Six Colorado Avalanche players are representing their countries at the 2019 IIHF World Championship Tournament. Find out how they’re doing.
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.
Colorado has six players representing their countries in the IIHF Worlds Championship, five NHLers and an Eagle. Interestingly, they’re all playing for different countries. Let’s check in on their progress so far.