Featuring!: A despondent royalblue, because Leon Draisaitl is too busy losing to the Mighty Ducks to participate in this tournament, for now.
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The 2017 IIHF World Championship will be hosted by Paris, France, and Cologne, Germany, from 5 to 21 May 2017.
The official tournament mascots are Asterix and Obelix, the main characters from the popular French comic book series The Adventures of Asterix.
Well ok then.
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The logo incorporates the silhouette of deceased German national team goaltender Robert Müller, who succumbed to a brain tumor at just 28 years of age.
RIP
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German tennis player Angelique Kerber, 1. FC Köln and German Olympic soccer team goalkeeper Timo Horn and Paris Saint-Germain F.C.'s Brazilian winger Lucas Moura have been named celebrity ambassadors for the event.
Kool.
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The official tournament anthem is "Playground" by German dance music group Cascada.
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)
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.
Germany gonna keep this winning feeling going against Sweden?
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Originally Posted by 72off
I haven't heard of a single player on Team Italy, so let's just skip them...
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.
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
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
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.
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
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