The IIHF men's U18 tournament schedule opens this weekend with the Division IIIB tournament having started today, and the Division IIIA tournament starting on Sunday.
The Division IIIB tournament is in Bangkok, with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Luxembourg, South Africa, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, along with the hosts Thailand.
All the games are live streamed, and archived, at this link:
The hockey is not good, by a classical definition of the word. These are countries pretty far down in the hockey world's depth chart. Luxembourg is carrying a 14-year-old goaltender, but it's a tiny country with a small hockey infrastructure, so what can you expect. One of South Africa's players plays for Notre Dame's U17 team in Saskatchewan - he also played on their U20 team earlier this season.
The tournament marks an expansion to the U18 division, as only four teams were in the Division IIIB tournament last year.
The opening day was pretty successful for the host Thais, as they put the boots to Bosnia and Herzegovina 14-0. Uzbekistan, with a 12-0 plastering of South Africa, and Turkmenistan, who beat Luxembourg 8-2, were also winners on day 1. Sultanhamit Vahitov had six goals and an assist in that win for Turkmenistan.
The U18 DIvision IIIA tournament begins Sunday in Mexico City, and features Hong Kong, Iceland, Turkiye, Israel, New Zealand and the host Mexico. I'll post links to streams if they appear.
But someone bothered to put in the effort, so kudos for that.
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