Gonna be a real test for this new wave Slovak Ice Hockey National team. This match may have much more importance than it can appear at first look. Big big test for Craig Ramsey and Miro Šatan and their project and visions.
Especially after the drastic outcome and incredible hard luck we suffered in the group round...finish with 4 points last is something we still can not completely understand, the players are just frustrated by what happen in the match with Slovenia..a win in this match would have send us automatically to the first place ahead of Russia and directly to the quarterfinals, which was the long term proclaimed goal of this team. but they youngs unfortunately were not at all able to stand the pressure against very bravely fighting Slovenians, too much penalities including one very long 3vs5 send us 0-2 down in the 2nd period, but the guys recovered their aims and spirit and started to play, we even scored the required 3 goals, but the referee for some still unknown reason decided to not even review the video of the goal situation. Extremely frustrating since the match ended 2-2, in the penalty sessions it was clear SLO will win with such experts in this situation like Tičar and Jeglič..and from 1st we felt to 4th and from automatic QF we got once again USA in the last 16 too many reasons for someone to loose all faith and capitulate under the whole frustration, so let see how our guys will be able to show us that we can count on them in the next many years, because yes this is the team that will play for us at least for the next 10 years..so we need to see something positive, some fight, some spirit we used to see from players with the double cross on the chest