Ice Hockey 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,820]

Finally one better video from yesterdays match, One can really appreciate the Samuel Buček and Róbert Lantoši actions, they both were really great yesterday, will be interesting to see if they will make the team for the world champs

 

this 1st Buček and 4th Lantoši goals are really nice, but the 5th goal was a real team beauty

 

[hckošice 14,820]

February 2019 International Break

Sunday 10.02.2019 - Results

 

EURO HOCKEY TOUR

(STAGE 3/4 - SWEDEN HOCKEY GAMES ) - 4 Nations Round-Robin Tournament

Last Day

12:00  Russia - Czech Republic    3-1

15:30  Sweden - Finland   4-5 After Penalty Shoot-Out

Final Standing:

1. CZE 6, 2. RUS 5, 3. SWE 4, 4. FIN 3

EURO HOCKEY TOUR 2018/19 Cumulative Standing after Games 9/12: 1. RUS 19, 2. FIN 13, 3. CZE 11, 4. SWE 11

[hckošice 14,820]

Slovak Extraliga Regular season is over. both Hungarian clubs made it to the play-offs. congrats MAC and Miskolc, both are even paired in 1st round so one of them is already assured to play the real play-ofs quarterfinals.

 

After a good start HC Košice unfortunately experienced a quite poor pointless streak during the last part of the season, resulting in only 4th place and probably the worst possible opponent for my club, HK Poprad, the rivality between both teams is really big and matches are strongly followed (aka east slovakian derby), hopefully we will be able to beat our nemesis this time.

 

Žilina finished last and will play the best of 7 series play-out against the winner of second division (which is contested right now in a best of 7 series between Michalovce and Martin)

 

PS apparently there strong rumors that this was probably the last season our U20 National Team was part of the Extraliga, it looks like the project U20 Orange will be removed (which is pretty understandable IMO, since only a couple of players from this project actually made it for example this year to the U20 Wch final roster)

 

Regular Season Final Standing

 

 

 

Play-offs 2018/19 schedule

 

1st round

Best of 5 matches series

 

(7) Nové Zámky vs (10) Detva

(8) DVTK Miskolc vs (9) MAC Budapest

 

Quarterfinals

Best of 7 matches series

 

(1) Banská Bystrica vs Lower seeded 1st round qualifier

(2) Zvolen vs Higher seeded 1st round qualifier

(3) HK Nitra vs (6) Dukla Trenčín

(4) HC Košice vs (5) HK Poprad

 

[hckošice 14,820]

Spartak Moscow (mainly thanks to the goalie Július Hudáček) won both first matches in St. Petersburg against SKA in the KHL Play-Offs opening round

[phelps 7,669]

always related to the KHL...this is very, very interesting...

 

Technology in action, smart pucks on the ice in Helsinki

https://en.khl.ru/news/2019/02/26/433193.html

Edited February 28, 2019 by phelps

[phelps 7,669]

15 minuti fa, hckosice ha scritto:

Spartak Moscow (mainly thanks to the goalie Július Hudáček) won both first matches in St. Petersburg against SKA in the KHL Play-Offs opening round

 

and this is also the only surprising situation so far (I wouldn't call exactly "surprising" the 2-0 lead of Dynamo Moscow against Jokerit, despite being the Finns seeded better than the Russians)...

 

another thing to be noticed is that only 1 series out of 8 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk vs Salavat Yulaev Ufa) is tied 1-1 after 2 games in this first round of the KHL playoffs...and this is not so good for us, neutral audience...

[hckošice 14,820]

The feeling when you score your first seasons hattrick but your team lost 3:10   The clearly actually biggest slovak prospect Maxim Čajkovič marked his first hattrick in the colours of St. John during the defeat of his team with Cape Breton in juniors QMJHL

 

 

 

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After the Slovak Extraliga and the KHL, another top-tier European league has just finished its regular season and it's on the runway to start its playoffs campaign: it's the German DEL...

 

Adler Mannheim ended up on top after the 52-game schedule with 116 points, 7 ahead of the reigning champions, Red Bull Munich.

 

the top 6 (the teams already qualified to the quarterfinals) is completed by Augsburger Panther, Kölner Haie, ERC Ingolstadt and Düsseldorfer EG.

 

the teams ranked 7th to 10th are instead qualified for the playoffs preliminary round (starting tonight)...and they are: Pinguins Bremerhaven (7th), Straubing Tigers (8th), last year's runner up Eisbären Berlin (9th) and Thomas Sabo ice Tigers Nürnberg.

 

therefore, the 1st round match-ups (best-of-3 series) are: Bremerhaven vs Nürnberg and Straubing vs Berlin...and it all starts tonight @ 7.15 CET...

 

Full Details, Rankings, Results and more...here:

https://www.del.org/

Edited March 6, 2019 by phelps

[hckošice 14,820]

The Play-Offs 1st round is over.

 

In the Hungarian derby MAC Budapest (9th seeded) surprisingly easily defeated DVTK Miskolc (8th seeded) 3 games to 0. Also the other series finished with a huge upset (7th seeded) Nové Zámky are eliminated by Detva (10th seeded) 1-3 in the best of 5 series.

 

Detva qualified for the first time ever to the Play-Offs.

 

 

Quarterfinals

Best of 7 matches series

 

(1) Banská Bystrica vs Detva (10)

(2) Zvolen vs MAC Budapest (9)

(3) HK Nitra vs (6) Dukla Trenčín

(4) HC Košice vs (5) HK Poprad

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