Coach Filip Pešán and assistant Martin Straka, illustration photo.
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
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The duel of Czech hockey players with Denmark will be the second in the tournament. It will be preceded by a duel between Russia and Switzerland at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing from 9:40. A day later, the first duels of Group C will take place Sweden – Latvia (5:10 CET) and Finland – Slovakia (9:40) and the program will close at 14:10 CET the performance of home China against the United States also at the National Indoor Stadium for 18,000 fans. . Canada is also waiting for the first match at the same time in the “A” at the Wukesong Sports Center with a capacity even higher.
The basic groups will end on February 13, and after the day off, the qualifying matches of the preliminary round of the playoffs will follow on Tuesday, February 15. The day after, it will be the turn of the quarterfinals, to which the winners of the groups, the best team from the second places and the better teams from the preliminary round will advance. After the next day off, the semifinals will take place. The bronze will be played on Saturday, February 19 from 2:10 p.m. The new Olympic winner will be announced on Sunday, February 20, the final will take place from 5:10 CET.
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The program also knows the women’s hockey tournament, which is not yet complete. Three vacancies in Group B will be played in qualifying tournaments. The Czech national team will fight for the premiere participation under five circles from 11 to 14 November in Chomutov against Hungary, Norway and one advancing from the second round of pre-qualification in October.
If coach Tomáš Pacina’s charges succeed, as the seventh team in the IIHF rankings behind certain participants in the USA, Canada, Finland, Russia, Switzerland and Japan, they already know that they would enter the Olympic tournament on Thursday, February 3 at 5:10 CET against China. Two days later, they would play with qualifier number 2, on Monday, February 7 with qualifier number 3, and the next day with Japan.
From the worse performance group B, the three best teams will advance to the quarterfinals. The tournament will culminate on Thursday, February 17 with a final duel, which will begin at 5:10 CET.
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| Program of the hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics (February 9-20, 2022): |
| Composition of groups: |
| Group A: Canada, USA, Germany, China. |
| Group B: Mask, CR, Switzerland, Denmark. |
| Group C: Finland, Sweden, Slovakia, Latvia. |
| Wednesday, February 9: |
| Skupina B (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 09:40 Russia – Switzerland, |
| 14:10 CR – Denmark. |
| Thursday, February 10: |
| Skupina C (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 05:10 Sweden – Latvia, |
| 09:40 Finland – Slovakia. |
| Group A: |
| 14:10 USA – China (National Indoor Stadium), Canada – Germany (Wukesong Sports Center). |
| Friday, February 11: |
| Skupina B (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 05:10 Denmark – Russia |
| 09:40 CR – Switzerland. |
| Group C: |
| 14:10 Latvia – Finland (National Indoor Stadium), Sweden – Slovakia (Wukesong Sports Center). |
| Saturday, February 12: |
| Skupina A (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 05:10 Canada – USA, |
| 09:40 Germany – China. |
| Group B: |
| 14:10 Russia – CR (National Indoor Stadium), Switzerland – Denmark (Wukesong Sports Center). |
| Sunday, February 13: |
| Skupina C (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 05:10 Slovakia – Latvia, |
| 09:40 Finland – Sweden. |
| Group A: |
| 14:10 China – Canada (National Indoor Stadium), USA – Germany (Wukesong Sports Center). |
| Tuesday, February 15: |
| 05:10 kvalifikace play off (National Indoor Stadium), kvalifikace play off (Wukesong Sports Centre), |
| 09:40 kvalifikace play off (National Indoor Stadium), |
| 14:10 kvalifikace play off (National Indoor Stadium). |
| Wednesday, February 16: |
| 05:10 1/4 (National Indoor Stadium), |
| 07:00 1/4 (Wukesong Sports Center), |
| 09:40 1/4 (National Indoor Stadium), |
| 14:30 1/4 (National Indoor Stadium). |
| Friday, February 18 (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 05:10 semifinal, |
| 14:10 semifinal. |
| Saturday, February 19 (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 14:10 for 3rd place. |
| Sunday, February 20 (National Indoor Stadium): |
| 5:10 final. |
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