The 2015 IIHF World Championship gets underway today in the Czech Republic. Six Florida Panthers will take part in this year's tournament. Aleksander Barkov and Jussi Jokinen are playing for Finland. Jaromir Jagr returns to international action to suit up for the host team. Tomas Kopecky will play for Slovakia and defenseman Aaron Ekblad (Canada) and Dmitry Kulikov (Russia) will also take part.
Group A consists of: Sweden (1), Canada (4), Czech Republic (5), Switzerland (7), Latvia (9), France (12), Germany (13) and Austria (16).