Last year’s ice hockey WORLD championships in Herning and Copenhagen was a great success, and already this year there may be more WORLD cup ice hockey on the way to Denmark.
the Danish ice Hockey Union (DIU), considering namely to offer on the WORLD cup for the second best U20 national team in the middle of december, where the Danish talents will try to play back in the toughest company.
– It is not a tournament, we are going to make money on. But can we find a municipality, who think it will be interesting, it is certainly a possibility, says DIU’s director, Ulrik Larsen.
At the U20 level were the Danish national team in five consecutive years among the world’s ten best, but came out of A group at the WORLD championships in Canada at the nytårstid.
the Team must now fight with Latvia, Norway, Austria, Belarus and Slovenia on a one way ticket to the top layer.
In contrast to last year’s gigantarrangement in the Box and Royal Arena, the WORLD cup for the second-best talent is settled in one city in the course of a week.
– To such a tournament, we have the perfect arenas in many places. All places where there are two ishaller. It could be in Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Herning, denmark, Vojens or Aalborg, says Ulrik Larsen.
Against the a’s count – out over economic considerations – that a home advantage will make Denmark oprykningsfavorit. And in the role of the Danish hockey team traditionally had a difficult time.
– Almost no matter what we have been favorites for so flop we. Maybe we can use it as an opportunity to reverse the shoal. We should have learned, says Ulrik Larsen.
He points at the last two OLYMPIC qualifications, which greatly occupied the Danish team have maria, just like it happened in the crucial away match against Latvia at the WORLD championships on home turf in may.
Despite the history will U20-team coach Olaf Or very like to play the WORLD cup on Danish ice.
– It could be extremely exciting and a great challenge. It would be something completely different, but håndboldherrerne shewed, that it is possible to handle to be the favourite on home ground, says Or.
the Deadline to submit an application to The International ice hockey league (IHF) is 15. april.
the VM host is designated at the IIHF’s congress in the context of A WORLD cup for seniors, which takes place in Slovakia in may.
– We have a good reputation in the IHF, from the times in the past we have organised the WORLD cup. We have had U18 and U20 WORLD cup before. We have had the WORLD cup for the ladies, and I wonder if they can remember our WORLD cup last year in may, says Ulrik Larsen.