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Ice Hockey Tournament |
TFIIHF is proud to present Olympics Ice Hockey Tournament.
Olympics
is the most coveted international Ice Hockey trophy. It will be
presented on a 4 year basis. TFIIHF is working with IOC and TFNHL
in order to bring the most exciting and competitive tournament possible.
The first TFIIHF's sponsored Olympics Ice Hockey Tournament
will take place in February 2002. TFIIHF has made tentative arrangements
with TFNHL, so that TFNHL's season would be paused for a couple
of weeks in order for the World's best players to attend the Olympics
Tournament. The following Olympics Ice Hockey Tournament
will take place in 2006, 2010, and etc. The site of each tournament
will be determined by the IOC.
The
next Olympics Ice Hockey Tournament will be played in Salt
Lake City, US in February of 2002. The full schedule of events will
be announced in the near future.
Olympics
Ice Hockey Tournament 2002 will be played on a different system
in comparison to every Olympics Ice Hockey Tournament in the
future. All seven team will play round robin tournament. The highest
point getter will receive a first round playoff bye. Team getting
the 2nd place will play team which would finished 7th, #3 will play
#6 and # 4 will play #5 in a single elimination game. The winners
than will advance to the medal round, where they would be joined with
the #1 seeded team. The Finals will be a best out of three series.
However,
in the future, the previous Olympic Gold Medal winning team will
receive first round bye, thus making the round robin tournament
a 6 team event, with top three advancing to meet the last Olympics
winner in the medal round.
All
players which were born in a particular nation are eligible to participate
on their respective national teams. However, IOC and TFIIHF
prohibit players to play for more than one team in their career.
Thus, if a player will switch his citizenship, he will be forbidden
to play for any other nation except his birth country. Notable exemption
is Sweden, where the national law demands a person to give up his
or her citizenship if they receive any other, meaning to say that
those Swedish players who apply and receive citizenship from any
other country will be ineligible to play for both, Sweden and their
new homeland.
Olympics
Ice Hockey Tournament 2002 is still a couple of years away.
TFIIHF will continue working with IOC and TFNHL in order to make
the tournament is good as possible.
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