2020 Ice Hockey World Cup

2020 Ice Hockey World Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Floria
Dates	July 2020
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	6 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Floria
Runners-up	Craitland
Third place	Senya
Fourth place	Mar Sara
2022 →

The 2020 Ice Hockey World Cup (abbreviated IHWC2020) is an upcoming international ice hockey tournament. It is to be the inaugural instalment of joint ICHL and MHL sanctioned competition and will be held in three cities in the Confederate States of Floria. The tournament will be part of the 2020 Micras Games circuit. The tournaments matches will be played accross six venues in three different cities around Floria.

Qualification

27 teams competed for 4 places in the final tournament to the join the Confederate States of Floria, who qualified automatically as hosts and the 8 highest ranked teams at the 2019 MHL World Championships also held in Floria. The qualification tournament was determined by four rounds of round-robin competitions with teams entering at different stages depending on MHL rankings.

The Birgeshir national ice hockey team originally automatically qualified for the tournament but withdrew a month before the tournament. They were replaced by North Antarctica, who were then subsequently succeeded by Castilona.

Qualified teams

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Hosts	9 September 2019	Floria	1	Floria
2019 MHL World Championships	5–21 April 2019	Floria	6	Craitland  Senya  Shireroth  Mar Sara  Mercury  Nova English Korea
Qualification Tournament		Various	5	River Warriors  Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq  Lamantia  Lakkvia  Castilona

Officials

The Intercontinental Hockey League selected eight of their referees and eight linesmen to officiate the tournament.

Referees	Linesmen
Jonathan Black	Damian Lee
Jordan Diamond	James Wheeler
Aaron Fraser	Max Riley
Isaac Gale	Eliott Lacroix
Matthew Austin	William Gardner
Julian Smith	Justin Bruneau
Roman King	Liam Rainville
Roman McCoy	Ethan St-Jean

Venues

Six arenas will be used for the competition. Initally, two were to be used but concerns over arena availability became an issue as the tournament will be held deep into the ice hockey offseason. Therefore, four more host venues were announced on the 21st February 2020. All arenas will be in the major cities of Northcliff,Longsight and Dragonmoor

Northcliff	Dragonmoor	Northcliff	Dragonmoor	Longsight	Longsight
FLO Telecom Arena	Dragonmoor Arena	The International Centre	Southland Centre	Jets Arena	The Firedome
Capacity: 17,850	Capacity: 18,347	Capacity: 17,000	Capacity: 18,300	Capacity: 16,345	Capacity: 19,289

Rosters

Each team's roster consists of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and 3 goaltenders.

Group Stage

The group draw stage was made by ICHL Commissioner Edwin Lee and Confederate States of Floria national ice hockey team coach, Ben Tippet.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	OTL	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Floria	3	3	0	0	10	5	+5	6	Advances to quarter-finals
Shireroth	3	1	0	2	11	12	–1	4	Advances to Qualification playoffs
Mercury	3	1	1	1	13	14	–1	3
Nova English Korea	3	1	2	0	10	13	–3	2

Floria v  Mercury

2 July 2020

Floria	3 – 2 (0–0, 2–1, 1–1)	Mercury

The Firedome,Longsight

Shireroth v  Nova English Korea

2 July 2020

Shireroth	4 – 3 (2–0, 1–1, 1–2)	Nova English Korea

FLO Telecom Arena,Northcliff

Mercury v  Nova English Korea

4 July 2020

Mercury	5 – 6 (2–0, 1–2, 2–3) (OT: 0–0) (SO: 0–1)	Nova English Korea

Dragonmoor Arena,Dragonmoor

Floria v  Shireroth

4 July 2020

Floria	3 – 2 (1–0, 0–2, 1–0) (OT: 1–0)	Shireroth

FLO Telecom Arena,Northcliff

Shireroth v  Mercury

5 July 2020

Shireroth	5 – 6 (3–3, 1–0, 1–2) (OT: 0–0) (SO: 1–3)	Mercury

FLO Telecom Arena,Northcliff

Nova English Korea v  Floria

5 July 2020

Nova English Korea	1 – 4 (1–0, 0–1, 0–3)	Floria

Dragonmoor Arena,Dragonmoor

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	OTL	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Senya	3	3	0	0	9	6	+3	6	Advances to quarter-finals
Mar Sara	3	2	0	1	9	5	+4	5
Lakkvia	3	1	2	0	8	10	-2	2	Advances to Qualification playoffs
Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq	3	0	3	0	7	12	-5	0

Senya v  Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq

3 July 2020

Senya	3 – 2 (0–0, 2–2, 1–0)	Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq

International Centre,Northcliff

Mar Sara v  Lakkvia

3 July 2020

Mar Sara	3 – 1 (1–1, 1–0, 1–0)	Lakkvia

Southland Centre,Dragonmoor

Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq v  Lakkvia

5 July 2020

Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq	4 – 5 (2–1, 2–3, 0–1)	Lakkvia

International Centre,Northcliff

Senya v  Mar Sara

5 July 2020

Senya	3 – 2 (1–1, 1–0, 0–1) (OT: 1–0)	Mar Sara

Southland Centre,Dragonmoor

Mar Sara v  Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq

6 July 2020

Mar Sara	4 – 1 (1–0, 1–0, 2–1)	Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq

International Centre,Northcliff

Lakkvia v  Senya

6 July 2020

Lakkvia	2 – 3 (1–1, 0–2, 1–0)	Senya

Southland Centre,Dragonmoor

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	OTL	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Craitland	3	3	0	0	10	3	+7	6	Advances to quarter-finals
Lamantia	3	2	1	0	4	4	0	4	Advances to Qualification playoffs
Castilona	3	1	1	1	7	9	–2	3
River Warriors	3	0	3	0	5	10	–5	0

Castilona v  Lamantia

4 July 2020

Castilona	1 – 2 (1–0, 0–0, 0–1) (OT: 0–1)	Lamantia

Longsight Arena,Longsight

Craitland v  River Warriors

4 July 2020

Craitland	4 – 1 (1–0, 1–0, 2–1)	River Warriors

Dragonmoor Arena,Dragonmoor

Lamantia v  River Warriors

5 July 2020

Lamantia	1 – 0 (1–0, 0–0, 0–0)	River Warriors

Longsight Arena,Longsight

Castilona v  Craitland

5 July 2020

Castilona	1 – 3 (0–3, 0–0, 1–0)	Craitland

The Firedome,Longsight

Craitland v  Lamantia

7 July 2020

Craitland	3 – 1 (1–1, 2–0, 0–0)	Lamantia

Longsight Arena,Longsight

River Warriors v  Castilona

7 July 2020

River Warriors	4 – 5 (2–3, 1–1, 1–1)	Castilona

The Firedome,Longsight

Ranking after Group Stage

1.  Craitland
2.  Floria
3.  Senya
4.  Mar Sara
5.  Lamantia
6.  Shireroth
7.  Mercury
8.  Castilona
9.  Lakkvia
10.  Nova English Korea
11.  Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq
12.  River Warriors

Knockout Stage

Qualification playoffs

All Qualification playoff matches will be played on the 9th of July.

Mercury v  Nova English Korea

Mercury	6 – 1 (0–1, 3–0, 3–0)	Nova English Korea

International Centre

Shireroth v  Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq

Shireroth	4 – 3 (1–1, 2–1, 0–1) (OT: 1–0)	Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq

Dragonmoor Arena

Lamantia v  River Warriors

Lamantia	5 – 2 (3–0, 1–2, 1–0)	River Warriors

Jets Arena

Castilona v  Lakkvia

Castilona	3 – 2 (2–1, 1–0, 0–1)	Lakkvia

FLO Telecom Arena

Quarterfinals

All Quarterfinal matches will be played on the 10th of July.

Floria v  Mercury

Floria	4 – 1 (2–0, 1–0, 1–1)	Mercury

The Firedome

Senya v  Shireroth

Senya	5 – 1 (2–1, 1–0, 2–0)	Shireroth

Dragonmoor Arena

Mar Sara v  Lamantia

Mar Sara	5 – 3 (2–0, 2–1, 1–2)	Lamantia

International Centre

Craitland v  Castilona

Craitland	6 – 1 (3–0, 3–1, 0–0)	Castilona

Southland Centre

Semifinals

Floria v  Senya

11 July 2020

Floria	4 – 3 3OT (2–0, 1–1, 0–1) (OT: 1–0)	Senya

The Firedome

Mar Sara v  Craitland

11 July 2020

Mar Sara	2 – 4 (2–1, 0–2, 0–1)	Craitland

Dragonmoor Arena

3rd place playoff

Senya v  Mar Sara

18 July 2020

Senya	6 – 1 (2–0, 3–0, 1–1)	Mar Sara

Dragonmoor Arena,Dragonmoor

Final

	Floria	2 – 0 Game 3 not played	Craitland
Floria v  Craitland Game 1 Floria 5 – 0 (3–0, 0–0, 2–0)  Craitland Dragonmoor Arena, Dragonmoor
Floria v  Craitland 19 July 2020 Game 2 Floria 2 – 1 (1–0, 0–0, 1–1)  Craitland The Firedome, Longsight
v Game 3 (if needed) – FLO Telecom Arena, Northcliff

Tournament All-Star team

Tournament MVP in Bold text

Goaltenders	Defencemen	Forwards

Broadcasting

In the Confederate States of Floria, matches will be broadcast on Sportsworld and FBC Sport who acquired the rights to view every event in the Micras Games programme.