Ice Hockey 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[phelps 7,713]

Il 27/8/2018 Alle 16:00, intoronto ha scritto:

The KHL is looking to add a team in Dubai! Wow.

 

but if they already play in the desert lands of China (they don't even release the official audience of those games, since they would get ashamed by that), nothing's gonna surprise me anymore by them...

[phelps 7,713]

6 minuti fa, De_Gambassi ha scritto:

Not only in Dubai Apparerently

 

 

 

well, those 2 destinations at least would be a lot more logical than Dubai...

[intoronto 5,678]

5 hours ago, phelps said:

 

but if they already play in the desert lands of China (they don't even release the official audience of those games, since they would get ashamed by that), nothing's gonna surprise me anymore by them...

Which team is that?

[phelps 7,713]

7 minuti fa, intoronto ha scritto:

Which team is that?

 

the Kunlun Red Star...they play their matches half in Beijing and half in Shanghai...and in both sites they don't have more than 1,000 spectators per game (and in Beijing they normally play in the big hall used for Gymnastics at the 2008 Games)...

of course I didn't mean they literally play in the desert, but that it's like if they did it (since they always play in those big empty arenas)...

 

p.s. last year they also played a warm-up match in Ulan Baatar (MGL), which is not so different than playing in the desert (even if they had more spectators in that match than in their actual home games)...

[phelps 7,713]

and Today's the day...

 

at 4 p.m. CET, in fact, the KHL season gets underway in the Tatarstan Capital with the opening match between the reigning Champions, AK Bars Kazan and SKA St.Petersburg...

https://video.khl.ru/events/759749?locale=en

[hckošice 14,934]

New Slovak National Team jersey

 

 

more pics

 

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The whole photo gallery here https://sport.aktuality.sk/fotogaleria/354666/velke-zmeny-v-slovenskom-hokeji-zvaz-predstavil-nove-logo-a-reprezentacne-dresy/1/

 

[phelps 7,713]

38 minuti fa, hckosice ha scritto:

New Slovak National Team jersey

 

 

more pics

 

  Mostra contenuto

 

 

 

 

 

The whole photo gallery here https://sport.aktuality.sk/fotogaleria/354666/velke-zmeny-v-slovenskom-hokeji-zvaz-predstavil-nove-logo-a-reprezentacne-dresy/1/

 

 

tbh, I liked a lot more last year's...

 

p.s. not a good start of the season for Slovan in the KHL, too...

 

for Slovak hockey, it's definitely not the best moment in its history...

[hckošice 14,934]

25 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

tbh, I liked a lot more last year's...

 

p.s. not a good start of the season for Slovan in the KHL, too...

 

for Slovak hockey, it's definitely not the best moment in its history...

 

Yep, quite different design, since peoples were used to the classical logo we had in the last 20 years, this change is a bit brutal   At least they kept the national emblem as the main thing, just changed the three peaks by 3 raised sticks - symbolizing victory as players raise their sticks after scoring a goal

 

Well, the positive is that this is still by far better than the Olympic PC 2018 trash

 

Slovan had a very bad start, that´s sure, but it´s still only the start of the season, and they started with a very hard trip. I think this year they have a really good squad, so they just need maybe few more games to adapt more and I am confident this year they´ll reach the play-offs. Today they play in Yekaterinburg and hopefully they´ll finally got some positive result boost

[hckošice 14,934]

a quick recap of SVK hockey jerseys evolution

 

Czechoslovakia 1920´s-1938

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Slovakia World War II 1940´s

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Czechoslovakia 1947

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Czechoslovakia 1970´s

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Czechoslovakia 1980´s

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Czech and Slovak Federative Republic 1992

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Slovakia 1994

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Slovakia 1996

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Slovakia 2000´s

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Slovakia 2006

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Slovakia World Championships 2008 (Special Retro jerseys 100 years of IIHF)

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Slovakia 2011

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Friendly matches and tournaments edition 2011-2017 (with homage for Pavol Demitra (38))

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Slovakia 2014 with the national Anthem lyrics

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Slovakia, Winter Olympics 2018

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Slovakia 2018

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[phelps 7,713]

4 ore fa, hckosice ha scritto:

 

Yep, quite different design, since peoples were used to the classical logo we had in the last 20 years, this change is a bit brutal   At least they kept the national emblem as the main thing, just changed the three peaks by 3 raised sticks - symbolizing victory as players raise their sticks after scoring a goal

 

Well, the positive is that this is still by far better than the Olympic PC 2018 trash

 

Slovan had a very bad start, that´s sure, but it´s still only the start of the season, and they started with a very hard trip. I think this year they have a really good squad, so they just need maybe few more games to adapt more and I am confident this year they´ll reach the play-offs. Today they play in Yekaterinburg and hopefully they´ll finally got some positive result boost

 

naaa...this time Slovan was very unlucky...they lost just at the last second of OT (after tying the game with less than a minute to go)...

but at least they got their 1st point in the standings...better than nothing...