Will Russia take gold from Canada? The main thing about the world ice hockey championship :: Hockey :: RBC Sport
The 2022 World Youth Hockey Championship will take place from December 26 to January 5 in Edmonton and Red Deer, Canada. The first rival of the Russian national team led by Sergei Zubov will be Sweden. The main thing you need to know about the upcoming tournament is in the material of RBC
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Location
Like last year, Edmonton, Canada, became the venue for the world youth hockey championship, but this time, some of the matches will also take place in neighboring Red Deer. The original location of the MFM-2022 was the Swedish Gothenburg, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sweden will see the matches of the youth world championship only in 2024.
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Group A matches will be held in Edmonton at the Rogers Place arena with a capacity of over RUB 18,000. spectators. She is home to the Edmonton Oylivers NHL team. The Russian national team has already held a friendly match with the Canadian youth team in the arena, the team of Sergei Zubov lost with a score of 6: 4, Nikita Chibrikov, Alexander Pashin and Matvey Michkov scored goals among the Russians. Group B teams will play their matches in Red Deer at the 7,000th Westerner Park Centrium.
Group B: USA, Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, Switzerland
Ten national teams will be divided into two groups of five teams. The group stage is held in a round robin system, the first four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals. For a win in regulation time, three points are awarded, in overtime and in shootouts – two points, for a defeat in overtime and in shootouts – one point. The team that lost in regulation time leaves the ice with zero.
Those who reach the playoffs will play the quarter-finals on a crossover system.
Russia lost to Canada before the start of the youth hockey world championship
Before the semi-finals, the teams will be re-seeding based on the results of the group stage. The strongest team will play with the weakest, the second and third places will be on top of each other.
In the event of a tie in the group round, there is a five-minute overtime in a three-by-three format until the first goal scored, and a shootout of five shots on each side (or more if no winner has been identified). In the quarterfinals, semi-finals and the match for the bronze, overtime will last 10 minutes or until the first goal scored, in the final overtime will last 20 minutes. The format for the playoffs is “three by three”.
The composition of the Russian national team
If earlier the method was systematically and methodically collected by Valery Bragin for a year, now, two months before the start, it was not even clear who would take the national team to Canada. As a result, the Russian Ice Hockey Federation settled on the candidacy of Sergei Zubov, the 1992 Olympic champion and ex-mentor of SKA, Sochi and Dynamo Riga.
Sergey Zubov
Zubov brought 25 hockey players to Canada:
Goalkeepers: Yaroslav Askarov (SKA), Egor Guskov (Lokomotiv), Maxim Motorygin (CSK VVS).
Defenders: Vladimir Grudinin (CSKA), Kirill Kirsanov, Arseny Koromyslov, Nikita Smirnov (all – SKA), Shakir Mukhamadullin (Salavat Yulaev), Nikita Novikov (Dynamo M), Yegor Savikov (Spartak), Kirill Steklov ( Vityaz “).
Forwards: Ivan Didkovsky (Dynamo M), Nikita Guslistov (Severstal), Ivan Zinchenko (Vityaz), Dmitry Zlodeev, Vasily Ponomarev (both – Spartak), Semyon Demidov, Matvey Michkov, Fedor Svechkov, Kirill Tankov, Marat Khusnutdinov, Nikita Chibrikov (all – SKA), Alexander Pashin (Salavat Yulaev), Pavel Tyutnev (Lokomotiv), Danila Yurov (Metallurg Mg).
SKA striker Marat Khusnutdinov became the team captain, Shakir Mukhamadullin (Salavat Yulaev), Nikita Chibrikov (SKA), Kirill Kirsanov (SKA), Dmitry Zlodeev (Spartak) and Ivan Zinchenko (Vityaz) were chosen as his assistants.
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Russian national team schedule
Group stage
December 27, Monday
Russia – Sweden, 00:30 Moscow time
December 28, Tuesday
Russia – Switzerland, 00:30 Moscow time
December 30, Thursday
Slovakia – Russia, 00:30 Moscow time
January 1, Saturday
USA – Russia, 05:30 Moscow time
Quarterfinals
January 2, Sunday
19:30, 22:00, 00:30, 3:00 Moscow time
Semi-finals
January 4, Tuesday
20:00, 00:00 Moscow time
Third place and final
January 5, Wednesday
21:00, 1:00 Moscow time
How we played at the past MFM
At the last world championship, the Russian youth hockey team lost to the Finnish national team with a score of 4: 1 in the match for third place. The defeat in the match with the Finnish national team was the third for Igor Larionov’s team in the tournament. Prior to this youth team, Russia lost to the Czech Republic team in the group stage with a score of 0: 2, and also lost to the hosts of the tournament, the Canadian national team, in the semifinals with a score of 0: 5.
The coach assessed the conditions for hockey players in Canada with the words “like in captivity”
In total, the national team won four victories at the youth world championship. She beat Sweden in overtime (4: 3), the USA (5: 3) and Austria (7: 0) in Group B, and beat (2: 1) Germany in the quarterfinals.
The US team won the 2021 Championship, beating Canada 2-0 in the final of the tournament. In the entire history of the youth world championships (up to the MFM-2021), the US team won the tournaments four times, the last one as part of the 2017 championship in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto. Then, in the decisive match, the Americans, under the leadership of 59-year-old Bob Motzko, defeated the Canadian national team with a score of 5: 4.
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Best performances in history
In the modern history of the Russian youth team, it has won gold medals at the world championships four times. The last time the national team managed to win in the final of the tournament was in 2011, when the 64-year-old specialist Valery Bragin, the flag youth team. In 2020, in Czech Ostrava, the team under his leadership again reached the decisive match of the tournament, losing in the final to the Canadians with a score of 3: 4.