World Cup Facts and Figures

World Cup Facts and Figures

17 September in Toronto, Canada opens World Cup of Hockey. "Times" is preceded by a prestigious selection of the tournament the most interesting statistical facts.

World Cup Facts and Figures

The oldest hockey player of the World Cup will be the Slovak Zdeno Chara, representing the national team in Europe. He is the 40th year. The top five most age players there are two representatives of this team - 38-year-old Swiss Martin Streit, and 37-year-old Slovak Marian Hossa.

Also presented in the five most age and two Russians. Central striker Pavel Datsyuk is now 38 years old, defenseman Andrei Markov - 37.

Statistics of the youngest players of the tournament is remarkable that only three people in the top five of the team that put its name on to dominate the list - the national team of young stars in North America.

This, of course, about three of the top young players in the last two drafts of the National Hockey League Ostonov Matthews, Jack and Connor McDavid Aykele.

However, the youngest hockey player the player will be the World Cup against Finland Patrick Laine, so bright that lighteneth last season in the national championship in the Finland squad for the junior, youth and even adult levels, from the middle of the second round in the ranking of "prospectus" has risen almost to the very top and was selected second in the draft.

His team-mate and link Sebastian Aho, also selected at the beginning of the first round of the NHL draft year, closes the top three most young players of the World Cup, but the 19 years he had turned.

If we talk about the average age here, of course, the year 21.74 North American team against other teams stand out well.

Unsurprisingly, given the above data that the youngest among the rest is Finland (25.91 years) and the oldest - Europe (29.78).

Russian national team is the third team of the Cup at the average age of which is in wards Znarka 26.91 years.

The main favorites of the tournament teams of Canada and the United States are the third and second teams of the competition experience. The average age of "maple leaf" is 28.70, and the "Stars and Stripes" crossed the 29-year milestone - 29.04.

Dimensions

The highest of the competition will be a hockey player, of course, the giant Zdeno Chara, whose height is 205 cm. Among the outfield players two meters tall can boast yet Czech defender Andrei fast.

But there are two giant-goalkeeper. Ben Bishop of Team USA 201 cm, and Finn Mikko Koskinen from SKA to the centimeter below.

The days when the NHL shone Mighty Mouse Theo Fleury, seem to have gone. Now the smallest hockey World Cup on 5 centimeters above - in Norse Mats Zuccarello 171 cm play for Europe.

174 cm - an increase of Johnny Gaudreau Canadian team in North America, and have it more age compatriot Brad Marchand, representing Canada, 175 cm Further players are already under 180 cm..

But very interesting statistics on the average increase in teams. Neither team here does not stand out at all! The most "long" tournament team is Canada, which is equal to the average height of exactly 187 cm Well, very stunted, despite the presence of Hara, the national team in the European average -. 185.4 cm.

The Russian national team is on this indicator from the end of the second - the average height of our players 185.61 cm Performance of all other teams surpass the domestic team of no less than 0.7 cm on average..

Slightly higher spread between the teams by weight. The hardest team tournament Canada (93.96 kg) from the lightest of Sweden (89.96 kg) was separated four kilograms. Here the Russian national team with his 91 kg located exactly in the middle of the middle of the list.

Despite the Grenadier growth, Hara is only the second player of the tournament by weight (113 kg), yielding 118-pound Dustin Byfuglien of the US team. In third place Russian Alexander Ovechkin, whose weight is 108 kg.

Even more interesting is the situation in the lightest players where Zuccarello is not even in the top five. Norwegian weighs as much as 81 kg, while the weight Gaudry 10 kg less.

The second lightness in the tournament Russian Artemy Panarin, the balance under which indicate 77 kg.

Representation

The greatest representation at the World Cup will be in the United States, from which the tournament will feature 35 players. 23 represent the national team, 12 will take to the ice in the national team of young stars. In Canada, these will be one less.

Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic put up to 23 hockey players, as for anyone, except for their national teams, players from these countries will not play in Toronto.

With regard to the European team, in its composition of six Slovaks and Germans, four Swiss, three Danes, one Slovene, French and Norwegian and Austrian.

An experience

Of course, the most "green" team of the tournament were the young North American stars, but in the amount of 23 hockey players have already played 3449 games in the NHL.

And this despite the fact that only last summer Matthews was selected in the NBA Draft and has not yet made his debut for the "Toronto Maple Leafs".

The most experienced team of the tournament is a Canadian, in an asset of its members as much as 14,321 a game in the strongest league in the world.

In second place with 12,707 matches are Americans, and the third is the experience of the European team, which is enough of hockey players in the NHL 12,008 meetings.

And it is the national team is the most experienced in Europe in terms of participation in the world championships - 758 games on 23 people. The second is expected, Russia, where hockey players at the World Cup held 592 meetings.

At the same time enhae-lovskih experience of the Russian national team, except the young stars, surpassed only by Finland, which Aho online and have not been in the NHL. On account of the Finns in the amount of no 6000 games in the NHL, the Russians - 7108.