La fédération internationale de hockey sur glace a dévoilé le calendrier de ses prochains grands événements dont voici le détail, en anglais, ainsi que de la nouvelle formule pour les Jeux Olympiques.
2012 IIHF World Championship
Venues: Helsinki (Finland) & Stockholm (Sweden)
Dates: 4-20 May 2012
Groups to be determined on May 15 after the gold medal game.
Participants: Russia, Canada, Sweden, Czech Republic, Finland, USA, Switzerland, Slovakia, Germany, Belarus, Norway, Latvia, Denmark, France, Italy, Kazakhstan.
IIHF World U20 Championship
2012 IIHF World U20 Championship
Venue: Calgary & Edmonton, Canada
Dates: 26 December 2011 – 5 January 2012
Group A: Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Latvia
Group B: Canada, USA, Finland, Czech Republic, Denmark
IIHF World U18 Championship
2012 IIHF World U18 Championship
Venue: Switzerland or Denmark (TBC)
Dates: 12-22 April 2012 (if in Switzerland, TBC)
Group A: USA, Canada, Finland, Czech Republic, Denmark
Group B: Sweden, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Latvia
IIHF World Women’s Championship
2012 IIHF World Women’s Championship
Venue: Burlington (Vermont), USA
Dates: 7-14 April 2012 (TBC)
Group A: USA, Canada, Finland, Russia
Group B: Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Germany
IIHF World Women’s U18 Championship
2012 IIHF World Women’s U18 Championship
Venue: Czech Republic (city TBA)
Dates: TBA
Group A: USA, Czech Republic, Sweden, Russia
Group B: Canada, Finland, Germany, Switzerland
2014 Olympic Winter Games
The congress approved the format of the Olympic ice hockey tournaments of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and the qualification structure.
For the men’s events the format stays the same. The best nine teams of the 2012 IIHF Men’s World Ranking (determined after the 2012 IIHF World Championship) will be qualified directly. The remaining candidates will have to go through qualification tournaments.
Olympic men’s ice hockey tournament: Nations ranked 1-9 plus three qualifiers.
Seeding:
Group A: 1, 6, 7, 12
Group B: 2, 5, 8, 11
Group C: 3, 4, 9, 10
The eight teams with the best records (the best two teams of each group and the two teams ranked third with the best record) advance to the quarter-finals.
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