Coming to you May 6 to 22, from Soviet Russia, the Ice Hockey World Championship for Euros and those over the pond who can be arsed to play for their country/ want a free vacation for their family

Hosted in Leningrad



and Moscow



these guys are defending champs



beating this notorious choker in the final



But on to 2016

GROUP A



Russia



To ship: 3.0, to win medal 1.22

Notable NHLers: Varlamov, Bobrovsky, Emelin, Burmistrov, Yakupov, Plotnikov, Tikhonov, potentially Datsyuk and Radulov. Plus old friend Semin

Sweden



To ship: 7.5, to win medal 2.1

Notable NHLers: Markström, Adam Larsson, Nyquist, Bäcklund, Wennberg

Czech Republic (Name change not approved yet)



To ship: 12.0, to medal 2.6

Notable NHLers: Plekanec, Sekac, Pastrnak, plus old friend Roman Cervenka

Switzerland



To ship: 56, to medal 15

Notable NHLers: Berra, Diaz, Weber, Niederreiter

Latvia



To ship: 301, to medal 56

Notable NHLers: ???

Norway



To ship: 251, to medal 46

Notable NHLers: Andreas Martinsen?

Denmark



To ship: 326, to medal 61

Notable NHLers: Jannik Hansen, Nik Ehlers

Kazakhstan



To ship: 751, to medal 151

Notable NHLers: lol

GROUP B



Canada



To ship: 3.2, to medal 1.25

Notable NHLers: Cam Talbot, Rielly, Tanev,Ceci, Hall, Duchene, Gallagher, Domi, Scheifele, Marchand, O'Reilly, McJesus, Perry

Finland



To ship 4, to medal 1.42

Notable NHLers: Bäckström, Pokka, Komarov, Pulkkinen, Koivu, Rantanen, Jokinen, Barkov, Granlund plus future friend Patrick Laine

USA



To ship: 23, to medal 5.25

Notable NHLers: Hanifin, Foligno, Maroon plus Auston Matthews

Slovakia



To ship: 76, to medal 17.5

Notable NHLers: Marincin, Sekera, Dano, Jurco plus old friend Andrej Meszaros

Belarus



To ship: 276, to medal 51

Notable NHLers: Placeholder for Grabovski

France



To ship: 601, to medal 126

Notable NHLers: None but there's Christobal Huet!

DEUTSCHLAND!!!!



To ship: 301, to medal 56

Notable NHLers: Draisaitl, Rieder, Ehrhoff. Plus future NHLer Sinan Akdag!

Hungary



To ship: 2501, to medal N/A

Notable NHLers: nope

(all odds from 888)

Due to Germany and France co-hosting in 2017, they can't get relegated. That means that possibly both relegated teams come from Group A



full rosters

schedule

We kick off on friday at 3:15 PM CET/ 9:15 murican ET with USA vs Canada!

Let us hockey

lolcurling

such a let down that the first response wasn't MAGYARORSZAG!

^^lol, I should've PMd Mindfckr

Canada going to win with McDavid being mvp

16 teams huh? lol

has to be Hungary & Kazakhstan, no?

Laine probably playing in the top line of Finland btw, with Barkov and J. Jokinen.

yeah probably. I just mentioned it bc if it was the normal one from each group thing, Hungary wouldn't even have to take the ice with us and the fr0gs safe

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BTW: I was just reminded to do this bc today (right now actually) our team's last pre-WC test takes place. Originally I wanted to PM people and ask if they could do a quick write-up for their team bc I really have no clue. Strengths, weaknesses, interesting players, stuff like that. Marek for the Czechs for example and there's a few finns, swedes and obviously North Americans on this forum. If people still want to do this maybe those can be edited into the OP? I'll do one for DEUTSCHLAND!!!! tmrw or so

Sick Goal Draisaitl just now against the lolSchwitz!

i wasn't real impressed looking at the Canada roster the other day ... but after looking at all the other ones, i guess it's not bad. defense is a little suspect, and goaltending is weak (shocker), but the team seems typically loaded at forward. i mean the other day when they were projecting the strongest lineup they had Mark Scheifele & Mark Stone as the extra forwards. yikes!

i assume they'll still add a couple more guys, especially defense and a goalie

need more bodies, it's a long tournament...

i believe you're missing one alexander ovenchicken in the russia notable NHL players

1:6,5 for McJesus beeing the top scorer of his team. I am tempted.

dia until you posted I had no idea Austria were relegated. Damn

Canada 5-1 USA

ez game

next up:

Hungary
Belarus
Germany
Slovakia
France

lol

o/u 45 goals scored?



funny he was talking yesterday about what a relief it was having everyone chasing Matthews & Laine around, prolly the 1st time in over a year he's been left alone more or less

ALL ABOARD THE LAINE TRAIN

must be such a beat that Canucks Granlund can't make this team ... haven't even heard of a few of these guys

also, Lol Russia! forever & always

IIHF still do those power rankings btw? those cracked me up, couldn't find current ones anywhere tho

So far so good

Our team is pretty well composed despite having a record low amount of NHLers, bunch of guys who had great seasons and playing a good offensive/technical hockey. No more 4th line plugs and Rozsival-like defensemen

is that good?

Broken Russian in the thread title makes me twitch every time I see it. It should be "...в Советскую Россию". Good OP though.

sorry, that was the best google had to offer

This year the mock drafters are making consensus bad number one picks

First german game right as Bundesliga starts so that no one can watch it. Great job schedule makers

Kazakhstan 3 - 2 Switzerland



you got that many Bayern GHWs there?

anyway, guess it worked out for the best...

PLEKY is an offensive juggernaut once he's freed from the MIKE system

That was a quick 24 hour boom bust cycle for us