Men's Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

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Day 5

Sunday February 18th, 2018

 

Preliminary Round

Group A

 

Czech Republic - Switzerland  4-1 (1-1, 0-0, 3-0)

Goals:

8. Řepík (Erat, Horák) 1:0, 44. Kubalík (Kovář, Kolář) 2:1, 59. Červenka (Kolář) 3:1, 60. Řepík (Birner, Nakládal) 4:1 - 15. Rüfenacht (Ambühl, Suter) 1:1

 

 

Switzerland - South Korea 4-0 (1-0, 1-0, 2-0)

Goals:

8. Thomas (Genoway, Wolski) 1:0, 35. O'Dell (Gragnani, Noreau) 2:0, 44. Lapierre (Roy) 3:0, 59. Brule (Lee, Roy) 4:0

 

 

Final Standing:

1. CZE 8 pts, 2. CAN 7 pts, 3. SUI 3 pts, 4. KOR 0 pts.

 

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Group C

 

Germany - Norway  2-1 after PSO (0-0, 1-0, 0-1, Overtime: 0-0, Penalty Shoot-Out: 1-0)

Goals:

33. Hager (Kahun, Macek) 1:0, Winning Penalty Shoot-Out scored by Hager 2:1 PSO - 46. Reichenberg (Holos, Bastiansen) 1:1

 

 

Sweden - Finland  3-1 (1-0, 0-1, 2-0)

Goals:

15. Lander (Omark, Fasth) 1:0, 49. Zackrisson (Fransson) 2:1, 60. Möller (Omark) 3:1 - 22. Kemppainen (Koivisto, Junttila) 1:1

 

 

Final Standing:

1. SWE 9 pts, 2. FIN 6 pts, 3. GER 2 pts, 4. NOR 1 pt.

 

 

 

 

Follow all results and standings HERE

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1st Ranked Teams (All directly qualify for the Quarterfinals)

1. SWE  9 points

2. CZE  8 points

3. OAR  6 points

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2nd Ranked teams (only the first team qualify directly for the Quarterfinal)

4. CAN  7 points

5. FIN  6 points

6. SLO  4 points

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3rd Ranked teams

7. USA  4 points

8. Switzerland 3 points

9. Germany  2 points

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4th Ranked teams

10. Slovakia  4 points

11. Norway  1 point

12. South Korea  0 points

 

 

 

Play-offs

1 vs 8vs9: will face in Quarterfinals the winner of vs

4 vs 5vs12 :  will face in Quarterfinals the winner of vs

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2 vs 7vs10: will face in Quarterfinals the winner of vs

3 vs 6vs11 :  OAR will face in Quarterfinals the winner of vs

 

 

[hckošice 14,864]

1 minute ago, phelps said:

 

thanks...I think I'm going to record it and watch it later in the morning (since there's not much goin' on until 11 a.m.)...

 

Gonna be a real test for this new wave Slovak Ice Hockey National team. This match may have much more importance than it can appear at first look. Big big test for Craig Ramsey and Miro Šatan and their project and visions.

 

Especially after the drastic outcome and incredible hard luck we suffered in the group round...finish with 4 points last is something we still can not completely understand, the players are just frustrated by what happen in the match with Slovenia..a win in this match would have send us automatically to the first place ahead of Russia and directly to the quarterfinals, which was the long term proclaimed goal of this team. but they youngs unfortunately were not at all able to stand the pressure against very bravely fighting Slovenians, too much penalities including one very long 3vs5 send us 0-2 down in the 2nd period, but the guys recovered their aims and spirit and started to play, we even scored the required 3 goals, but the referee for some still unknown reason decided to not even review the video of the goal situation. Extremely frustrating since the match ended 2-2, in the penalty sessions it was clear SLO will win with such experts in this situation like Tičar and Jeglič..and from 1st we felt to 4th and from automatic QF we got once again USA in the last 16 too many reasons for someone to loose all faith and capitulate under the whole frustration, so let see how our guys will be able to show us that we can count on them in the next many years, because yes this is the team that will play for us at least for the next 10 years..so we need to see something positive, some fight, some spirit we used to see from players with the double cross on the chest

[phelps 7,696]

39 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

Gonna be a real test for this new wave Slovak Ice Hockey National team. This match may have much more importance than it can appear at first look. Big big test for Craig Ramsey and Miro Šatan and their project and visions.

 

Especially after the drastic outcome and incredible hard luck we suffered in the group round...finish with 4 points last is something we still can not completely understand, the players are just frustrated by what happen in the match with Slovenia..a win in this match would have send us automatically to the first place ahead of Russia and directly to the quarterfinals, which was the long term proclaimed goal of this team. but they youngs unfortunately were not at all able to stand the pressure against very bravely fighting Slovenians, too much penalities including one very long 3vs5 send us 0-2 down in the 2nd period, but the guys recovered their aims and spirit and started to play, we even scored the required 3 goals, but the referee for some still unknown reason decided to not even review the video of the goal situation. Extremely frustrating since the match ended 2-2, in the penalty sessions it was clear SLO will win with such experts in this situation like Tičar and Jeglič..and from 1st we felt to 4th and from automatic QF we got once again USA in the last 16 too many reasons for someone to loose all faith and capitulate under the whole frustration, so let see how our guys will be able to show us that we can count on them in the next many years, because yes this is the team that will play for us at least for the next 10 years..so we need to see something positive, some fight, some spirit we used to see from players with the double cross on the chest

 

for sure finishing last in a preliminary group with 4 points it's unusual, strange and frustrating...

but this Olympic Tournament format is so idiot...

however, your team has already shown some good stuff...I mean, you've been able to come back from a quick 0-2 against the mighty Russians (OK, they did fall asleep after the second goal, but still you have to be able to take advantage of such things)...

and also against the US boys they didn't play that bad...of course they made some capital mistakes, but you have to expect a young a newly formed team to have some inconsistency problems and to make some mistakes due to the lack of experience in many guys in the roster (and, as good and well accepted by the team as he is, a foreign coach sometimes is not ideal in this kind of situations)...

if I have to find something that I really didn't like, I have to say that especially in the last minutes of regulation and in the OT of the game against Slovenia I saw too many selfish plays, too many guys trying to go always and only one-on-more than one against the Slovenian defencemen...they wasted quite a good number of scoring chances because of that...and when it matters most (especially in games when you get few scoring chances like the playoffs ones), I don't think SVK it's a team that can afford to have this kind of attitude...they must be effective, they must capitalize on any small chance, be like ants and not cicadas...

in any case, I think tonight it's gonna be a close match and you have all the chances to come up with a different result from last week's game and "fill your contract"...

 

p.s. I guess these last 2 posts should rather be placed on the Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament's thread...

Edited February 19, 2018 by phelps

[heywoodu 15,172]

Right, time to tune in here and I see the Slovaks need some support....go Slovakia! 

[heywoodu 15,172]

Fuck 

 

That was quick

Edited February 20, 2018 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,172]

Goaaaaaaaal! Ceresnak ripped through the goal basically  

[thepharoah 2,405]

3-1 

[hckošice 14,864]

When USA were clueless we had ofc to help them. 2 minutes 2-man powerplay + 5+20min major penalty for our phare defencer Čajkovksý and it was immediately 2-0...despite that we showed our hearts again and with manner restarted to outshoot the opponent, but then one mistake one losing duel behind the net and extremely experienced Arcobello showed his skills 3-0 ...

 

we totally messed this tournament with our own faults...from one huge chance to reach something absolutely epic and so needed for all our hockey we went totally down to the absolute bottom

[heywoodu 15,172]

Commentator: "And a penalty for the Czechs. Uh...Slovaks. 

 

 

At least something good for @hckosice, someone forgetting that Czech Republic and Slovakia are different nations