Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2021

[hckošice 14,822]

  Republic may have 20 NHLers this year ! 

 

RIP rest of our pool

 

up to two thirds of the Czech national hockey team at this year's World Champs in Latvia could be made up of players from NHL. The general manager of the national team of the Czech Republic, Petr Nedvěd, claimed that twenty players playing in the famous Canadian-American league had given him their acceptance.

 

Sadly they will probably miss the biggest star of them all David Pastrňák, who was the only one to not answered yet, but since his Boston is going to the play-offs and his girlfriend is expecting birth early June, his participation is highly unlikely.

 

However the Czechs are counting with the GK David Rittich (Calgary), Def. Filip Hronek (Detroit), but mainly Forwards Michael Frolík (Montreal), Tomáš Hertl (San Jose), Radek Faksa (Dallas), Dominik Kubalík (Chicago), Pavel Zacha (New Jersey), Filip Chytil (New York Rangers) or Jakub Voráček (Philadelphia)

 

However, several of these teams are on the verge of advancing to the playoffs, so the release of their players is not certain at all. And the approaching end of the transition period in NHL (April 12 at 9:00 pm CET) could also thwart the Czechs' plans.

 

In other hand, The Czechs can not count for sure with he Dinamo Moscow "super-sniper" Dmitri Jaškin, this season KHL regular season top scorer is out due to injury..

[hckošice 14,822]

Road to Riga

 

Exhibition Games

April 16th, 2021

(34 Days to Go)-

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Belarus   5 - 1  (Division IA) Austria

(2-0, 3-0, 0-1) 

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Road to Riga

 

Exhibition Games

April 17th, 2021

(33 Days to Go)-

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Hungary (Division I Group A)  2 - 3  Belarus

(1-1, 0-0, 1-2) 

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Finland is still the defending champ :D

[hckošice 14,822]

Road to Riga

 

Exhibition Games

April 20th, 2021

(30 Days to Go)-

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Slovakia   1 - 2(OT)  Latvia

(1-0, 0-1, 0-0, Overtime: 0-1) 

 

Stupid loss, A match we could and had to win, but two stupid misstakes cost us the result. Especially in the overtime, we played like 4 minutes in their zone turning like morons around to loss easily the puck and from their only single action let them obviously to score the winner

 

However, this was only the first preparation match, a roster with only a limited bunch of players who may realistically aspire for a place at the world championships
(I personally see maybe 4 of them playing in Riga in 4 weeks). From the positive side I would mention the young Kňažko at 19 made his debut in the A team and was one of our best tonight. Tomorrow the second match and the other two super talents 16 year old Slafkovský and 17 year old Nemec will experience their debut, really looking forward how they will do.

 

So Latvia won today, in other hand we had the opportunity to listen one of the best goal songs two times tonight then

 

[hckošice 14,822]

Official Song released.

 

Astro'n'out - For Glory and Joy

 

[hckošice 14,822]

Road to Riga

 

Exhibition Games

April 21st, 2021

(29 Days to Go)-

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Slovakia   (OT)1 - 0  Latvia

(0-0, 0-0, 0-0, Overtime: 1-0) 

 

What a epic debut for the just freshly 17 year old Juraj Slafkovský. One (if not the) best man on the ice today and scorer of the winner in the overtime (after a nice action from only 1 year old Kňažko). Man, this kid is worth of hype.

 

How many teenagers have scored a winner in overtime in their national team debut, and after a seriously positive performance during the whole match, certainly not so many. He was so good that the coach started to use him in two lines from the start of 2nd period.

 

Really looking forward how long he will be able to stay in the team. It is more than certain that he will definitely survive the first cuts.

 

 

But from overall view, another poor and painful performance from both teams, typical early preparation game, boring with many dumb mistakes, inaccurate passes, easily lost pucks...the form will however surely gradually increase towards the tournament as another players will arrive from their play-offs.

[hckošice 14,822]

This is for history books.

 

April 21st, 2021.

Juraj Slafkovský, 17 years & 22 days

1st National Team cap, 1st National Team Goal, the only of the match to decide the overtime.

The youngest player ever to play in our National Team. The youngest scorer ever of our National Team

 

Day of records.

 

 

[phelps 7,670]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

Road to Riga

 

Exhibition Games

April 21st, 2021

(29 Days to Go)-

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Slovakia   (OT)1 - 0  Latvia

(0-0, 0-0, 0-0, Overtime: 1-0) 

 

What a epic debut for the just freshly 17 year old Juraj Slafkovský. One (if not the) best man on the ice today and scorer of the winner in the overtime (after a nice action from only 1 year old Kňažko). Man, this kid is worth of hype.

 

How many teenagers have scored a winner in overtime in their national team debut, and after a seriously positive performance during the whole match, certainly not so many. He was so good that the coach started to use him in two lines from the start of 2nd period.

 

Really looking forward how long he will be able to stay in the team. It is more than certain that he will definitely survive the first cuts.

 

 

But from overall view, another poor and painful performance from both teams, typical early preparation game, boring with many dumb mistakes, inaccurate passes, easily lost pucks...the form will however surely gradually increase towards the tournament as another players will arrive from their play-offs.

but why did they also take the penalty shootout after the game, even if SVK won at the OT? 

 

is that the new fashion of 2021?

[hckošice 14,822]

7 minutes ago, phelps said:

but why did they also take the penalty shootout after the game, even if SVK won at the OT? 

 

is that the new fashion of 2021?

Agreement between both teams before the matches to do them as practices whatever the result is.

 

Hint:

This is the tactic Ramsay brought before the 2019 WCH preparation camp, he proposed the same thing to every coach of every opponent we met during the exhibition games, everone always fall in the trap, we have practices of PSO, special coaches get information about other teams PSO specialists and so on...to a surprise of nobody he restarted with it before the matches with Latvia and their coach agreed with the "practice plan"