Ice hockey | The Ice Hockey Federation promises an in-depth analysis of the World Cup tournament’s tinkering

Finland instead of the “quota bronze”, the women’s national ice hockey team brought the worst ranking in their history from the World Cup in Denmark.

The female lions had made it to the medal games in every previous World Cup. The balance is one silver, 13 bronze and six fourth places. Now the team fell to sixth place.

“In terms of results, we were really far behind what has been set as a goal in all age groups for both men and women”, President of the Ice Hockey Association Harri Nummela said Monday afternoon to HS.

“We strive to ensure that on the last day of the tournament, the lion teams are always playing for medals. As we know, it was really far from that now.”

In addition to the game disaster, the Finnish games are remembered for the amateurish tinkering. The number one center Susanna Tapani would attend his friend’s wedding between the games and the goalkeeper Meeri Räisänen slammed his spoon into the soup with a messagewhich included a spike in the direction of Tapani.

How can this be avoided in the future? So that, according to Nummela’s promise, the Ice Hockey Association evaluates the current state of women’s and girls’ hockey really extensively.

The association reviews its recruitment situation starting from the youngest age groups for girls and evaluates the functionality of its player development path and the situation of the women’s League, Mestis and A national team.

“On that basis, we will then build concrete on how to move forward from here. You could say that the situation and the corresponding measures are being determined,” Nummela said.

Nummela added that the evaluation process takes place automatically after all competitions. However, the fur of female lions is now brushed with a more precise comb.

“The result was now such that, of course, it gives us the reason and the need to do a much more in-depth analysis than what is normally or usually done after prestigious hockey competitions,” the chairman said.

Female lions stepped in between the Beijing Olympics Juuso Toivolan at the time. According to the original plan, he had to be replaced Pasi Mustonen only at the end of the season.

The first prize competition project run purely by Toivola ended in severe disappointment. What is the head coach’s position at the moment?

“We don’t tend to have these kind of performance evaluation discussions on media sites, but we do discuss these kinds of things face to face and at the same table,” Nummela answered.

After the end of the games, the women’s lions’ tournament still had room for the group division of the upcoming World Cup. With the loss against Japan, Finland finished sixth, which means relegation to the B group, i.e. the lower level group.

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) from the website on Sunday, the information about the entry of the fifth-placed country into the A-level group, which had been on the website since the beginning of the week, was missing. Information spread from North America about the formation of the division based on the ranking.

Because The female lions have been published on Sunday ranking third country, it would have remained in the A group.

Nummela told HS that he doesn’t know where the rumor or the information that turned out to be wrong about Naisleijonien’s place in Group A started to spread.

“It was clear to us the whole time and we knew that the groups of the next World Championships will be determined as they are determined, i.e. last night’s [sunnuntain] the match was important in that regard.”

Earlier on Monday, the Finnish general secretary of the IIHF Matti Nurminen told STT that the group division of the upcoming games is always determined based on the previous games.

The Ice Hockey Federation itself already announced the matter on its website on Sunday night.

to block B relegation means that the Women’s Lions have to make it to the top three in their opening group of the next games in order to qualify for the playoffs.

All five countries from Group A can make it to the playoffs. The two best in the group, in practice Canada and the United States, will meet the second and third in the B group, meaning that the Women’s Lions’ road to the medal games would be paved with a group win and avoiding the giant.

Canada and the United States have played each other in no less than 20 of the 21 World Cup finals. In six of the seven Olympics, the final of the major countries has been played.

Ringette’s giants Finland and Canada are playing in the World Cup just for the championship. The other countries, i.e. the United States, the Czech Republic and Sweden, will decide the fate of the bronze medal among themselves. For Nummela, the idea of ​​a similar system for hockey seems foreign.

“At least I have never come across such an idea that in ice hockey there would be two countries named in advance that played in the final. In hockey, I don’t see any need for thinking like that.”