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Written by Ian Offers
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Friday, 17 May 2013 21:08 |
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 The 2013 IIHF Annual Congress assigned 28 tournaments of the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program on Friday. The tournaments will take place in 22 different countries.
The biggest tournament with the venue not previously known is the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A where the two teams promoted to the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in the Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic, will be determined. Korea will host the tournament which also includes Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Japan and Ukraine in Seoul under the slogan “Beyond the New Horizons”. The proposed venue is the Mokdong Ice Rink. The arena offers an ice sheet of 61 x 30 metres and a second ice sheet, eight dressing rooms and a capacity for 6,000 fans.
“It is a great honour and pleasure for us. We want to host the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A since we are preparing for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games,” said Kim Sangwoo, Vice President of the Korea Ice Hockey Association.
“We want to make ice hockey a highlight of the Winter Games in PyeongChang. For this need experience in hosting ice hockey events at that level early on and we’re welcoming everybody in Korea next year.”
Also the tier below, the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B, will go to a big venue. Lithuania plans to host the event at the Zalgiris Arena in Kaunas, the second-biggest city of the country. It’s the largest indoor arena in the Baltic countries built in 2011 for the European Basketball Championship and it’s constructed for ice making.
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Written by Ian Offers
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Friday, 17 May 2013 20:59 |
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 Ice Hockey UK (IHUK) are proud to announce they will host two World Championship tournaments in 2013-2014.
The Under-20 World Championship (Division 1B) will take place from 9th to 15th December 2013, with GB hosting France, Italy, Japan, Kazakstan and Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Under-18 World Championship (Division 2A) will run from 24th to 30th March 2014 and GB are grouped with Croatia, Korea, Lithuania, Netherlands and Romania.
Both tournaments will take place in Dumfries at the Dumfries Ice Bowl, a venue who successfully hosted the Women's Under-18 World Championship (Division 1) qualification tournament in October last year.
IHUK general secretary, Andy French, said: "This is fantastic news for British ice hockey to host two prestigious tournaments. To get one of the two would've been fantastic but to get both is truly amazing.
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Last Updated on Friday, 17 May 2013 21:05 |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 22:00 |
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 Ice Hockey UK have today announced that Pete Russell has been appointed as the new head coach of Great Britain Under-20s.
The 38-year-old, who first worked in the GB set-up with the Under-18s, was previously in charge of the Under-20s from 2005 to 2010. He was also assistant coach for last December’s Under-20 World Championship (Division 1B) tournament in Ukraine.
Russell has also had spells as coach of EPL clubs Swindon Wildcats, Bracknell Bees and Slough Jets.
The Ayr-born former netmider was voted the Ice Hockey Journalists’ Coach of the Year in 2009-10 when in charge at Slough.
Russell, who is also coach of the Swindon-based Okanagan Hockey School UK, said: “It’s a great honour to return as head coach. I am very excited and cannot wait to get going again and start working closely with everyone.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 09 May 2013 22:12 |
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Written by Ian Offers
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Monday, 13 May 2013 20:25 |
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 Ice Hockey UK (IHUK) have today confirmed that they have bid to host the 2014 Men's Under-18 and Under-20 World Championship tournaments.
IHUK have hosted two IIHF events in the past 18 months. In October 2012 they hosted the U18 Women's World Championship Division One qualification tournament at Dumfries , while the Women's World Championship (Division 1B) took place at Hull in April 2012.
The IIHF's Annual Congress is taking place this week during the Pool A World Championship tournament. Voting will take place on Thursday in Sweden and IHUK will also find out the venues for the other national teams for the 2014 World Championship tournaments.
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 May 2013 20:32 |
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Written by Ian Offers
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Saturday, 20 April 2013 16:06 |
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 Following Great Britain's final game at the IIHF World Championships in Budapest, Great Britain's Head Cocha Tony Hand and Koreas Head Coach Sun Wook Byun shared their thoughts.
For Korea, their 4-1 victory meant the newly promoted team to Division 1A stay up, whilst for Great Britain the defeat sent them down to Division 1B
Tony Hand (Great Britain)
We struggled to score once again in this game. When you average one goal a game after five games, you don;t win many of them.
For example, today after the first period I thought we should have been four or five nil, and then they scored against us.
We didn't have the cutting edge needed which is disappointing.
Still, I thought we battled hard all the way and we now need to look at how we can improve the national team technically.
Today is the lowest point of my career as a player or coach.
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