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Last week in Lithuania and South Korea have gone on stage before the world championships divsione.
Tuesday 29 April 2014 5 minutes reading time
In Vilnius in the second city more important part of the Baltic country, it is held the tournament valid for group B which was attended by six National Croatia, Great Britain, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland and Romania.
As expected, Poland did not disappoint the expectations of the eve, dominating the competition thanks to a Filotto 4 wins out of 5 races. The red and white made the difference thanks to a great Przemyslaw Odrobny voted the best goalie in the league (95.35%) and the numerous achievements scored by Laszkiewics, Malasinski, Kolusz and Kowalówka authors of 14 of the 21 goals Poles.
Poland despite the innocuous defeat against Great Britain (2-4) in the final match, grabs the promotion and next year will be the group A match in the World Championship first division. Those who go down to the second division is Romania whose hopes of stay in group B were related to the game against the Netherlands. The match was decisive for the salvation however resolved in favor of the "orange" that round with a 9 to 1 you have earned the right to start from this series next season. (Click here for complete results)
At the same time many kilometers east from Vilnius, more precisely in Goyang in South Korea, it is held an exciting tournament valid for group A first division. In fact, Asia, Austria and Slovenia both teams have struggled most favored by eve expected to qualify in Top Division since Japan is an extraordinary remained in contention for qualification to the last game. Asians never as on this occasion were among the big players in this event by starting the tournament with an incredible success against the noble Slovenia (2-1) team the latter coming from the stunning seventh place in Sochi, while in the match after they had the better of Ukraine and South Korea
Despite the defeat against Austria suffered in the second game, the Japanese on the eve of the last day were still in contention for promotion because Slovenia to climb in the top hockeystica world was bound to win the delicate challenge against Austria while Players of the Rising Sun to see if the result would be a disappointing against Hungary. Yet despite the victory in favor of the Slovenes, the dreams of glory of Japan were shattered the shootout, when Kuji committed the crucial mistake that marked the inevitable defeat of the Japanese against the Magyars resulting goodbye to step in Top Division.
World forgettable for the hosts South Korea that have sadly closed in last place with zero points and conceding 30 achievements by marking only 12, falling inevitably in the group B of the first division. (Click here for complete results)
I closed the smaller tournaments, there is now fibrillation great for the beginning of World Top Division which will at the start as well as the national best in the world including Italy, which from next May 10 will the difficult task of confirmed elite hockey world.
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