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The four best teams will know the 2021 World Hockey Championships in Riga, Latvia, after the quarter-finals. He also mixed the really crazy championship in the order in the IIHF rankings, according to which the basic groups for the next championships are formed.
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These will take place in 2022 in Finland in the cities of Helsinki and Tampere. The Slovaks will return to the place where they won bronze in 2003 and silver at the 2012 World Cup and will have the most acceptable group in recent years.
Slovakia is in ninth place in the IIHF ranking, which puts them in the basic group A. It will also have the best team overall, it can only be Canada or Finland. Then the fourth and fifth teams fight for these positions USA a Germany, both teams advanced to the semifinals, but they can’t finish better than in fourth place. There will also be in our group Switzerlandwhich surprisingly dropped out with Germany. Weaker teams are being added Denmark, Kazakhstan and Italy.
The B-group will have a second and third team overall. The third will definitely end Mask. They will complete it with a sixth Czechia and the seventh Sweden, which fell in the ranking by up to three places. From the weaker paper teams, they will complete the group Latvia, Norway, Belarus, Great Britain.
Only the first and second place is unclear. In the first place, Canada currently has a 65-point lead over the second Finland. Players from northern Europe would only get ahead of Canada if they won the entire championship in Riga and Canada finished in fourth place.
The organizers of the championships have the right to transfer two neighboring teams in the ranking to other groups. This may make one more change.
The key to creating basic groups:
A: 1 4 5 8 9 12 13 16
B: 2 3 6 7 10 11 14 15
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Basic groups on MS 2022
A:
Canada / Finland
Switzerland
Slovakia
Denmark
Kazakhstan
Italy
B:
Canada / Finland
Mask
Czechia
Sweden
Latvia
Norway
Belarus
Great Britain
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IIHF ranking
1. Canada 3135 points *
2. Finland 3065 *
3. Russia 3050
4. USA 2925*
5. Germany 2905 *
6. Czechia 2895
7. Sweden 2880
8. Switzerland 2815
9. Slovakia 2670
10. Latvia 2560
11. Norway 2490
12. Denmark 2470
13. Kazakhstan 2365
14. Belarus 2320
15. Great Britain 2280
16. Italy 2280
* Teams have advanced to the semifinals and can change their points
In the case of the same number of points of Great Britain and Italy, the better position at the last championship decides.
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The key to creating an IIHF ranking
Teams receive points for placing at the World Championships and Olympics as follows:
1. 1200
2. 1160
3. 1120
4. 1100
5. 1060
6. 1040
7. 1020
8. 1000
9. 960
10. 940
11. 920
12. 900
13. 880
14. 860
15. 840
16. 820
The points gained in the last four years are counted in the ranking. For the placement in the current year, the team remains 100% points, for the tournament a year ago it receives 75%, two years back 50% and three years only 25% points. All are counted and the current table is created.
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