During the elections of the host for the IIHF world championships A-pool in 2018 at they iihf congress in Minsk Denmark was the absolute favorite of the members countries. With 95 over 12 votes Denmark won convincing over Latvia who was the only other bidding party.
After 3 years of bidding for the championship and a close loss last year vs Germany-France they used the slogan 'We are ready !' to take the assignment home this time. Copenhagen will become the epicentre of the international ice hockey in 2018.