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WJC: WJC 2025 Division 1B

tornaado66

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D1B will start this Saturday.
Hydra link: 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Div I Group B

Participating teams:
  • Host: Estonia
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Poland
  • Ukraine

Some friendly games are held today and tomorrow:
07.01 Estonia-Japan 18:00
08.01 Korea - Japan 15:00
08.01 Estonia - Italy 18:30



Friendly game streams are on here: Eesti Hoki
I dont know if the tournament has a different pricing, but usually monthly subscription is 8 euros.
 
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Estonias roster is as good as it can be as everyone accepted the invite. Most notable players are Maxim Burkov, David Timofejev and I have high hopes for the goalie Vladimirov. Estonia also has 11 returning skaters.

Estonia has to drop 3 more skaters from its roster and I predict they will be 08-09 born players. But still it seems like Estonia is gonna be by far the youngest team here.

I predict Estonia to be pretty much equal to Poland, Korea and maybe they will challenge Italy. Japan and Ukraine should be ahead of the rest.
 
Will be cool to see Haponenko, Kosarev & Levshyn at the U20 level, they were all very strong last year at the D1A U18s. No Pazii will hurt but hoping for promotion this year for sure. Anyone know what Japans roster will look like?
 
I'm not sure what exactly I expected from Ukraine when I was looking at eligible players around the globe a while back, but now that I see this roster come together I feel underwhelmed a bit. Still a good team, but I guess I wanted to feel more confident about their chances to get promoted.
 
If you thought D2A camera angle in Zagreb was bad, then you wont like the angle in Tallinn. You cant see what is happening along the boards at the camera side at all. It is also an AI camera so the quality sucks.
Beware of what you are paying for!

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Anybody knows results of today´s games? I watched only first period of JPN - KOR game, it was 0:0 and Korea was little bit better team, spent more time in offensive zone, more shots.
 
Just checked the Italian roster, what a crap generation for them. Especially in contrast to last year's... No wonder they are losing friendlies to Estonia.

P.S. Also just had another chance to appreciate the fact that they only won 2 games with that roster last year... That also takes some kind of special talent.
 

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