Our pre-tournament friendly against Canada last week may have been cancelled, along with the IIHF World Championships, but Covid-19 isn’t stopping the Great Britain fans enjoying a virtual tournament.
Whilst the Covid-19 Pandemic meant this years IIHF World Championships in Switzerland were cancelled, the GBSC Team are still going ahead with our trip, although from the comfort of our own homes.
Whilst the main GBSC Virtual World Championships doesn’t start until tomorrow, today we enjoyed a bonus game.
Here’s the Hungary v Great Britain game from April 2018. Here’s a chance to watch again how we made it to Pool-A and became the first team to achieve back to back Gold Medals to go from Div 1B to Div 1A to Pool A.
Whilst the COVID-19 Pandemic may have stopped us all travelling to Lausanne for the 2020 IIHF World Championships, it hasn’t stopped GBSC.
For the next 10 days we will be hosting our own Virtual World Championships featuring all of the things you would expect on a GBSC Trip – Hockey, Crazy Golf, Quizzes and a Theme Day.
Tony Hand’s role within the Great Britain programme is being expanded to work with GB Women.
The National Development Head Coach – who currently oversees the men’s under-20s, under-18s and under-16s – will work with the coaches and players across the women’s set-up.
Great Britain’s games against Canada and Kazakhstan have been cancelled because of the worldwide situation with the coronavirus.
GB were set to face Kazakhstan in Milton Keynes on Sunday 3rd May, followed by the sold-out match with Canada at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on Tuesday 5th May.
Great Britain’s two matches with Hungary have been cancelled because of the worldwide situation with the coronavirus.
GB and Hungary were set to meet in Coventry on Tuesday 21st April and Nottingham on Wednesday 22nd April.
Hungary weathered a storm inside and outside Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, defeating Great Britain 4-1 to secure a place in the Final Olympic Qualification.
Great Britain is unbeaten in two games so far in Group J of the Olympic Pre-Qualification Round 3, after defeating Estonia 7-1 to set up a winner-take-all finale against Hungary.