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James/Cipres lost the podium for 0.01 point from 1st place after short program

Nicole Rajičová and her new pb in short program 61.01

When Slovan presented the project around the KHL participation and decided to leave our extraliga, there were a lot of spectacular statements from their bosses about how it would help our hockey, how they will open the doors of big hockey and experiences for Slovak young players and that the club would become a showcase of the Slovak National team, so now after Ramsey announced the roster, there quite a lot of jokes in our forums pointing the general policy of Slovan management. (but also to be honest I think Viedenský and Meszáros should be invited !) especially Viedenský as a decent center, a post we are struggling a lot in our hockey lately. Right, unfortunately the times when we were part of the super 7 are gone with the 2000 golden generation, now we are completely entered the difficult stage of rejuvenation and generation changes in our NT. What can we do, This is how it is. But at least the things have moved forward overall in our federation, it´s clearly visible that the general atmosphere calmed down, and peoples finally started to work. We know that the results will not come immediately (or better say regularly) but Craig Ramsey brought some interesting visions and projects to improve our hockey and he is really working hard together with Miro and our "old gold boys" like Országh, Handzuš or Višňovský. so if they showed the courage to make the so needed changes and decided to rebuild the team relying on players from Czech and Slovak leagues, they have all my support and respect.

TEAM SOUTH KOREA Goaltenders: Matt Dalton (Anyang Halla) Park Kye-Hoon (Sangmu) Park Sung-Je (High1 Chuncheon) Defencers: Cho Hyung-Gon (Sangmu) Kim Won-Jun (Anyang Halla) Lee Don-Ku (Anyang Halla) Oh Hyon-ho (Daemyung Killer Whales) Alex Plante (Anyang Halla) Eric Regan (Anyang Halla) Seo Yeong-Jun (Daemyung Killer Whales) Bryan Young (Daemyung Killer Whales) Forwards: Ahn Jin-Hui (Sangmu) Cho Min-Ho (Anyang Halla) Jeon Jung-Woo (Sangmu) Kim Ki-Sung (Anyang Halla) Kim Sang-Wook (Anyang Halla) Kim Won-Jung (Anyang Halla) Lee Young-Jun (Daemyung Killer Whales) Park Jin-Kyu (Sangmu) Park Woo-Sang (Anyang Halla) Brock Radunske (Anyang Halla) Shin Sang-Hoon (Sangmu) Shin Sang-Woo (Anyang Halla) Michael Swift (High1 Chuncheon) Mike Testwuide (High1 Chuncheon)

new pb

That moment when Kostner take the lead by "only" some 22 points

Silvia Hugec qualified for the Free Skate, that´s a really nice surprise

TEAM JAPAN Goaltenders: Nana Fujimoto (Vortex Sapporo) Mai Kondo (Mikage Gretz) Akane Konishi (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Defencers: Mika Hori (Toyota Cygnus) Akane Hosoyamada (DK Peregrine) Shiori Koike (DK Peregrine) Aoi Shiga (Obihiro Ladies) Sena Suzuki (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Aina Takeuchi (Daishin) Ayaka Toko (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Forwards: Yurie Adachi (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Moeko Fujimoto (Toyota Cygnus) Tomomi Iwahara (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Hanae Kubo (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Ami Nakamura (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Shoko Ono (Mikage Gretz) Chiho Osawa (DK Peregrine) Miho Shishiuchi (Toyota Cygnus) Suzuka Taka (DK Peregrine) Naho Terashima (Daishin) Haruka Toko (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Rui Ukita (Daishin) Haruna Yoneyama (DK Peregrine)

Team Slovakia for Stage 6 in Antholz/Anterselva (ITA) Sprint Women´s (18.01) Anastasiya Kuzmina, Terézia Poliaková, Paulína Fialková, Ivona Fialková Sprint Men´s (19.01) Matej Kazár, Martin Otčenáš, Tomáš Hasilla, Michal Kubaliak Pursuit Women´s (20.01) Anastasiya Kuzmina ?, Terézia Poliaková ?, Paulína Fialková ?, Ivona Fialková ? Pursuit Men´s (20.01) Matej Kazár ?, Martin Otčenáš ?, Tomáš Hasilla ?, Michal Kubaliak ? Mass Start Women´s (21.01) Anastasiya Kuzmina

MEN´S UNDER 20 DIVISION II GROUP B 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spain moves up Edges ahead of Serbian host in WM20IIB Finally promoted! After four second-place finishes in Division II Group B play, the Spanish U20 national team won gold in its group ahead of host Serbia and Croatia. Spain won promotion to next season’s U20 World Championship Division II Group A one year after missing out on home ice. The Spanish team won the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division II Group B in Belgrade, leaving host nation Serbia in second place as Croatia took bronze. Turkey was relegated back to Division III after winning that section 12 months ago in New Zealand. For the Spanish U20 national team it’s one of the biggest victories in recent year. Spain did in several categories lose out on first place against Serbia and seldom beats Croatia in men’s hockey. The win means promotion to the next level after five consecutive years in the Division I Group B. The four previous years Spain had finished in second place. It was a tight group, with the top three teams all in contention going into the final day. Spain and Croatia faced off in the opening game, with the Spanish knowing that destiny was in their own hands. Victory would secure top spot regardless of other results, but defeat could be costly. A Croatian victory in regulation would have put the team in first place, but also opened the door for Serbia to top the group if it could beat Turkey in the last game of the event. The Spanish approached their decisive fixture with a clear plan to frustrate Croatia. Across the three periods, the Iberian team allowed just 18 shots at Raul Barbo’s net and always had the upper hand in terms of generating offence. The second period was the most competitive, and Bruno Ficur’s goal midway through the session pulled Croatia back to 1-1 and threatened to put the group back into the balance. Spain, though, rallied in the third. Two goals from Dorian Donath, the first of them a wrist shot fired in from an acute angle on the power play, secured a 3-1 victory and guaranteed gold and promotion to Division IIA. Serbia, unable to top the group, at least had the satisfaction of beating its neighbour and rival from Croatia to the silver medals thanks to a convincing 7-1 demolition of Turkey to conclude the action. If Spain’s win over Croatia was decisive, the pivotal moment of the tournament came rather earlier, when Maurizio Mansi’s team played Serbia on the second game day in Belgrade. The host looked to be on course for a vital victory, leading 2-1 on third-period goals from Lazar Pejcic and team captain Luka Vukicevic. But a late penalty on Vukicevic proved costly: Spain, which would finish the tournament with the strongest power play in the event, snatched a dramatic last-minute tying goal through Alfonso Garcia. Serbia protested vigorously, insisting that Garcia’s stick was high when he swatted Donath’s looping feed into the net from close range. The officials were unmoved, Spain forced overtime and went on to win the shoot-out on Joan Cerda’s effort. The result tilted the balance of the group in Spain’s favour, and Serbia was unable to claw back the lost ground. If it was tight at the top, it was even closer at the bottom. Belgium, Mexico and Turkey all finished the tournament on three points after the Mexicans’ final-day 5-4 win over the Belgians. That left Turkey needing a point from its game against Serbia to escape the trapdoor. However, that heavy loss against the host sent Turkey down to Division III. Captain Jorge Perez was the toast of his team-mates after scoring 2+2 – including the game-winner – in that nail-biter against Belgium to keep his team in IIB. The Mexicans were clinical, especially in the early stages, when their first four goals came inside 23 minutes from just 11 shots at Belgium’s Anthony Gubbels. Gerardo Garcia del Valle came up strong in a tense third period, blanking the opposition to preserve a narrow lead until the end. The final standings showed Belgium in fourth place, lifted by its opening day 8-3 victory over Turkey. Mexico came fifth thanks to its win against the Belgians, while Turkey’s 6-4 success against Mexico wasn’t enough to overcome that heavy loss at the start of the tournament. Serbia could not top the table, but it did come out on top in the goalscoring chart. Vucicevic ended up with 8+4=12 points, boosted by a hat-trick in that game against Turkey. Mirko Djumic fired in... in the same match-up, moving to 3+8=11 and edging ahead of Spain’s Cerda (5+5). Spain’s Raul Barbo was nominated as the top goalie by the directorate. In a high-scoring tournament, he played every minute of his country’s games and allowed just eight goals for a GAA of 1.57. He also recorded the only shut-out of the event, blanking Mexico in a 4-0 victory. The other directorate awards went to Croatian D-man Luka Kramaric and Serbia’s top-scoring forward Luka Vucicevic. Result Thread

so here it is TEAM SLOVAKIA Goaltenders: Ján Laco (HC Sparta Prague, ) Branislav Konrád (HC Olomouc, ) Patrik Rybár (HK Mountfield Hradec Králové, ) Defencers: Ivan Baranka (HC Vitkovice Ridera, ) Michal Čajkovský (HC Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, KHL, ) Dominik Graňák (HC Škoda Plzeň, ) Marek Ďaloga (HC Sparta Prague, ) Tomáš Starosta (HK Dukla Trenčín) Juraj Valach (Piráti Chomutov, ) Peter Čerešňák (HC Škoda Plzeň, ) Juraj Mikuš (HC Sparta Prague, ) Forwards: Martin Bakoš (Bílí Tygři Liberec, ) Miloš Bubela (HC '05 iClinic Banská Bystrica) Marcel Haščák (HC Kometa Brno, ) Lukáš Cingeľ (HK Mountfield Hradec Králové, ) Tomáš Marcinko (HC Oceláři Třinec, ) Patrik Lamper (HC '05 iClinic Banská Bystrica) Ladislav Nagy (HC Košice) Tomáš Surový (HC '05 iClinic Banská Bystrica) Andrej Kudrna (HC Sparta Prague, ) Peter Ölvecký (HK Dukla Trenčín) Michal Krištof (HK Nitra) Matej Paulovič (HK Nitra) Matúš Sukeľ (MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš) Marek Hovorka (HC Košice) Some really interesting surprises, both Hudáček brothers (Július and Libor) missing is a true shock !!! Also no one player from KHL Slovan Bratislava ! DEAD !!! All in all a very surprising team was chosen by Craig Ramsey and Miro Šatan, only 1 player from KHL is totally unexpected, but glad that Čajkovský is in, his %Chára" size and style is very important in such tournament. and he has a incredibly strong shoot from the blue line, so very necessary to have such defencer in the team. 14 players from C zech league is maybe too much, but all nominated players have decent season, so OK, we will again rely on Laco in the net thats good as well. 10 players from our league is a interesting move and can help the youngs much. But there also many experiences in the team, Dominik Graňák played already 175 matches with our National Team Tomáš Starosta 140 and Tomáš Surový 118. The oldest player in the team and also the best scorer is Laco Nagy, the youngest is one of the U20 Bronze medalist team of 2016 Matúš Súkeľ.

Game over, No Slovak participation in PyeongChang. ISBF announced that they will not give us the exception. The president of ISFB Ivo Feriani and Albert II of Monaco both said yes, but it was necessary to have also the approval of three others ISBF members countries, unfortunately all 3 said no. So it´s official, even if Radek and his teammates reached the standards they will not compete in PyeongChang. source in SVK https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/315939/slovenski-bobisti-spoznali-definitivu-matousek-nedostal-vynimku/

2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division II Group B In Belgrade, , 10-16 January 2018 Tuesday January 16th, 2018 - Round-Robin Final Day Results (GMT +1) 13:00 Croatia 1 - 3 Spain 16:30 Belgium 4 - 5 Mexico 20:00 Serbia 7 - 1 Turkey Final Standing 1. Spain 14 Qualified for the Men´s Under 20 Division II Group A World Championships 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Serbia 13 3. Croatia 9 4. Belgium 3 5. Mexico 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Turkey 3 Relegated for the Men´s Under 20 Division III World Championships 2019

I´m pretty sure that Scott like a true gentleman will let Tessa to carry the flag and just walk next to her

I was sure, Sweden will send a strong team, so this is not a surprise to me btw Slovak team will be announced by Craig Ramsey and Miro Šatan tomorrow from 13:00 cet. If you are interested you can follow the livestream here https://www.facebook.com/SlovakHockey/

The Olympic flag in Lausanne´s IOC headquarters will fly at half-mast for the next 3 days, after the decease of our first NOC president, later honorary president and long time IOC member https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1060205/honorary-ioc-member-and-founding-president-of-slovak-olympic-committee-dies-at-age-of-96

I think so

Looks like we will fulfill all our quotas and send 10 biathletes to PyeongChang. Our Biathlon federation nominated 5 mens and 5 womens for the Olympic Games in Korea. Now they just have to wait like all other Slovak nominated athletes for the 26th January when the General Assembly of the Slovak Olympic Committee will approve the composition of the Slovak Olympic delegation..but it´s more or less just a formality, so very likely this will be our team. Matej Kazár, Martin Otčenáš, Tomáš Hasilla, Šimon Bartko and Michal Šíma among mens (Expected the first three to compete in all events Sprint and Individual, Bartko and Šíma will split their participations between these 2 events and the guy with better result will form the relay.) Anastasiya Kuzmina, Paulína Fialková, Ivona Fialková, Terézia Poliaková and Alžbeta Majdišová are nominated among womens (Here again the first three competing in all events, Poliaková very likely the 4th athlete in individual, all 5 in sprint *) * still not sure if we can field 5 athletes in the womens sprint even if our athlete is defending champion, the coaches are counting on that, but I think they will have to found out if it is even possible before. amazing how our federation work

This is absolutely awesome ! My favorite non-hockey Canadian athletes

haha, ok no problem, we will add them when they will be revealed btw the team is looking fine, very good goaltending, strong defencers and already top names in the offensive. but personally I´m very happy to see Rasmus Dahlin being selected. what a incredible talent, even if the Junior worlds this year were not precisely his best tournament so far, he already showed some great skills and excellent reading of the game at his age (17) !!!

MEN'S IIHF CONTINENTAL CUP 2017 Final Round ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yunost makes it three! Minsk team claims Continental Cup For the third time after 2007 and 2011 Belarusian club Yunost Minsk won the IIHF Continental Cup after beating Nomad Astana 5-2 in the deciding game. Yunost got the winners’ plate back after seven years and like last time the club won on home ice in Minsk as host of the final tournament. Like the recent Continental Cup winners Yunost Minsk will earn a wild card to next season’s Champions Hockey League pending formal approval by the CHL board. Yunost is currently also the leader back home in the Belarusian Extraliga. Despite being outshot 33-29 by Nomad, the Belarusians had the upper hand during two periods and went up early in the game. Pavel Razvadovski contributed with two goals and an assist to the win. Dmitri Milchakov was a big help in the net saving 31 of 33 shots on goal. “It was a hard victory. It’s a tough team, everybody has good skill, young, fast. But we were better. Thanks to the guys. They gave 100 per cent,” said Razvadovski. “It’s a huge victory for us. We were preparing a lot. We played six games in this competition. Each of us wanted to win. I think we deserved this victory,” Milchakov said. Yunost Minsk opened the scoring already with the first scoring chance with 6-on-4 skaters during a power play with second delayed penalty and a strong skating performance of Razvadovski. The forward skated on the left behind the goal line, turned back to skate around Nomad defenceman Roman Rachinski to the crease and then beat goalie Vladimir Kramar for a goal of the tournament candidate at 3:24. Yunost missed out on capitalizing on the second penalty, Nomad became stronger and the game heated. With Yunost defenceman Klemen Pretnar already in the penalty box, Sergei Sheleg was assessed a penalty for roughing. Nomad seized on the opportunity and tied the game with 5-on-3 players on the ice. Artemi Lakiza sent off a long shot, Yunost goalie Milchakov made a block save and Valeri Gurin was on the spot to net the puck with a high wrist shot. There were also disciplinary issues on the other side that led to a two-man advantage for Yunost for the last 43 seconds of the opening frame. With Georgi Dulnev in the sin bin for holding, Yegor Petukhov had a breakaway but saw his shot saved and was then assessed a penalty for slashing goalie Milchakov. “Our team was not able to use the emotions in the right way. 10 minutes of penalties in the first period was a crucial part in Yunost’s success and afterwards it was very difficult to get back into the game,” said Nomad head coach Georgi Vereshagin. After half a minute Yunost converted the situation to regain the lead. After a blocked shot from Razvadovski it was Konstantin Zakharov, who netted the puck. The video review showed the puck was in before bouncing back from the goal. A 2-1 lead for Yunost. “We knew who we were going to face in the final game. We realized we need to have the lead as fast as possible in the beginning and not to allow any more goals. They played great in the slot, had good chances and some players have great puckhandling skills,” Yunost head coach Mikhail Zakharov said. “The Continental Cup is an important tournament for us and it allows us to play in the Champions Hockey League next season, which inspires many teams to take part and win the Continental Cup.” After killing the penalty early in the second period, Nomad Astana had the opportunity to play on power play themselves but the penalty expired and 26 seconds later Alexei Yefimenko ended a counter-attack with a precise shot from the left face-off circle to give Yunost a 3-1 lead. Nomad reacted with changing goaltenders. Dmitri Malgin came in for Kramar. But the next to score a goal was Yunost’s Razvadovski. With a lot of traffic around the crease and shots on Malgin it was him, who managed to push the puck into the next to make it 4-1 with 2:15 left in the second period. Nomad Astana was rewarded for its effort early in the third period. After battling back the puck in the neutral zone Dmitri Gurkov found Nikita Mikhalis whose shot was saved by Milchakov but Gurkov capitalized on the rebound and it was a two-goal game at 1:48. Nomad tried come one closer but a counter-attack led to Maxim Parfeyevets’ 5-2 goal and brought Yunost one step closer to gold. Beside the medals there were also individual honours. Vladimir Kramar of Nomad Astana was named Best Goaltender of the tournament, the Sheffield Steelers’ Mark Matheson won the Best Defenceman award and Nikita Mikhailis of Nomad Astana was voted Best Forward. Yunost Minsk vs Nomad Astana Highlights Yunost Minsk Celebrations Results Thread

+ 2 other forwards will be added next weeks

I must admit I was highly surprised by this result, I suppose Milos just underestimated Lukáš a bit or he is just still not OK after his health troubles, because in normal world, such result would never happened, I would say possible for kinds like Kližan or in a very good day for Andrej Martin or Norbert Gombos but certainly not Lacko ! lol the guy despite being a great talent among juniors, was unable to confirm it in the seniors circuit, almost never passed the GS first round (competing regularly from 2007 in all GS, won only 6 times the 1st round)

They should be happy it´s actually snowing as hell in Ghana http://www.vratna.sk/