Colorado Avalanche players are no longer where they belong, playing spring hockey here in Denver — or St. Louis for away games. Next year, fellas. In the meantime, some of the players have decided they don’t want to stop the hockey playing just yet, and they’ve headed to Slovakia to represent their countries at IIHF Worlds.
This year’s tournament is taking place in Slovakia, specifically Bratislava and Kosice. The national teams are broken up into two groups.
Group A:
- Canada
- United States
- Finland
- Germany
- Slovakia
- Denmark
- France
- Great Britain
Group B:
- Sweden
- Russia
- Czech Republic
- Switzerland
- Norway
- Latvia
- Austria
- Italy
The tournament takes place between May 1 to 26.