Russian National Women Team plays in U18 Men Tournament
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JackSlater
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Getting creative in order to actually get matches for some countries. Regarding the women, the U16 level seems to generally be where they train against males in order to prepare for tournaments. I would guess that there was a no contact rule.
Czechboy
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I think it's ana wesome idea but agree with Slater above... The U18 ladies should be playing U15 teams.
The Belarus U18 program has done very well at the U18's the last few years.. I suspect that game won't be close at all.
I salute and love the idea though.
The Belarus U18 program has done very well at the U18's the last few years.. I suspect that game won't be close at all.
I salute and love the idea though.
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Zine
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They are not very good even by MHL standarts but MHL is about 3-4 years too old for any Women team in the world.
TheDawnOfANewTage
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Doesn’t Belarus have, uh, issues? Hf’s “no politics” rule really runs up against reality sometimes, but I’d think that has to do with economics tied to politics.
Would love to see a Kazakh game in-person- I was in Mongolia, and I just don’t get how a similar country could make hockey happen. Cold as shit, but good luck affording gear and rink time- shame, because people deserve hockey goddammit, but the infrastructure/support just aren’t there, currently, to my understanding.
Kazakhstan is a former Soviet Union republic so hockey didn't appear there out of nowhere. Now the country is full of oil, natural gas, other resources so it's not that poor at all, and hockey has state support there. Still as you see they aren't that good compared to world top hockey nations.
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I love it when people try to talk politics on hockey boards when it is not politcal.
Belarus does not have a women's team... nothing to do with HF or politics. They just don't have a team.
Here are the rankings.. there are 44 womens teams in the world. They are not on that list. Currently they are 14th in the Men's ranking.
Put another way... Israel has a stronger women's program then Belarus.lol
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WarriorofTime
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Soviet remnants, they had some decent enough teams relatively speaking right after the Soviet collapse of players that were developed on the Soviet days. Now a days they are not so good, but there is enough rinks, infrastructure, etc. to keep it going, and there is a Kazakhstan based KHL team for the best players from there to grow into (and coveted players have options and opportunities to move around to other KHL teams). Their U20 team is generally good enough to hang in at the IA level and occasionally compete for a promotion spot into the Top Division.
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Gotcha, interesting and thanks for the info! They’ve got some similarities elsewhere, but Mongolia never actually being part of the USSR must mean the hockey interest didn’t get any funding or anything- poor country, they were basically just a buffer between Stalin and Mao, oof.
Nah, watched them vs Belarussians. While the score was 2-0 untill the middle of the 3rd, the game looked like a one way traffic and Russian goalie stood on her head the whole game. I mean some Belarussian kids were literally 2 times bigger than Russian girls... The Belarussians scored 2 another goals and got two 6 men penalties in a row. Probably on purpose. And I stopped watching it.
Btw Russian team's goalie was just 17. She could probably play for a men team, she was really good.
Mongolia also never had an indoor rink until this year, which limited growth of hockey both because of the need to wait for winter, and then when winter happens it's extremely cold.
That said they are scheduled to host an IIHF tournament in 2023, and with the indoor rink hopefully things start to slowly grow there.
Also worth noting most of the players on the Kazakhstani teams have traditionally been ethnic Russians; there have been a few ethnic Kazakhs on the teams, but it has not been common. That does seem to be changing the past years, and you see more Kazakhs on the team, which can only be good for the development of the sport there (the country is roughly 70% ethnic Kazakh and 15% Russian).
Soviet hockey diplomacy is what created the few hockey that organically exists in China as well.
Would be interesting to see how American or Canadian Women teams do at the tournament. I think the output wouldn't be much different because the kids wouldn't be as gentle against Americans or Canadians as they were against Russian girls. Judging by what I saw, kids didn't play at 100% for sure in those games.
