Laws of thermodynamics, ballerinas and the best young ice hockey players on the one arena. This August for the second time the most ambitious ice hockey teams from all over the world gathered together in Sochi at the ice arena Shayba for the Sirius Ice Hockey World Cup 2019.
From 23 to 31 of August 8 teams from Austria, Canada, the USA, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Russia played 18 games competing for the tournament trophy.
The educational center “Sirius” is the co-organiser of the tournament. The motto of the Center “Explore! Create! Win!” became the base for the creative concept of the Opening Ceremony by Sport Producers. The ceremony was divided into three main parts accorging to the colors of the logo: orange, purple and white. The first segment of the show used technological special effects, such as artistic lights, a laser show, smart diodes and fog machines to visualize physics, chemistry and mathematics. The second one was presented by graduates of Education Center “Sirius”, young ballet dancers Elizaveta Gaponenko and Polina Gasimova from Moscow and Anastasia Krasotina and Julia Lyakhovs from Krasnoyarsk,who performed a variation of Drazhe Fairies by Chaykovsky.
A fragment of David Mancini’s Latin Voyage solo by the 13-year-old drummer Andrei Taranukha became the culmination of the second segment.
Sport Producers made all 8 team captains the protagonists of the third part of the show. One by one they entered the ice holding the flag of their own country and, once they gathered, welcomed the teams playing the opening match - AJHL Canada and Loko, Russia.
The integral official part gave the start of the tournament: welcome speeches of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and IIHF President Rene Fasel, opening of the tournament proclamation by Dmitry Chernyshenko and presensation of the winner cup by Alexey Morozov. And then, an exciting game, audio visual and entertainment support of which was provided by Sport Producers. At the end of the tournament Sport Producers held and Award and Closing Ceremonies.