The Elite Ice Hockey League is delighted to substantiate two assignments for the highest stage of the 2025 IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships.
Linesman Danny Beresford has been chosen as considered one of 16 linesmen for the occasion. Beresford labored the 2025 Playoff Last as a part of the 2024/25 Elite League season. “I’m grateful for the chance to be going again to the World Championships, this time in Denmark and Sweden,” he mentioned. “It’s an ideal approach to prime off an pleasurable season within the Elite League. It has after all been made attainable because of the continual assist this yr from all my group mates, our Head of Hockey Operations Liam Sewell, and in addition by Michael Hicks who helped me drastically each on and off the ice in earlier seasons.”
Beresford beforehand lined on the 2022 and 2024 championships in Helsinki and Tampere.
Additionally working at this yr’s occasion is the EIHL’s Head of Hockey Operations Liam Sewell, who has been seconded by the IIHF to help within the match Scenario Room. Sewell beforehand officiated on the prime stage of world ice hockey and went all the best way to the bronze medal sport in 2023.
The Scenario Room can be in direct contact with sport officers in each venues for video assessment selections. “I’m thrilled to be a part of the Scenario Room group for this occasion,” mentioned Sewell. “Working on the highest match in world ice hockey this season alongside some very skilled and educated colleagues can be massively useful, and I’m excited to see what I can study to deliver again to the Elite League.”
Photograph: Dean Woolley
