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Originally Posted by Table 5
How many teams make the Olympics? I had no idea Slovenia was even good enough to make that cut. Maybe they've picked things up over the last while, but to me they don't even register on the usual list of 3rd rate hockey suspects (ie, Italy, Norway, Austria etc).
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This is how it worked (Slovenia ranked 18th beat out teams like Germany ranked 10th, Denmark ranked 12th and Belarus ranked 13th in the olympic qualifying tournament):
Seeding:
Group A: Russia (1), Slovakia (6), USA (7), Slovenia (18)
Group B: Finland (2), Canada (5), Norway (8), Austria (15)
Group C: Czech Republic (3), Sweden (4), Switzerland (9), Latvia (11)
Final Olympic Qualification (3 tournaments, 7-10 February 2013)
Group D in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany: Germany (10), Austria (15), Italy (16), Netherlands (24)
Group E in Riga, Latvia: Latvia (11), France (14), Kazakhstan (17), Great Britain (21)
Group F in Vojens, Denmark: Denmark (12), Belarus (13), Slovenia (18), Ukraine (20)
Olympic Pre-Qualification (3 tournaments, 8-11 November 2012)
Group G in Budapest, Hungary: Hungary (19), Netherlands (24), Lithuania (25), Croatia (30), 9-11 November 2012.
Group H in Kyiv, Ukraine: Ukraine (20), Poland (23), Estonia (26), Spain (29)
Group J in Nikko, Japan: Great Britain (21), Japan (22), Romania (27), Korea (28), 9-11 November 2012.
Olympic Preliminary Qualification (1 tournament, 17-19 September 2012)
Group K in Zagreb, Croatia: Croatia (30), Serbia (31), Mexico (32), Israel (33)