Ice Hockey 2015 - 2016 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,899]

5 minutes ago, NikolaB said:

Even we lost 2 - 3 it was a good game for our guys. I still believe we can be first this year and back to the first division. At last our team improve  a lot this year, we play much better than in previous years

 

yes, must admit that I´m falling in love with your team you are showing a very strong and pleasant team spirit since the olympic qualifiers in Spain, and your level is really improving. pity for today, it was really close, and also the return back from 0-3 to 2-3 against Netherlands was also impressive. ofc we must take in mind the Netherlands aren´t playing with their best team, because of play-offs of the Belgium-Netherlands league rulling these days, but still, very nice second part of the match from Serbia.

 

good luck in the next matches

[NikolaB 432]

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

 

yes, must admit that I´m falling in love with your team you are showing a very strong and pleasant team spirit since the olympic qualifiers in Spain, and your level is really improving. pity for today, it was really close, and also the return back from 0-3 to 2-3 against Netherlands was also impressive. ofc we must take in mind the Netherlands aren´t playing with their best team, because of play-offs of the Belgium-Netherlands league rulling these days, but still, very nice second part of the match from Serbia.

 

good luck in the next matches

 

New young couch give us new energy and this is a really good start (new start) for our team. And thanks a lot. I will cheer for Slovakia in Russia in May 

[hckošice 14,899]

Better than ever

Polish women make it to Division I

 

The Polish women’s national team sings the national anthem after landing a win on the last game en route to gold

 

The 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group A in the picturesque Slovenian town of Bled was a tournament the Polish women’s national team will never forget. The Poles landed gold and earned promotion to the Division I for the first time ever in what has been the biggest success for Polish women’s hockey so far.

The Polish women’s national team entered the program at the lowest level in 2011 with opponents such as Ireland and Turkey at the tournament in Bulgaria. They earned promotion twice in a row in 2011 and 2012 and now in their fourth year in the Division II Group A Poland won gold and qualified for the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division I Group B.

The tournament was far from easy for the fourth-seeded Poles. They started with a 9-2 win against Slovenia and a 9-4 victory against DPR Korea but then they met their opponents who would end up with them in a three-team tie each with a 4-1 record from the five games.

First Poland edged Korea 2-1. After two scoreless periods with a 24-14 shot-on-goal advantage for the South Koreans it was team captain Katarzyna Frackowiak who broke the deadlock at 4:29 and scored a second marker at 13:00.

Korea had to play the dying minutes of the game shorthanded but Ye Eeun Park managed to score on the box play with 32 seconds left. However, the Poles didn’t allow another goal and had the tournament win in their own hands when facing Great Britain on Day 4. The British had a strong tournament but suffered a 1-0 defeat to Korea on a power-play goal from Hye In Ko.

Against Great Britain Frackowiak scored again the first goal of the game but the British reacted with a strong second period and markers from Christine Newman and Louise Adams. The 2-1 score stayed until the end of the game causing a three-team tie between Great Britain, Korea and Poland.

In the head-to-head standings each team was 1-1 and had a neutral goal difference but Poland had a 3-3 goal record that became the tie-breaker and placed the red-and-white team ahead of the group. Korea and Poland both had a 2-2 goal record but Korea finished in second place thanks to the win in the head-to-head game.

The tournament was not over though. On the last game day on Friday Poland had the start and needed three points to confirm its position. They easily got it in a 16-0 blanking of winless Croatia. Great Britain went up to 12 points as well by blanking DPR Korea, 7-0, and would have won the tournament if they were only tied with Poland. However, in the evening game Korea got a 3-0 win against host country Slovenia to secure silver while Poland won gold and Team GB bronze.

The offensive stats were in the hand of Poland’s top forwards. Karolina Pozniewska was the scoring leader with 14 points (7+7) ahead of her teammates Magdalena Czaplik (3+8=11) and Katarzyna Frackowiak (8+2=10), who led the tournament in goal scoring and was named Best Forward of the tournament. Great Britain’s Nicole Jackson, who had an impressive 97.6 save percentage in five games, was named Best Goaltender and Kyou Sun Lee of Korea Best Defenceman.

Top-seeded DPR Korea, which came down from Division I, had to settle for fourth place. The North Koreans had a rough start with a 4-1 loss in the neighbouring rivalry against their opponents from the south of the peninsula. It was the first time in Women’s Worlds history that Korea was placed ahead of their northern rivals.

Host Slovenia, which was promoted to this group one year ago, finished the tournament in fifth place. The Slovenes beat neighbour Croatia 6-1 in front of 860 fans in Bled in what was their most important game for survival at this level thanks to a hat trick from Pia Pren, who plays for Linkoping in Sweden.

[NikolaB 432]

Bulgaria is far the weakest team in group B. 

 

[hckošice 14,899]

HK Nitra qualified for the final in Slovak National Championships after 4-3 serie win against HKM Zvolen, Nitra won the 7th match yesterday 4-0, the atmosphere once again fantastic.

here the 7 minutes video about the atmosphere in the stands

 

 

In other hands, HC Košice will not maintain the national title, after a upset lost in the second semifinal with Banská Bystrica, great performances and deserved finla for the team coached by 2 our great players of previous years Vladimír Orszagh and Richard Zedník and lead by Michal Handzuš and a amazing american goalie Jason Bacashihua...anyway shameful season of HC Košice, just the epic end for a disastrous season

[NikolaB 432]

@HCKošice

How I want same atmosphere in our ice rinks too. But unfortunately nobody cares about ice hockey in this country

[hckošice 14,899]

27 minutes ago, NikolaB said:

@HCKošice

How I want same atmosphere in our ice rinks too. But unfortunately nobody cares about ice hockey in this country

 

yes it would be great to have such atmospheres everywhere in the whole Ice hockey world hope your very good recent results will help to increse the interest for hockey in Serbia.

 

But yes, well, thats our only sport with this kind of interest, you will find empty stadiums in practically all other sports, so it´s nothing amazing too for example we hardly have more than 400-500 peoples in basketball or handball, so we have what to envy you and I don´t speak about football, 1000 peoples is a maximum for a league match

[NikolaB 432]

And another lose

[hckošice 14,899]

oh no! Serbia! this one will hurt

[NikolaB 432]

We were better, had a puck possession but...... snif this really hurt