The action kicks off at the Ice Arena Sareza, a modern multi-purpose sports facility with a capacity of 5 000 spectators (1 931 seated and 3 069 standing), at 09:00 on Saturday May 9th with the first match between the USA and Italy.

The eight teams have been split in two groups of four and a round-robin league system will determine who will go through to the play-offs.

The groups are:

Group A

Canada
Japan
Germany
Czech Republic

Group B

Norway
USA
Italy
Korea

All the games will be broadcast live on ParalympicSport.TV, the IPC’s internet TV channel, starting on 9th May. To watch the action, please visit www.ParalympicSport.TV . To go to the official event web site, click on the link below.