Olympics 2026 qualification

[Ivo]

Is Pospisil unhappy playing with Kuzmenko? He obviously should say something about this then...

How is it comparable?

 

[Hanji]

It's all virtue signalling.

Appears he's finished with his virtue signalling.

After voicing concerns, Flames forward Martin Pospisil will skate in Olympic qualifier

 

[vorky]

Slovakia for qualification

 

[Iceberg9]

KHL players in the roster. Wow that is embarrassing

 

[elMatador]

Miro Šatan has become a scum and a human garbage

 

[Kshahdoo]

Miro Šatan has become a scum and a human garbage

As far as I understand most Slovakian people think different...

 

[Zine]

Miro Šatan has become a scum and a human garbage

Miro Šatan is consistent. He’s not a hypocrite like all the other federations are.

 

[WayTooCold]

Miro Šatan has become a scum and a human garbage

When your name is Satan what do you expect?

 

[Kshahdoo]

Yeah, because we know from history that the majority of a population can't be on the wrong side of an issue...

We know a lot of things. Sometimes people are wrong, but this time I'm pretty sure they are right...

 

[Albatros]

Ironically, using the NT as a political tool to punish players for what league they play in is some old school Eastern Bloc shit.

As the KHL in itself is inherently a political tool any stance towards it is inevitably political. That's not on the federations.

 

[Faterson]

Slovakia don't deserve to go to the Olympics.

Won't be watching the games, but rooting for Austria to go through. They had some excellent games at the most recent World Championships, and would be a worthy Olympic participant.

 

[Antiillafire]

Not even shocked by this. Can’t bring myself to watch the qualification now

 

[elMatador]

If you want you can retweet

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825543310016209087

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Austria roster update

Due to injury, David Madlener is replaced by Florian Vorauer.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Proud of the Slovak team for not cowering to the weak-minded.

 

[Fjorden]

3 groups of 4 teams, each played in a single round-robin format. Top-ranked team from each group qualifies to the Olympics. Anyone's educated guess in case Russia's suspension is maintained is best second-ranked team replaces them.

- Group D in Bratislava, Slovakia: Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Austria, Hungary
- Group E in Riga, Latvia: Latvia, France, Slovenia, Ukraine
- Group F in Aalborg, Denmark: Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Japan

D:
Should be a great atmosphere in Bratislava. Hungary and Austria is a very short trip from Bratislava. Austria looked good in the WC, so they could be the closest challenger to Slovakia.

E:
Lativa clear favorites.

F:
Denmark has the strongest roster in my opinion. Eller, Ehlsers, Bjorkstand NHL forwards, and Andersen goalkeeper. Norway the challenger with some young up and coming players like Solberg and Brandsegg Nygård and Zuccarello and Lilleberg from NHL.

 

[vorky]

D:
Should be a great atmosphere in Bratislava. Hungary and Austria is a very short trip from Bratislava. Austria looked good in the WC, so they could be the closest challenger to Slovakia.

E:
Lativa clear favorites.

F:
Denmark has the strongest roster in my opinion. Eller, Ehlsers, Bjorkstand NHL forwards, and Andersen goalkeeper. Norway the challenger with some young up and coming players like Solberg and Brandsegg Nygård and Zuccarello and Lilleberg from NHL.

D:
It is a coincidence that neighbouring nations playing each other is such an important tournament. Meeting nations from one hockey family, their teams competining in a common tournament.

 

[HockeyScotty]

Latvia's extended roster. No Bļugers, Merzļikins or Čukste on the team.

Latvijas izlase pirmdien uzsāk gatavoties olimpiskajam kvalifikācijas turnīram!

Harija Vītoliņa vadītā Latvijas nacionālā hokeja valstsvienība gatavoties olimpiskajam kvalifikācijas turnīram oficiāli sāks pirmdien, 19. augustā.

lhf.lv

haha, the English translation has "DRUNK SILK MOUNTAIN" instead of Girts Silkalns (U-Mass Lowell - Forward).

 

[PanniniClaus]

Austria roster update

Due to injury, David Madlener is replaced by Florian Vorauer.

The Austrians are so thin in goal.. Pressure is all on Kickert who was by far the better goaltender at the Worlds. I assume he gets all 3 games.

 

[Zirakzigil]

Enough of the Political crap that has zero to do with hockey. Take this as a warning.

 

[Fil]

Enough of the Political crap that has zero to do with hockey. Take this as a warning.

It does though lol

 

[Fil]

It does though lol

 

[aquaregia]

Training Camp squad for GB, good to see Waller back from injury, still no Conway but not too shocked about that, otherwise business as usual for the team. Clements/Shudra/Duggan/Norris probable cuts when the squad trims down to 23.

Olympic qualification likely a bridge too far but as we saw in the WC it's still a side good enough to play potential spoiler for one of Norway and Denmark, and I'd be disappointed if we can't at least keep those games somewhat competitive.

 

[Czechboy]

Looks to me like Slovakia is going to have some high scoring games here... They should run the table here

 

[vorky]

If speaking about Q tournament, Liška on fire with three goals yesterday.

Ad discussion, I do not want to imagine what would happen if J&T Slovan is back Hockey community would explode