Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2019

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TEAM SLOVAKIA

 

 

Goaltenders:

 

Denis Godla (KalPa Kuopio, )

Marek Čiliak (Kometa Brno, )

Patrik Rybár (Grand Rapids Griffins, AHL, )

 

Defencers:

 

Patrik Koch (HC Košice)

Marek Ďaloga (Mora IK, )

Michal Čajkovský (Dinamo Moscow, KHL, )

Martin Fehérváry (HV 71 Jönköping, )

Christián Jaroš (Ottawa Senators, NHL, )

Andrej Sekera (Edmonton Oilers, NHL, )

Erik Černák (Tampa Bay Lightning, NHL, )

Martin Marinčin (Toronto Maple Leafs, NHL, )

 

Forwards:

 

Dávid Bondra (HK Poprad)

Dávid Buc (Slovan Bratislava, KHL)

Róbert Lantoši (HK Nitra)

Adam Liška (Slovan Bratislava, KHL)

Michal Krištof (Karpat Oulu, )

Libor Hudáček (Bíli Tygři Liberec, )

Ladislav Nagy (HC Košice)

Matúš Sukeľ (Slovan Bratislava, KHL)

Tomáš Zigo (HC05 Banská Bystrica)

Marián Studenič (Binghamton Devils, AHL, )

Richard Pánik (Arizona Coyotes, NHL, )

Tomáš Tatar (Montreal Canadiens, NHL, )

Marko Daňo (Manitoba Moose, AHL, )

Mário Lunter (HC05 Banská Bystrica)

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So what the whole country was waiting for just happened, The Canadian coach Craig Ramsay and the general manager Miroslav Šatan announced the final 25 players roster for the home world championships.

 

The coaches had to remove from the list 3 players to make the final amount of 25. Sadly the dream has ended for the defencer Mário Grman and two forwards the experienced fresh czech champion with Třinec Tomáš Marcinko and the young talent and this seasons Slovak Extraliga MVP Samuel Buček, all three are scratched from the list now just 2 days to go...

 

Since Boston won the 2nd round NHL Stanley Cup Play-Offs we can not be reinforced by our "Bruins trio" Jaroslav Halák, Zdeno Chára and Peter Cehlárik, especially the absence of the goalie Halák is unfortunate for us, we were really hoping for him as our top netminder...but well, what can we do, now let´s hope and wish all the best and the triumph in the Stanley Cup for our trio.

Also the AHL Charlotte forward Tomáš Jurčo can not reinforce us, Charlotte is leading 3-0 in its AHL Calder Cup play-offs series (with Jurčo being in awesome shape lately--so it´s even more sad for us)..

 

so by this our team for the preliminary round is finalized.

 

We will have 6 NHLers and 3 AHLers in our team (the defencers Černák, Jaroš, Sekera, Marinčin and forwards Tatar and Pánik from NHL) + Marko Daňo who jumped this season from NHL to AHL and back and 2 AHL youngsters (Rybár and Studenič)

 

Worth to mention, we will have four U21 players in our team ! That´s definitely not something every coach will have guts to do for a home WCh ! The youngest being the 19 years old Adam Liška, followed by 20 years old Martin Fehérváry and Marián Studenič, Erik Černák is 21 years old.

 

The oldest will be the 39 years old (Currently the last SVK World Champion 2002 still playing) former NHL star and Košice legend Ladislav Nagy, who will finish his career at this tournament at his home city. ! What a moment this will be for our Laci Nagy.

 

Speaking about Košice,

4 Košice born players are in the team and will experience that incredible moment in their life to play the world championships in their birth city. The NHL Defencers Erik Černák, Christián Jaroš (both are btw cousins) and Martin Marinčin. + the already mentioned club legend the forward Ladislav Nagy.

The defencer Patrik Koch is another player with some connections with the host championships city, since he is player of HC Košice.

 

We played 9 preparation matches during last month with a final record of 4 W - 5 L

The start of the preparation wasn´t exactly successful with home defeat in Topoľčany the 4th April to Sweden 0-4, a week later 2 new defeats happened in Germany against the home team 1-2 and 1-3.

The first wins arrived at the end of the third week camp of preparation, with wins in both matches in Austria against the host team 5-1 and 2-1 PSO, The last Aprils preparation week camp finished with two home defeats in the "federal derby" to the Czech Republic 1-3 in Trenčín and 0-2 in Nitra.

In the last 2 weeks we had our final preparation training camps and two more preparation matches, winning both of them 6-1 in Poprad over Great Britain last weekend and 3-2 after Overtime yesterday against Norway in Michalovce.

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and btw after some controversy around our jersey, our team has decided to play in the traditional jerseys at this WCh, so the one with the national emblem..

 

They announced and presented it today during the final nomination announcement.

 

so here our jerseys for the championship

 

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TEAM DENMARK

 

 

Goaltenders:

 

Sebastian Dahm (Iserlohn Roosters, )
Patrick Galbraith (SönderjyskE Ishockey)
Simon Nielsen (Herning Blue Fox)

 

Defencers:

 

Phillip Bruggisser (Krefeld Pinguine, )
Matias Lassen (Malmö Redhawks, )
Oliver Larsen (IK Pantern, Div. II, )
Stefan Lassen (Almtuna IS, Div. III, )
Nicholas B. Jensen (Fischtown Pinguins, )
Jesper Jensen Aabo (Jokerit Helsinki, KHL, )
Oliver Lauridsen (Jokerit Helsinki, KHL, )
Markus Lauridsen (HV 71 Jönköping, )

 

Forwards:

 

Lars Eller (Washington Capitals, NHL, )
Mikkel Bödker (Ottawa Senators, NHL, )
Morten Madsen (Timra IK, )
Nicolai Meyer (Södertalje SK, Div. II, )
Nick Olesen (IK Pantern, Div. II, )
Peter Regin (Jokerit Helsinki, KHL, )
Nicklas Jensen (Jokerit Helsinki, KHL, )
Mathias Bau (Hershey Bears, AHL, )
Frederik Storm (Malmö Redhawks, )
Mathias From (AIK IF Stockholm, Div II, )
Morten Poulsen (Herning Blue Fox)
Jesper Jensen (Skellefteå AIK, )

Julian Jakobsen (Aalborg Pirates)

Patrick Russell (Bakersfield Condors, AHL, )

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Heinz Ehlers announced his 25 players roster for the world championships.

 

will have 2 reinforcements from NHL, with forwards Mikkel Boedker from Ottawa Senators and the Stanley Cup winner Lars Ellers of Washington Capitals.

the 2 other players from North American ice in the team are Joachim Blichfeld from juniors WHL and Mathias Bau from AHL Hershey Bears.

 

The remaining 21 spots are fullfiled with european based players, as usual, the largest part of them came from leagues (11 of them played in Sweden last season !)

Interesting to mention also the 4 KHLers in the team, all from Jokerit Helsinki !

 

Denmark played 7 preparation games last weeks with a record of 2 W - 7 L

The positive and promising thing for the Danes, is that the 2 wins came at the end of the preparation camps 1-0 in Norway and 3-1 in the last test match before the WCh in Austria.

Except the defeat in Norway in the last April weekend 3-4 OT, the team lost all first 4 games of their preparation period against the two Nordic powerhouses 0-1 and 1-2 at home to Finland and 2-3 and 0-2 to Sweden.

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@Agger @wumo26

 

Team Denmark just landed successfully in Košice. Welcome Danmark

 

 

 

 

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Once again, it's only this tournament + Stanley Cup/Conference finals in the NHL left for this season. Then i'll feel empty again 

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1 hour ago, hckosice said:

@Agger @wumo26

 

Team Denmark just landed successfully in Košice. Welcome Danmark

 

 

 

 

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I hope the Slovakia-Denmark match of 2010 is forgotten 

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Just now, ahjfcshfghb said:

I hope the Slovakia-Denmark match of 2010 is forgotten 

 

Thanks for the reminder, very kind of you very likely the worst 20 minutes in SVK Ice Hockey history or second worst just after the last 20 minutes of Vancouver 2010 bronze medal match

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Just now, hckosice said:

 

Thanks for the reminder, very kind of you very likely the worst 20 minutes in SVK Ice Hockey history or second worst just after the last 20 minutes of Vancouver 2010 bronze medal match

Oh yeah, Finland won Bronze in that olympic tournament. Horrible start for us, but the comeback was real