Kazakh hockey players jet off to Krakow for 2015 World Championships
19:41, 15 April 2015
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan's national ice hockey team is on its way to Krakow, Poland to participate in the 2015 World Ice Hockey Championships, Kazinform has learnt from Vesti.kz.
Coaches and management staff are to choose the best 23 out of 27 players before the first match in Division I Group A scheduled for April 18. Six competing nations, including Poland, Italy, Ukraine, Hungary, Japan and Kazakhstan, will fight for the first and the second berths in top division. Earlier it was reported that on the threshold of the championships Andrei Nazarov's side beat Italy in two friendlies 2:0 and 3:1 respectively.