U18: U18 Division IIIA and IIIB tournaments

[MeHateHe]

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.

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[ozo]

Shoutout to songs generated by AI being blasted at every stoppage and on an infinite loop during intermissions. Hilarious But someone bothered to put in the effort, so kudos for that.

Enjoy the song - link

 

[ozo]

On serious note, Uzbekistan is making their debut and their team is pretty serious, team core playing in, for this level, non-terrible Kazakh U20 league and it shows. Uzbekistan vs Thailand will be a nice decider in this group.

 

[PanniniClaus]

A week in Bangkok and the world's your oyster.

 

[MeHateHe]

A week in Bangkok and the world's your oyster.

One night. It's a show with everything but Yul Brynner.

 

[MeHateHe]

Day two of the U18 Division IIIB championship is complete and as the poster above noted, it looks like Uzbekistan will be the class of this group. Along with Thailand, the Uzbeks are at the top of the table after thumping Luxembourg 12-1 Thailand kept pace with a 4-3 win over Turkmenistan while Bosnia and Herzegovina got on the win column by edging South Africa 4-3.

The Thailand-Turkmenistan contest featured two wholly undeserved game misconducts in the first period. A Thailand player got thrown out for a fairly thunderous but clean shoulder-to shoulder hit three minutes in, and nine minutes later a Turkmenistan player was ejected for kicking - on a play that looked like a run-of-the-mill trip. The IIIB tournament resumes Monday.

 

[MeHateHe]

The U18 Division IIIB tournament continued today, and as expected we are headed to a showdown between Thailand and Uzbekistan to decide this group, and both front-runners came away with big wins on day 3.

Uzbekistan won the battle of the stans, beating Turkmenistan 8-2 and Thailand thumped South African 8-0 in the late game. Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Luxembourg 5-4 in a shootout to give the Luxembourgers their first points of the tournament. After three games, Uzbekistan and Thailand lead the way with 9 points each. Bosnia and Herzegovina sit third with 5. Turkmenistan has three while Luxembourg has one. South Africa, having surrendered 24 goals in three games. is pointless.

Uzbek forward Jasurbek is leading the tournament with 16 points (9G, 7A) in three games.

Day 1 of the U18 Division IIIA tournament went yesterday in Mexico City, with Hong Kong, Mexico and Turkiye leading off with wins. Hong Kong beat Iceland 12-2, Mexico dumped New Zealand 10-2 and Turkiye edged Israel 7-5. That tournament continues today with a full slate of games. There is, sadly, no stream listed for the tournament.

 

[Tallasar]

The U18 Division IIIB tournament continued today, and as expected we are headed to a showdown between Thailand and Uzbekistan to decide this group, and both front-runners came away with big wins on day 3.

Uzbekistan won the battle of the stans, beating Turkmenistan 8-2 and Thailand thumped South African 8-0 in the late game. Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Luxembourg 5-4 in a shootout to give the Luxembourgers their first points of the tournament. After three games, Uzbekistan and Thailand lead the way with 9 points each. Bosnia and Herzegovina sit third with 5. Turkmenistan has three while Luxembourg has one. South Africa, having surrendered 24 goals in three games. is pointless.

Uzbek forward Jasurbek is leading the tournament with 16 points (9G, 7A) in three games.

Day 1 of the U18 Division IIIA tournament went yesterday in Mexico City, with Hong Kong, Mexico and Turkiye leading off with wins. Hong Kong beat Iceland 12-2, Mexico dumped New Zealand 10-2 and Turkiye edged Israel 7-5. That tournament continues today with a full slate of games. There is, sadly, no stream listed for the tournament.

Here the stream which is provided over our NZ team management.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Here the stream which is provided over our NZ team management.

Thanks for this. Hong Kong look decent.

Unfortunately, NZ look like low end intramural hockey. Massive difference.

 

[MeHateHe]

Here the stream which is provided over our NZ team management.

Thanks for this. Nice crowd, although the rink is not so well lit.