2015 Universiade

[BlitzSnipe]

Anyone watching this? It's a student hockey championship - many of the WJC players are participating. Currently watching Russia vs. Sweden, 3-1 after two periods.

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[Hockeyfrilla]

many of the WJC players are participating. .

ehh??

 

[BlitzSnipe]

ehh??

Well, at least some - Barbashev, Rafikov, Cherepanov for eg. are playing for Russia.

 

[GWNR]

I remember my cousin played 05. This tournament is nothing special.

 

[JJTT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_2015_Winter_Universiade

Looks like Russia actually sent some decent players unlike the others.

Rosters

http://wuni15.sportresult.com/NH/en/-60/Root/ViewPdf/IHM400A01_C74_3.0.pdf
http://wuni15.sportresult.com/NH/en/-60/Root/ViewPdf/IHM400B01_C74_5.0.pdf
http://wuni15.sportresult.com/NH/en/-60/Root/ViewPdf/IHM400B02_C74_3.0.pdf

 

[Canuckistani]

For goodness sake South Korea, Japan and Spain are in this thing.

 

[FiLe]

For goodness sake South Korea, Japan and Spain are in this thing.

Spain is the host country. And SK and Japan... let's keep in mind that the requirements for these teams is that players have to be both university students and decent hockey players. That actually is quite rare outside North America.

In fact, the achiever mentality present in the Far East does not make it weird at all that said countries have teams here.

For the same reason I'm not surprised Finland doesn't have a team. In here, you either go for a degree or are in professional sports. And the few rare cases that do both are usually more geared towards individual sports. I guess you could find enough uni students who know how to tie their skates and hold a stick here in Finland too (especially if you take every NCAA player we have too), but more than half the team would still be from the local beer league's beer league.

 

[joe89]

Sweden beat Japan 2-1 in a placement game in 2013 to qualify for this tournament, after finishing behind Italy and Latvia in the group stages. The players on this team are amateurs in tier 3-5, some don't have a club. I think that tells you all you need to know about Swedish "university hockey"(mostly students that play hockey for fun).

Fun fact though: Gustav Nyquist's younger brother is on the team.

The crushing coming up against Canada should be fun.

 

[RED ARMY EAST]

Canada World University Games Team

Canada is made up of all stars from the CanadaWest (CIS) conference.
Most of these players are former WHL or Western Junior "A" players.
Some are former NHL draft picks and CHL stars who were destined to play minor- pro, but chose the books instead!
Canada won the last tournament when All-Stars from the Atlantic (AUS) conference took gold.
Canada has a very good team.
Russia also takes this tournament seriously.

 

[Emppu]

I'll be there tomorrow! I can't believe I'll be able to watch some let's call it "decent" ice hockey in the south of Spain

 

[habsrule4eva3089]

Russia majority of the time cheats at competitions like these, so no surprise yet again. Sending World Junior players, Olympians in other student tournaments. What does it prove really.

 

[steap]

Russia majority of the time cheats at competitions like these, so no surprise yet again. Sending World Junior players, Olympians in other student tournaments. What does it prove really.

It's not cheating at all. Much of WJC players and Olympians are studying at Russian Universities and playing for their University Teams.

 

[joe89]

Russia majority of the time cheats at competitions like these, so no surprise yet again. Sending World Junior players, Olympians in other student tournaments. What does it prove really.

Proves that they take a lot of pride in the Universiade. Watch the medal tables summer or winter, Russia's in a level of their own. Maybe there's something in it economically?

 

[Siamese Dream]

Russia majority of the time cheats at competitions like these, so no surprise yet again. Sending World Junior players, Olympians in other student tournaments. What does it prove really.

How is taking the competition seriously, cheating? All these players are students. The US could send a team full of NCAA players if they wanted to.

 

[Jakk123]

Russia majority of the time cheats at competitions like these, so no surprise yet again. Sending World Junior players, Olympians in other student tournaments. What does it prove really.

So now it´s not about somebody not caring about the tourney, it´s about Russia sending a decent team, thus cheating

 

[kp61c]

well, that russian students playing sports at the professional level. i remember hearing about kuznetsov getting some university degree and a couple days latter he made a mistake of venting his anger towards journalists by means of writing a five word sentence that went public and there were around three-four mistakes in it.
tretyak and co. surely love to win their universiades

 

[Swindon Lad]

How is taking the competition seriously, cheating? All these players are students. The US could send a team full of NCAA players if they wanted to.

Why aren't we in it ? Must be the to many thrashings we took.

Imagine you playing against this type of qhality.

 

[snowmobile]

Russia's intensity at the Universiade is evident when you look at the Women's Curling. Anna Sidorova's team is the team they send to the world championship while every other country is nobodies.