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DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS Canada 6 - 4 United States Period-by-Period: 0-2, 3-0, 3-2 December 26th 2019, h. 19:00, Ostravar Arena, Ostrava

DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS Sweden (OT)3 - 2 Finland Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-1, 1-0, Overtime: 1-0 December 26th 2019, h. 19:00, Werk Arena, Třinec

DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS Czech Republic 4 - 3 Russia Period-by-Period: 2-2, 2-1, 0-0 December 26th 2019, h. 15:00, Ostravar Arena, Ostrava

DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS Switzerland 5 - 3 Kazakhstan Period-by-Period: 2-1, 1-2, 2-0 December 26th 2019, h. 15:00, Werk Arena, Třinec

Friday December 27th, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 2 Schedule (GMT +1) LIVESTREAM Group A Central European Time (GMT +1) Finland vs Canada Period-by-Period: December 27th 2019, h. 12:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava United States vs Russia Period-by-Period: December 27th 2019, h. 16:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava Group B Central European Time (GMT +1) Czech Republic vs Sweden Period-by-Period: December 27th 2019, h. 16:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 2, Bratislava Switzerland vs Slovakia Period-by-Period: December 27th 2019, h. 20:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava

SPENGLER CUP 2019 in Davos 6 Teams, 2 Groups, 1st Teams from both Groups will qualify for the Semfinals, 2nd and 3rd Teams will qualify for Quarterfinals Friday 27.12.2019 - SCHEDULE (GMT +1) Preliminary Round Day 2 Group Torriani 15:10 TPS Turku (FIN) - Salavat Yulaev Ufa (KHL, RUS) Group Cattini 20:15 HC Davos (SUI) - HC Oceláři Třinec (CZE)

SPENGLER CUP 2019 in Davos 6 Teams, 2 Groups, 1st Teams from both Groups will qualify for the Semfinals, 2nd and 3rd Teams will qualify for Quarterfinals Thursday 26.12.2019 - RESULTS (GMT +1) Preliminary Round Day 1 Group Torriani 15:10 HC Ambri-Piotta (SUI) - Salavat Yulaev Ufa (KHL, RUS) 4-1 Provisional Standing After Day 1 : 1. Ambri-Piotta 3, 2. Ufa 0, ... Turku - Group Cattini 20:15 HC Oceláři Třinec (CZE) - Team Canada (CAN) 1-4 Provisional Standing After Day 1 : 1. Canada 3, 2. Třinec 0, ... Davos -

Thursday December 26th, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 1 RESULTS (GMT +1) Group A Central European Time (GMT +1) Canada (OT)3 - 2 Russia Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 0-2, Overtime: 1-0 December 26th 2019, h. 12:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava United States 4 - 1 Finland Period-by-Period: 1-1, 2-0, 1-0 December 26th 2019, h. 16:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava Group A Provisional Standing After Day 1 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. United States 1 1(0) 0(0) 4 1 +3 3 Canada 1 1(1) 0(0) 3 2 +1 2 Russia 1 0(0) 0(1) 2 3 -1 1 Finland 1 0(0) 1(0) 1 4 -3 0 Group B Central European Time (GMT +1) Switzerland (OT)2 - 1 Czech Republic Period-by-Period: 0-1, 0-0, 1-0, Overtime: 1-0 December 26th 2019, h. 16:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 2, Bratislava Sweden 4 - 2 Slovakia Period-by-Period: 0-0, 3-0, 1-2 December 26th 2019, h. 20:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava Group B Provisional Standing After Day 1 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Sweden 1 1(0) 0(0) 4 2 +2 3 Switzerland 1 1(1) 0(0) 2 1 +1 2 Czech Republic 1 0(0) 1(1) 1 2 -1 1 Slovakia 1 0(0) 1(0) 2 4 -2 0

Thursday December 26th, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 1 RESULTS (GMT +1) Group A Central European Time (GMT +1) Switzerland 5 - 3 Kazakhstan Period-by-Period: 2-1, 1-2, 2-0 December 26th 2019, h. 15:00, Werk Arena, Třinec Sweden (OT)3 - 2 Finland Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-1, 1-0, Overtime: 1-0 December 26th 2019, h. 19:00, Werk Arena, Třinec Group A Provisional Standing After Day 1 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Switzerland 1 1(0) 0(0) 5 3 +2 3 Sweden 1 1(1) 0(0) 3 2 +1 2 Finland 1 0(0) 1(1) 2 3 -1 1 Slovakia 0 0(0) 0(0) 0 0 0 0 Kazakhstan 1 0(0) 1(0) 3 5 -2 0 Group B Central European Time (GMT +1) Czech Republic 4 - 3 Russia Period-by-Period: 2-2, 2-1, 0-0 December 26th 2019, h. 15:00, Ostravar Arena, Ostrava Canada 6 - 4 United States Period-by-Period: 0-2, 3-0, 3-2 December 26th 2019, h. 19:00, Ostravar Arena, Ostrava Group B Provisional Standing After Day 1 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Canada 1 1(0) 0(0) 6 4 +2 3 Czech Republic 1 1(0) 0(0) 4 3 +1 3 Germany 0 0(0) 0(0) 0 0 0 0 Russia 1 0(0) 1(0) 3 4 -1 0 United States 1 0(0) 1(0) 4 6 -2 0

The most wonderful time of the year All matches should be streamed live and for free here https://www.hokej.cz/tv/hokejka/ms?matchId=2806156

The top 10 voted curiosities of the 2019 sports year ? In the 10th minute of the Australian A-League football match between Central Coast Mariners and Perth Glory (1: 4), the goal post was broken after a nice header from Tomislav Mrcela. The player ended up in the net and broke the construction. The stadium employees were forced to bring another post from the training center, and it took a while to remove the wheels from the replacement construction, which was used exclusively for training. The FA Cup 3rd round match between Blackpool and Arsenal (0: 3) had a bizarre foreplay. A home team fan chose an unconventional protest against the Blackpool owners as he sat down on the roof of the team bus that the “Gunners” players were supposed to leave for the match. He refused to get down in 40 minutes, so coach Unai Emery had to take a replacement bus to Bloomfield Road. Eventually the police got him out of the vehicle. --- The Russian footballer Pavel Mamaev scored seven goals in one match, the most in his career. however, he certainly did not expect to do it on prison soil. The 30-year-old midfielder was arrested in November 2018 and in April 2019 he got 17 months in Jail. Pavel achieved his goals careers pb during a a special Valentine's match six to six. Pavel Mamaev played one half in each of both team, which was made up of local prisoners. Pavel Mamaev altogether with his national team teammate Alexander Kokorin, who was also behind bars, provoked a battle and attacked government officials in Moscow under the influence of alcohol in October 2018 --- Before the 2nd leg match of the Europa League Quarterfinal between Eintracht Frankfurt and Benfica Lisbon, two fans of the Portuguese team became viral. They decided to take a car trip to Germany to support their club, but arrived in the wrong Frankfurt. After a 16-hour journey, the pair found themselves on the other side of Germany in Frankfurt / Oder near the Polish border. One of them even introduced to the world a selfie, after arriving at the “destination”, poszing a victorious photo in front of a sign indicating the entrance to the (wrong) city. Croatian football coach Branko Ivankovic had to bring with him a suitcase to take the paycheck. The Iranian league champion Persepolis Tehran planned to pay him the remaining $ 679 thousand dollars in cash. The Iranians could not pay their coach by bank transfer because of sanctions. It is however not known whether Branko Ivankovic really left Tehran with a suitcase full of money. --- Midfielder of Algerian football team Haris Belkebla was excluded from the Algerian 2019 African Cup of Nations team after revealing his ass in the video. the Twenty-five-year-old showed his ass and posted the video on a social platform while his teammate Alexandre Oukidja played a video game. American basketball player D. J. Cooper has been caught in a very curious way of anti-doping rules violations. A former AS Monaco player provided a urine sample that revealed an unexpected fact. The test showed that Cooper is pregnant. However, this was not an anomaly, the 28-year-old quarterback swapped the sample of his girlfriend. He was punished by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) for two years --- The Television footage from the Vuelta and Espana 2019 came to the attention of the local police. During a live broadcast from stage eight, they uncovered a marijuana plantation. From the helicopter you could see the plants on the roof of one of the houses. The video was spreading rapidly over the internet and the Spanish police found about 40 marijuana plants on the roof. The start of the EURO 2020 qualification match between France and Albania had to be delayed by a few minutes after the organizers played the wrong anthem for the guests. The Albanians after realizing it´s the anthem of Andorra did not want to continue the matchs. However, Another faux pas came after the announcer at the stadium apologized for the mistake to all the “Armenian fans”. As soon as he realized it, he corrected himself. Then the right anthem was heard and the match actually could begin. Russian hockey team Izhly Izhevsk invented a curious reward for his best match player. The club is based in the city, famous for producing the iconic AK-47 assault rifle, and this weapon was actually the reward for the local hockey player with the honor of the best player of the match. However, the team has only one piece available. The goalkeeper Saveľ Kononov was the first to receive this unusual prize.

SPENGLER CUP 2019 in Davos 6 Teams, 2 Groups, 1st Teams from both Groups will qualify for the Semfinals, 2nd and 3rd Teams will qualify for Quarterfinals Thursday 26.12.2019 - SCHEDULE (GMT +1) Preliminary Round Day 1 Group Torriani 15:10 HC Ambri-Piotta (SUI) - Salavat Yulaev Ufa (KHL, RUS) Group Cattini 20:15 HC Oceláři Třinec (CZE) - Team Canada (CAN)

Thursday December 26th, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 1 Schedule (GMT +1) LIVESTREAM Group A Central European Time (GMT +1) Canada vs Russia Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 12:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava United States vs Finland Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 16:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava Group B Central European Time (GMT +1) Switzerland vs Czech Republic Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 16:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 2, Bratislava Sweden vs Slovakia Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 20:30, Vlado Dzurilla Ice Rink 1, Bratislava

Thursday December 26th, 2019 - Preliminary Round Day 1 Schedule (GMT +1) LIVESTREAM Group A Central European Time (GMT +1) Switzerland vs Kazakhstan Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 15:00, Werk Arena, Třinec Sweden vs Finland Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 19:00, Werk Arena, Třinec Group B Central European Time (GMT +1) Czech Republic vs Russia Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 15:00, Ostravar Arena, Ostrava Canada vs United States Period-by-Period: December 26th 2019, h. 19:00, Ostravar Arena, Ostrava

Personally I have only 2 LED lights (1 multi-colours) and 1 (white) around my tree and one chain of coloured classical lights in the kitchen around the advent wreath. I live in a classic building appartement. However the dinner is traditionally held at my grandma´s house, with the family reunited for the dinner, and the house is really hard core decorated with lights and everything

nah with all the lights we have during this period inside and outside the house it´s a tiny content

wait, to understand me correctly it´s not like we were seriously focusing on the TV during the dinner, remember this is just impossible with all superstitions and traditions we have during the dinner lol, it´s mainly some kind of you know.. playing TV with christmas motives in the "background" near to the tree

TEAM SLOVAKIA Goaltenders: Nikola Zimková (ŠKP Bratislava) Tamara Fabriová (HOBA Bratislava) Laura Medviďová (HK Mládež Michalovce) Defencers: Sofia Vysokajová (ŠKP Bratislava) Ema Jašková (ŠKP Bratislava) Aneta Kušmireková (ŠKP Bratislava) Kristína Slováková (ŠKP Bratislava) Emília Leskovjanská (ŽHK Poprad) Lily Stern (HK Lokomotíva Nové Zámky) Lea Giertlová (HC’05 Banská Bystrica) Forwards: Barbora Schredlová (ŠKP Bratislava) Martina Vrbinská (ŠKP Bratislava) Andrea Klimantová (HK Iskra Partizánske) Tamara Dobošová (HK Iskra Partizánske) Júlia Matejková (HC’05 Banská Bystrica) Barbora Kapičáková (HT MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš) Romana Halušková (MŠK Púchov) Tereza Lahová (Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, ) Nina Hudáková (HC Košice) Alexandra Štetiarová (HK Trnava) Hana Fančovičová (HKL Bratislava) Nikola Nemčeková (MsHKM Žilina) Viktória Kučerová (HC 07 Detva)

Qualified Nations GROUP A: Canada, Finland, Russia, United States GROUP B: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland 2019 Championships Results Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 World Championship 2019 Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group A World Championship 2019 Tournament Format The 8 teams are divided into two, four-team groups A and B in the Preliminary Round. After a single round-robin series in each group, the top two teams from group A advance directly to the Semifinals, while the 3rd and 4th Teams from Group A and top 2 Teams from Group B will qualify to the Quarterfinal, which will be played between 3A-2B and 4A-1B. The winner of each Quarter-Final moves onto the Semi-Finals the 3rd and 4th Teams from Group B will move to the Relegation Round The winner of each Semi-Final game will move onto the Gold Medal Game, while the losers will play in the Bronze Medal Game. Relegation format The 3rd and 4th Teams of Group B will play a best-of-three Relegation Round series. The third game is only played if needed. The winner of the series will plays again at the 2021 IIHF Women´s World U18 Championships , while the loser is relegated to WU18 Division I Group A next year.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tournament Schedule and Standing Link

Home Alone 2 all the way, even here, we also watched it yesterday during the christmas dinner, it´s always the main TV channel prime time christmas eve program (every single year ) Home Alone 2 followed by traditional and highly popular old czechoslovak fairy tales and comedy movies, especially this One with all quotes made on funny rhymes we close the christmas eve before attending the midnight mass.

Traditional christmas dinner After many many years overseas in the USA or Canada, this generation is more lucky in this. The tournament this year is only 15 km from our borders so also the christmas celebrations could have been more specific to our customs than in previous years.

Peter Sagan obviously. Worldwide super star. 7 Tour de France edition Green Jersey competition overall winner (Absolute record) 125 Days in Green at Tour de France from the 148 he was competing during his 8 participations (Absolute Record) Only 23 days he was not wearing the green jersey but still was during them 4 days in yellow 45 Podiums at Tour de France, 12 stage wins, 22 second places. 3x World Champion in a row 2015, 2016, 2017 (Absolute Record) European Champion 2016 Paris-Roubaix 2018 and Tour des Flandres 2016 winner Tour de Pologne 2011 and Tour of California 2015 overall winner but depending only about Olympic performances it´s obviuosly Anastasiya Kuzmina. The Only female biathlete to win 3 Gold Olympic medals at 3 different Olympics. Winner of the first ever Winter Olympic Gold since the independence, 7.5km W Sprint in Day 1 at Vancouver 2010 followed by silver in pursuit The only female biathlete to maintain her gold from Sprint, winning it also in Sochi 2014 four years later 3rd carreers Olympic gold arrived in PyeongChang 2018 at her 3rd Olympics, this time in Mass Start race, she won there 2 more silver medals in Pursuit and Individual. Finished her career this year by fullfiling her 2 missing dreams the very first World Champion title in Sprint and the only one time in her whole career won a race with a perfect 20/20 shooting in Oslo WC during her penultimate race

TEAM SLOVAKIA Goaltenders: Samuel Hlavaj (Sherbrooke Phoenix, QMJHL, ) Jakub Lackovič (MsHKM Žilina) Samuel Vyletelka (Minnesota Magicians, NAHL, ) Defencers: Martin Bučko (HC Košice) Boris Česánek (HK ŠKP Poprad) Marcel Dlugoš (MsHKM Žilina/MHK 32 Liptovský Mikuláš) Samuel Kňažko (TPS Turku, ) Dávid Mudrák (TPS Turku, ) Marko Stacha (HK Dukla Trenčín) Oliver Turan (HC 07 Detva) Martin Vitaloš (Rögle Angelholm, ) Forwards: Maxim Čajkovič (Saint John Sea Dogs, QHMJL, ) Róbert Džugan (HK Dukla Trenčín/HC Topoľčany) Martin Faško-Rudáš (Everett Silvertips, WHL, ) Nicolas Ferenyi (HK Dukla Trenčín/HK'95 Považská Bystrica) Dominik Jendek (HC Slovan Bratislava) Kristián Kováčik (HK Dukla Trenčín/MsHK Žilina) Jakub Minárik (HK Nitra) Marek Minárik (MsHK Žilina) Michal Mrázik (Linköping HC, ) Oliver Okuliar (Lethbridge Hurricanes, WHL, ) Adam Paulíny (MHA Martin) Daniel Vladimír Tkáč (Merritt Centennials, BCHL, ) Viktor Ďurina (HK Dukla Trenčín/MHK Dubnica nad Váhom)

Road to World Juniors 2020 ----------------------- Pre-Tournament Test Matches 23rd December 2019 - (GMT+1) Žilina (SVK) 15:00 Slovakia - Russia 1-9 Havířov (CZE) 17:00 United States - Germany 7-1 Ostrava (CZE) 19:00 Canada - Finland 4-2

Road to World Juniors 2020 ----------------------- Pre-Tournament Test Matches 22nd December 2019 - (GMT+1) Třinec (CZE) 14:30 Czech Republic - Slovakia 4-2 Český Těšín (CZE) 18:00 Sweden - United States 4-6