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With covid, will be interesting to see which players from north America will want to even attend
 
Latvia deserves to host this tournament. They are somehow a hockey-loving people althoug their team don´t usually show anything special. Too bad that they most probably don´t allow any fans to attend the games... The last time Latvia hosted, there was a good tournament if you don´t count the Latvia-Canada game where the audience went crazy after 0-12 defeat.
 
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From IIHF website "The Olympic Sports Centre across the street will be converted into an ice arena to host Group A and two quarter-final games".

Isn't that already ice arena, Skonto Olimpiska halle ?
 
I saw that the IIHF is now accepting registration for tournament volunteers, which is obviously a great sign that the tournament will happen. Unfortunately, still no information about tickets.
 
I think it is almost impossible that this tournament will happen.

Namely, unlike the soccer euro-tournament which is a huge money making event and it is going to be held in one way or another be it in a bubble at empty stadia this hockey-tournament just isn't worth it to go through all the trouble with special arrangements to make it safe.

I don't think the Olympics are going to happen either this summer.

I wouldn't bet even for next year's winter Olympics to happen.
 
VLK said:
I think it is almost impossible that this tournament will happen.

Namely, unlike the soccer euro-tournament which is a huge money making event and it is going to be held in one way or another be it in a bubble at empty stadia this hockey-tournament just isn't worth it to go through all the trouble with special arrangements to make it safe.

I don't think the Olympics are going to happen either this summer.

I wouldn't bet even for next year's winter Olympics to happen.
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I'd be willing to bet against you.
 
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VLK said:
I think it is almost impossible that this tournament will happen.

Namely, unlike the soccer euro-tournament which is a huge money making event and it is going to be held in one way or another be it in a bubble at empty stadia this hockey-tournament just isn't worth it to go through all the trouble with special arrangements to make it safe.

I don't think the Olympics are going to happen either this summer.

I wouldn't bet even for next year's winter Olympics to happen.
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A month ago I would have agreed with you. But the IIHF is hell bent not to cancel 2 games in a row.

About 2 weeks ago, right after they announced that Latvia will be the sole host, countries started confirming bookings in hotels in Riga and started informing support staff, who would be going and started forming ideas for rosters. Right now, it looks like most teams are not expecting to have access to many NHL players for these games
 
Couldn't find the particular thread for the tournament itself but figured one of you might know the answer.

I was looking at the IIHF rankings and wondering why Great Britain (#19) is in the field ahead of France (#15) and two other countries ranked higher.

Figured it was related to last year's tournaments being cancelled or elevation and relegation from 2018-19.
 
VLK said:
I think it is almost impossible that this tournament will happen.

Namely, unlike the soccer euro-tournament which is a huge money making event and it is going to be held in one way or another be it in a bubble at empty stadia this hockey-tournament just isn't worth it to go through all the trouble with special arrangements to make it safe.

I don't think the Olympics are going to happen either this summer.

I wouldn't bet even for next year's winter Olympics to happen.
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it is happening and it caused Team GB to scramble together to get players ready for the games
 
Amerisuomi Kiekko said:
Couldn't find the particular thread for the tournament itself but figured one of you might know the answer.

I was looking at the IIHF rankings and wondering why Great Britain (#19) is in the field ahead of France (#15) and two other countries ranked higher.

Figured it was related to last year's tournaments being cancelled or elevation and relegation from 2018-19.
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Standings are only part of the thing.

Team GB stayed up in the main group in the last games played in Slovakia
While they were tied in pts--Team GB stayed up because they actually won a game in OT while France got 2 pts via ot lose
 
The British ELite league is running a 4 team 24 games tournament. This is partly being done to have players in playing shape for the worlds as TEam GB was not going to be allowed to sit this one out and play in the next one. Since there is no relegation for this tourney(this could change) Team GB will stay up for the 2022 games in Finland
 
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The British ELite league is running a 4 team 24 games tournament. This is partly being done to have players in playing shape for the worlds as TEam GB was not going to be allowed to sit this one out and play in the next one. Since there is no relegation for this tourney(this could change) Team GB will stay up for the 2022 games in Finland
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Last sentence is very funny :laugh:
 
Are the players going to have to spend a few days in a quarantine both in and out of Latvia and the tournament itself would be in a bubble?

If so I guess there will be difficulties finding players who want to be in the tournament.
 
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