The International Hockey Federation hopes that the Russian national team itself will refuse to participate in the 2027 World Cup - this is what the president of the Swedish Hockey Federation and member of the IIHF Council Larsson said.
The organization no longer has a legal basis to exclude the Russian team - and if Canada does not issue visas, then the team will be made up of those they already have.
Against this background, the IIHF only hopes that the Russian national team itself will not make it to the tournament, where it already has two victories in advance: Switzerland refused to participate in the game, and Latvia, at the legislative level, itself banned its national team from playing against Russia.
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