968, at the 1930 Ice Hockey World Cup in France, all but the last three matches were played. They were held in Austria and Germany. Germany has hosted seven Ice Hockey World Championships, the most recent in 2010.
Choosing a venue for the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship
Initially, the application for hosting the Ice Hockey World Championship in 2017 was submitted by four countries, which united in pairs. These are Latvia with Denmark and Germany with France. before that, the Germans and the French applied separately and competed among themselves. Then they agreed, apparently calculated all the pros and cons and put forward a joint application. In this case, Latvia and Denmark could not make a worthy competition and dropped out of the competition. It was decided to give the right to host the 2017 Ice Hockey World Cup at a meeting of the International Ice Hockey Federation on May 17, 2013 in Stockholm.
Who is participating in the Ice Hockey World Championship 2017
Countries France and Germany participate in any case in the World Cup, they are the hosts of the tournament. They already got to the championship, taking into account the results of the 2016 World Cup. The teams of Italy and Slovenia in the first division of the 2016 World Cup were in the first two places, they also participate. To these four are added 12 teams that qualified for the 2016 World Cup. It turns out 16 teams.
Eurasia
North America
The Ice Hockey World Championship 2017 is hosted by two sports venues. in the city of Cologne (Germany) and the Parisian
Rules for the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship
All 16 teams are divided by 8 into two groups. The group stage of the tournament, as always, takes place at the World Cup in a round robin system. Teams that take the first four places in the group go to the playoffs of the competition. The team that took the last 8th place in each group are eliminated in the 1st division of the 2018 World Cup.
Interestingly, the national team from Denmark, having taken eighth place in the group, will not be relegated to the 1st division for the 2018 World Cup. It is the country that organizes the world hockey championship the world in 2018. The team that finished the penultimate seventh place in the group will be relegated from the top division.
Mascot at the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship
The official mascot of the Ice Hockey World Championship 2017 was chosen as the image of characters from European films and comics. These are Gauls Asterix and Obelix, they are known all over the world. IIHF - International Ice Hockey Federation approved this mascot.
The organizers of the 2017 World Cup in the German Hockey Federation consider the choice of a mascot very successful. These characters are popular, especially in Germany and France. Souvenirs with their image should be snapped up. Obelix and Asterix should further draw attention to the competition.
Video: presentation of the mascot of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Cup
From 5 to 21 May 2017 years will pass 81st
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. site will present the maximum full information about the tournament: news, analytics, forecasts, calendars and tables, online broadcasts.For the third time, the Ice Hockey World Championship will be hosted by two countries at once. This time it is France (Paris) and Germany (Cologne), and they won this right from another European duo - Latvia (Riga) and Denmark (Copenhagen).
In total, Germany hosted the hockey world championships 7 times, France only four times, and the capital, Paris, looked at the strongest teams for the last time 65 years ago.
Emblem Ice Hockey World Cup 2017 presented in the form of a silhouette of a hockey player. But this is not an abstract player, but former Germany goalkeeper Robert Müller, who died of cancer at the age of 28.
As before the tournament will take place according to the scheme, when 16 participants are divided into two groups of 8 teams. Each plays with each, the first 4 teams go to the playoffs.
The Russian national team got into group A and will play in Cologne. Among the main rivals in the first stage are the USA, Slovakia and Sweden.
In the previous Ice Hockey World Championship, which was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Russian team took third place, losing in the semi-final to Finland. Gold went to Canada, who defeated the Finns in the main match 2:0.
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Who is entrusted with hosting the 2017 World Hockey Championship? By decision of the International Ice Hockey Federation, the 81st championship was held in two countries. The right to host the Ice Hockey World Cup went to Germany and France. The cities in which the championship will be held are the "metropolis on the Rhine" Cologne and the heart of France - Paris. The start of the championship will be given on May 5. The final match will be played on May 21st.
Arenas
Hockey matches in Cologne will be hosted by the largest indoor hockey court in Europe - Lankess Arena. 18 and a half thousand fans can watch the games within the walls of the arena at once.
Lanxess Arena Sports officials in Paris prepared their famous arena for the World Cup - the Bercy Sports Palace (the current name is Accor Hotels Arena), which can accommodate 14,500 spectators. Within its walls, various sport competitions on a global scale, but it will host the world hockey forum for the first time. By the way, France held the last hockey world championship back in 1968.
Tournament table, schedule
According to the plans of the organizers of the tournament, hockey players will play 34 matches in Cologne. On the ice of the Lankess Arena, it is planned to hold matches of the preliminary stage of Group A teams, two quarter-final and two semi-final meetings, a match for bronze and the culmination of the championship - a match for gold medals.
On the Parisian ice arena Bercy viewers will see 30 matches. There will be meetings group stage in group B, as well as 2 quarter-final matches.
At the moment, the schedule of matches of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship has not yet been approved. But as assured by the International Ice Hockey Federation, the schedule of games will be announced at the end of summer 2016 and published on the official website of the World Ice Hockey Championship: www.iihfworlds2017.com.
Group composition
The Russian team had to play in Group A, where it will face off against rivals from the USA, Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, Latvia, Denmark and Italy.
In group B, together with the 2016 world champions - Canadians, ice teams from the Czech Republic, Finland, Belarus, Switzerland, Norway and France will play.
The teams of Germany and France have booked their places in tournament bracket world hockey championship in 2017 as the host countries of the tournament. Hockey players of the national teams of Italy and Slovenia earned the right to participate in the championship following the results of meetings in the first division of the 2016 World Cup, where they took the first two places. 
Official symbols
Asterix and Obelix were chosen as the official mascots of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Cup. These two heroes of the famous French comics are very popular not only in France, where the championship will take place world ice hockey 2017, but also in the world, so that their choice as official mascots was not in doubt among representatives of the other organizing country Germany. Both for the fans and for the participating teams, Obelix and Asterix will be role models with their motto "Nothing is impossible".
Order of conduct. Regulations
The rules for holding meetings compared to the previous championship have not changed. As before, after the games of the preliminary stage, the top 4 teams from each group advance to the playoffs. Teams that finish last in their groups lose their ranking and move to the first division for the next year.
The teams that win the quarter-finals advance to the semi-finals. Matches in the ½ finals are held between the teams that won the ¼ final games, where the winning teams of the groups played, and the teams that won the ¼ final games, where the teams that won the second place in the group played.
The teams that lose the semi-final matches compete for bronze medals. The winners advance to the final where the champion is determined.
Favorites
- Team Canada. Ask anyone who's the best hockey player and the answer you'll hear most often is Canada. This is natural. The founders of hockey always show a spectacular, fast, technical game. There are always a lot of high-class players in the Canadian team at any World Cup. Even with his own names, he evokes awe and respect from the opponent. But in Lately at the world championships there are teams that can play with the Canadians on an equal footing, and sometimes give them a fight.
- Team Sweden. Thanks to their discipline, strict adherence to the tactics proposed by the coach, the Tre Krunur team often achieves success in world tournaments. Excellent physical training and the ability to keep the defense, coupled with a sharp game on the counterattacks - these are the components of the Swedish victories.
- Team Finland. The impulsive game of "hot Finnish guys" is able to melt the ice in any arena. The class of players of the Finnish national team is in no way inferior to the Canadians. Their game is replete with spectacular power moves, goes at high speeds, and the skill of scorers often upsets the best goalkeepers in the world.
- Russian team. Despite all the criticism that fell on the players of the national team after the relatively "unfortunate" home championship world, fans believe in the revival of the great Red Machine. Yes, this car sometimes slows down and slips, but still the team's game can become the best. It includes many experienced craftsmen and talented youth. More teamwork and victory will come!
The fans are waiting
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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 - Bercy, which can 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. I wonder what Paris will take 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 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 the main confrontation of the 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 hesitant 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, 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 beat the team of Finland in the floor final match World Cup 2017 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
Head coach of the Russian hockey team Oleg Znarok (foreground right) during the team's open training session 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. Moreover, the Germans have quite a lot of experience in holding it - they hosted the championship eight times, seven of which were full-fledged hosts. 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 the last 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
The current World Cup will be held in two arenas, which, although they were built a long time ago, cannot be called out-of-date. Cologne "Lanxess-Arena", which is capable of hosting various kinds of public events, was opened in 1998 and accommodates 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 tennis final, two Final Fours of the European Club Basketball Championship and the Euroleague Basketball Final Four, as well as karting competitions. The palace can accommodate 14.5 thousand people for hockey events.
Notable is the logo of the tournament. It depicts the silhouette of German goalkeeper Robert Müller, 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 according to the regulations International Federation hockey - there can be a maximum of only 25 hockey players on the ice during the lesson.
On Thursday it became known that 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 at the National Club hockey league(NHL) Philadelphia.
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 match 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 the attack, hopes are pinned on best sniper NHL club "Tampa Bay" and the third sniper of the regular season this season, Nikita Kucherov, who for the first time should play in the world championship - for the national team before that he played only on last year's Cup world, as well as 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 head 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 Cup. 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 the last two rounds of the Gagarin Cup - the semi-finals and the final, and Kovalchuk played the playoffs with an injury and flew to Germany for surgery.
Only its captain, Sergei Mozyakin, can be called a veteran of the team, for whom this season is rightfully memorable. The striker of Magnitogorsk Metallurg set a number of performance records during the season, becoming the best domestic sniper and scoring the first 1000 points in domestic hockey. 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 searched by the 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 national team reached the semi-finals of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship, having beaten the Czech Republic national team 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 the 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 by Germany was scored on last minutes 3 periods, 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 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.