Men's Ice Hockey NHL 2019 - 2020

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STANLEY CUP FINAL 2019/20

 

GAME 4

(September 25th, 2020)

 

DALLAS STARS - TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING  4:5 After Overtime (2:1, 1:2, 1:1, Overtime: 0:1)

Goals:

8. Klingberg 1:0, 19. Pavelski (Benn, Radulov) 2:0, 29. Perry (Seguin, Janmark) 3:2, 52. Pavelski (Seguin, Heiskanen) 4:4 - 20. Point (Palát, Shattenkirk) 2:1, 23. Point (Killorn, Kucherov) 2:2, 39. Gourde (Kucherov, Sergachyov) 3:3, 47. Killorn (Sergachyov, Cirelli) 3:4, 67. Shattenkirk (Hedman, Maroon) 4:5(OT).

 

 

Series Standing 1:3

 

 

Officials: Sutherland, Charron - Kovachik, Barton, Penalties: 5:4 all for 2 min.,

Power-Plays Goals: 0:3, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0,

 Attendance 0 (Behind Closed Doors) in Edmonton

 

Line-ups:

 

Dallas: Khudobin - Klingberg, Lindell, Heiskanen, Oleksiak, Hanley, SEKERA (Ice Time : 16:46) - Radulov, Pavelski, Benn - Perry, Seguin, Janmark - Gurianov, Hintz, Kiviranta - Caamano, Dickinson, Cogliano.

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy - Rutta, Hedman, Shattenkirk, McDonagh, ČERNÁK (Ice Time : 18:33), Sergachyov - Kucherov, Point, Palát - Johnson, Cirelli, Killorn - Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow - Verhaeghe, Paquette, Maroon.

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

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STANLEY CUP FINAL 2019/20

 

GAME 5

(September 26th, 2020)

 

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING - DALLAS STARS  2:3 After 2nd Overtime (0:1, 1:0, 1:1, Overtime : 0:0, 0:1)

Goals:

25. Palát (Kucherov, Point) 1:1, 44. Sergachyov (Point) 2:1 – 18. Perry (Seguin, Oleksiak) 0:1, 54. Pavelski (Heiskanen, Seguin) 2:2, 90. Perry (Klingberg, Seguin) 2:3(OT).

 

 

Series Standing 3:2

 

 

Officials: Kozari, O'Rourke - Amell, Cherrey, Penalties: 2:1 all for 2 min.,

Power-Plays Goals: 0:0, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0,

 Attendance 0 (Behind Closed Doors) in Edmonton

 

Line-ups:

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy - Rutta, Hedman, ČERNÁK (Ice Time : 28:17), Sergachyov, Shattenkirk, McDonagh - Kucherov, Point, Palát - Johnson, Cirelli, Killorn - Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow - Verhaeghe, Paquette, Maroon.

 

Dallas: Khudobin - Klingberg, Lindell, Heiskanen, Oleksiak, Hanley, SEKERA (Ice Time : 13:38) - Radulov, Pavelski, Benn - Perry, Seguin, Janmark - Gurianov, Dowling, Kiviranta - Caamano, Dickinson, Cogliano.

 

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

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STANLEY CUP FINAL 2019/20

 

GAME 6

(September 28th, 2020)

 

DALLAS STARS - TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING  0:2 (0:1, 0:1, 0:0)

Goals:

13. Point (Kucherov, Hedman) 0:1, 28. Coleman (Paquette, Maroon) 0:2.

 

 

Series Final Standing 2:4

 

 

Officials: Sutherland, McCauley - MacPherson, Kovachik, Penalties: 3:3 all for 2 min.,

Power-Plays Goals: 0:1, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0,

 Attendance 0 (Behind Closed Doors) in Edmonton

 

Line-ups:

 

Dallas: Khudobin - Klingberg, Lindell, Heiskanen, Oleksiak, Hanley, SEKERA (Ice Time : 12:37) - Radulov, Pavelski, Benn - Perry, Seguin, Kiviranta - Gurianov, Dowling, Janmark - Caamano, Dickinson, Cogliano.

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy - Rutta, Hedman, ČERNÁK (Ice Time : 19:04), Sergachyov, Shattenkirk, McDonagh - Kucherov, Point, Palát - Johnson, Cirelli, Killorn - Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow - Verhaeghe, Paquette, Maroon.

 

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

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The 23 years old Erik "Drago" Černák became the 10th Slovak (counting Stan Mikita) Stanley Cup winner. The only 2nd Slovak defencer (after Zdeno Chára) and 2nd Košice born (after Jiří Bicek) and 3rd HC Košice juniors product and former HC Košice player (after Jiří Bicek and Martin Cibák)

 

winners of Stanley Cup :
      1961 - Stan Mikita* (Chicago)
      2003 - Jiří Bicek (New Jersey)
      2004 - Martin Cibák (Tampa Bay)
      2008 - Tomáš Kopecký (Detroit)
      2009 - Miroslav Šatan (Pittsburgh)
      2010 - Marián Hossa and Tomáš Kopecký (Chicago)
      2011 - Zdeno Chára (Boston)
      2013 - Marián Hossa and Michal Handzuš (Chicago)
      2014 - Marián Gáborík (Los Angeles)
      2015 - Marián Hossa (Chicago)
      2020 - Erik Černák (Tampa Bay)

 

*Canadian-Slovak hockey legend, Born in Slovakia, but never represented former Czechoslovakia after moved to Canadaas a young boy, he became later one of the best player of the history.

 

 

Congrats Erik "Drago" !

 

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Covid-19 version Stanley Cup celebrations in Tampa

 

 

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Last night the final act of the 2019/2020 season was held...

 

the annual NHL entry Draft saw the New York Rangers name  Alexis Lafreniere as the no.1 pick overall...

 

the no.2 pick was  Quinton Byfield, chosen by the Los Angeles Kings...

he's now the highest pick ever among the black player, going better than Evander Kane (Atlanta Thrashers, 2009) and Seth Jones (Nashville Predators, 2013), who were both picked with the no.4 overall...

 

the 3rd pick overall was  Tim Stuetzle (already rookie of the year in the lasr DEL, the top tier German league), chosen by the Ottawa Senators...

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/new-york-rangers-pick-alexis-lafreniere-first-in-nhl-draft/c-319320252?tid=277764372

 

here's a full recap of the first round of the 2020 NHL entry Draft...

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/2020-nhl-draft-first-round-coverage-and-analysis/c-319315858

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and beside the NHL entry Draft, a few more interesting news were disclosed...

 

the most important one is that the NHL is targeting January, 1st 2021 as the start date for the next season...

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-season-start-targeted-for-january-1-2021/c-319322070

 

 

in the meantime, the trades between the NHL teams are going on, waiting for the free agents to be available on the market (it will happen in a couple of days)...

 

here's the Trade Tracker, to keep the pace with all the moves made by the NHL teams in this offseason...

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/2020-21-nhl-trades/c-289968698?tid=278542340

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So, in this bizarre 2020 year we had the NHL Draft 1st round last night in historic online version

 

As expected had the most drafted players among the first 31 picks with 19 players ! followed by 4 and 2 guys from and   and 1 player from both and

 

As expected the most selected were the centers 13 ! The clubs also picked 4 defencers and only 1 goalie (the Russian Iaroslav Askarov picked by Nashville as 11th overall pick)

 

 

Sadly but as expected no nor player were picked in the opening round this year...however chances to have some drafted guys also this year are quite realistic in the remaining 6 rounds (2nd to 7th) this evening from 18:30 CEST

(rumors mentioning especially the likes of GK Samuel Hlavaj, DEF Samuel Kňažko and Marko Stacha or FW Martin Chromiak (should be definitely be our 1st this years pick) and Oliver Okuliar ?

 

 

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4 hours ago, hckosice said:

So, in this bizarre 2020 year we had the NHL Draft 1st round last night in historic online version

 

As expected had the most drafted players among the first 31 picks with 19 players ! followed by 4 and 2 guys from and   and 1 player from both and

 

As expected the most selected were the centers 13 ! The clubs also picked 4 defencers and only 1 goalie (the Russian Iaroslav Askarov picked by Nashville as 11th overall pick)

 

 

Sadly but as expected no nor player were picked in the opening round this year...however chances to have some drafted guys also this year are quite realistic in the remaining 6 rounds (2nd to 7th) this evening from 18:30 CEST

(rumors mentioning especially the likes of GK Samuel Hlavaj, DEF Samuel Kňažko and Marko Stacha or FW Martin Chromiak (should be definitely be our 1st this years pick) and Oliver Okuliar ?

 

 

 

so far, the only Slovak player selected is Samuel Knazko, picked by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 3rd round (no.78 overall)...

 

we are currently at no.86 overall (close to the end of round #3)...

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We had to wait until pick 78 to see a Slovak name (gone gone are the times of the early 2000s when some Gáborík was 3rd pick )...

 

surprisingly it was not Chromiak who is top pick this year but the honor goes to our talented blueliner Samuel Kňažko selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets