Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2019

[hckošice 16,630]

The AHL team Grand Rapids Griffins Patrik Rybár will join our team and very likely will be the #1 starting goalie for at the World Champs, he accepted the invitation after his team lost the AHL Calder Cup Play-Offs 1st round to Chicago Wolves and since Detroit Red Wings aren´t in the NHL Stanley Cup Play-Offs he became eligible to play in Košice/Bratislava

 

Surprisingly his nomination means also that the 3 goalies in our team are now, Rybár, Marek Čiliak and Denis Godla and the KHL Spartak Moscow goalie Július Hudáček was cut off from the team today.

 

NHLers in team so far:

Defencers: Andrej Sekera (Edmonton Oilers), Erik Černák (Tampa Bay Lightning), Christián Jaroš (Ottawa Senators), Martin Marinčin (Toronto Maple Leafs)

Forwards: Tomáš Tatár (Montreal Canadiens), Richard Pánik (Arizona Coyotes), Marko Daňo (Winnipeg Jets + AHL Manitoba Moose)

+ 2 players from AHL forward Marián Studenič (Binghampton Devils) and goaltender Patrik Rybár (Grand Rapids Griffins)

[hckošice 16,630]

 

[ChandlerMne 1,212]

19 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

This should be strongest WC in a while.

[hckošice 16,630]

12 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

This should be strongest WC in a while.

 

I agree. Great present for our fans and our country to host such tournament and see such stars. Everything is already ready, you can really feel it everywhere in the air throughout the country. we can not wait for the start of this feast festival

[Belle 1,046]

No Bäckström in World Championships 2019. 

[hckošice 16,630]

lol ...Agents Mulder and Scully, where are you ? this is a real X Files here

 

something maybe for the mystery thread

 

it is really scary. Will history be repeated?

 

1-)

2011    

SVK U18 was relegated for the first time in history from Top Division

2019

SVK U18 was relegated for the second time in history from Top Division

 

2-)

2011

SVK U20 finished 8th at the World Championship Top Division

2019

SVK U20 finished 8th at the World Championship Top Division

 

3-)

2011

Slovakia host for the first time in history since the independence the Men´s Top Division World Championships

2019

Slovakia will host for the second time in history since the independence the Men´s Top Division World Championships

 

4-)

2011

For the first time in history one club won the Slovak Extraliga for the 3rd time in a row - HC Košice 2009/2010/2011

2019

For the second time in history one club won the Slovak Extraiga for the 3rd time in a row - HC05 Banská Bystrica 2017/2018/2019

 

5-)

2011

For the first time in history HC Třinec won the Czech Extraliga

2019

For the second time in history HC Třinec won the Czech Extraliga

 

so by this logic...

2011

Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup...they can start celebrating in Boston ?

 

 

[phelps 8,727]

4 minutes ago, hckosice said:

lol ...Agents Mulder and Scully, where are you ? this is a real X Files here

 

something maybe for the mystery thread

 

it is really scary. Will history be repeated?

 

1-)

2011    

SVK U18 was relegated for the first time in history from Top Division

2019

SVK U18 was relegated for the second time in history from Top Division

 

2-)

2011

SVK U20 finished 8th at the World Championship Top Division

2019

SVK U20 finished 8th at the World Championship Top Division

 

3-)

2011

Slovakia host for the first time in history since the independence the Men´s Top Division World Championships

2019

Slovakia will host for the second time in history since the independence the Men´s Top Division World Championships

 

4-)

2011

For the first time in history one club won the Slovak Extraliga for the 3rd time in a row - HC Košice 2009/2010/2011

2019

For the second time in history one club won the Slovak Extraiga for the 3rd time in a row - HC05 Banská Bystrica 2017/2018/2019

 

5-)

2011

For the first time in history HC Třinec won the Czech Extraliga

2019

For the second time in history HC Třinec won the Czech Extraliga

 

so by this logic...

2011

Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup...they can start celebrating in Boston ?

 

 

 

in Italy, we say that right now in Boston everybody is "touchin' iron" (or "something else"..."sgrat, sgrat"...you know what I mean)...

[ChandlerMne 1,212]

4 hours ago, hckosice said:

 

I agree. Great present for our fans and our country to host such tournament and see such stars. Everything is already ready, you can really feel it everywhere in the air throughout the country. we can not wait for the start of this feast festival

You described that atmoshere very vividly.  I felt it,just by reading.

Russian team will have almost every A-list name. Probably same with other teams.

Pitty that we didnt have OG at the same level.

 

[Finnator123 342]

2 hours ago, Belle said:

No Bäckström in World Championships 2019. 

Maybe Team Sweden will give the remaining places in the roster to players from KHL/SHL? I mean i'm sure you could use a guy like Linus Omark from Ufa.

[hckošice 16,630]

btw 10 days to go let´s make a brief recap of the NHL stars already confirmed for the tourament

 

already announced the roster for the preliminary round full of 22 NHLers (you can find them in the 1st page of this thread) big names are in the team ofc, the biggest maybe John Tavares and Mark Stone

 

Unveiled so far the first list of 20 players for the WCh all NHLers ofc

Goalies: Cory Schneider (New Jersey Devils), Thatcher Demko (Vancouver Canucks), Cayden Primeau (Montreal Canadiens)

Defence: Ryan Suter (Minnesota Wild), Brady Skjei (New York Rangers), Quinn Hughes (Vancouver Canucks), Noah Hanifin (Calgary Flames), Alec Martinez (Los Angeles Kings)

Forwards: Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks), Johnny Gaudreau (Calgary Flames), Jack Eichel (Buffalo Sabres), James van Riemsdyk (Philadelphia Flyers), Dylan Larkin (Detroit Red Wings), Clayton Keller (Arizona Coyotes), Alex DeBrincat (Chicago Blackhawks), Derek Ryan (Calgary Flames), Luke Glendening (Detroit Red Wings), Colin White (Ottawa Senators), Frank Vatrano (Florida Panthers), Chris Kreider (New York Rangers)

 

18 NHL and baby what a NAMES !!!

Goalies: Alexander Georgiev (New York Rangers), Andrey Vasilevsky (Tampa Bay Lightning)

Defence: Mikhail Sergachev (Tampa Bay Lightning), Ilya Lyubushkin (Arizona Coyotes), Egor Yakovlev (New Jersey Devils), Ivan Provorov (Philadelphia Flyers), Bogdan Kiselevich (Winnipeg Jets), Nikita Zaitsev (Toronto Maple Leafs), Dmitry Orlov (Washington Capitals)

Forwards: Ilya Kovalchuk (Los Angeles Kings), Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh Penguins), Artem Anisimov (Chicago Blackhawks), Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay Lightning), Vladislav Namestnikov (New York Rangers), Evgeny Dadonov (Florida Panthers), Nikita Gusev (Vegas Golden Knights), Evgeny Kuznetsov (Washington Capitals), Alexander Ovechkin (Washington Capitals)

 

18 NHL

Goaltenders: Henrik Lundqvist (NY Rangers) and Jacob Markström (Vancouver)

Defencers: Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Arizona), Adam Larsson (Edmonton), Robert Hägg (Philadelphia), Erik Gustafsson (Chicago), Mattias Ekholm (Nashville), Marcus Pettersson (Pittsburgh)

Forwards: Elias Pettersson, Loui Eriksson (both Vancouver), Marcus Krüger (Chicago), Adrian Kempe (Los Angeles), Mario Kempe (Arizona), Jesper Bratt (New Jersey), Oskar Lindblom (Philadelphia), Patric Hörnqvist (Pittsburgh), Elias Lindholm (Calgary), William Nylander (Toronto)

 

10 NHL

Defence: Radko Gudas (Philadelphia Flyers), Jan Rutta (Tampa Bay Lightning), Filip Hronek (Detroit Red Wings)

Forwards: Jakub Voráček (Philadelphia Flyers), Filip Chytil (New York Rangers), Michael Frolík (Calgary Flames), Dominik Simon (Pittsburgh Penguins), Ondřej Palát (Tampa Bay Lightning), Jakub Vrána (Washington Capitals), Dmitrij Jaškin (Washington Capitals)

 

  7 NHL + 2 from AHL

Defencers: Andrej Sekera (Edmonton Oilers), Erik Černák (Tampa Bay Lightning), Christián Jaroš (Ottawa Senators), Martin Marinčin (Toronto Maple Leafs)

Forwards: Tomáš Tatár (Montreal Canadiens), Richard Pánik (Arizona Coyotes), Marko Daňo (Winnipeg Jets + AHL Manitoba Moose)

+ 2 players from AHL forward Marián Studenič (Binghampton Devils) and goaltender Patrik Rybár (Grand Rapids Griffins)

 

4 NHL including the young star Nico Hischier scored hattrick in his first match for SUI after arriving from the US last weekend against France + 2 AHL

Defencers: Roman Josi (Nashville Predators), Yannick Weber (Nashville Predators)

Forwards: Nico Hischier (New Jersey Devils), Kevin Fiala (Minnesota Wild)

+ 2 confirmed players from AHL, the defencer Yannick Rathgeb (Bridgeport Sound Tigers) and forward Vincent Praplan (Springfield Thunderbirds)

 

3 NHL including the superstar LEON DRAISAITL who already scored a hattrick (just like the SUI star Hischier) in his first match for GER last weekend against Austria!!!

Defencers: Korbinian Holzer (Anaheim Ducks)

Forwards: Leon Draisaitl (Edmonton Oilers), Dominik Kahun (Chicago Blackhawks)

 

  2 NHL quite surprisingly Finland will arrive to Slovakia with only 2 NHL reinforcements so far, but with strong european based players including the young wonder boy Kakko

Defencers: Henri Jokiharju (Chicago Blackhawks)

Forwards: Juho Lammikko (Florida Panthers)

 

  1 NHLer so far + 2 AHL

Forwards: Mikkel Bodker (Ottawa Senators)

+ 1 players from AHL Mathias Bau of the Hershey Bears and 1 from Juniors WHL Joachim Blichtfeld

 

1 NHLer

Forwards: Michael Raffl (Philadelphia Flyers)

 

  0 NHLers this time, their NHL stars Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Antoine Roussel had to refuse the invitations because of injury, but still there chance for their super talent Alexandre Texier (Columbus) playing the Stanley Cup Play-Offs

  0 NHLers, they have already announced their full 23 players roster, including 2 players playing above one in 2nd German league and 1 from the junior Canadian OHL Liam Kirk of the Peterborough Petes

0 NHLers

0 NHLers

0 NHLers