Today begins the World Hockey Championship in Slovakia and will last until 15 May. It's 75ο Worldwide and will be held in Bratislava and Kozice.
16 groups are grouped into 4 4 groups. Each group qualifies in the second phase as 3 first and make 2 a new group of 6 teams and transfer the results. The fourth teams make a group and the last 2s fall. After the group begins the knockout games with the 4 first teams of the group.
Group A
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Germany
- Slovenia
Group B
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Belarus
- France
Group C
- Sweden
- United States
- norway
- Austria
Group D
- Finland
- Czech Republic
- latvia
- Denmark
The crosses to the groups go AD, BC.
Farms are considered to be 7 large teams. But for me, Slovakia, Canada and Sweden are Top-3.