Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2019

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DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS

 

Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Russia 3 - 0 Czech Republic
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 1-0
May 13th 2019, h. 16:15, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

 

 

Goals:

14. Andronov (Khafizullin, Nesterov) 1:0, 33. Gusev (Kucherov) 2:0, 60. Zaitsev 3:0

 

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DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS

 

Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

United States (OT)3 - 2 Finland
Period-by-Period: 2-1, 0-1, 0-0, Overtime: 1-0
May 13th 2019, h. 16:15, Steel Arena, Košice

 

 

Goals:

1. Skjei (DeBrincat, Eichel) 1:0, 11. Gaudreau (Eichel) 2:0, 64. Larkin (Q. Hughes) 3:2 OT - 20. Pesonen (Manninen, Koivisto) 2:1, 40. Ojamäki (Manninen, Kaski) 2:2

 

 

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Ok.

 

So after a couple of minutes I think I am now back to my normal heart bite This was one hell of a match. With everything, totally bad defense, plenty of goals, some more and some less controversial calls (but this happen in almost every matches so...I´mnot going to blame everything on the referees...yeah, but still that call for Černák wasn´t really something so extreme to call it 1 and half minute to go in a so important match at such tense score, because there were also some other maybe bigger fauls during the match that wasn´t even noticed...but, yeah, as I said, let it be, we know the refs sucks everywhere )

 

Let search for positives, even if this defeat is really but really hard and will take some time (if even) to swallow...so the first positive, we scored 5 goals to Canada lol, this is really unbelievable, but it happened for the first time in hoistory we scored more than 4 goals to Canada...and we still lost Interesting is that before the tourney our biggest force was the defence, especially the penalty killing, where we were arguably one of the best in the world, but we had huge troubles in offensive side, our shooting efficiency was so miserable, that we were affraid if we´ll be able to score more than 1-2 goals per match...but now lol, itś the absolute opposite, we scored 11 goals in 3 games against all big favorites of our group but man we really suck in PK it looks like every penalty for us finish by a conceded goal lol..

 

Now, let´s hope our team staff will be able to recover and rise the heads up of our players,because yes we lost and in a very cruel way, but the tournament is still long, we played all favorites of our group, now we still have 4 games to play, and now we will be the favorites, so we will need to be mentally strong and fly on the ice like we did in these three games.

 

 

And PS.: I am (and I´m not alone) absolutely disgusted by the behavior of some fans after the game, trust me, this wasn´t representative of all Slovak Hockey fans (I even suspect it was some football fans actually). I want to present all sincere appologize to my Canadian friends on this forum for the absolutely inadmissible booing during the anthem.

Our players and commentators already made it too in our TV. I assure you it was only aminority of total idiots who did that. Our normal fans are really happy that we can host this amazing festival and congratulate to Canada for the win and thanks for the match guys. we love you

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DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS

 

Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Norway 1 - 9 Sweden
Period-by-Period: 0-3, 0-5, 1-1
May 13th 2019, h. 20:15, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

 

Goals:

52. Trettenes (Valkvä Olsen) 1:8 - 1. Wennberg (Nylander) 0:1, 7. Hörnqvist (Ekman-Larsson, Nylander) 0:2, 19. Nylander (Wennberg) 0:3, 22. A. Kempe (Lander) 0:4, 26. Hörnqvist (Ekman-Larsson, Larsson) 0:5, 27. M. Kempe (Lander, Gustafsson) 0:6, 30. Wennberg (Nylander) 0:7, 39. Eriksson (Lindholm, E. Petersson) 0:8, 58. Lindblom (Nylander, Lander) 1:9

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS

 

Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Slovakia 5 - 6 Canada
Period-by-Period: 2-2, 2-3, 1-1
May 13th 2019, h. 20:15, Steel Arena, Košice

 

 

Goals:

8. Sukeľ (Studenič, Nagy) 1:0, 9. Liška (Jaroš, Lunter) 2:0, 22. Nagy (Marinčin, Lantoši) 3:2, 26. Liška (Buc, Lunter) 4:2, 52. Sukeľ (Marinčin) 5:5 - 17. Mantha (Turris, McCann) 2:1, 19. Theodore (Mantha, Severson) 2:2, 28. Marchessault (Chabot) 4:3, 29. Cirelli (Reinhart, Theodore) 4:4, 37. Stecher (Turris, Severson) 4:5, 60. Stone (Chabot) 5:6

 

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Tuesday May 14th, 2019 -

Round-Robin Day 5 Schedule (GMT +2)

  

Preliminary Round

 

LIVESTREAM

 

Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Great Britain vs Denmark
Period-by-Period:
May 14th 2019, h. 16:15, Steel Arena, Košice

 

Germany vs France
Period-by-Period:
May 14th 2019, h. 20:15, Steel Arena, Košice

 

 

Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

 

Italy vs Latvia
Period-by-Period:
May 14th 2019, h. 16:15, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

Switzerland vs Austria
Period-by-Period:
May 14th 2019, h. 20:15, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava

 

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DAY 4 IN IMAGES

 

 

 

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Team Rosters updates from yesterday evening/today morning

 

  Canada registred the Columbus forward Pierre-Luc Dubois, who already played yesterday night against Slovakia, only 5 hours after his arrival to Košice and some 9 hours after he landed in Europe !

Canada has now registered 24 players (3 Goalies + 21 skaters) so still one spot available for a skater very likely a defencer.

 

Germany Completed it´s roster for the preliminary round. They have now the maximu capacity 25 players (3 goalies + 22 skaters) they added to the official roster the remaining 2 players they have in Košice the forwards Marc Michaelis and Stefan Loibl

AND + as their last 25th player they added one huge name, the Colorado Avalanche Goaltender Philipp Grubauer which means Germany had to send back home Dustin Strahlmeier the Schwenninger goalie.

 

 

also some fresh news from and teams,

USA will be reinforced by the Columbus defencer Zach werenski, who accepted the invitation and will flight to Košice in the upcoming hours.

For CZE Radek Faksa of Dallas Stars is already with team in Bratislava, but still not yet registered, because of the deal between the Czech federation and Dallas, His NHL owner decided to let him play at the Worlds but only from Thursday,  Another reinforcement will be the seasons Czech extraliga top scorer Milan Guláš from Plzeň, who arrived yesterday to Bratislava, the team will register him probably later today. That also means Robin Hanzl dream about this world champs is over and the team send him back home.

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Also let have a quick look on the stats after day 4.

 

We really sucks in penalty killing. and strongly ! in other hand we played so far only against the 3 top teams of our group and medal favorites at the worlds,....

 

The most productive player so far is Nylander thanks his yesterdays 5 points one man show against Norway he is now at 8 points.

 

Top Scoring Player:

1. William Nylander   8 points (2 goals, 6 assists)

2. Anthony Mantha   7 (3+4)

3. Anton Lander   6 (3+3)

4. Nikita Kucherov   6 (2+4)

5. Patric Hornqvist   and Kaapo Kakko   both 5 (5+0)

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the best Slovak is 19. Martin MARINČIN  4 (1+3)

 

 

Top Goal Scorer:

1. Patric Hornqvist   and Kaapo Kakko   both 5 goals

3. Yevgeni Dadonov 4

4. the best Slovak is 4. Matúš SUKEĽ altogether with 6 other players (Fiala SUI, DeBrincat USA, Frolík CZE, Lander SWE, Lindblom SWE and Mantha CAN with 3 goals scored

 

 

Top Goal Assist Leader:

1. William Nylander    6 assists

2. Sakari Manninen   5

3. Kucherov  Balcers Chabot Eichel Mantha and Voráček   all with 4 assists

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the best Slovaks are 10th. ex aequo Martin MARINČIN and Marián STUDENIČ  both tied with another 10 players all with 3 goal assists so far.

 

Top face-Off Efficiency:

1. William Nylander   77,78 %

2. Teodors Blugers   72,73 %

3. Anton Lander 70,73

4. Arttu Ilomäki  70,70 %

5. Dylan Strome   68,97 %

 

Top (+/- points) (being on the ice when your team score or receive goal):

1. William Nylander +8  (+9 -1)

2. Patric Hornqvist +6  (+8 -2)

3. Oliver Ekman Larsson and Kyle Turris both +5  (+7 -2)

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the best Slovak is 17th. Martin MARINČIN tied with 2 other players Mantha CAN and Lander SWE all with +4 (+6 -2)

 

Most Penalized Players:

1. Patrick Peter   25 penalty minutes

2. Filip Hronek   and Damon Severson both 14 pen. minutes

4. Robert Lachowicz 12 pen. minutes

5. Nicklas Jensen and Oskar Lindblom   both 10 pen. minutes

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the most penalized Slovak is 14th. Tomáš TATAR tied with 10 other players all with 4 pen. minutes

 

Top Goaltenders Saves Efficiency:

1. Reto Berra 100 %

2. Mathias Niederberger 96,36 %

3. Andrei Vasilevski 96,00 %

4. Leonardo Genoni 95,24 %

5. Elvis Merzlikinš 94,44 %

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13. Marek ČILIAK 88,24 %

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17. Patrik RYBÁR 86,96 %

 

Team Scoring Efficiency:

1. 14,29 %

2. 14,18 %

3. 14,13 %

4. 12,37 %

5. 12,24 %

6. 11,96 %

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15.   3,45 %

16.   0 %

 

Team Power-Play Efficiency:

1. 85,71 %  (7 power plays played in the tournament so far  = 6 goals !!!)

2. 50,00 %

3. 42,86 %

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9. 25,00 %

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15. ex aequo and both 0 %

 

Team Penalty Killing:

1. ex aequo   (both played 3 matches) and (played 2 matches) all 100 % (have not conceded any goal during their opponents power plays so far !)

4. ex aequo and   both 83,33 %

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16. 37,50 %  Absolute last place lol, terrible penalty killing for us, from the 8 power plays our opponents played against us we conceded 5 goals

 

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Fresh Roster updates

 

France added officially to the roster the 3rd goalie Henri-Corentin Buysse.

FRA has now 24 players assigned (all 3 goalies + 21 skaters) 1 more spot left, will be decided between the forward Teddy Da Costa and defencer Pierre Crinon, both being with the team in Košice since the start, but only one of them will be able to be in the team

 

Denmark added the 8th defencer Mattias Lassen to the official roster.

DEN with 23 players registred now (3 goalies + 20 skaters) 2 places for skaters left. The Danes has in Košice 3 players, one of them will certainly not play in the preliminary round (Blichfeld, From, Rondbjerg)

 

 

In other news. Our federation and the organizing committee director jointly today officially apologized to the Canadian delegation. Our Police already launch investigation against the...how to call them...viewers (because that definitely are not Fans) who have embarassed us totally and made a huge worldwide shame for our country yesterday and completely spoiled the fantastic entire impression of the championships.

 

Now just let´s hope Canada will accept the apology and we will show them our true hospitality and huge, passionate BUT ABSOLUTE FAIR love for the beautiful sport they invented.