Ice Hockey 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[NikolaB 452]

@hckosice I need your help. I wrote articles about Czechoslovakian players who won World Champ 1947. title, and my question is about player  Ladislav Troják. He was born in your town Kosice but I don't know is he was Czech or Slovak in origin. I suppose he is Slovak but it's better to ask an  expert. Thanks

 

Edit: I just found he was first ethnic Slovak in CSR team and first Slovak with world champ title. 

Edited November 6, 2016 by NikolaB

[hckošice 16,613]

48 minutes ago, NikolaB said:

@hckosice I need your help. I wrote articles about Czechoslovakian players who won World Champ 1947. title, and my question is about player  Ladislav Troják. He was born in your town Kosice but I don't know is he was Czech or Slovak in origin. I suppose he is Slovak but it's better to ask an  expert. Thanks

 

Yes he was Slovak born in Košice, He started his career in Košice, then he moved to Prague and played in LTC Prague which was this time the best club in Czechoslovakia.

 

He played at 2 olympic games, in 1936 at Winter Olympic Gamis in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as the only slovak in the Czechoslovakian team which finished 4th. In 1948 in Sankt Moritz he was even the Flagbearer of Czechoslovakian delegation at opening ceremony. TCH won silver medal.

 

He was world champion in 1947, and next year unfortunately he died in the Czechoslovakia team air crash tragedy in La Manche, few time later the Stadium in Košice got his name, and was named Zimný Štadión Ladislava Trojáka until the nowadays Steel Arena was build and opened in 2007.

 

Hope it helped you a bit

 

 

[NikolaB 452]

It helps, thank you so much 

[dcro 10,211]

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

Ladies and Gentlemens South Korea won the 6 nations Budapest Tournament.

 

Just beating host Hungary 3-2 in the gold medal game. wow, just wow...thats how the history is written

 

 

 

South Korea or "South Korea"?

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4 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

South Korea or "South Korea"?

 

well, the winning South Korean goal was scored by a certain Michael Swift and another South Korean player a certain Matt Dalton was named the best Goalie of the tournament

 

here the complete todays line-up and stats

http://www.regi.icehockey.hu/magyar/merkozes.php?mit=23197

 

 

 

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Today we had last day of the first seasons International break,

heres todays International tournaments recap

 

Euro Hockey Tour,

Karjala Cup 2016 Helsinki,

 

Last day of the first stage of this seasons Euro hockey Tour, the Finland´s Karjala Cup proposed 2 traditional hockey derbies.

 

Russia defeated Czech Republic  3-0 and Finland thanks a amazing second period beat their eternal rivals Sweden  4-1

 

Russia won the Karjala Cup and lead the Euro Hockey Tour after this 1st stage with 9 points, 2nd finished Czech Rep. with 6 points, 3rd is the host Finland with 3 points and lst 4th Sweden remains without any point after the first stage.

 

The Euro Hockey Tour will continue with second stage in December, and all 4 teams will move now to russia for the former legendary Izvestia Trophy now called the One Channel Cup.

 

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Deutschland Cup 2016,

 

Today was also the last day of the Deutschland Cup 2016,

 

Slovakia won all 3 matches, today our boys defeated Switzerland  4-1 and in the last match host Germany lost to Canada  1-3.

 

Slovakia won the Deutschland Cup with 8 points and bring some joy in todays very sad day of slovak hockey Congrats boys, very well done ! 2nd finished team Canada composed of Canadian players playing in european leagues with 7 points, 3rd finished the host Germany with 3 points and last 4th Switzerland with 0.

 

Already looking forward for the next break in december and remaining in hopes we will continue our well started streak also in the Switzerlands 4 nations tournament.

 

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Challengers,

 

Budapest Challenger 2016,

 

Todays ended the Budapest 6 Nations Tournament and with a sensational triumph of South Korea, this is the very first tournament win of South Korea at such level.

 

South Korea defeated host Hungary in the Gold Medal Match  3-2

The bronze medals went to Austria after their win in the bronze medal game against Denmark  2-0,

and to complete todays recap also the result of the 5th-6th place match Poland defeated Italy  4-1.

 

 

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Moment of silence at Scottrade Center in St. Louis for former Colorado Avalanche Marek, before last nights match St. Louis - Colorado

 

https://www.nhl.com/video/blues-honor-hockey-fights-cancer/t-282834082/c-46081503

 

 

and the nice article published in the first page of the International Ice Hockey federation website http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=11163&cHash=5fd7c7caef76cf5e65b754ac3c2a53ec

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Red Machine starts undefeated

Russia wins in Helsinki, Slovakia in Augsburg

  Russian won all games at the Karjala Tournament in Helsinki also thanks to Ilya Sorokin’s strong showing in the net.

 

Last weekend the first international break took place and was highlighted by the Karjala Tournament in Helsinki that was won by Russia.

 

The Red Machine started by shocking host Finland in Helsinki. It was a narrow game for two periods with Anatoli Golyshev opening the scoring midway through the first period and Miro Aaltonen tying it up for Sweden with a power-play marker in the middle frame.

 

However, in the last 11 minutes of the game the Russians scored four unanswered goals with Andrei Svetlakov getting the game winner at 9:51.

 

Russia started with a first-period lead against Sweden as well and eventually beat Tre Kronor 3-2. That set up a final with the Czech Republic.

 

The Czechs beat Sweden 6-3 in a game that was played on their ice in Plzen and continued with a 5-3 win against Finland in Helsinki. Especially Lukas Radil, who has played in many such tournaments but has never got the call for a World Championship, left his marks with three goals and five points during the tournament to become the scoring leader.

 

However, despite a 32-23 shot advantage for the Czechs they didn’t manage to bring the puck into Ilya Sorokin’s net a single time. That gave Sorokin a tournament-leading 98.18 save percentage from his two games.

 

After a scoreless opening frame the Russians found their winning ways with their special units. Vladimir Tkachyov opened the scoring with a shorthanded marker at 5:51 of the second period and at 17:03 Nikita Gusev capitalized on a power play. Midway through the third period Alexei Bereglazov scored the final goal to make it 3-0.

 

Host Finland was looking for consolation on the last day against archrival Sweden. It didn’t begin well in front of 8,022 fans at Hartwall Arena as a Swedish goal from Patrik Cehlin was given after a video review to give Tre Kronor a 1-0 first-period lead.

 

The Finnish Lions came out stronger for the second period with Joonas Kemppainen tying the game at 4:46. It was the beginning of a Finnish goal streak. Less than two minutes later Finland was leading 3-1 after two more goals from Miro Aaltonen and Mika Pyorala. The Swedes used their time-out but at 13:38 Veli-Matti Savinainen beat Niklas Swedberg again, which ended the evening for the Swedish goalie. Joel Lassinantti kept the net clean for the rest of the game that ended with Finland’s 4-1 win.

 

Slovakia wins Deutschland Cup

 

Slovakia won the Deutschland Cup in Germany. It wasn’t exactly an expected win as the Slovaks didn’t have the strongest roster but it came during a welcome time with the federation being in transition for the team coached by Zdeno Ciger, who was for the first time supported by Julius Supler. The 66-year-old veteran coach was hired as consultant.

 

On the first day the Slovaks improved throughout the game against Germany and got the lead through a Michal Cajkovsky’s marker midway through the game. Vladimir Dravecky extended the lead late in the third period but the game wasn’t over yet. With the goalie pulled Nicolas Krammer scored for Germany but one minute later Tomas Hrnka sealed the win with a shot into the empty net.

 

The most important win for the Slovaks came in the game against a Team Canada that was stronger than usual at this tournament. This time Canada did not mostly count on players from the German DEL but had also 13 KHL players on the roster and more Canadians from Finland and Sweden to scout potential candidates for the World Championship.

 

A strong Jaroslav Janus in the net and efficient forwards made the difference for the Slovaks. After Kevin Clark’s opening goal for Canada Andrej Kudrna skated toward the Canadian net on a counter-attack and fed Martin Gernet for the 1-1 marker. Midway through the second period Kudrna scored himself to give Slovakia the lead on a breakaway during a Canadian power play. However, soon after the man advantage Matt Ellison tied it for Canada just to see Adam Janosik score the 3-2 marker for Slovakia 40 seconds later. After Greg Scott’s game-tying goal in the third period and scoreless extra time the shootout had to decide in which Slovakia’s Dravecky was the only scorer.

The Slovaks needed one more win and got it on Sunday – 4-1 against Switzerland after three unanswered goals in the third period including two from Marcel Hascak.

 

Team Canada finished the event in second place with two wins. Kevin Clark finished the tournament as the leader in scoring (4) and goal scoring (3), Danny Taylor led all goaltenders with a 97.96 save percentage from his two starts.

 

Host Germany used its home tournament, in which up to 5,670 fans filled the stands in Augsburg, to test established as well as newer players for a potential roster spot at the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship the country will host in Cologne together with the French capital of Paris. It was the last games before the preparation camp in April and the team got at least the win against archrival Switzerland. The Swiss were leading twice but goals from Nicolas Krammer, Leonhard Pfoderl and Denis Reul led the home squad to a 3-2 win.

 

For Switzerland the first tournament with former Swedish NHL defenceman Tommy Albelin as an assistant coach to Patrick Fischer ended with zero points. The Swiss only scored three goals from 75 shots, got ten goals scored on despite allowing the fewest shots (60) and had zero goals scored from 11 power plays while allowing two shorthanded goals.

 

Belarus and Korea win EIHC events

 

Another tournament with top-division countries took place in Bled. For host Slovenia, recently promoted to play at the Worlds in Germany and France, it started well as the team earned a comeback win against Latvia. David Rodman tied the game with one second left and Rok Ticar scored the overtime winner at 4:39.

 

The Slovenes celebrated another win late in the game against France, 2-1, when Bostjan Golicic scored the game-winner with 11 seconds left in the third period.

 

However, Belarus stopped the hosts in the last game. After having blanked France 3-0 and Latvia 4-0, Belarus and Slovenia had a neck-and-neck race for tournament win. Anze Ropret and Anze Kuralt gave Slovenia a 2-0 lead in the second period but the Belarusians fought back and eventually Roman Graborenko tied the game at three with a power-play marker at 10:13 of the third period. After a scoreless overtime period Artyom Chernikov scored the game-winner for Belarus in the shootout.

 

Behind Belarus and Slovenia, Latvia earned a third-place finish. After two losses they blanked France 6-0 on the last day. For World Championship co-host France, which travelled to Bled with a roster focusing on players from the domestic league, it wasn’t a good start into the new season with zero points and Maurin Bouvet scoring the only goal in three games.

 

Another tournament of the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge took place in Budapest with teams from the top-two tiers of the World Championship program and a surprise winner.

 

The tournament started in two groups with host Hungary beating Poland, 2-1, and Denmark, 3-1, for the group win. 2018 Olympic host Korea succeeded in the other group. A 6-4 win against Austria and a 3-2 shootout loss to Italy was enough to win the group as Italy previously had lost to Austria.

 

In the game for tournament win Sang Hoon Shin gave Korea the lead but Karol Csanyi tied it up for Hungary before the end of the first period. The Koreans didn’t capitalize on their shot advantage in the first two periods but midway through the third period they regained the lead with a Min Ho Cho goal. The Hungarians battled for the equalizer but Canadian-Korean forward Michael Swift scored into the empty net with 51 seconds left in regulation time. The game ended with a 3-2 win for Korea after Istvan Terbocs had scored for Hungary with the final buzzer.

 

Austria blanked top-division nation Denmark 3-0 in the game for third place while Poland got fifth place after beating Italy 4-1 in the last game.

 

In other games a Latvian selection from the domestic league won the reborn Baltic Challenge Cup in the Estonian capital of Tallinn after beating its Baltic rivals. Host Estonia took second place after edging Lithuania 3-2 in the last game.

 

Norway travelled to Great Britain for a camp and beat the host in both games, 2-1 and 4-2. For Great Britain it was the first games in several years against a top-division country and the tight scores gave confidence for the country that will host the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B next spring in Belfast.

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Champions League day,

 

Round of 16, 2nd leg

 

Vítkovice won the czech derby beating Liberec 3-1 after OT (3-2 in aggregate) and will face the swiss Fribourg-Gotteron in quarterfinals, Fribourg eliminated KalPa kuopio of Finland 3-2 after OT (4-3 in aggregate)

 

As expected Frolunda (SWE) defeated Eisbären Berlin (GER) also in second leg this time 4-1 (10-2 in total) and advance to the QF where they will play another swedens team Linkoping which won today in Helśinki against IFK 0-1 (1-2 in aggregate)

 

Another team from Sweden in QF is Växjo Lakers beating Saipa Lappeenranta of Finland 4-2 after overtime (6-5 in total) now they are waiting for their opponent which will be known tomorrow when Zurich will host in the swiss derby Lugano. Lugano won first match 3-2.

 

The last QF will face the czech Sparta Prague and swiss SC Bern. Sparta defeated HV71 (SWE) 0-5 (4-7 in agg.) Bern played a draw 3-3 in Finland with Jyväskylä (5-6 in Total)

 

 

 

So 2 czechs Vitkovice and Sparta Prague, 3 swedens clubs Frolunda, Linkoping and Växjo and 3 clubs from Switzerland Bern, Fribourg and one of Zurich/Lugano remains in the competition for the quarter finals.

 

Incredible but true, there no more any Finlands team in the competition

 

 

 

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CHL quarter-finals set

Seven teams advance, Zurich-Lugano tonight

Radoslav Tybor of Vitkovice Ostrava celebrates as the Czech club advanced to the CHL quarter-finals for the first time ever.

 

It was a wild night for the Champions Hockey League Round of 16, with seven teams moving on to the quarter-final round.

Three of the seven games had to be decided in overtime, but after the dust settled it was Fribourg-Gotteron, Frolunda Gothenburg, Sparta Prague, Vaxjo Lakers, Vitkovice Ridera Ostrava, SC Bern, and Linkoping HC who made it through.

With just one game remaining (Zurich versus Lugano), the CHL quarter-final round will feature three Swiss and three Swedish clubs, including defending champions Frolunda Gothenburg. Joining these six are Sparta and Vitkovice, two Czech teams that now become this first two from the country to make it this far into the CHL playoffs.

In a surprising twist, no Finnish club managed to reach the CHL quarter-final round, the first time this has happened in the short history on the league.

Fribourg-Gotteron – KalPa Kuopio 3-2 OT (4-3 aggr.)

Yannick Rathgeb pulled Fribourg into the semi-finals with an overtime goal as the Swiss club edged KalPa 4-3 on aggregate.

KalPa fell behind 2-1 in the second period, but equalized on a goal from Tommi Jokinen, tying up the score and the series. In the extra frame, Rathgeb fought off his defenceman along the boards in the KalPA zone and gained possession of the puck after it was freed it up teammate Julien Sprunger.  He broke away towards the goal and managed to launch the puck into the net with a backhand for the game and series-winning goal.  

Frolunda Gothenburg – Eisbaren Berlin 4-1 (10-2 aggr.)

Defending CHL champions Frolunda Gothenburg took care of business at home, dispatching Eisbaren Berlin for the second game in a row to advance to the next round.

The Indians were already ahead 6-1 on aggregate going into the game, and a 4-1 victory in Berlin sealed the deal. Forward Carl Grundstrom led the way with a pair of goals and an assist.

HV71 Jonkoping – Sparta Prague 0-5 (4-7 aggr.)

Sparta Prague came through with a stunning 5-0 comeback victory over HV71 Jonkoping  to advance to the semi-finals.

Coming into the game behind two goals in aggregate after dropping  a 4-2 decision at home to the Swedish club, Sparta had its back against the wall heading on the road for Game 2. But thanks to a stellar performance from Lukas Pech and Andrej Kudrna, who put up three points each in the game, along with an 18-save shutout from Filip Novotny, the Czech club was able to flip the script on the Swedes and will now head to the quarter-finals.

Vaxjo Lakers – SaiPa Lappenranta 4-2 OT (6-5 aggr.)

With a slim one-goal lead on aggregate heading into the game, Saipa Lappenranta wasn’t able to hold off the Vaxjo Lakers, giving up a late goal to Calle Rosen in the third period which forced overtime.

In the extra frame it was Erik Josefson who would be the hero for Vaxjo. With SaiPa in the offensive zone Josefson picked the puck off of forward Saku Salminen and took off for the net, beating goalie Jussi Markkanen with a backhand deke for the win.

Vitkovice Ridera Ostrava – Bili Tygri Liberec 3-1 OT (3-2 aggr.)

A breakaway overtime goal by Radoslav Tybor gave Vitkovice the aggregate win over Liberec.

Liberec held a one-goal aggregate advantage after Game 1. Things looked good for Vitkovice thanks to a pair of goals from Roman Szturc in the first and third period, but a late goal from Roman Will in the third tied things up once more on aggregate. Liberec would have likely advanced had it not been for a top notch performance from goaltender Daniel Dolejs, who shut the door the rest of the way for a 42-save performance.

In overtime, Liberec forward Michal Bulir mishandled the puck in the neutral zone, giving it up to Tybor who scored on the breakaway to put Vitkovice into the quarters. 

JYP Jyvaskyla – SC Bern 3-3 (5-6 aggr.)

SC Bern held a slim lead going on the road against Jyvaskyla, after needing a 3-2 comeback win on home ice against the Finnish club in the first game.

The Swiss club started well this time around, getting the key first goal on the road from Gian-Andrea Randegger in the first period, then padding its lead thanks to an early third period goal from Ryan Lasch. Jyvaskyla charged back through with two goals midway through the period, but Andre Ebbet gave his club the insurance marked with just under five minutes remaining to extend Bern’s CHL unbeaten streak to eight games.

IFK Helsinki – Linkoping HC 0-1 (1-2 aggr.)

Linkoping dropped Helsinki with an early goal that held out as the game winner, giving the Swedish club a 2-1 aggregate win over Helsinki.

Goaltender Marcus Hogberg outduelled his counterpart Kevin Lankinen in net, putting up a 36-save shutout. Linkoping forward Garret Roe scored the game’s lone goal, jumping on a big rebound with under seven minutes to go in the first period.