Bookmakers confident of Kazakhstan's victory over Japan in World Hockey Championship
09:06, 14 April 2013
ASTANA. April 14. KAZINFORM - Today in the Hungarian city of Budapest is starting the world hockey championship in the first division in Group A, where we have a team of Kazakhstan, the correspondent Vesti.kz reports.
The first match of the tournament Kazakh players will spend against Japan's team. The clear favorite of the match according to bookmakers is a team of Kazakhstan. Coefficients of "Olympus" bookmaker company for this game are as follows: victory of Kazakhstan - 1.3, Japan's victory - 7.1. The match between Kazakhstan and Japan teams begins at 16:30 of Astana time.
Note that the Kazakhstan team will perform in this tournament without SKA St. Petersburg defender Kevin Dallman.
We remind that the World Cup will be held in Budapest from 14 to 20 April. Kazakh rivals will be teams of Hungary, Italy, the UK, Japan and Korea. In order to win a ticket to the Top Division, our team needs to take the first or second place.