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Tipos Extraliga Slovan Bratislava dominated the 2021/2022 Tipos Extraliga. They won both the regular season and the playoffs. In the post-season they had the most troubles in the semifinal series against HC Kosice, but they finally survived a game-7 OT winner and then they closed the championship beating HK Nitra by a score of 4 games to 2 in the final series. LEAGUE SUMMARY Regular Season Final Standings https://www.hockeyslovakia.sk/sk/stats/standings/843/tipos-extraliga Playoffs Rounds Recap Pre-Playoffs Round HC Grotto Prešov b. HK Spišská Nová Ves 3-0 (3-0, 4-3 OT, 3-2) HC ‘05 Banská Bystrica b. HK Dukla Trenčín 3-1 (3-2, 4-2, 2-3 OT, 3-1) Quarterfinals HC Slovan Bratislava b. HC Grotto Prešov 4-0 (6-2, 2-1, 3-2 OT, 2-0) HC Košice b. HK Dukla Ingema Michalovce 4-2 (4-1, 3-1, 2-1 OT, 2-6, 1-4, 2-1 OT) HKM Zvolen b. HC ‘05 Banská Bystrica 4-1 (5-1, 1-2, 2-1, 6-2, 3-2 OT) HK Nitra b. HK Poprad 4-3 (0-4, 7-1, 6-4, 2-4, 3-4, 5-1, 3-1) Semifinals HK Nitra b. HKM Zvolen 4-2 (3-2, 5-6, 3-2, 2-3, 5-2, 2-1) HC Slovan Bratislava b. HC Košice 4-3 (5-2, 6-2, 1-3, 1-3, 3-2, 2-4, 3-2 OT) Final Series Game #1: HC Slovan Bratislava - HK Nitra 6-4 (2-1; 3-1; 1-2) Game Highlights Game #2: HC Slovan Bratislava - HK Nitra 1-2 OT (0-0; 0-0; 1-1; 0-1) Game Highlights Game #3: HK Nitra - HC Slovan Bratislava 2-6 (0-2; 1-4; 1-0) Game Highlights Game #4: HK Nitra - HC Slovan Bratislava 4-1 (1-0; 2-0; 1-1) Game Highlights Game #5: HC Slovan Bratislava - HK Nitra 3-1 (0-0; 2-1; 1-0) Game Highlights Game #6: HK Nitra - HC Slovan Bratislava 2-5 (0-0; 1-1; 1-4) Game Highlights

KHL CSKA Moscow won the 2021/2022 KHL after coming back from 1-3 against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, winning the final series 4 games to 3. After a quite disappointing regular season (3rd best record in the West Division, 8th overall), when it looked that they were done and dusted in the final series, they always found something in the deep of their hearts to overcome adversity and take the Cup back home. LEAGUE SUMMARY Regular Season Final Standings https://en.khl.ru/standings/1097/conference/ Playoffs Rounds Recap https://en.khl.ru/standings/ Final Series Game #1: Metallurg - CSKA 1-3 (0-0; 1-2; 0-1) Game Highlights Game #2: Metallurg - CSKA 6-4 (1-0; 4-3; 1-1) Game Highlights Game #3: CSKA - Metallurg 0-4 (0-1; 0-1; 0-2) Game Highlights Game #4: CSKA - Metallurg 0-1 (0-0; 0-1; 0-0) Game Highlights Game #5: Metallurg - CSKA 2-3 OT (0-0; 0-1; 2-1; 0-1) Game Highlights Game #6: CSKA - Metallurg 2-1 (2-0; 0-1; 0-0) Game Highlights Game #7: Metallurg - CSKA 1-4 (0-2; 1-1; 0-1) Game Highlights

Quite a good day at the office for France and Italy...

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Team Foil ( Tauberbischofsheim) Gold: Italy Silver: France Bronze: Japan Semifinals France b. Japan 45-37 Italy b. South Korea 45-30 Bronze Medal Match Japan b. South Korea 45-30 Gold Medal Match Italy b. France 45-31 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/201 Men's Team Foil ( Plovdiv) Gold: Italy Silver: France Bronze: United States Semifinals Italy b. USA 45-27 France b. Japan 45-42 Bronze Medal Match USA b. Japan 45-42 Gold Medal Match Italy b. France 45-28 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/571

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Individual Epee ( Cairo) Gold: Choi In Jeong Silver: Auriane Mallo Bronze: Katharine Holmes & Song Sera Semifinals Choi b. Song 11-10 Mallo b. Holmes 15-9 Final Choi b. Mallo 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/95 Men's Individual Epee ( Cairo) Gold: Yannick Borel Silver: Nelson Lopez Pourtier Bronze: Alex Fava & Gergely Siklosi Semifinals Borel b. Siklosi 15-10 Lopez Pourtier b. Fava 9-8 Final Borel b. Lopez Pourtier 15-5 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/113

last day of the championships... and France thanks to Romane Dicko won their 3rd gold medal, which gave them the final victory in the medal table (3 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze medals for them). Great Britain, Netherlands and Georgia finished the tournament with 2 Gold medals each. Azerbaijan, Spain, Israel, Ukraine and Germany won "only" 1 Gold medal each. Italy didn't have a memorable championship, despite some encouraging results by a few youngsters (in particular, today we finally got a very rare medal in the women's super-heavyweight thanks to the promising Asya Tavano). A lot of regrets for Alice Bellandi, who dominated 2 of the top 3 specialists in the world in the -78kg class (Malonga in the quarterfinals and Malzahn in the bronze medal fight), but wasted the chance of her (young) career in the semi against Boehm (she got a stupid 3rd shido in the golden score period)... full results https://live.ijf.org/eju_sen2022/results

a true sportsman...

meanwhile in Germany, the Eisbären Berlin equalled the DEL Finals at 1 apiece against Red Bull Munich after exploiting Munich's ice arena in game #2 by a score of 3-2 after 2 OTs. Game #3 is scheduled already for Tomorrow in Berlin (puck drop @ 7.30 p.m. local/CET). p.s let me tell you...those Germans are crazy! so many back-to-back games (with long travels in between) in the final stint of the playoffs... how to ruin the show! Game #2 report & highlights https://www.penny-del.org/event/ehc-red-bull-muenchen-eisbaeren-berlin/9350

breaking news... Slovan Bratislava won game #6 of the Slovak Extraliga Finals on the road against HK Nitra by a score of 5-2. So, they're crown Slovak Champions Series score: Slovan, 4 beat Nitra, 2 more in the next few days... @hckošice any comment?

also tonight... EV Zug and ZSC Lions Zürich will play the decisive 7th game of the Swiss NLA Finals (puck drop @ 8 p.m. local/CET) since last Friday night EV Zug won game #6 by a score of 2-0 and completed an unbelievable comeback from 0-3 down in the series... Tonight they might write a memorable page in the history of the Swiss (and global) Hockey...

day 2 more titles for France and Great Britain (now 1st and 2nd in the medal table with 2 gold medals each) and first success for Azerbaijan and Georgia... for Italy, pleasant surprise by Giovanni Esposito in the men's -73kg class, who had the day of his life and got so close to the title. Unfortunately a mistake in the golden score period cost him the full success against an experienced athlete like Heydarov. some promising effort also by Giacomo Gamba (who won against a man like De Wit, but then wasted it all against an Ukranian guy when he had the route to the medal round open). No comment on Fabio Basile, a former athlete...boiled, to say the least. Not a good day also for the other judo player today on the mat. today's action recap https://www.ijf.org/news/show/coup-d-etat-in-sofia

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Individual Foil ( Tauberbischofsheim) Gold: Lee Kiefer Silver: Anita Blaze Bronze: Erica Cipressa & Karin Miyawaki Semifinals Kiefer b. Miyawaki 15-13 Blaze b. Cipressa 15-13 Final Kiefer b. Blaze 15-7 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/122 Men's Individual Foil ( Plovdiv) Gold: Alessio Foconi Silver: Daniele Garozzo Bronze: Tommaso Marini & Gergo Szemes Semifinals Foconi b. Szemes 15-4 Garozzo b. Marini 15-6 Final Foconi b. Garozzo 15-11 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/147

sorry for the lack of updates, but it's a busy (and full of troubles) weekend... so, very quickly... CSKA Moscow completed an amazing comeback in the final series and thanks to a 4-1 road win in Magnitogorsk in game #7, won the 2022 Gagarin Cup. https://en.khl.ru/news/2022/04/30/499142.html Game #7 highlights more about this KHL season in the next few days... Red Bull Munich took advantage of the very short rest by the Eisbären Berlin and went from 0-3 down at the beginning of the second period to a 4-3 win at the end of regulation in game #1 of the DEL Finals. Game report & highlights https://www.penny-del.org/event/eisbaeren-berlin-ehc-red-bull-muenchen/9286 Game #2 is scheduled for tomorrow (puck drop @ 3.15 p.m. local/CET) earlier today Luleå HF won game #1 of the SHL Finals 4-1 on home ice against Färjestad BK. Game #2 is scheduled for Monday in Karlstad (puck drop @ 7.30 p.m. local/CET). Game #1 Highlights https://www.shl.se/play/video/168061?provider=staylive&autoplay=1 Slovan Bratislava won game #5 of the Extraliga Finals by a score of 3-1 on home soil and now they lead the series 3-2. Tomorrow (puck drop @ 6 p.m. local/CET) they could clinch the title with 1 more win on the ice of HK Nitra. Game #5 Highlights

Italy have gone shopping once again... our newest competitor in the men's division is no less than Jesse Mendes, Tatiana Weston-Webb's husband (he has some Italian heritage by his father's side)... not only, Italy also hired Adriano De Souza (2015 WSL world champion) as the main assistent coach of Yann Martin (confirmed as the head of the technical staff of our NT)...

Day 1 of the championships... 5 gold medals awarded to 5 different Countries and a couple of remarkable upsets (above all, Bouchard and Krasniqi's losses in the women's -52kg class)... France is on top of the medal table so far thanks to 1 gold and a few more silver & bronze medals, followed by Spain with 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal... for Italy, a day to forget, especially for Odette Giuffrida, double Olympic and multiple european medallist, who couldn't even make the consolation final... only half-positive note of the day, the lone bronze medal by Elios Manzi, his first good result in the -66kg class and the first good international appearance overall since long time and after many, too many, injuries...

right now, there's no make-up race for Togliatti yet... but I see that there's a very long break from the end of June to August...

so, also this world cup stage is over... The USA won the most gold medals (3), but at least this time Italy was a presence also in the truly important events (the Olympic competitions)... remarkable fact, it looks that this world cup stage was a record breaking event in terms of audience watching the live streaming on Youtube... next world cup stop is in Baku (AZE), where all the disciplines (shotgun, rifle and pistol) will be on stage all together from May 27th through June 7th...

Mixed Team Skeet Gold: United States 1 (Caitlin Connor & Vincent Hancock) Silver: France 1 (Lucie Anastassiou & Nicolas Lejeune) Bronze: Great Britain 2 (Emily Jane Hibbs & Karl Frederick Killander) and Italy 1 (Diana Bacosi & Gabriele Rossetti) Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16108

meanwhile in Germany, the Eisbären Berlin won the decisive game #5 of the semifinal series against Adler Mannheim by a score of 3-0 (0-0, 1-0, 2-0) and clinched a spot in the DEL Finals, where they're going to face Red Bull Munich. Berlin vs Mannheim, game #5, highlights https://www.magentasport.de/event/eisbaeren-berlin-adler-mannheim/9831649 The Finals are scheduled to start already tonight in Berlin (puck drop @ 7.30 p.m. local/CET).

more news from all around Europe... Metallurg Zhlobin won the Belarussian title for the second time in their history. They won the final series against the highly favourite Yunost Minsk in 7 games, with the championship clincher played on the road in Minsk in front of 15.086 spectators... the Finals game #1: Yunost - Metallurg 2-1 Highlights game #2: Yunost - Metallurg 4-3 OT Highlights game #3: Metallurg - Yunost 6-5 Highlights game #4: Metallurg - Yunost 4-3 Highlights game #5: Yunost - Metallurg 3-2 OT Highlights game #6: Metallurg - Yunost 3-2 Highlights game #7: Yunost - Metallurg 0-3 Highlights

Liiga Tappara Tampere won the 2021/2022 Liiga after beating TPS Turku 4 games to 1 in the final series. For Tappara, this is the 18th title (the 11th since the current Liiga format started in 1975), the 1st since 2017. LEAGUE SUMMARY Regular Season Final Standings & Playoffs Rounds Recap (just choose the correct option from the menu on top of the page) https://liiga.fi/tilastot/joukkueet Final Series Game #1: Tappara - TPS 2-1 (1-1; 0-0; 1-0) Game Highlights Game #2: TPS - Tappara 1-2 OT (0-1; 0-0; 1-0; 0-1) Game Highlights Game #3: Tappara - TPS 3-1 (0-0; 2-0; 1-1) Game Highlights Game #4: TPS - Tappara 1-0 (0-0; 0-0; 1-0) Game Highlights Game #5: Tappara - TPS 1-0 (1-0; 0-0; 0-0) Game Highlights

Tipsport Extraliga The HC Oceláři Třinec won the 2021/2022 Czech Extraliga after beating Sparta Prague 4 games to 2 in the final series. For Třinec, this is the 3rd title in a row (with the pandemic stoppage in the middle of them), the 4th since the split of Czech Republic and Slovakia. LEAGUE SUMMARY Regular Season Final Standings https://hokej.cz/tipsport-extraliga/table?t=hg84rhc3cl52acy376b206brgyilrt43vjcr8hgaqy1w6f7g5zzyyh5 Playoffs Rounds Recap https://hokej.cz/tipsport-extraliga/zapasy?t=hg84rhc3cl52acy376b206brgyilrt43vjcr8hgaqy1w6f7g5zzyyh5 Final Series Game #1: Třinec - Sparta 4-1 (0-1; 0-0; 4-0) Game Highlights Game #2: Třinec - Sparta 1-2 (0-0; 0-1; 1-1) Game Highlights Game #3: Sparta - Třinec 2-3 (1-0; 0-2; 1-1) Game Highlights Game #4: Sparta - Třinec 5-2 (0-1; 3-0; 2-1) Game Highlights Game #5: Třinec - Sparta 7-3 (2-2; 4-1; 1-0) Game Highlights Game #6: Sparta - Třinec 1-2 (0-2; 0-0; 1-0) Game Highlights

breaking news! a few seconds ago, HC Ocelari Trinec became Czech Champions thanks to a very tight 2-1 win in game #6 against Sparta Prague. the final score of the Czech Extraliga finals is Trinec, 4 vs Sparta, 2. More tomorrow...

men's Team Skeet Gold: Czech Republic Silver: Italy Bronze: Greece Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16111 women's Team Skeet Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: Germany Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16112

and I don't think McIntosh will focus too much on the 200m free, also... imho, she's way better in the 400m free/200m fly/200m IM in perspective... she might be another girl using the 200m free more as a prep event and for relay purposes rather than really focusing on that race...