Featuring!: A despondent royalblue, because Leon Draisaitl is too busy losing to the Mighty Ducks to participate in this tournament, for now.



Well ok then.



RIP

Kool.



Well I'm ready for some hockey!
(and hopefully that cheered up royalblue)



Group A:



All games will be played at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.




Starring!:

Nikolaj Ehlers (Denmark)




Tobias Rieder (Germany)




I haven't heard of a single player on Team Italy, so let's just skip them...


All-Name All-Star Zemgus Girgensons (Latvia)




Nikita Kucherov (Russia)




Yeesh, the Slovakian team looking weak as hell too. Only 1 guy under 24yo, none of them playing in the NHL, AHL, KHL, or Swiss league, know of like none of them. Slovak hockey confirmed kinda dead.


Victor Hedman (Sweden)




Johnny Gaudreau (United States)





Group B:



All games will be played at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France.



(there's an arena in there somewhere legend has it)


Starring!:

Sergei Kostitsyn (Belarus)




Nathan MacKinnon (Canada)




David Pastrňák (Czech Republic)




Sebastian Aho (Finland)




Antoine Roussel (France)




Andreas Martinsen (Norway)




Jan Muršak (Slovenia)




Denis Malgin (Switzerland)





Full rosters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_I...onship_rosters



Let us puck.

Finns seem kinda weak this year, like where's LAINE. Only thing I know is that Russia will finish 4th in this tournament.

In

Asterix & Obelix are great choices as mascots btw, that comic has done more for french-german friendship than all politicians combined

From what I'm heating the Latvians have already drained the city from most of its beer reserves.

Still tons of tickets available for most matches but that's to be expected in a 20k arena...

Apparently they're not selling booze in the Paris Arena. Lol France

lolrussia never fails to deliver

fyp

Think instead of watching games I´ll dig up the Asterix&Obelix comics, classic stuff.

LOLusa

Perfect record vs USA in home openers

People in Riga here are treating IIHF like it's the biggest sporting event in history. The beer gardens were packed with people watching their game against Denmark today.

They won 3-0

Feel bad for the Belarus goalie, stones Pasta on a breakaway, teammates let Voracek bury the rebound and he gets pulled

Blr with 5 shots through 50 minutes

Germany gonna keep this winning feeling going against Sweden?

ya given that they came within 1 minute of a regulation loss to Italy, i'll take the W on my xpert read of Team Slovakia above

ofc, they're the Latvians!

We barely beat the Belarus and now 1-5 against France. LOL.

lolfinland

lol czech rep

Pasta slipped in OT and gave Aho a breakaway from his own faceoff circle in. LOL

lol finland

Yay America!

Bump, Rieder is done for the tournament but our guys just erased a 2-0 deficit in a minute!

ruh roh
'chicken is pretty lethal in tournaments when Sid is busy


also Tyson Barrie done for the tournament, will be interesting to see who they can get to replace
apparently they were trying to get Brent Burns to come over earlier, he seems reluctant though

Heh the ´ol off day friendly wrestle in hotel room. Can´t blame for blowing off steam after their season.

This CAN-FRAN game is great. So many takeaways.

Colton Parayko tagging in for Barrie, i'm fine with that

King Henrik coming over for Sweden

Kuznetsov & Orlov for Russia i thought i saw
no 'chicken tho

and Draisaitl for Germany, of course

anyone else?
USA#1 not adding anyone?

Hope we get Grubauer, with Greiss injured we can use it. His backup Aus den Birken spit out two huge rebounds that let Denmark tie the game within 25 seconds

finland, wtf

Larkin pots the empty netter from between his own faceoff circles while falling down, nice