World Cup of Hockey 2016: Dates, TV Schedule, Live Stream and Predictions

September 16th, 2016 by Steve Silverman Leave a reply »

The World Cup of Hockey promises to be a wonderful treat for hockey fans who are not used to seeing the best players in the world compete against each other in any event beside the Olympics.

The NHL and the NHL Players' Association have joined forces to back this event, which will see eight teams compete for the title. The Czech Republic, United States, Canada and Team Europe will compete in Group A, while Finland, Sweden, Russia and Team North America—a group of the top under-23 players from the United State and Canada—will compete in Group B.

The teams in each division will compete against each other in a round-robin format, and the top two teams in each group will move onto the medal round, which will see the second-place finisher in Group A play the first-place team in Group B and vice versa.

The two winners of those semifinal games will meet in a best-of-three series, commencing September 27, with the second game scheduled for September 29 and the finale, if necessary, coming October 1.

The tournament will start Saturday with the United States meeting Team Europe and Canada facing off agai ...

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