WC: 2022 IIHF World Championship Finland (Russia and Belarus tossed out) No Politics
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Looks like they flipped Russia and USA.
It'll be a harder battle for the top-two finish in Group B, but on the flipside those two are looking more likely to get easier QF opponents. Even if some top teams struggled in the 2021 edition, I don't expect that to become the norm - this was an anomalous tournament to begin with, because the top teams' preparation for the games was seriously hampered by COVID, setting up the stage for some serious round robin upsets. If we have the pandemic behind us a year from now, there will be far less of a chance that the challengers will get to catch the favorites with their pants down.
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Talked to a couple of guys who work for the Finish delegation and it looks like there is already a huge demand for tickets. Lotto systems are being set up for day and team tickets.
They might flip Sweden and the US in the groups
I hope that they flip Sweden & USA. Else we can call group B "The Euro Hockey Tour group".
Hopefully Covid isn't that big of a problem then so that it would stop international fans from coming to Finland.
Okay that's good. Imagine playing EHT Czech tournament and then facing the exact same teams after it...
I forgot that Finland's group is in Tampere. Barkov, Laine, Hintz and others would kill to be in that tournament if their teams are out of the playoffs. I think even without contracts they might come.
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Should be an awesome event, should be back to arenas full of people as well.
Looking forward to that event.
They have a brand new arena at Tampere. I think they open it next fall when the Liiga season starts if I'm not mistaken. It's same caliber arena as Finland's best arena, Hartwall Arena (Jokerit team's arena). So for that reason they want to make exception with Tampere over Helsinki and I guess they also do it for a cultural thing as Tampere is one of the hotbed cities of Finnish hockey.
They've just erected a brand new arena in Tampere, which draws the same 14,000 people as the Arena in Helsinki. The venue will be inaugurated in December this year.
So, a state-of-the art venue in what is the #1 Finnish hockey hotbed. Still surprised?
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Well, when we won the championship in the last tourney, that happened also. And someone made topic "importance of whc" dissing the whole tournament 5mins after we won.
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Nice one. But could someone explain me, how it is exactly with the word "Dick"?
There is a person, for example Dick Cheney (dont take it personal). And there is a word, naa, you know for what.
You should read every post in the thread. #11 would have told you it's not "Dick" but "Deck". (Looks like somebody's got a juvenile sense of humor.)
It's called the Deck Arena, because it's built on a massive concrete deck that was erected above some railway tracks right next door from Tampere Railway Station. Practically, "We want to build a hockey venue in the center of Tampere, but there's no suitable site... Well, let's make one!"
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Such a shame that we decided to host at the olympic year. I doubt we see many (if any) players of the olympic team.
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