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Men's Ice Hockey Spengler Cup 2021 Davos (SUI) - 26 December 2021 - 31 December 2021 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Thank god. it is important. if we can not increase then at least do not decrease. Slovakia the Honduras of winter Olympics. A Male hockey team doing the mini tiny team bigger every time but never able to win that medal...

Which one we lost ?

Stage 14 in Madonna di Campiglio (ITA) Men´s Slalom: 1. Sebastian Foss-Solevaag 1:34.59 2. Alexis Pinturault 1:34.69 3. Kristoffer Jakobsen 1:34.70 Full Final Results HERE

and now it is Official. Quite funny speech as always from Gary Bettman We look forward to Olympic participation in 2026. “The National Hockey League respects and admires the desire of NHL Players to represent their countries and participate in a ‘best on best’ tournament. Accordingly, we have waited as long as possible to make this decision while exploring every available option to enable our Players to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “Unfortunately, given the profound disruption to the NHL’s regular-season schedule caused by recent COVID-related events -- 50 games already have been postponed through Dec. 23 -- Olympic participation is no longer feasible. We certainly acknowledge and appreciate the efforts made by the International Olympic Committee, the International Ice Hockey Federation and the Beijing Organizing Committee to host NHL Players but current circumstances have made it impossible for us to proceed despite everyone’s best efforts. We look forward to Olympic participation in 2026. “Our focus and goal have been and must remain to responsibly and safely complete the entirety of the NHL regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs in a timely manner. Therefore, with stringent health protocols once again in place, we will begin utilizing available dates during the Feb. 6-22 window (originally contemplated to accommodate Olympic participation) to reschedule games that have been, or may yet be, postponed.”

Samuel Kňažko was named captain of SVK team (unanimously elected by all players) his assistants will be Roman Faith and the 17 years old prodigy Šimon Nemec !

The tournament will have attendance capacity limited to 50 percent. The decision follows the new anti-covid measures in the province of Alberta that introduced capacity limits for indoor sports events. The Canadian Hockey Association informed about it on its official website.

Apparently AHL players will be eligible for the Olympics. so probably a couple of overseas players will be in our Beijing roster then, we have a few players there. but not entirely convinced if they are better than the european clubs based roster

Stage 13 in Courchevel (FRA) Women´s Giant Slalom: 1. Sara Hector 2:13.03 2. Mikaela Shiffrin 2:13.38 3. Marta Bassino 2:13.63 Full Final Results HERE

oh ! come on Wendy ! it is a family show

In other hand suddenly chances for a VERY interesting result increased a lot Still do not see them making the quarterfinals but should very well surprise some opponents

This is more than obvious that there will be no NHLers in Beijing. It is just a matter of hours/days they will announce it officially. I mean, most of European teams are already preparing squads for the games from european clubs players, our team staff already indicated they basically are not longer counting on overseas players reinforcements. Which is quite sad obviously but in other hand (We should send a similar team from the Riga World Champs combined with players from the last two international break tournaments so should be some real unexpected olympics experiences for our young #cortina2026generation talents like Slafkovský and Nemec whom should be part of the Olympic team already at 17 years - would be incredible to play the U18 Worlds, upcoming U20 Worlds, Senior World Champs and Olympics at the same year lol)

So we hired a "professional spy" from Vermont university for this tournament

and the 6th participant will be Bern players selection Frolunda, Kalpa and Slovan in 1 group, Davos, Sparta and that Bern gimmick team in the other group

Stage 13 in Courchevel (FRA) Women´s Giant Slalom: 1. Mikaela Shiffrin 2:15.35 2. Sara Hector 2:16.21 3. Michelle Gisin 2:16.43 Full Final Results HERE

So we should have at least 1 test match at the end. the 23rd december at 14:00 local time (22:00 CET) against Germany. After this match the coaches will announce the final roster after 3 Players will not make the final cut. The bad news is only the two Edmonton games will be TV covered..oh well Pre-Tournament exhibition games Dec. 23 | Finland vs. United States | 12 p.m. MT | Rogers Place | Edmonton Dec. 23 | Slovakia vs. Germany | 2 p.m. MT | Peavey Mart Centrium | Red Deer Dec. 23 | Russia vs. Canada | 5 p.m. MT | Rogers Place | Edmonton Dec. 23 | Czechia vs. Switzerland | 5 p.m. MT | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre | Red Deer Dec. 23 | Austria vs. Sweden | 7 p.m. MT | Peavey Mart Centrium | Red Deer

Yeah it seems that this is what the Russians understand by the term play one match in "special retro jerseys"

Slovan Bratislava will replace Team Canada at the Spengler Cup. The organizers are now looking for a replacement for Ambri-Piotta who were forced to refuse the invitation at the last moment

After Lara Gut-Behrami last week and Alice Robinson last Sunday, was also tested positive (Covid, obviously) Katharina Liensberger and will also have to miss Courchevel GS races

Stage 12 in Alta Badia (ITA) Men´s Giant Slalom: 1. Marco Odermatt 2:26.07 2. Luca De Aliprandini 2:27.08 3. Alexander Schmid 2:27.16 Full Final Results HERE

Stage 12 in Innichen (ITA) Men´s Ski Cross: 1. Bastien Midol 2. Ryan Regez 3. Tobias Baur Full Final Result HERE

Stage 12 in Innichen (ITA) Women´s Ski Cross: 1. Sandra Naeslund 2. Fanny Smith 3. Marielle Thompson Full Final Result HERE

Because of current lockdown in the country, this year the Athlete of the Year award could not be presented in traditional evening TV Gala show, but just the results were revealed at the office of our NOC this morning. and surprise, surprise, surprise... Petra Vlhová won for the 3rd time in a row, this time even beating our only Tokyo 2020 Olympics Gold medalist so here the results: Slovak Athlete of the Year 2021 1. Petra Vlhová (Alpine Skiing) 1157 points (80x 1st places votes - 36x 2nd places votes - 1x 3rd place vote) 121x voted 2. Zuzana Rehák Štefečeková (Shooting - Trap) 1109 (39 - 72 - 4) 121x 3. Jakub Grigar (Canoeing Slalom) 771 (1 - 4 - 62) 107x 4. Rory Sabbatini (Golf) 650 (0 - 0 - 10) 107x 5. Erik "Drago" Černák (Ice Hockey) 557 (0 - 1 - 20) 96x 6. Filip Polášek (Tennis) 482 (0 - 0 - 6) 108x 7. Milan Škriniar (Football) 402 (1 - 5 - 5) 90x 8. Peter Sagan (Road Cycling) 370 (0 - 2 - 6) 89x 9. Jozef Metelka (Paralympic Cycling) 161 (0 - 0 - 3) 45x 10. Peter Cehlárik (Ice Hockey) 129 (0- 0- 0) 44x 43 different Athletes received at least one vote Slovak Team of the Year 2021 1. Canoeing Sprint M K4-500m (Canoeing Sprint) 340 (108 - 6 - 4) 118x 2. M Ice Hockey National Team (Ice Hockey) 115 (6 - 43 - 11) 60x 3. M Canoeing Slalom C1 Team (Canoeing Slalom) 72 (1 - 26 - 17) 44x 18 different Teams received at least one vote Other Awards: Slovak Legend (Slovak Sport Hall of Fame) Miloš Mečíř (Tennis) Paralympian of The Year Jozef Metelka (Road Cycling, Track Cycling) Sports Talent of The Year Martin Svrček (Road Cycling) Non-Olympic Athlete of The Year Vladimír Holota (Bodybuilding) Monika Chochlíková (Kickboxing) Samuel Saxa (Water Ski) Non-Olympic Performance of The Year Alexander Vaško (Water Ski) for being the first person ever to jump over 70m which happened this year at the World Champs