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Olympics: Olympic Pre-Qualification Round 3 (6-9 February 2020)

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Which three teams will advance to the final qualification round?

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Namejs said:
Why isn't Kaleinikovas playing?
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There were no detailed reasons given for any of the absenties. If you wanted not to play, you could have. Maybe it was something personal, maybe a small injury, maybe he simply wanted some rest.

jonas2244 said:
Puh, Team GB is struggling.
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This is a pretty competitive group. We have beaten GB quite a few times and this Romanian team isn't much worse. Sure GB is getting a bit stronger thanks to their imports but that's not a groundbreaking level shift, not like KHL guys playing for Croatia.
 
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Romania looked quite solid. Had a good goalkeeper, too. It's going interesting to see how they do at DivIA in April.
 
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jonas2244 said:
Romania looked quite solid. Had a good goalkeeper, too. It's going interesting to see how they do at DivIA in April.
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I agree, but again that largely depends what roster they will be able to put together.
 
Again, I think they will look similar to us. Won't get embarrassed but head straight down. One of those years Korea will be beaten eventually but I don't think it's Romania that will do it. You can say they looked solid yesterday but at the same time, I think we can all agree it was obvious which one is the better team. You could say but they played Elite division team yesterday but again, GB belongs to the elite as much as Romania to 1A.

Their roster seems to be pretty consistent at this point. They aren't really a mistery team. We will also see how do they look against Hungary in a day.
 
So we are getting our asses whooped completely by Japanese teams we would usually beat when at full strength in WC. Not much to even take away from this tournament from our perspective...
 
We've had one competitive game so far? Huge blowout in virtually every game.
 
I expect some competitive games this weekend to clue up the group. Poland and Kazaks as well as Slovenia and Japan on Sunday probably end up deciding the respective groups for those 4 teams.
 
tony d said:
I expect some competitive games this weekend to clue up the group. Poland and Kazaks as well as Slovenia and Japan on Sunday probably end up deciding the respective groups for those 4 teams.
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I wouldn't expect much contest in those 2 games either...
 
pukovnik said:
Which bugs me even more is that roster won't be much stronger at much more important competition than this, and thats's WC in April. Considering how Mannheim is playing currently it would be miracle for them not to play in the DEL final, which excludes Rendulić and Katić..
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Is Katic even an option? He never played for Croatia and I think he's not able to play for Croatia. He played an U18 WC for Canada so he'd need to play 4 years in Croatia but he didn't play 4 full years for Zagreb.
 
That goalie must have wondered why he even got dressed. He could have been on his smartphone for 95% of the game and nothing would have really changed.
 
Namejs said:
Does anyone know for sure how the seeding works for the final Qualification round?

I guess it should be based on IIHF rankings of the 3 teams winning their respective groups. The top seed goes to Norway, the middle one to Latvia and the lowest-ranked seed to Slovakia, right?

And what is the cutoff time for the IIHF rankings? Is it 2019 or 2020 (before the final Q round?)
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Namejs said:
Well, I read it before posting here.

It doesn't tell anything about the final qualification round. The direct entries are based on 2019, the 2022 seedings are based on 2020.
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The answer for your question is in the link below :
IIHF - Road to Olympics set
 
Uncle Rotter said:
67:4 final shot total. Here's some food for thought for 2022: Croatia is ranked ahead of China.
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Which doesn't say a lot. China will have enough naturalized players by then so their world ranking won't have much affect.
 
pukovnik said:
Which doesn't say a lot. China will have enough naturalized players by then so their world ranking won't have much affect.
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Having said that, they oddly still haven't introduced any naturalized naturalized guys to their team. They still have no goalie at this point and the only defenseman worth mentioning is Bartley. So I don't really understand what are they doing.

I mean it's very fair to other teams that China is still sticking to local players only but at the same time, Olympics are coming and their plan for those seems very uncertain. They now have 3 VHL teams but 2 of them don't serve any purpose other than creating workplaces for lower-tier Russian players.
 
Namejs said:
No, once again, it only mentions seeding, but it doesn't specify the year.

2020 IIHF rankings will be available in May, before the final qualification round. It is not obvious that they would use last year's IIHF rankings.
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Ok, it's not stated directly, but there is an information that the hosts of qualification tournaments (including the final stage) are determined according 2019 ranking . Moreover direct qualification of 8 teams has been based on the same ranking. So I am pretty sure the same ranking applies to the seeding for the final qualification round. I think 2019 ranking is used for the qualification rules and 2020 ranking applies to the main tournament (Olympics).

Anyway I agree the rules are not described very clearly ;)

"The hosts of the 11 qualification tournaments were determined according to the seeding based on the 2019 IIHF Men’s World Ranking, meaning the top-seeded team of each group had the right to host before it would be offered to the next teams in the seeding.

The Final Olympic Qualification will take place in the countries ranked 9th to 11th in the world who opted to make use of their home-ice advantage".
 
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Michal said:
Ok, it's not stated directly, but there is an information that the hosts of qualification tournaments (including the final stage) are determined according 2019 ranking . Moreover direct qualification of 8 teams has been based on the same ranking. So I am pretty sure the same ranking applies to the seeding for the final qualification round. I think 2019 ranking is used for the qualification rules and 2020 ranking applies to the main tournament (Olympics).

Anyway I agree the rules are not described very clearly ;)

"The hosts of the 11 qualification tournaments were determined according to the seeding based on the 2019 IIHF Men’s World Ranking, meaning the top-seeded team of each group had the right to host before it would be offered to the next teams in the seeding.

The Final Olympic Qualification will take place in the countries ranked 9th to 11th in the world who opted to make use of their home-ice advantage".
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I am aware of that.

For the 3rd time, it is not explicitly stated how the teams will be assigned.

So you're not really contributing here.
 
Namejs said:
I am aware of that.

For the 3rd time, it is not explicitly stated how the teams will be assigned.

So you're not really contributing here.
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Yes, it is not explicitly stated how the teams will be assigned anywhere, but it is not my fault. Anyway I suggested that one of the options is much more probable (95% in my opinion) and I listed specific arguments. I thought it could dimish your concern (so I could be helpful).

Now I see it's not enough for you. I'm very sorry I let you down...twice...

I think there are plenty moments in life we have limited information. How do you handle with these situations? I suppose It's very hard for you.
 
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By the way, where is Sebok? Injured? If so, that's too bad.

Hungary is missing quite a few players in general. They also have Papp, who didn't play for their gold-winning U20 squad this year, playing for the men's team in the top-6.
 
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Host of the Olympics shouldn't automatically participate in the Games. I'd really like to know how a team made of North American players will make hockey popular in China.
 
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