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2017 World Hockey Championship: the Russian team won bronze
The Russians beat Finland in the match for third place
At the World Hockey Championship today a match was played for bronze medals. The Russian team beat Finland – 5:3. This is the second bronze medal in a row for Russians at world championships.
Canada and Sweden will play in the final this evening.
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 (Filppula, 39.33)
4:2 – Lehtonen (Aho, 41.16)
4:3 – Savinainen (Aho, Rantanen, 45.29)
5:3 – Kucherov (Belov, Kuznetsov, 48.03)
The opponent of the Russian national hockey team in the World Cup bronze medal match has become known
Hockey players of the Swedish national team beat the Finnish team in the floor final match World Cup 2017 and made it to the finals 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. Alexander Edler (2nd minute), Jon Klingberg (25), William Nylander (35) and Joakim Nordström (54) scored for the winners. The Finns scored the puck from Jonas Kempainen (5).
The Swedish national team will play with the Canadian team in the final match, which will take place on Sunday, May 21, in Cologne and will begin 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 (right in the foreground) during open training teams The World Hockey 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, two countries will jointly host the tournament. Moreover, the Germans have quite great experience holding it - they hosted the championship eight times, seven of which as a full-fledged host. The previous time the tournament was held in Germany was in 2010, when matches took place in Cologne, Mannheim and Gelsenkirchen.
France hosted the competition only four times, including the second tournament in 1930. It is officially believed that last championship World Cup in this country took place 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 outdated. Cologne's Lanxess Arena, which is capable of hosting all kinds of public events, was opened in 1998 and can accommodate hockey matches 18.5 thousand people. The Palace is the largest hockey arena in the world outside of North America.
The Paris AccorHotels Arena, better known as the Bercy Sports Palace, was built in 1984 and reconstructed in 2015. The arena will host major hockey competitions for the first time; previously it hosted, for example, the Davis Cup tennis final, two Final Fours of the European Club Basketball Championship and the Final Four of the Euroleague Basketball, and karting competitions. The palace can accommodate 14.5 thousand people for hockey events.
Notable is the tournament logo. It depicts the silhouette of German goalkeeper Robert Müller, who at 28 died in May 2009 from a brain tumor. In this regard, the German Hockey League permanently assigned him the number 80, under which Müller performed.
Matches will be held in Cologne and Paris preliminary stage both groups, as well as two quarter-final games. After which 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 remain for the final match of the Russian national team with the Americans. This demand is associated with the 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 national team won tournaments then held in Germany (1975, 1983), and Russian team She won her first gold in Munich in 1993. In 2010, the Russians reached the final, which was also held in Cologne.
Waiting for the landing from "Washington"
The Russians entered 22 players for the tournament, as coach Harijs Vitolins announced on Wednesday - three goalkeepers, seven defenders and 12 forwards. 28 players arrived in Cologne, three of whom could not train according to the regulations International Federation hockey - there can be a maximum of only 25 hockey players on the ice during a lesson.
On Thursday it became known that coaching staff decided not to include defender Alexey Bereglazov, as well as forwards Kirill Kaprizov and Andrey Svetlakov in the application for now. Later it became known that defender Mikhail Naumenkov, as well as forwards Valery Nichushkin and Roman Lyubimov, who spent this season in the National hockey league(NHL) Philadelphia.
The team's management left three vacant spots for troops from the NHL, hoping that someone would be released after the end of the match in the second round of the Stanley Cup pair Washington - Pittsburgh, where several Russians play, including Washington captain 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 placed on the best sniper of the NHL Tampa Bay club and the third sniper of the regular season this season, Nikita Kucherov, who is expected to play at the world championship for the first time - he had previously 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 plays in the same line, who began his career in hockey together with Kucherov at the same hockey school.
The bet is also placed on one more link, in which there is a connection in the person of Vadim Shipachev and Evgeniy Dadonov - both became winners of the Gagarin Cup of the Kontinental Hockey League in last season. Playing with them is the forward of the NHL club Chicago Artemy Panarin, who before leaving for the NHL played with Shipachev and Dadonov in SKA.
Took him to the national team Main coach Oleg Znarok and defender Ivan Provorov, who just turned 20 this year, but has already become the main defender of Philadelphia and will also make his debut at the World Cup. The first number among goalkeepers will be Tampa goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevsky.
It was expected that Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk would perform at the World Championships. However, both St. Petersburg army players were plagued by injuries. Datsyuk missed the last two rounds of the Gagarin Cup - the semi-finals and finals, and Kovalchuk played the playoffs with an injury and flew to Germany for surgery.
The only veteran of the team can be called its captain Sergei Mozyakin, for whom this season is rightfully memorable. The Magnitogorsk Metallurg forward set a number of performance records during the season, becoming the best domestic sniper and scoring the first 1000 points in domestic hockey. Mozyakin failed to become a three-time winner of the Gagarin Cup this year, but has a chance to win the third world championship gold of his career. In 2010, Mozyakin became a silver medalist; he is the only one from the current squad to compete at that tournament.
The current world champion team of Canada will begin to defend its title 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 Canadians are led by Tampa Bay head coach John Cooper. In each line of the “maple leaves” there are those who won the world championship last year in Moscow.
French searches
The tournament in Paris and Germany has not yet begun, but there is already a scandal. The Belarusian team, which came to Paris from Bordeaux, where they played the EuroChallenge match, was searched by the local police. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry summoned the French ambassador to get an explanation, and then expressed a protest. As for the hockey authorities, the organizing committee of the French part of the World Championship apologized to the Belarusian Hockey Federation, and the President of the International Hockey Federation Rene Fasel attended the training Belarusian team and also apologized.
“You know this could be related to both safety and anti-doping matters. We are trying to get an answer from the French side,” Fasel told TASS. - Of course, this is not a solution when this happens 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.”
Hockey World Cup 2017: quarterfinal results, semi-finalists, match schedule for May 20
All the semifinalists of the 2017 World Hockey Championship have been determined. The quarterfinal matches took place on May 18, based on their results, the pairings for the ½ finals of the World Championship became known, the matches at this stage of the tournament will take place on May 20.
The Russian national team reached the semifinals of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship, beating the Czech national team 3:0 in its quarterfinals, held on May 18 in Paris.
According to the 2017 World Cup draw, the Russian team’s opponent in the semifinals was the Canadian team, which is the current world champion.
The Canadians defeated the German team in their quarterfinals, 2:1.
The other pair of semi-finalists were the national teams of Finland and Sweden.
The Finnish national team beat the American hockey players with a score of 2:0 in Cologne, and the Swedes in Paris turned out to be stronger than the Swiss, 3:1.
The semi-final matches, like the bronze medal match and the final of the 2017 World Hockey Championship, will be held in Cologne.
Hockey World Cup 2017: semi-final schedule
16:15 Russia-Canada
20:15 Finland-Sweden
The start time of the matches is Moscow.
Let us recall that at last year’s World 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 team at the 2016 World Cup was defeated by the Canadians in the quarterfinals (0:6), eventually becoming sixth.
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
Hockey World Cup 2017: schedule of playoff matches - semi-finals. The quarterfinals of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship have ended. The 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 to the finals today. But the most important thing is that our team advanced 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. Russia played the Czech Republic and the USA played Finland first, wordyou.ru reports. Our team won with a score of 3-0. The first two goals were scored in the first period, and the last one in the third. Dmitry Orlov, Nikita Kucherov and Artemy Panarin distinguished themselves in today's game. The guys played just great and brought 3 goals into the opponent’s goal. The USA, despite the forecasts, lost to the Finns with a score of 2-0.
The last teams to play today were Sweden and Switzerland and Canada and Germany. Both matches went as predicted. Sweden defeated Switzerland 3-1 and Canada defeated Germany 2-1. The first and last goal by Germany was scored in the last minutes of the 3rd period, however, this did not save them.
Hockey World Cup 2017: schedule of playoff matches - semi-finals. So, let's summarize. Our team will play in the semifinals with the Canadian team. It should be noted that it will obviously not be easy for the guys, but all of Russia believes in them and our victory. The match will take place at 21:15 on 05/20/17. Sweden and Finland will play on the same day, only at 16-15.
Russia - Czech Republic: match review from May 18, 2017
In fact, the entire game was done in the first period. The Czechs started the match actively, 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 the opponent’s zone and with a masterful throw threw it into the lower right corner of the goalkeeper.
Six minutes later, Kuznetsov, after an excellent 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 goal. Artemy Panarin used Belov’s precision pass and, going one-on-one, did not miss his chance.
3:0 - a confident victory for the Russians takes them to the semi-finals of the World Championship, which will be held on May 20 in Cologne.
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Russian national team - Italian national team. Ice Hockey World Championship 2017
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The national teams of Russia and Sweden met in the opening match of the Ice Hockey World Championship. The game ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of the Russians.
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The 2017 World Hockey Championship will be one of the most spectacular tournaments, which will bring together the best teams, coaches, and respected sports experts. The presented competition invariably attracts the attention of millions of fans ice battles who are able to appreciate the play of recognized masters, the uncompromising nature of the fight and the intensity of emotions in every match. The upcoming championship promises to be one of the most spectacular, because the level of many national teams entered into the tournament is approximately the same, which means that it will be extremely difficult to predict the results of future matches.
Hockey World Cup 2017: where will it be held?
The 2017 Planetary Hockey Forum starts on May 5, and the final match is scheduled for the 21st of the same month. The host countries of the tournament will be France and Germany (the cities of Paris and Cologne, respectively). It was their application that seemed more attractive to representatives of the International Hockey Federation than the proposal to jointly host the competition between Denmark and Latvia (63 votes against 45). The main venue for the upcoming World Cup will be Cologne, which can accommodate 18,500 fans.
All games of one of the subgroups, two semi-final battles, a match for third place and the final match will take place here. In Paris best hockey players planets will compete on the largest indoor ice arena "Bersi", which can simultaneously accommodate up to 15,000 spectators.
All matches of one of the subgroups where the French national team will play, as well as two quarterfinal battles, will take place here. It is noteworthy that Paris will host the World Hockey Championship for only the third time after 65 years, while Germany will host this tournament for the 7th time.
Regulations for the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship
The 2017 World Hockey Championship traditionally has 16 best teams, which will be divided into 2 subgroups (8 teams in each). France and Germany, as the host countries of the tournament, qualified automatically; the remaining places will be taken by the best squads according to the IIHF ranking, which will be finalized after the 2016 World Cup. Each national team at the group stage will play one match with the opposing team from its subgroup. Next 8 best teams, who took the first 4 places in the subgroups, form quarter-final pairs, the winners of which will compete in the ½ final stage. The losing squads in the semi-final matches will compete for the bronze medals of the tournament, while the winners will compete in a head-to-head confrontation for the title of triumphant hockey competition. 
Let us remind you that a hockey battle lasts 60 minutes (3 periods of 20 minutes each), and if the winner of the match cannot be identified, then the teams play overtime (additional 5 minutes) in the 4x4 format. Here the game goes until the first goal, but often the puck cannot be thrown into any of the goals. In this case, a post-match shootout is scheduled, but it is not carried out at the playoff stage. In knockout matches if there is a draw in regular time, everything is decided in an additional 10 minutes. For the final the overtime time is 20 minutes.
Who to root for?
The 2017 Hockey World Championship will bring together a number of squads that regularly compete to win this coveted trophy. The list of top title contenders worth rooting for at the tournament includes:
- Canada;
- Russia;
- Sweden;
- Finland.
The Americans are considered the favorites of the World Cup every year, but each time they lack just a little to reach the finals. The last time the US team won the prestigious trophy was back in 1960, and the best achievement of the Stars and Stripes in recent times was bronze in 2013. American puck masters will certainly try to break the sad statistics both in Russia at the 2016 World Cup and in Germany at the 2017 World Cup, where they will make every effort to please their fans. The Canadians looked great at the 2015 Planetary Forum, where they easily won gold medals. The 2017 tournament will be important for the Maple Leafs, as it will allow them to rehearse interactions before the upcoming Olympic Games. Most likely, the best squad will come to the World Cup, which will try to demonstrate the maximum of its capabilities. Russians are now experiencing a change of hockey generations, which explains the team’s recent lackluster performances at prestigious international competitions.
A landmark event for them will be the home World Cup, which took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow in May 2016. There, the team's head coach Oleg Znarok tried to play key combinations and prepare his players for a worthy performance at the 2017 World Cup and 2018 Olympic Games. The Swedes have recently demonstrated balanced hockey, where defense prevails over attack. In matches against weak opponents, Tre Kronor does not have any problems, but when it comes to the playoffs, the Scandinavians lack endurance. However, in 2013 home Championship world, Sweden won gold in a relatively easy match for itself with the opening of that tournament - the Swiss team. 
The Finnish national team is characterized by instability, alternating successful global championships with failed ones. The last time the Finns took gold was in 2011, after which a number of unsuccessful tournaments followed, where the “lions” demonstrated unusual hockey. The situation must be rectified by the hockey players who won the last youth world championship. Once they join the main team, Finland will most likely be able to beat any favorite team, including Canada, Russia and Sweden. Thus, every fan of ice battles knows where the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship will take place. This tournament precedes the Olympics, so most national squads will try to bring combat personnel ready to solve the most serious problems. The fans will only benefit from this, having received their share of emotions, memorable moments, the intensity of an uncompromising fight and an abundance of scored goals.
The 81st Ice Hockey World Championship 2017 will take place in Germany and France. The tournament starts on May 5 and ends on the 21st with the final in Cologne. This tournament will be the third to be held simultaneously in two countries. The world championship games will take place in Paris and Cologne. We'll tell you in more detail which arenas and where the championship will be held world hockey 2017.
Why in two countries
Initially, France and Germany submitted a separate bid to host the 2017 Hockey World Championship. However, in 2012 it was decided to join forces and hold a common tournament. This joint application from France and Germany was able to outstrip the double application from Latvia and Denmark with a clear advantage. The advantage of Germany and France was the existing infrastructure, while in Latvia and Denmark it was necessary to carry out urgent reconstruction ice arenas.
Germany has already hosted the world hockey championships seven times. The last time Germany became the host of the championship was in 2010. France has hosted major tournaments four times, but the last time the championship was held was in 1968. All games are scheduled to be held in Cologne at the Lanxess Arena and in Paris at the AccorHotels Arena. The capacity of these modern hockey stadiums is 18.5 and 17 thousand respectively. Initially, it was planned to hold the games in the Parisian Bercy Arena, which has a capacity of 15 thousand spectators. However, it was subsequently decided to move the games to the AccorHotels Arena.
The organizers note that more than half of the tickets have already been sold, so there are guaranteed to be no problems with filling the stands. Taking into account the capacity of the ice arenas, it can be argued that the 2017 championship will be a record for the number of fans attending the championship games. According to the organizers of the tournament, holding it in France will significantly increase interest in hockey in this country.
Championship regulations
In accordance with the tournament regulations, 16 teams will take part in it, which will be divided into 2 groups. Games will be played in a round-robin manner, after which the first four teams will advance to the playoffs. The distribution of teams in the playoffs is standard - the winner of group A plays with the fourth team of group B. The teams that take the last eighth place in their groups are directly relegated to the first division. Let us only note that the championship is scheduled to be held in Denmark in 2018, so if the national team of this country takes last place in the group, then the team from 7th place in this group will be relegated to the lower division.
In Cologne, in accordance with the approved schedule of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship, 34 games will take place. The city will host Group A matches, two quarter-finals and semi-finals, as well as the final and third place game. Paris will host 30 games, including two quarter-finals. The organizers promise to stagger the start of the games in two cities, which will significantly increase the television audience of the championship. Distribution into groups is carried out taking into account the current IIHF ranking.
In 2016, the championship was held in Russia in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Canada confidently won the world championship, beating Finland in the final match. Third place went to the Russian team, which beat the USA in the consolation final. At the 2017 championship, the main contenders for the title will also be Canadians and the Finnish team. The strongest teams can be fielded by the Czechs, Slovaks, Russians and Americans.
Games calendar
Playoffs
| 1/4 finals | 18.05.2017, 17:15 | USA – Finland | 0:2 |
| 1/4 finals | 18.05.2017, 17:15 | Russia – Czech Republic | 3:0 |
| 1/4 finals | 18.05.2017, 21:15 | Canada – Germany | 2:1 |
| 1/4 finals | 18.05.2017, 21:15 | Switzerland – Sweden | 1:3 |
| 1/2 finals | 20.05.2017, 16:15 | Canada – Russia | 4:2 |
| 1/2 finals | 20.05.2017, 20:15 | Sweden – Finland | 4:1 |
| For 3rd place | 21.05.2017, 17:15 | Russia – Finland | 5:3 |
| The final | 21.05.2017, 21:45 | Canada – Sweden | 1:2 |
On Sunday, May 21, 2017, the World Hockey Championships ended in Germany and France. The teams of Sweden and Canada met in the final match for the world championship title.
The match turned out to be tense and low-scoring. The Swedes opened the scoring at the end of the second period. Tampa Bay defenseman Victor Hedman scored the accurate shot. The Canadians' response came quite quickly. At the very beginning of the third period, Ryan O'Reilly returned the score with a pass from Mitchell Marner. The rest of the period and the 20-minute overtime passed without any goals scored.
Everything was decided in the post-match shootout, where the Swedes were quicker. The winning shootout was scored by the Swedish forward of the Washington Capitals, Niklas Bäckström. Sweden wins gold medals at the World Hockey Championship for the tenth time in its history!
Final standings of the 2017 Ice Hockey World Cup teams
So, based on the results of the playoff matches of the World Hockey Championship, the teams were distributed in the final table of ranks as follows:
- Sweden
- Canada
- Russia
- Finland
- Switzerland
- Czech
- Germany
- France
- Latvia
- Norway
- Denmark
- Belarus
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Italy
The national teams of Slovenia and Italy were relegated from the elite division. Their place in the elite of world hockey for 2018 will be taken by the teams of South Korea and Austria.
Best players of the tournament
Top scorer - Artemy Panarin (Russia) 17 points.
Most Valuable Player (MVP) - William Nylander (Sweden)
Best Defender - Dennis Seidenberg (Germany)
Best goalkeeper - Andrey Vasilevsky (Russia)
