I know its far-off, but ways to watch lower divisions online?

[cutchemist42]

I really wanna tune in to the Croatian games later in Iceland and was wondering if these games usually end up online.

Thanks!

[SvenskaRiga]

It really depends on if the country hosting is going to broadcast or a country within the tournament hosts their own meetings. If I remember correctly, last year streams were available for Hungary matches and every Division III match, perhaps Croatian tv will broadcast their matches but it depends on if they want to travel up to Iceland.

If I were to guess, Div. IA will be the easiest to get a stream, 3 of the countries usually always broadcast with Slovenia being host is 4 potential streams, the Polish will most likely do their own matches in Div. IB. Div. II as a whole might be a little hard but who knows, its only January, streams usually pop up if somebody wants to host it and Div. III should get you a stream if Turkish broadcasters are up for it.

[cutchemist42]

Originally Posted by SvenskaRiga

It really depends on if the country hosting is going to broadcast or a country within the tournament hosts their own meetings. If I remember correctly, last year streams were available for Hungary matches and every Division III match, perhaps Croatian tv will broadcast their matches but it depends on if they want to travel up to Iceland.

If I were to guess, Div. IA will be the easiest to get a stream, 3 of the countries usually always broadcast with Slovenia being host is 4 potential streams, the Polish will most likely do their own matches in Div. IB. Div. II as a whole might be a little hard but who knows, its only January, streams usually pop up if somebody wants to host it and Div. III should get you a stream if Turkish broadcasters are up for it.

Thanks, I'll wait till then and hope someone gets a feed!

[SvenskaRiga]

So good news for you, Croatian TV station Sportska Televizija will be broadcasting all of their matches and they do stream.

[cutchemist42]

Originally Posted by SvenskaRiga

So good news for you, Croatian TV station Sportska Televizija will be broadcasting all of their matches and they do stream.

Great to know! Thank you!

[Ro Herregraven]

At this moment, the WC U18 Div. II A is underway in Heerenveen, The Netherlands.

Participating countries are The Netherlands, Korea, Great-Britain, Lithuania, Croatia and Romania.

Stats: http://www.iihf.com/channels1112/wm1...tatistics.html
Official website: http://wcu18.ijshockey.com/ (in english)

Omrop Fryslân is streaming all five games of The Netherlands online.
http://www.omroplive.nl/iishockey

I only managed to catch the last two minutes of the game yesterday, but commentary is in English (and it's hilarious, really).

Here's the remaining schedule (the tournament started yesterday):

01.04.2012 Sun
17:00 GMT+2
GBR - NED

03.04.2012 Tue
20:30 GMT+2
NED - CRO

04.04.2012 Wed
20:30 GMT+2
LTU - NED

06.04.2012 Fri
20:30 GMT+2
ROU - NED

[Ro Herregraven]

The livestream is online again for the NED - GBR game: http://www.omroplive.nl/iishockey

Commentary is done by Justin Bekkering, assisted by Mike Nason.