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Hockey Alive and Well in Germany
by Alanah McGinley on 02/07/09 at 12:56 PM ET
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The 2010 Olympics qualification games are underway in Europe, and Germany has now locked up a spot in next year’s big hockey fest in Vancouver. From the IIHF:
Despite the fact that there is still one day left in the Group E qualification tournament, Germany sealed its spot after winning its first two games and earning six points. Austria, Slovenia and Japan all have two points heading into the last day and cannot catch the Germans in the standings.
Germany also found itself in the hockey news recently on another front: they’re seeking to set a world record for attendance at a single hockey game.
The current record is 74,554 fans who attended a college match between Michigan and Michigan State on October 6, 2001, in the American Football stadium of East Lansing, Michigan.
German organizers expect to break that record with the the opening game of the 2010 world hockey championships, with 75,976 tickets available to the public. The tickets finally went on sale a couple days ago, and reports from Germany (thanks to a KK reader) are that they’ve already sold 35,000 seats—and the game is still 15 months away!
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