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Tuesday April 23rd, 2019 - Preliminary Round Last Day Schedule (GMT +2) Group A Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Finland vs Switzerland Period-by-Period: April 23rd 2019, h. 15:30, A3 Arena, Umea Czech Republic vs Canada Period-by-Period: April 23rd 2019, h. 19:30, A3 Arena, Umea Group B Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) United States vs Latvia Period-by-Period: April 23rd 2019, h. 15:30, Fjallraven Center, Ornskoldsvik Russia vs Sweden Period-by-Period: April 23rd 2019, h. 19:30, Fjallraven Center, Ornskoldsvik

Monday April 22nd, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 5 Results (GMT +2) Group A Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Switzerland (OT)5 - 4 Belarus Period-by-Period: 3-0, 0-2, 1-2, Overtime: 1-0 April 22nd 2019, h. 15:30, A3 Arena, Umea Group A Provisional Standing After Day 5 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Canada 3 3(0) 0(0) 23 8 +15 9 Belarus 4 2(0) 2(1) 13 22 -9 7 Czech Republic 3 2(0) 1(0) 15 8 +7 6 Switzerland 3 1(1) 2(0) 11 19 -8 2 Finland 3 0(0) 3(0) 8 13 -5 0 Group B Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Latvia 2 - 0 Slovakia Period-by-Period: 0-0, 2-0, 0-0 April 22nd 2019, h. 15:30, Fjallraven Center, Ornskoldsvik Group B Provisional Standing After Day 5 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. United States 3 3(0) 0(0) 24 9 +15 9 Russia 3 2(0) 1(0) 14 10 +4 6 Sweden 3 2(0) 1(0) 11 9 +2 6 Latvia 3 1(0) 2(0) 5 10 -5 3 Slovakia 4 0(0) 4(0) 9 25 -16 0

Japan surprises everyone The Japanese U18 national team went to Szekesfehervar, Hungary, for the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group B, and they claimed first place with one day left and four wins in four games. The Japanese did not lose until the final day when they had already locked up promotion and the gold medal. In the final game they lost to the host nation of Hungary. It’s is safe to say that only Japan left the tournament happy with the gold medal around their necks. Austria, Slovenia and Hungary were considered the three favourites for promotion. Despite this Japan came in and took care of business. “We already had the gold after the fourth game, however, it was still hard mentally to play the fifth game,” said Takeshi Yamanaka, the Japanese coach, after the close of the tournament. The opening day started off with three close games but none of the results could have been considered a surprise of an upset. Japan defeated Italy 3-2 on two goals by Miura. The second game of the day had the same score as Slovenia got past Great Britain 3-2 despite Britain out shooting Slovenia 30-17. Thanks to the great work by Usnik and two goals by Kremelj Slovenia picked up the three points. Austria got past Hungary on goals by Lindner, Nickl and Harnisch. “We played a good game today, both teams worked hard and created chances, but we were able to score on the ones that we created. Unfortunately one of our top forwards was injured and could not finish the game. We will need to change the lines for the next game,” said Christian Dolezal, the Austrian coach, after the game. The second day of the tournament still did not bring any major surprises, however, there were some high scoring games. Great Britain and Japan scored eight goals between each other as Japan took the game 5-3 thanks to two goals and assist by Ando. Austria cruised past Italy as they put seven into the back of the net. Interestingly all seven goals were scored by different players but Nickl finished the game by setting up three goals. Hungary and Slovenia were not able to win in regulation as a late Slovenian goal sent the game into overtime. In the end it was settled in a shootout where Krmelj scored the winning goal for Slovenia. After a day off to get their head cleared all six teams were back on the ice to battle for promotion. The first real upset of the tournament came during the first game of the third match day as Italy beat Slovenia 2-0. Fadani picked up the shutout win with Cristellon and Soelva scoring for Italy. The second game was a battle of undefeated teams as Japan took on Austria. Austria jumped to a 2-0 lead after two periods on goals by Harnisch and Kandemir but in the third period Japan battled back as Ando and Ueno scored to tie the game with Hanzawa scoring the game winner with just under five minutes left to play. After the game Japanese coach Takeshi Yamanaka had the following to offer: “Our players worked hard today, both goals against us were unlucky. We picked up our play in the second period, we moved well and skated a lot, this was the key to today’s victory. This is the past now and we need to look forward to the next game to pick up another three points.” The third game of the day produced nine goals as Hungary came back from being down 4-1 and tying it up at four all before Britain scored in the final minute of play to take the three points in the upset win. The day of upsets really shook up the standings in the Division I Group B. Austria took a big hit in their chance to passing Japan when they followed their one goal-defeat with an overtime win over GB. Great Britain held a 1-0 lead thanks to an early Alderson goal until the 55th minute when Austria quickly scored two to flip the score, but Alderson scored again to send the game into overtime. Felix Beck was the hero for Austria they took two out of the three points. Hungary beat Italy 7-3 thanks to two goals each by Keresztes and Szucs. In the final game of the day it was Japan picking up the shutout win over Slovenia. Sato played lights out in the win for Japan while Ueno scored twice for the Japan. With the win the Asian nation had locked up the gold medal and promotion to the next level. “We are happy with the win, we played well all game and we controlled it from start to finish. We really played as a team today. We know that we have won the tournament but we still have a game tomorrow,” said Japanese coach Takeshi Yamanaka. The tournament win and 17th place overall in the U18 World Championship program is the best result for Japan in seven years. On the final day of the tournament the rest of the positions were up for grab as well as some teams trying to avoid relegation. Italy got past Great Britain in their final game by the score of 3-1 to avoided relegation with GB needing Hungary to lose their last game to also avoid relegation. Austria defeated Slovenia to pick up second place. Hungary defeated Japan 5-3 to go from last place when the game started up to third and picking up the bronze. IIHF.COM

Just passing here "half sober" to wish you guys as every year a happy easter monday everybody and try to not be at "right time" at "right place" 6:25

Monday April 22nd, 2019 - Round-Robin Day 2 Schedule (GMT -5) 13:00 Iceland vs North Korea 16:30 New Zealand vs Israel 20:00 Mexico vs Georgia

Sunday April 21st, 2019 - Round-Robin Day 1 Results (GMT -5) 13:00 Israel 6 - 3 Iceland 16:30 Georgia 4 - 9 North Korea 20:15 New Zealand 7 - 2 Mexico Provisional Standing After Day 1: 1. North Korea 3 ------------------ 2. New Zealand 3 3. Israel 3 4. Iceland 0 5. Georgia 0 ----------------- 6. Mexico 0

and another fresh info from our team manager Miroslav Šatan. Marko Daňo (Winnipeg Jets + AHL Manitoba Moose) will join our team as well. so 5 NHLers Tomáš Tatár (Montreal), Richard Pánik (Arizona), Andrej Sekera (Edmonton), Christián Jaroš (Ottawa) and Erik Černák (Tampa Bay) and 2 AHLers Marko Daňo (Manitoba, but played this season also in Winnipeg and 8 matches in the first part of the season for Colorado in NHL) and Marián Studenič (Binghampton) are all confirmed. Boston won the 6th match in Toronto tonight, so still no Jaro Halák + (Zdeno Chára ?) + Peter Cehlárik (actually in Boston´s AHL team Providence) for now...

2 NHLers for confirmed, the 2017 overall NHL Draft pick number 1 Nico Hischier from the New Jersey Devils and Kevin Fiala from Minnesota Wild. There also 2 guys from AHL in the team the defencer Yannick Rathgeb (Bridgeport Sound Tigers) and forward Vincent Praplan (Springfield Thunderbirds) already confirmed in the team.

Just noticed that Eliezer Sherbatov of HC Košice is playing for

Monday April 22nd, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 5 Schedule (GMT +2) Group A Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Switzerland vs Belarus Period-by-Period: April 22nd 2019, h. 15:30, A3 Arena, Umea Group B Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Latvia vs Slovakia Period-by-Period: April 22nd 2019, h. 15:30, Fjallraven Center, Ornskoldsvik 

Sunday April 21st, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 4 Results (GMT +2) Group A Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Finland 2 - 4 Czech Republic Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2 April 21st 2019, h. 15:30, A3 Arena, Umea Belarus 1 - 11 Canada Period-by-Period: 0-3, 1-5, 0-3 April 21st 2019, h. 19:30, A3 Arena, Umea Group A Provisional Standing After Day 4 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Canada 3 3(0) 0(0) 23 8 +15 9 Belarus 3 2(0) 1(0) 9 17 -8 6 Czech Republic 3 2(0) 1(0) 15 8 +7 6 Finland 3 0(0) 3(0) 8 13 -5 0 Switzerland 2 0(0) 2(0) 6 15 -9 0 Group B Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) United States 6 - 3 Russia Period-by-Period: 2-2, 2-0, 2-1 April 21st 2019, h. 15:30, Fjallraven Center, Ornskoldsvik Slovakia 1 - 5 Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-2, 0-2 April 21st 2019, h. 19:30, Fjallraven Center, Ornskoldsvik Group B Provisional Standing After Day 4 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. United States 3 3(0) 0(0) 24 9 +15 9 Russia 3 2(0) 1(0) 14 10 +4 6 Sweden 3 2(0) 1(0) 11 9 +2 6 Latvia 2 0(0) 2(0) 3 10 -7 0 Slovakia 3 0(0) 3(0) 9 23 -14 0 *Teams marked in Bold are already qualified for the Quarterfinals

Road to Bratislava/Košice Exhibition Games April 21st, 2019 (19 Days to Go)- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Britain - Hungary (Div I A) 3-1 France - Latvia 2-0

Germany powers to gold Germany stormed to promotion in 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group A with a perfect record from its five games in Grenoble, France. So great was the German dominance that Frank Fischoder’s team secured gold with a game to spare: back-to-back 5-2 victories over Denmark and Kazakhstan left its closest rivals in its wake and promotion was confirmed in emphatic style with a 13-1 drubbing of relegation-bound Ukraine. An impressive week of hockey was rounded off with a 9-3 victory over the host nation to make it five wins from five as the youngsters brought Germany back to the top level of U18 hockey for the first time since 2015. Head coach Fischoder said: “This was a great performance from everyone involved. I am very proud of the team and the entire staff who worked hard for this success. It’s a very important achievement for German hockey that our under-18s are first class once again and, at the same time, it was a great end to a long season.” The news was also a boost to Toni Soderholm, head coach of the men’s national team, as he prepares for next month’s World Championship in Slovakia. “This promotion is enormously important for the future of German hockey and it gives everyone incredible motivation. It proves that we are ready for the next level and for the challenges that lie ahead.” The German success in France follows the promotion of the U20s on home ice back in December and means that next season will see Germany competing at the top level of all three age groups in the men’s game. With the country promoting its POWERPLAY 26 vision of establishing itself as a regular medal contender in the coming years, development of its youth development program is vital. President of the German Ice Hockey Association and IIHF Council Member Franz Reindl was delighted with the results in France. “Congratulations to the team, coach and staff for reaching our big goal with four wins in a row,” he said after the demolition of Ukraine. “This team has been incredibly stable and the guys worked at a high level. This promotion means another step forward for German ice hockey after the promotion of the U20s and a seventh-placed finish from the women’s team. It all fits in with our concept. We will see a lot more of these players in the future.” When Reindl talks about seeing more of these players, he could have the likes of Tim Stutzle in mind. The 17-year-old from Viersen is off to the NCAA next season where he’ll play for the University of New Hampshire as the next stage of his hockey career takes shape. Last season he plundered 55 (23+32) points in just 21 games for Adler Mannheim’s U20 team, prolific scoring while competing against older players. In Grenoble he potted 9 (2+7) points and was selected as the tournament’s leading forward. Fellow forward Nino Kinder also collected nine points this week: this 18-year-old made his debut in the adult DEL for Eisbaren Berlin during the season and is set to continue in the German capital next year. Elsewhere on the roster, there’s a familiar surname. Lukas Reichel, another Eisbaren prospect and a linemate of Kinder on the national team, is the nephew of IIHF Hall of Famer Robert Reichel, an Olympic champion with the Czechs in Nagano and veteran of 830 NHL appearances. Lukas’s father, Martin, was a distinguished hockey player in his own right and gained German citizenship after coming to play for Freiburg in the early 1990s. Now his son, aged just 16, is starting to follow in his footsteps and join the national program. Reichel Jr had 5 (3+2) points from five games in Grenoble and is eligible for two more tournaments at this age group. Among the defencemen, first line pairing Simon Gnyp and Maksymilian Szuber caught the eye as they posted +/- scores in double figures. Gnyp has already made his DEL debut with Kolner Haie, the 17-year-old playing 14 games last season. Szuber, 16, a Polish-born dual national currently playing his club hockey with the Red Bull Salzburg organization, finished with a tournament-leading +11. Kazakhstan took second place in the tournament behind Germany, beating Denmark in a shootout on the last day to move in front of the Danes. Norway came in fourth with host nation France down in fifth place following its relegation from the elite pool last season. Only an overtime victory in the opening game against Ukraine, secured by a Quentin Tomasino goal, secured the French a place in Division IA and sent newly-promoted Ukraine back to Division IB. While Germany’s Stutzle took the top forward prize, the leading goalie was Norway’s Frederik Nissen (2.37 GAA, 92.16 SVS%) and Kazakhstan’s Madi Diikhanbek was voted best defenceman (1+4 points). IIHF.COM

Domi ďakujeme Some pics from the emotional retiring ceremony

and Dominika Cibulková just finished her last careers match in Fed Cup beating Betariz Haddad Maia 7-6, 6-0 SVK - BRA 3-0. meaning we will play next year again in World Group II for the 16898745685369x time in a row.....

Monday April 22nd, 2019 - Round-Robin Day 1 Schedule (GMT +3) LIVESTREAM 13:00 Turkey vs Luxembourg 16:30 Turkmenistan vs Chinese Taipei 20:00 Bulgaria vs South Africa  *Tournament Format: 6 Nations play a usual Round-Robin tournament, Each team play once every opponent, The first ranked Nation will qualify for the Men´s Division II Group B World Championships next year in 2020. The Nations ranked 2nd-5th will stay in this division also for the next season, The last ranked 6th Nation will be relegated to the next year´s Men´s Division III Qualification Tournament 2020 (and will be replaced next year in Division III by United Arab Emirates winners of this year Division III Qualification Tournament held a couple of weeks ago in UAE).

Happy Easter to everybody who celebrate it

now it looks official https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/wmia/news/10273/astana-becomes-nur-sultan

and Winnipeg is out Still I can not understand why they wanted so much to call him back, since he was not in the line up for last night match at all. but that´s cool, another free forward for us

Erik Černák (Tampa Bay) will play at the World Champs, so 5 NHLers for right now.

Road to Bratislava/Košice Exhibition Games April 20th, 2019 (20 Days to Go)- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russia - Switzerland 5-1 Austria - Slovakia 1-2 After Penalty Shoot-Out Italy - Hungary (Div I A) 1-6