New IIHF world ranking 2022
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Jussi
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Better than being subjugated and humiliated to play in a lower level division when players and officials did not do anything that was deserving such treatment
IceHockeyDude
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Russian national team represent their nation and their nation is controlled by their politicians.
I can sympathize with some of the players to a certain degree, but officials? Hockey federation boss Tretiak is a deputy of the ruling United Russia party. Fetisov as well, not to mention employed by the Ministry of Defense. Chairman Rotenberg an oligarch and one of Putin's closest personal friends. IIHF Council member Bure one of several current and former players that belong to the political action group Team Putin. These are people that need to be gone before anything can change.
Gold Standard
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There's only 1 active player that I know of...if there have been a few others vocal in their opposition, I must have missed it.
But I know a large group of us are making sure Hockey Canada is reminded on a weekly basis that we want nothing to do with them being reinstated.
DangeRouss
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So you probably have no idea what hockey means to Russia. It is a sport where there is much less competition than in football and Russia is a strong hockey country. Virtually every government in Russia has preferred hockey as a thing of the world to show Russia and the former Soviet Union an invincible country that they only take gold in every tournament. I think Putin only plays exhibition matches in hockey, not football. Rotenberg is a close friend of his, hockey and stadium repairs cost millions of dollars, hockey is more popular than football. Also because the success of Soviet football is long forgotten. Lev Yashin was a legendary goalkeeper, I think he even won the golden ball. And if you ask the ten greatest athletes of Russia / Soviet Union in Russia, there will be at least seven hockey players. I don't even have to write how prestigious Russians take the number of gold medals compared to Canada. After all, in the past, sport was considered a showcase of the regime in many communist countries, it was the only way to show that there is something better in the East than in the West. People like Tretyak or Fetisov are former players from the Soviet era and their word has great weight in Russia. In addition, they are still popular with people, the older generation perceives them as those who have confirmed their dominance over hockey. If Fetisov says that Russia's exclusion is unfair, the Russians will agree with him and will not think at all that Russia is doing the wrong thing to Ukraine. Russia has driven itself into isolation, so it can also wonder why no one wants to compete with them and play hockey. They just have to overcome the guilt and admit that they have nothing to do with Ukraine and the whole war was nonsense. But their view will be that the evil West is to blame for every punishment.
Eye of Ra
Grandmaster General of the International boards
Kind of fun to go back some years and see how the rankings looked back then.
2010 Men's World Ranking
2010 Men's World Ranking
| Points | Movement | ||
1 | Russia | 3980 | +1 |
2 | Canada | 3970 | -1 |
3 | Sweden | 3845 | +1 |
4 | Finland | 3805 | -1 |
5 | Czech Republic | 3785 | +1 |
6 | United States | 3650 | -1 |
7 | Switzerland | 3540 | +1 |
8 | Slovakia | 3405 | -1 |
9 | Germany | 3360 | +3 |
10 | Belarus | 3360 | -1 |
11 | Norway | 3305 | 0 |
12 | Latvia | 3265 | -2 |
13 | Denmark | 3185 | 0 |
14 | Austria | 2935 | 0 |
15 | France | 2900 | +1 |
16 | Italy | 2860 | -1 |
17 | Kazakhstan | 2790 | +2 |
18 | Ukraine | 2760 | -1 |
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SanDogBrewin
Righteous bucks!
Gold Standard
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That would be the end of the year. the post Olympic rankings in February was Canada at 1.
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