2020 Ice Hockey World Cup
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| Tournament details | |
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| 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 |
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| Hosts | 9 September 2019 | Floria
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1 | Floria
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| 2019 MHL World Championships | 5–21 April 2019 | Floria
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6 | Craitland Senya Shireroth Mar Sara Mercury Nova English Korea
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| Qualification Tournament | Various | 5 |  River Warriors  Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq  Lamantia  Lakkvia  Castilona
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Officials
The Intercontinental Hockey League selected eight of their referees and eight linesmen to officiate the tournament.
| Referees | Linesmen |
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| Jonathan Black
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Damian Lee
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| Jordan Diamond
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James Wheeler
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| Aaron Fraser
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Max Riley
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| Isaac Gale
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Eliott Lacroix
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| Matthew Austin
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William Gardner
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| Julian Smith
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Justin Bruneau
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| Roman King
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Liam Rainville
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| Roman McCoy
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Ethan St-Jean
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 6 | Advances to quarter-finals |
| Shireroth
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 12 | –1 | 4 | Advances to Qualification playoffs |
| Mercury
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 14 | –1 | 3 | |
| Nova English Korea
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 13 | –3 | 2 |
Group B
| Team | Pld | W | L | OTL | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| Senya
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 6 | Advances to quarter-finals |
| Mar Sara
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 5 | |
| Lakkvia
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 2 | Advances to Qualification playoffs |
| Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 0 |
Group C
| Team | Pld | W | L | OTL | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craitland
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 6 | Advances to quarter-finals |
| Lamantia
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Advances to Qualification playoffs |
| Castilona
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | –2 | 3 | |
| River Warriors
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | –5 | 0 |
Ranking after Group Stage
- Craitland
- Floria
- Senya
- Mar Sara
- Lamantia
- Shireroth
- Mercury
- Castilona
- Lakkvia
- Nova English Korea
- Qavaqaqqaqqaniitqeqertaq
- River Warriors
Knockout Stage
Qualification playoffs
All Qualification playoff matches will be played on the 9th of July.
Quarterfinals
All Quarterfinal matches will be played on the 10th of July.
Semifinals
3rd place playoff
Final
| Floria
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2 – 0 Game 3 not played |
Craitland
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Tournament All-Star team
Tournament MVP in Bold text
| Goaltenders | Defencemen | Forwards |
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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.
