Teams qualified for the next Olympic hockey tournament
September 1, 2024
Teams qualified for the next Olympic hockey tournament
30 comments
Kinda funny Italy gets in automatically
Seeing country flags with rounded edges is so strange
I hope Russia gets to play. The tournament will be way better with them there. I wonder which goalie they’d go with.
Maybe I’m biased but I don’t understand the qualification maths at all. There are 12 teams at the Olympics. Slovakia regularly ranks between the 8-9th spot at IIHF Worlds. On top of that they won bronze at the last Olympics
So how come the team had to go through a qualifying round same as teams like Hungary, Austria, Japan, Ukraine or Great Britain? No disrespect to those teams but the aren’t on the same level as Slovakia yet they all played in the same qualifying round
If Russia isn’t in, we rotate their flag and rearrange the colors
For a second I forgot Italy was automatically in, as the organizing country, and was so proud of them for qualifying.
(EDIT: I’m Italian)
Who’s better Italy or Latvia? Or who’s worse?
Here’s hoping for Team France!
Good to see some fresh teams in there
Will they not just do that “Olympic Athletes from Russia” malarkey again?
no norway 🙁
Who qualifies for 2030?
Hopefully russia gets booted the fuck out
Viva la france
Russia? Hard no!
You forgot the “Olympic Athlete’s From Russia” country
do we think they might just do an independent unaffiliated athlete team for the russian hockey players? there were a decent amount of those athletes this year in paris, so it might just become the go to for russian athletes.
i strongly support the russia olympics ban and believe anyone who supports putin is an idiot, but for the russians who don’t support him or his war on ukraine i think they deserve the chance to compete, just not for russia.
Annual Team Canada ass whooping
Goaltending may be an issue, but it’s still OVER
Still dont know why we’re even consiering playing in a tournament with a country that’s de-facto at war with all of the others on this list. seems like a no brainer but of course the businessmen and oligarchs on both sides of the world need to get paid.
Call me a horrible person ( Bring on the downvotes idgaf) but I would love to see Russia play. You can’t call it best on best without the best russian players present ( Kaprizov, Panarin, Malkin, Shesterkin and emerging talent like Michkov and Demidov). None of these players have any say in what their leader does ( to my knowledge they don’t support the war) so to ban them is an insult to best on best hockey competition.
Finally Ehlers’ time to shine
I highly doubt the European countries would play if Russia is still waging war in Ukraine and even then I think they still wouldn’t be a part of the tournament, well officially anyhow.
No Russia at the Olympics is crazy
LATVIA 🇱🇻🇱🇻
Yo Italy 🇮🇹
Russia not allowed
Love love love ice hockey, but you can see by the qualified countries that it is a first-world sport.
where’s Puerto Rico jk 🥺
Can someone explain why it would be France in for Russian and not Norway who’s ranked higher than France in IIHF?
30 comments
Kinda funny Italy gets in automatically
Seeing country flags with rounded edges is so strange
I hope Russia gets to play. The tournament will be way better with them there. I wonder which goalie they’d go with.
Maybe I’m biased but I don’t understand the qualification maths at all. There are 12 teams at the Olympics. Slovakia regularly ranks between the 8-9th spot at IIHF Worlds. On top of that they won bronze at the last Olympics
So how come the team had to go through a qualifying round same as teams like Hungary, Austria, Japan, Ukraine or Great Britain? No disrespect to those teams but the aren’t on the same level as Slovakia yet they all played in the same qualifying round
If Russia isn’t in, we rotate their flag and rearrange the colors
For a second I forgot Italy was automatically in, as the organizing country, and was so proud of them for qualifying.
(EDIT: I’m Italian)
Who’s better Italy or Latvia? Or who’s worse?
Here’s hoping for Team France!
Good to see some fresh teams in there
Will they not just do that “Olympic Athletes from Russia” malarkey again?
no norway 🙁
Who qualifies for 2030?
Hopefully russia gets booted the fuck out
Viva la france
Russia? Hard no!
You forgot the “Olympic Athlete’s From Russia” country
do we think they might just do an independent unaffiliated athlete team for the russian hockey players? there were a decent amount of those athletes this year in paris, so it might just become the go to for russian athletes.
i strongly support the russia olympics ban and believe anyone who supports putin is an idiot, but for the russians who don’t support him or his war on ukraine i think they deserve the chance to compete, just not for russia.
Annual Team Canada ass whooping
Goaltending may be an issue, but it’s still OVER
Still dont know why we’re even consiering playing in a tournament with a country that’s de-facto at war with all of the others on this list. seems like a no brainer but of course the businessmen and oligarchs on both sides of the world need to get paid.
Call me a horrible person ( Bring on the downvotes idgaf) but I would love to see Russia play. You can’t call it best on best without the best russian players present ( Kaprizov, Panarin, Malkin, Shesterkin and emerging talent like Michkov and Demidov). None of these players have any say in what their leader does ( to my knowledge they don’t support the war) so to ban them is an insult to best on best hockey competition.
Finally Ehlers’ time to shine
I highly doubt the European countries would play if Russia is still waging war in Ukraine and even then I think they still wouldn’t be a part of the tournament, well officially anyhow.
No Russia at the Olympics is crazy
LATVIA 🇱🇻🇱🇻
Yo Italy 🇮🇹
Russia not allowed
Love love love ice hockey, but you can see by the qualified countries that it is a first-world sport.
where’s Puerto Rico jk 🥺
Can someone explain why it would be France in for Russian and not Norway who’s ranked higher than France in IIHF?
That’s just Russia made Vertically