Colorado Avalanche: Catching up with the Players at IIHF Worlds

Sweden's Gabriel Landeskog (L) and Slovakia's Marcel Hascak vie for the puck during the Ice Hockey World Championship match between Sweden and Slovakia in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, 15 May 2017. Photo: Monika Skolimowska/dpa (Photo by Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images) /

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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.

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