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Sweden, USA lead rankings
Sweden, USA lead rankings
Pre-Olympic Report published
The Swedish men’s national team and the U.S. women’s national team enter the Olympics with the most points for the 2014 IIHF World Ranking following the Olympics. But this may change depending on the outcome in Sochi 2014. Photos: Andre Ringuette / HHOF-IIHF Images
The reports are generated to calculate the 2014 IIHF World Ranking in the men’s and women’s categories following the end of the Olympic ice hockey tournaments. They include World Championships since 2010 while the points earned at the 2010 Olympics are eliminated and the ones from Sochi 2014 (including the Olympic Qualification) will be added for the final result.
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The top-15 of the men’s report turned out to be in the same order like the 2013 IIHF Men’s World Ranking. Sweden, which won the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Stockholm to end the infamous “home-ice curse” and also medalled in 2010 and 2011, is leading before Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Canada and the United States, followed by Switzerland, Slovakia and Norway, all of whom were also automatically qualified for the Olympics.
The German men’s national team follows in tenth place but is threatened to drop down further after losing out in the qualification tournament and missing Sochi 2014. However, Latvia, which follows in 11th place, would need to reach the quarter-finals to earn enough points to overtake the Germans.
Austria (15th) and Slovenia (16th), who won their Olympic Qualification events to book their tickets to Sochi, are ranked behind Denmark (12th), France (13th) and Belarus (14th), who missed first place in their respective qualification tournaments.
Continue readingAlso on the women’s side the recalculation of the points for 2014 has had little effect in the upper part since the top-12 teams are ranked in the same order like in the 2013 IIHF Women’s World Ranking.
The United States still lead the ranking after having won the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championships in 2011 and 2013. Canada, which won the event in 2012, follows in second place before Finland, Russia, Switzerland, Sweden and Germany, who all play in Sochi as well.
Japan, one of the two qualifiers together with Germany, follows in 10th place behind Slovakia and the Czech Republic, who didn’t succeed in the Olympic Qualification.
The new IIHF World Rankings will be published immediately after the Olympic ice hockey tournaments. In men’s hockey there will be two World Rankings this year, one after the Olympics and one following the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk, Belarus, in May.
The Pre-Olympic Report has no influence on the Olympics since the seeding for the men’s and women’s ice hockey tournaments was done two years ago based on the 2012 IIHF World Rankings. However, it is a tool to reflect the long-term quality of the countries' national team programme taking into consideration the results over four years. The 2014 IIHF World Ranking (May edition) will be used to determine the seeding for the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and the World Rankings are also used for the Olympics to determine the seeding and which teams are automatically qualified.
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