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The young Trio 17 years old Juraj Slafkovský, Šimon Nemec and Samuel Kňažko all survived the first major cut in the roster today. One week more in the team = another week closer to the world champs for them. I really hope at least one of them will be in Riga. Ultra super mega hype trainnnnnnn 7 guys were removed from the team, among the most famous names, dream is over for example for Denis Godla Oliver Okuliar Mucha, Bubela, Gašpar, Vitaloš and Michal Chovan.. In the opposite 11 new names will enter the team from Thursday : Among them the Top scorer of this season Regular season SHL Marek Hrivík and his executive line and team mate from Leksand Peter Cehlárik, but also Michal Krištof from Oulu, Goalies Tomek (SaiPa/KalPa) and Július Hudáček (Spartak Moscow), interesting names are also Matúš Sukeľ from Sparta Prague and the 2 new fresh champions from Třinec Patrik Hrehorčák and Miloš Roman, from the losing side Liberec only Mislav Rosandič was called, interesting return of this very solid but often forgotten defencer with croatian decents to the team.

Congrats to Třinec. aloso congrats to the 5 slovaks in the roster, 2nd title for Dravecký, Gernát and Tomáš Marcinko, 1st title for Hrehorčák and Roman.

2nd period scoreboard read from bottom

Terrible indeed.

Crazy and epic comeback of the young Russians against the host USA. USA was leading 5-1 at the 25th minute but did not win the match. The biggest comeback in the U18 Top division history. Highlights

The Latvian national team will very likely be without any NHL or North_Amerivan competition based player since they can not count on the NHL goaltender Elvis Merzlikins for the home World Championships. The 27-year-old Columbus Blue-Jackets GK has already apologized to the fans. He and his wife expect an addition to the family in the next months and he is also still suffering from the injured shoulder. "If I went to Riga, my wife would be left alone in America. I really wanted to go to the championship, but family and health are a priority. I'm really sorry, I'd rather go home. I haven't seen my mother in a year, my brother came to see me just for one week and it all ended in tears. I miss my family and Latvia. I want to go home and have a beer with shashlik. But I am honest and I apologize to all Latvian fans, "Merzlikins said to sportacentrs.com. The host country will very likely have to rely only on a roster composed of players from the european leagues and domestic clubs. Will be a strange schampionship this year, since there no relegation, all teams may try some experiments and field rosters with younger inexperienced players. Obviously everyone want to qualify for the Quarterfinals, but realistically only 10-11 teams can fight for the 8 spots, the remaining 5-6 teams will have a pretty fun stressless nice tournament

Tuesday April 27th, 2021 - Preliminary Round Day 2 Schedule (GMT -5) Group A Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) Switzerland vs Belarus Period-by-Period: April 27th 2021, h. 16:00, Children's Health StarCenter, Plano (CEST 23:00) Sweden vs Canada Period-by-Period: April 27th 2021, h. 20:00, Children's Health StarCenter, Plano (CEST 03:00 ,28th April) Group B Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) Finland vs Russia Period-by-Period: April 27th 2021, h. 16:00, Comerica Center, Frisco (CEST 23:00) Germany vs United States Period-by-Period: April 27th 2021, h. 20:00, Comerica Center, Frisco (CEST 03:00 ,28th April)

Monday April 26th, 2021 - Preliminary Round Day 1 RESULTS (GMT -5) Group A Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) Belarus 1 - 5 Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-2, 0-2 April 26th 2021, h. 16:00, Children's Health StarCenter, Plano Latvia 2 - 4 Switzerland Period-by-Period: 0-2, 2-2, 0-0 April 26th 2021, h. 20:00, Children's Health StarCenter, Plano Group A Provisional Standing After Day 1 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Sweden 1 1(0) 0(0) 5 1 +4 3 Switzerland 1 1(0) 0(0) 4 2 +2 3 Canada 0 0(0) 0(0) 0 0 0 0 Latvia 1 0(0) 1(0) 2 4 -2 0 Belarus 1 0(0) 1(0) 1 5 -4 0 Group B Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) Czech Republic 3 - 1 Germany Period-by-Period: 0-0, 2-0, 1-1 April 26th 2021, h. 16:00, Comerica Center, Frisco Russia (OT)7 - 6 United States Period-by-Period: 1-3, 4-3, 1-0, Overtime: 1-0 April 26th 2021, h. 20:00, Comerica Center, Frisco Group B Provisional Standing After Day 1 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Czech Republic 1 1(0) 0(0) 3 1 +2 3 Russia 1 1(1) 0(0) 7 6 +1 2 United States 1 0(0) 1(1) 6 7 -1 1 Finland 0 0(0) 0(0) 0 0 0 0 Germany 1 0(0) 1(0) 1 3 -2 0

Results Update Event Link Click on the logo to open Preliminary Round

Our federation (if they are not wrong) claims "Barbi" Balážová will qualify from the ranking and not by EQT reallocation Pištej is out in Singles but will made it with Barbora in the doubles, btw Also they claims the MD quotas should be officialized by early May ranking, would this means the final MD qualifier is cancelled ?

Apparently we have also significantly accelerated the vaccination process, until this morning, 1 024 688 people in Slovakia have been vaccinated with the first dose (9291 yesterday). 419 596 with second dose (2776 yesterday)...

Looks we are recovering here as well, pretty all shops, museums, Galleries etc... are open again, only restaurants are allowed to serve only in the terraces, otherwise you must take the food with you. But the most important, from Tomorrow Spectators will be again allowed to return to the stadiums. with max. 25% of stadium capacity. Right in time for the hockey league finale starting on Thursday.

Monday April 26th, 2021 - Preliminary Round Day 1 Schedule (GMT -5) Group A Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) Belarus vs Sweden Period-by-Period: April 26th 2021, h. 16:00, Children's Health StarCenter, Plano (CEST 23:00) Latvia vs Switzerland Period-by-Period: April 26th 2021, h. 20:00, Children's Health StarCenter, Plano (CEST 03:00 ,27th April) Group B Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) Czech Republic vs Germany Period-by-Period: April 26th 2021, h. 16:00, Comerica Center, Frisco (CEST 23:00) Russia vs United States Period-by-Period: April 26th 2021, h. 20:00, Comerica Center, Frisco (CEST 03:00 ,27th April)

Tournament Format *The 10 teams are divided into two, five-team groups A and B in the Preliminary Round. **After a single round-robin series in each group, the top four teams from each group advance to the Playoff Round while for the fifth-placed team in each group the Tournament will end, The teams will ranked 9th to 10th according to their preliminary-round record (1. points, 2. goal difference, 3. goals scored).. ***The top four placed teams from the Preliminary will play a cross-over Quarterfinal game: 1A vs. 4B, 1B vs. 4A, 2A vs. 3B and 2B vs. 3A. The winner of each Quarterfinal moves onto the Semi-Finals. ****The winner of each Semi-Final game will move onto the Gold Medal Game, while the losers will play in the Bronze Medal Game. *****The quarter-final losers will be ranked 5th to 8th according to 1. their position in the group, 2. their preliminary-round record (1. points, 2. goal difference, 3. goals scored). Relegation format *Due Coronavirus Pandemic ongoing all remaining M Under 18 World Championships divisions Tournaments were cancelled, thus since there will be no newly Promoted Nation next year, There will be no relegated team this year from Top division as well. All 10 participating teams will play the Top Divison Tournament also the next year.

and here are the second match highlights

Floorball, ball hockey or futnet ?

No. Sadly there no chance for him to qualify in Singles. But, barring injury or other accident he should be in Tokyo for sure in the MD. According to this she should be. http://sstz.sk/WT/2021/Portugalsko 2021/BALÁŽOVÚ DELIL V GUIMARAESI SET OD MIESTENKY.pdf It was nice of her that she withdrew the useless match for third place and by this helped the Bulgarian get closer to the qualification as first reserve.

Updated as of April 25th, 2021

Highlights from yesterday match Highlights from todays game TBA later

Great. Thanks.

Another question I have. Can a athlete qualify from Ranking in two disciplines ? for singles and mixed doubles ?

Are you sure about 8 ? I heard only around 4-5 from Europe can make the cut from ranking, or was it wrong ?

Road to Riga Exhibition Games April 25th, 2021 (25 Days to Go)- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slovakia 2 - 1 Germany (0-0, 1-1, 1-0)

How many girls will qualify from ranking in the singles ? Congrats for the deserved quota Barbie did it again, her trademark totally blowing the 7th set, I stopped to count how many times she failed to achieve a noteworthy result like that

G S B & G S B whoever who will beat Hungary in the bronze medal 27th penalty shootouts serie, but I hope for HUN bronze obviously