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The old forum was closed. He called Hungary to hungry because a fence appeared on our southern border.

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Two and half years ago who called Hungary to hungry?

Yesterday was the opening ceremony of the new central fencing hall in Algiers which is named from Rudof Kárpáti, the legend of the Hungarian Fencing. I hope they know what is difference between Hungary and hungry!

Bunge RAVENNA and Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT move forward to the semis of #CEVChallengeCupM Luxembourg, February 28, 2018. It took two five set games on Wednesday to determine another two teams that made their way to the next round of CEV Challenge Cup. Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT defeated Biogas Volley NÄFELS on home court, while Bunge RAVENNA played an away game in Lisbon, where they made a comeback from losing 1-2 to confirm their place in the next stage of the competition. In the semis RAVENNA will be playing against Maliye Piyango SK ANKARA, while Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT are yet to know their opponent - Olympiacos PIRAEUS or PAR-KY MENEN. Here are the all results of #CEVChallengeCupM on Wednesday: Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT (RUS) vs. Biogas Volley NÄFELS (SUI) 3-2 (25-23, 20-25, 25-13, 22-25, 15-10) Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT took a 19-12 lead in the first set, but missed their chance to maintain the gap, allowing Biogas Volley NÄFELS to level the score at 22-22. The hosts made a lot of mistakes in the middle of the net, but they managed to achieve a minimal advantage, 25-23. In the second set the game continued point by point until 11-11, when Biogas Volley NÄFELS put pressure on the opponent, forcing them to make mistakes. This time Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT couldn’t overcome their errors and NÄFELS used the provided opportunities in a good way, equalising the score in the match. At 20-16 in favour of NÄFELS in the second set, their setter Reto Giger suffered an ankle joint injury and left the court until the end of the game. This fact became the determining point for the further development of the game. In the third set the new setter Kai Yendrik Aebli simplified the game, which allowed Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT to make seven kill blocks. It did not come as a surprise that the hosting club defeated the opponent 25-13. In the fourth and the fifth sets Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT used their reserve squad, with only Bogdan Glivenko remaining on the court. NÄFELS followed with their own replacements. Even though the two sets would not influence the result of this double fixture, NÄFELS tried to get the victory, but Denis Ignatyev, who showed a good performance at the service line, surprised them completely, getting the victory on SURGUT’s side. Dalibor Polak, coach of Biogas Volley NÄFELS: “First of all, I want to congratulate SURGUT who made the step to the next round. We came here to show a good game and win. We showed a good game in the first two sets, but in the first one we made a lot of mistakes in the most important moments. In the second one we lost our first setter, which created problems for us in the decisive third set. We are a small club, we have only five professional players, so Volleyball is just a hobby for the rest of the team. It was a great success for us to make the quarterfinals of the Challenge Cup. It's amazing to play against Russian teams, and I think during the first two sets we were a good opponent for the Surgut team.” Dalibor Polak, coach of Biogas Volley NÄFELS: “First of all, I want to congratulate SURGUT who made the step to the next round. We came here to show a good game and win. We showed a good game in the first two sets, but in the first one we made a lot of mistakes in the important moments. In the second one we lost our first setter, which created problems for us in the decisive third set. We are a small club, we have only five professional players, so volleyball is just a hobby for the rest of the team. It was a great success for us to make the quarterfinals of the Challenge Cup. It's amazing to play against Russian teams, and I think during the first two sets we were a good opponent for the Surgut team.”
 Ruslan Zhbankov, assistant coach of Gazprom-Ugra SURGUT: “NÄFELS showed good Volleyball today, but the opponent plays as they are allowed to play. I think that today we did not show our best game. The players were thinking about the victory, and it is not a difficult task to win two sets at home. But when the opponent comes out and begin to resist, it is very difficult to regroup. It is very hard to turn a negative trend into a positive one. So the game was nervous on our side.” Sport LISBOA e Benfica (POR) vs. Bunge RAVENNA (ITA) 2-3 (21-25, 25-22, 25-18, 22-25, 14-16) Wednesday night brought an upset to Sport LISBOA e Benfica from the CEV Challenge Cup after a 2-3 defeat in the 2nd leg of the quarterfinals. After the previous 3-1 defeat in Italy in the 1st Leg, Benfica needed to get a 3-0 result or, eventually, a 3-1, in order to play the Golden Set and keep their chances to remain in the competition alive. Although the match was quite balanced and emotional until the end, the experience of the Italian club was decisive to determine the final result. José Pereira Jardim, coach of Sport LISBOA e Benfica: “It was a great Volleyball match against one of the best teams we have played with, with a very consistent and decisive service, maintained by their side even when we were responding well. We never stopped believing but in the fourth set Nicolas Marechal made the difference for RAVENNA.” Ivo Casas, libero of Sport LISBOA e Benfica: “We were very close to taking this match at least to the Golden Set. There was a lack of luck because it was a balanced match since the beginning and the result shows it. I am sad but we left a good impression.” Fabio Soli, coach of Bunge RAVENNA: “We are so proud because we fought against a great team, in a great atmosphere. The performance of both teams was very good. We are honoured to reach the semis, mostly because we won against such a good team as Benfica.” Nicolas Marechal, outside hitter of Bunge RAVENNA: “It was a difficult game, because maybe after the first set, we thought that the game was finished in our favour. Sport LISBOA e Benfica came back hungry for a victory and played very well. We are happy that we made it to the semis.”

You've got idiots, you've got real idiots, and you've got Trump. Plan to fight school shootings? Give weapons to the teachers! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/21/donald-trump-solution-to-school-shootings-arm-teachers-with-guns I wonder what the next plan to fight suicide bombers is, give everyone a suicide vest? Or the plan to fight hunger, take away everyone's food so relatively speaking nobody is hungry anymore? Or the plan to fight stuff like cancer, give everyone cancer hoping that the cancer gives the cancer cancer and goes away?

Now I'm hungry.

Jansrud, too...he and the Swiss today looked well in front of the rest of the field... and behind them there's a bunch of hungry wolves (Svindal, Paris, the Austrians -maybe except for Franz, who looks a bit slower than his teammates- and also a few other outsiders, like the Frenchmen and even Innerhofer, who was still in full contention until the intermediate #4, when the real effort ended -most athletes just had a touristic attitude in the last 30 seconds of the race)... I think tomorrow it's gonna be quite an open race, with some room for huge upsets (even if at the end the winner will not be the classic one-hit wonder kind of guy)...

don't remind me of those wonderful Vancouver days...when I was so happy...and the Games were so well scheduled and covered by our TV... however, with my faithful satellite dish and my Eurosport Player subscription I hope not to miss anything... time's not a problem, since as always during the Olympic, I'm gonna be in my own world with a "do not disturb" (maybe also a "beware of the hungry and angry beast") warning on my tech room's door...

Someone is a bit hungry? Double win for Ivanova in Siguda Wrong theared

Yeah Werloc, go feed yourself. I'm hungry as well.

In CZ/SK it mean you Hungry c.nts ! Nice, just found a article about that and noticed even more vulgar and funny CZ/SK word in your language. I mean The word for Rooster ! in our language it mean well the extremely vulgar word for the male reproductive organ

MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knockout Round Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Finland 1 - 4 Sweden Period-by-Period: 1-1, 0-2, 0-1 May 20th 2016, h. 19:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne Sweden powers past Finns Tre Kronor to battle Canada for gold Sweden’s power play clicked twice in the second period en route to a 4-1 semi-final win over Finland. The Swedes will face Canada for gold on Sunday in Cologne. It was a dominant performance for Sweden in this latest episode of the fabled Nordic rivalry on Saturday night. The underdog Finns worked hard, as they traditionally do, but were outsmarted and outskilled by their big-name opponents. Sweden is now one win away from capturing its first IIHF World Championship gold medal since 2013, when it famously ended the 27-year-old “home ice curse” in Stockholm with a 5-1 victory over Switzerland. Dating back to 1953, the Swedes have won nine golds at this tournament. Defeating Canada, the two-time defending champions, will be a big challenge. In goal, Finland’s Harri Sateri came to play, but the Vityaz Podolsk backstop couldn't win his duel with superstar Henrik Lundqvist. Shots on goal favored Sweden 41-23. The late addition of Lundqvist from the New York Rangers and Backstrom from the Washington Capitals continues to pay off. Lundqvist, who led Tre Kronor to victory at the 2006 Turin Olympics, has won four straight starts and is hungry for his first IIHF World Championship gold medal. The 35-year-old has silvers from 2003 and 2004 -- the last two times Sweden played Canada in the final. In front of 11,242 spectators, William Nylander led the way with a goal and an assist, while Alexander Edler, John Klingberg, and Joakim Nordstrom also scored for Sweden. Nicklas Backstrom added two assists. Joonas Kemppainen had the lone goal for Finland. The disappointed Finns, who settled for silver last year with a 2-0 final loss to Canada, still have a chance to medal for the second consecutive year when they take on Russia for bronze. Despite not blowing most of their opponents out of the water, the Swedes have gotten stronger and stronger since early group-stage losses to Russia (2-1 in OT) and the United States (4-3). Sweden has scored first in every game so far. Edler maintained that trend when Backstrom won a faceoff in the Finnish end and the Vancouver Canucks defenceman blasted it inside Sateri’s left post for a 1-0 lead at 1:49. It was Edler’s second of the tournament, as he also tallied in the 3-1 quarter-final win over Switzerland. The Finns quickly tied it up on an Edler turnover. He tried to backhand it out up the middle and Kemppainen jumped on it and wristed it past Lundqvist at 4:45. Emotions ran high as scrums broke out around both goalies. When Backstrom and Nylander worked a neat give-and-go off a Finnish giveaway, Sateri stood his ground on Nylander’s backhander and surrendered no rebound. The Swedes outshot Finland 11-5 in the first. At 4:36 of the second period, Sweden grabbed a 2-1 lead on the power play with Finnish assistant captain Valtteri Filppula off for tripping. Klingberg’s seeing-eye shot from the centre point whizzed high past Sateri. Battling to keep the game close, the Finnish netminder robbed Oscar Lindberg with his glove on a shot from the left faceoff circle. With Jesse Puljujarvi in the box, the Backstrom-Nylander combo clicked at 14:52. The veteran centre found Nylander cruising in the slot, and he squeezed a high one home for a 3-1 lead. Sateri persevered during a late-period Swedish man advantage, stoning Nylander at the side of the net when he tried to finish off a tic-tac-toe passing play. There was little hope of a third-period Finnish rally. Coach Lauri Marjamaki has a far less offensively stacked team than last year’s edition with Patrik Laine and Aleksander Barkov. The blue-and-white boys got just 20 goals in the preliminary round, compared to 29 in 2016. In the first half of the third period, the biggest fireworks came when Anton Stralman laid out Finland's Mikko Rantanen at the Swedish blue line with a colossal bodycheck. With 6:08 left, Nordstrom added some insurance with a short-side wrister to make it 4-1. The Finns pulled their goalie for the extra attacker with 2:07 left, but it was too little, too late. Surprisingly, this was just the third time in history that Sweden and Finland have faced each other in the World Championship semi-finals since the IIHF inaugurated the playoff system in 1992. The Finns prevailed in the two-game format in 1999 in Norway, while Sweden blanked the Lions 3-0 in Stockholm in 2013.

MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Round DAY 6 Group B Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Switzerland 3 - 0 Belarus Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 1-0 May 10th 2016, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Swiss blank Belarus Genoni shutout, Belarusians lose fourth straight Belarus can’t buy a win in Paris. Coach Dave Lewis’s team suffered its fourth straight regulation loss, falling 3-0 to the Swiss on Wednesday. Reto Schapp stepped up with a goal and an assist, and Andres Ambuhl and Cody Almond also scored for Switzerland. The Swiss played a methodical, hard-working game, unperturbed by their 4-3 shootout loss to host France less than 24 hours ago. "It was really a tough loss yesterday," said Swiss assistant captain Philippe Furrer. "Everybody was so disappointed. We were so sure that we were going to win against France. We wanted to react today, and I think we did it the right way." Swiss goalie Leonardo Genoni registered his second shutout of the tournament. Switzerland outshot Belarus 23-14. With just three Group B games remaining, Belarus is virtually out of quarter-finals contention. They have now lost to all the premier contenders. Even more disturbingly, the country that finished seventh at both the 2014 and 2015 Worlds has scored a tournament-low goals. "We talked about them playing late last night and taking advantage of that," said Belarus goalie Kevin Lalande. "I thought we did the opposite. We came out flat. We took some stupid penalties. We gave them a lead, and that set the tone for the rest of the game." Belarus will try to get its first points on Friday versus the French. The Swiss get two days off and will battle Canada on Saturday. "We’ve got to find a way," said Lalande. "Friday’s a big game for us. We’ve beaten France in the past. We have a good track record against them. So we’ve got to come out hungry and forget about tonight." Here, early in the cautiously played first period, due to a technical error, the game clock would not stop counting down. Time was kept with a stopwatch, and the PA announced the remaining time at each stoppage. Schappi showed his timing was just fine when he opened the scoring on the power play at 17:54. Standing at Lalande’s crease, he banged in the rebound from Ramon Untersander’s drive from the left faceoff circle. The Belarusians took three minors and were outshot 12-5 in the opening stanza. The Swiss were slightly more aggressive than their opponents, but this was still a waiting game. At 15:29 of the second period, Ambuhl made it 2-0. Denis Hollenstein sent a savvy backhand pass from behind the goal line and the veteran, playing in his 14th straight Worlds, put it under the cross bar for his team-leading third goal Things opened up and the Swiss got more chances. Pius Suter was foiled by Lalande on a backhand deke on a clear break, and Vincent Praplan, who had two goals against the French, got hauled down on another glorious opportunity, giving Switzerland a late-period power play. In the third, Almond salted away the victory when he stickhandled in off right wing and zipped a wrist over Lalande's glove at 7:55. "It’s always nice to contribute for sure," said Almond. "It was a great play by Schappi to give us a 2-on-1 there. I saw the D-man cheating, so I went short side." Looking ahead to Canada, Furrer said: "Canada knows us now. That’s the problem! Maybe they underestimated us a little bit [in the past], but now they know Switzerland is fast. For sure we need to just put our weapon on the ice, our speed, and then we will have a chance to win against this big nation." Veteran Belarusian forward Andrei Kostitsyn returned to the lineup after missing the 6-0 loss to Canada due to an injury.

MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 DAY 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEAMS PREVIEW Russia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JERSEY Home Away ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russia looks to the future Znarok brings young roster to Cologne Russia’s roster might have just three 30-somethings as Oleg Znarok tries out the rising stars of the KHL in a championship situation for the first time. With the 2018 Winter Olympics looming on the horizon, Russia has boldly cut many of its NHL stars and rested several veterans. Throughout the Euro Hockey Tour season, Oleg Znarok’s team has taken a long look at the young talent emerging from the KHL, and that process has continued into the World Championship. It’s true that the likes of SKA St.Petersburg stars Pavel Datsyuk, Ilya Kovalchuk and Vyacheslav Voynov are unavailable due to injury, but it’s also likely that the two forwards, at least, would be given some time off from a roster which could boast just three players over the age of 30. Goal Andrei Vasilevski is the man in charge here. The Tampa Bay goalie shot to prominence in Minsk in 2014 when he allowed just one goal in two appearances, making 66 saves in wins over the USA and Germany. Since then, the 22-year-old has established himself in Florida and agreed to join the national team in the expectation that he will be the first-choice goalie. Two KHL youngsters, Ilya Sorokin of CSKA Moscow and Igor Shestyorkin of SKA St. Petersburg will hope for some ice time and a chance to stake a claim for an Olympic call-up. Defence No place for the injured Vyacheslav Voynov, no place for Nikita Zaitsev after a long season in Toronto. Instead, Ivan Provorov looks like the intriguing call-up this time out. The Philadelphia youngster isn’t all that familiar to many fans in Russia: the Yaroslavl native’s career thus far has been played entirely across the Atlantic and he made his first senior appearances for Russia last weekend in the Czech Hockey Games. Now, the 20-year-old is set to be a key D-man at the Worlds after a breakout season for the Flyers. There’s plenty of scope for more young talent: Magnitogorsk’s Alexei Bereglazov and Viktor Antipin should play a big role, while Lokomotiv Yaroslavl’s Vladislav Gavrikov is another coming off a good KHL campaign. Anton Belov, SKA’s former Edmonton Oiler, adds some valuable experience to a young blue line. Forward After a season of smashing individual scoring records, team captain Sergei Mozyakin would normally be the stand-out star on offence. However, the pulsating play of SKA’s Vadim Shipachyov, Yevgeni Dadonov and Nikita Gusev makes them the line to watch. The chemistry between those three in the KHL was a joy to behold and if that translates onto the international stage, they could provide some of the big memories from Cologne. Elsewhere, 20-year-old Kirill Kaprizov could be the breakout star of the tournament. After scoring heavily for an inconsistent Salavat Yulaev team in the KHL and impressing again at the World Juniors, he began May by signing a contract with CSKA Moscow and getting the call for his first senior Worlds. A strong showing in Cologne could make him a lock for an Olympic role. NHL representation could be limited to a single line: Tampa Bay duo Nikita Kucherov and Vladislav Namestnikov will likely form a partnership with either Artemi Panarin (Chicago) or Roman Lyubimov (Philadelphia). Panarin has the World Championship props, having featured on an effective line with Dadonov and Shipachyov in the past; Lyubimov featured in Moscow last season and was part of the most recent Euro Tour roster. Among Russia’s more renowned NHLers, Alexander Radulov has cried off while he arranges his contract for next season. Space is likely to be left on the roster for Alexander Ovechkin or Yevgeni Malkin to join the team at the end of the on-going Caps – Pens series. Coaching Oleg Znarok has combined club coaching at SKA St. Petersburg with his role on the national team – and so far, it’s been a success. SKA powered to the Gagarin Cup, Russia dominated the Euro Hockey Tour, and the signs are encouraging for more glory to come. The current season has seen something of a change in Znarok’s style as well. His SKA team was a goal-hungry machine, smashing scoring records in the regular season, and the key Shipachyov-Dadonov-Gusev line is likely to be a key part of a potentially gung-ho Russian offence here. Projected results As usual, Russian fans are not discussing whether the team will win hardware; they’re debating the colour of medal that their heroes will bring home. Despite calling up fewer big-name players with NHL experience, the expectation is that this young roster can dominate its group. Progress to the final four feels like a minimum requirement; the prospect of claiming gold will depend on how well Oleg Znarok’s team overcomes its nemeses in previous championships – Finland and Canada, both of which start the tournament in Paris. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Previews France Latvia Slovenia Canada Denmark Italy Belarus United States

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016/2017 GERMANY EHC RED BULL MUNICH 2nd League Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Munich makes it two in a row Bulls beat Wolfsburg to defend DEL title The EHC Red Bull Munich players celebrate with the trophy after their successful title defence in the DEL. With Game 5 serving as the match ball for EHC Red Bull Munich, the Bavarians convincingly took their second DEL championship in a row with a 4-0 victory over renewed opponent Grizzlys Wolfsburg. Entering the season as the favourite for a repeat performance, the team eventually finished first overall and then marched to the final with a 4-0 series win over newbie Fischtown Penguins Bremerhaven and a 4-1 series victory over the Eisbaren Berlin, before facing a Wolfsburg team hungry for vengeance. Wolfsburg’s path to the finals was a bit tougher, but aced with resilience. The team not only knocked off one of the biggest favourites, Cologne’s team Kolner Haie, in seven games, it then won a tough and emotional series over a tough Nuremberg Ice Tigers 4-2. Both opponents were felt to be among the biggest frontrunners for the title. Yet when the dust of the finals settled Monday afternoon, Munich once again secured the championship for itself, this time right in its own backyard in front of 6,142 spectators thanks to a 4-0 score. With this shutout, the team took the series four games to one. “I think things were real hard for us in the beginning today. Wolfsburg really put the pressure on,” explained Captain Michael Wolf, last spring’s finals MVP. “At the end of the day, we’re just really happy we got the job done.” And it was done in a manner that was truly sweet for the hometown crowd. As the clock ticked down, the team’s fans were already singing chants of victory and the players were rattling the boards with their sticks. The final buzz led to a wave of players hitting the ice with the enthusiasm of a youthful pee wee squad winning it all for the first time ever. “This is absolutely awesome being able to win this in front of the hometown fans. It just doesn’t get any better,” stated DEL Defenceman of the Year, Konrad Abeltshauser, for whom the moment was clearly surreal. “This is simply indescribable, being here on the ice and with my friends who are here with me today in order to celebrate this moment with me. When you’re kid out playing street hockey, you dream about one day winning a championship. This is like a dream.” The win was truly a special one for Jason Jaffray, one of the team’s key players, who was nonetheless injured before the playoffs and only saw time and a diminished role in seven playoff games after 39 points and a +24 rating in 45 regular season games. A key figure in the locker room and a fan favourite, the elation was clear in his voice: “There are no words for it’s like watching the last few seconds of the clock run down and then to hear the final buzz, feeling and hearing the support of the fans who’ve been so very loud the entire season, and especially in the playoffs. I’m going to rest up now and then celebrate this thing.” Enjoying his best season ever was Yannic Seidenberg, who not only put up 41 regular season points, but also a +26 rating. In 14 playoff games, he chipped in 10 points, just like last spring, but his ability to play a key two-way defensive role when it mattered most helped see him named the MVP of the finals. “We’re definitely not going to sleep much tonight,” stated the playoff ace, who once collected 19 points in 20 WHL playoff games for the Medicine Hat Tigers many moons ago. Just last season, on 24th April 2016 to be exact, it was these Bulls who defeated the very same Grizzlys Wolfsburg from Lower Saxony, four games to none. The Grizzlys managed to make things a wee bit closer this time around losing just 3-2 in the first two outings be-fore beating the Bavarians in Munich 2-1 in Game 3. But Munich left no doubt about its resolve to repeat as champions, winning Game 4 by a score of 7-2 and then shutting out Wolfsburg 4-0 Monday, allowing the team to celebrate the championship on home ice this time around. The first period saw a Wolfsburg team ready to lengthen the series and an early was al-most put together when winger Gerrit Fauser just barely missed the goal shortly after Brent Aubin had hit the post from a sharp angle. A compact defence was able to keep Mu-nich at bay until some heady forechecking led to a messy turnover and John Matsumoto eventually pumped in his sixth goal of the playoff in the 19th minute of play. It would not only prove to be the game-winning goal but would end up being the first time in the series where the team scoring the first goal of the game would end up being the game’s victor. Jerome Flaake, a former Toronto Maple Leafs draft pick who had a contract with the Ham-burg Freezers before the team folded last summer, put Munich up 2-0 on a penalty shot in the 25th minute of play. Wolfsburg would then bring everything the team could, but couldn’t find a way passed the very strong Danny aus den Birken, before defenceman Derek Joslin and Brooks Macek, who was the top scorer of the DEL playoffs with 17 points, put the nail in the coffin with their goals in the 47th and 50th minutes respectively. For Danny aus den Birken, who stood tall in goal for all five games of the series and all 14 playoff games the team played, this championship will surely be seen as a good bit sweeter than last season’s, where his goaltending partner David Leggio played the hero appearing in all 13 playoff games on the way to the team’s first championship. In total, aus den Birken would end up playing 42 games this season after Leggio failed to find to his form of yesteryear. His 1.32 goals against average and 92.4 save percentage made the choice of netminders quite easy for coach Don Jackson. Speaking of whom, the title is now the seventh the U.S. coach hailing from the state of Minnesota has achieved in Germany, all of which have been garnered since the 2007/08 season. Already seen as one of Europe’s most successful coaches over the last decade, Jackson has added to a legacy of coaching success that is seeing him turn into a man of coaching legend. Once a teammate of Wayne Gretzky in winning two Stanley Cups, it’ll surely be a long time coming before another DEL coach achieves a similar form of suc-cess. “It’s very emotional. I’ve got tears in my eyes again. I’m happy about every single champi-onship and am just extremely proud of my team,” said Jackson, for whom post-championship interviews are becoming a thing of habit. It’s always been difficult and we’re just terribly happy to have been able to achieve this victory. I am unbelievably proud of the entire team, of my coaching colleagues, and natu-rally of my team. Every championship is special, both the one last year and this one here. For a Munich-based hockey team in Germany’s top pro circuit, it’s the fifth title after MTV won in 1922, Munich Hedos in 1994, and the Munich Barons in 2000. In addition, all four goal-scorers in today’s final victory joined the team last summer and thus enjoyed their first championship with the team. Once again deserving to be pointed out is the continued relationship between Jackson and all-round Danish forward Mads Christensen. After joining the Eisbaren Berlin for the 2010/11 season under Jackson’s tutelage, the Danish national team forward proceeded to win two championships. As soon as Jackson took over in Munich for the 2014/15 season, Christensen signed to play under his old coach. This is now their fourth overall championship together and Christiansen was able to contribute seven points to the cause after having racked up ten in last season’s playoff run. Not to be forgotten are Christensen’s Danish league championships, which he achieved in 2003, 05, 07, 08, and 09. There isn’t a player in Germany more familiar with winning than Denmark’s go-to face-off man and one has to wonder at this point just how much winning Christensen and Jackson can continue to do with each other. Bitter for Wolfsburg is not only their second loss in the DEL finals in a row, but also their third finals loss since 2011. A club continually built on a low budget, there’s not a doubt in the minds of Germany most well-known ice hockey pundits that no one is better at squeezing water out of stone than Wolfsburg coach Pavel Gross. Now Gross and GM Charlie Fliegauf will once again have to spend a summer at the chalk board figuring out how to get over the hump that has become the Red Bull Munich. For the champs, they’ll surely enjoy this victory as much as the last, before getting back to work on a third. For the Red Bull organization, it’ll be able to use Red Bull Salzburg, which failed to obtain what would have been its third championship in a row, as a case example of what Munich may need to do to secure its third in a row next season. For many in the business, simply keeping Don Jackson at the helm would be seen as the best recipe for that endeavour.

Laffont and Kingsbury triumph in Thaiwoo moguls The first of the weekend’s back-to-back competitions at the moguls World Cup finals took to the newest venue on the tour in Thawoo (CHN) for single moguls competition on Saturday, where Perrine Laffont (FRA) and Mikael Kingsbury (CAN) were able to step up and claim victories on the tricky Thaiwoo course. As has been the case all week, brilliantly sunny skies and a perfectly prepared course greeted the athletes on Saturday morning, with organizers and Mother Nature working in tandem to create ideal conditions for the season-ending competitions. Ladies’ competition was tight throughout the day, with Justine Dufour-Lapointe (CAN) topping qualifications and the first round of finals before finding herself in the super final lined up against the likes of Laffont, moguls crystal globe winner Britt Cox (AUS), and last weekend’s Tazawako (JPN) dual moguls winner Jaelin Kauf (USA). As she was slated to drop last, Dufour-Lapointe watched as Laffont put down the best run of the day for any of the ladies, skiing the tight moguls on the Thaiwoo sun-warmed course as smoothly as anybody had. Laffont’s score of 80.01 was the first to break the 80-point barrier for the ladies all day, and the gauntlet was thrown down for Dufour-Lapointe. Unfortunately for the Canadian, Laffont’s performance would prove to be just out of reach on the day. While Dufour-Lapointe also skied cleanly, in the end she come up just short, finishing .75 points back of Laffont with a score of 79.26. “I’m so happy to be on the podium today, especially to take first place,” said Laffont of her first win in 2016/17, “It wasn’t an easy course this morning with the ice, but this afternoon it was much better with the slushy snow. I just tried to enjoy my journey, and the win happened!” Third place on Saturday went to Britt Cox (AUS), the 22-year-old Australian who was able to cinch up the moguls World Cup title last weekend in Japan. Saturday’s podium was her eighth in 10 events so far in 2016/17, and while it puts her well out in front in the race for the Freestyle overall crystal globe, we will not know until Sunday’s dual moguls competition if it is hers for certain. Kingsbury takes sixth straight win In the men’s competition on Saturday, Mikael Kingsbury made no mistakes on tricky Thaiwoo course, topping qualifications, final number one, and then the big finals - all by considerable margins - on his way to taking his sixth-straight victory and, for all intents and purposes, ensuring himself of his sixth-straight Freestyle overall crystal globe. Kingsbury’s sixth consecutive win leaves him one back of the record seven-straight victories he himself set back in 2014/15, and you can count on him being hungry to tie that mark in the hopes of besting it at the season opener in 2017/18. Kingsbury’s skiing was head-and-shoulders above his competition on Saturday, as he registered the top scores in time, turning, and air, simultaneously aggressive and relaxed on the extremely tight Thaiwoo course. His super final score of 86.00 put him 4.25 clear of runner-up Brodie Summers (AUS). None of which is to take away from Summers’ performance, as the 23-year-old earned his second career podium with a silky-smooth effort that just didn’t quite match Kingsbury’s speed or jump difficulty. Capping off a thee-podium day for the Australians was Matt Graham, who went for a more attacking style than did his countryman Summers, but paid the price with some breaks in form through the course’s middle section. However, his result did move him to within 27 points of Ben Cavet of France in the race for second overall on the moguls leaderboard. Competition in Thaiwoo continues on Sunday with dual moguls - the final event of the moguls World Cup season and the competition in which we will see Britteny Cox and Mikael Kingsbury awarded the 2016/17 moguls crystal globes and, very possibly, the globes for 2016/17 FIS Freestyle Skiing overall titles. Full Results Men and Women

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quarterfinal Canada - Czech Republic 5-3 Canada to face Sweden in SF Anxious moments, but hosts top Czechs in QF Julien Gauthier scored twice in the third period to lift Canada to a 5-3 quarter-final win over the Czech Republic and set up a showdown with unbeaten Sweden. It wasn't a picture-perfect performance for the hosts, but it was a big relief to make the final four. "In the first period we were panicking a little bit, but in the end I think it’s a big win for us," said Gauthier, whose squad trailed 1-0 after 20 minutes despite an 11-4 edge in shots. Canada, with five returning players from last year’s 6-5 quarter-final loss to eventual champion Finland, was hungry to avoid a second consecutive disappointment. The Canadians, who last won gold in Toronto in 2015, also failed to medal in 2013 and 2014. "It’s obviously better than last year," said captain Dylan Strome. "It feels good to be on the winning side of the quarter-finals. Obviously you’re not satisfied yet, but I think it’s a good step." The last time Canada faced Sweden in the World Junior playoffs was the 2009 gold medal game in Ottawa, a 5-1 Canadian victory. Sweden won the last two meetings, 6-5 in a shootout on 31 December, 2010, and 5-2 on 31 December, 2015. "They’re a good team, and we’re going to have to be aware on all sides of the puck," Strome said of the Swedes. "In the offensive zone, they can attack just as quickly as we can." Mitchell Stephens, who missed two games after injuring his ankle versus Latvia, was a force in the quarter-final with a goal and two assists. Blake Speers and Thomas Chabot added a goal and assist apiece, and Anthony Cirelli had two assists. "I think we can still be better," said Canadian coach Dominique Ducharme. "We were good at times but we need to be better over 60 minutes." David Kase, Tomas Soustal, and Simon Stransky scored for the Czechs. "If we play Canada ten times we can maybe beat them once or twice," said Czech coach Jakub Petr. Connor Ingram, who was originally projected to back up Carter Hart at this tournament, made his second straight start in net for Canada. The 19-year-old Kamloops Blazers goalie did enough to preserve the win. Canada outshot the Czechs 41-19, testing Czech netminder Jakub Skarek from every angle. With the loss, the Czech Republic finishes sixth. It hasn’t won gold since back-to-back titles in 2000 and 2001. Its last medal was bronze in 2005 -- also the last time it made the semi-finals. Stransky reflected on the tournament: "We started pretty good against Finland. We won that game. I thought it was going to be good. But then we lost two games against Switzerland and Denmark in overtime. Then Sweden. The key game was against Denmark. It was just unlucky, but we’re going home now." Prior to this game, Canada had won eight of the last nine games against the Czechs. The Czechs, however, won the previous encounter, 5-4 in a shootout on 28 December, 2013. Defenceman Kale Clague replaced Philippe Myers on Canada’s top pairing with Chabot. Myers suffered a concussion in the 3-1 New Year’s Eve loss to the Americans. The game got off to a relatively cautious start. Canada was outshooting the Czechs 8-1 when defenceman Noah Juulsen took the game’s first penalty for delay of game midway through the first, putting the puck over the glass in his own end. However, Petr’s team didn’t get a shot on goal during the man advantage. With 3:11 left in the first, the Czechs stunned the Bell Centre faithful by taking a 1-0 lead on a flukey play. Captain Filip Hronek’s shot from the side bounced off Adam Musil in front and then hit the referee standing to Ingram’s right. Kase pounced on the loose puck and golfed it into the open side. "I’ve never seen one go straight to a guy," said Ingram. "I’ve seen it go off a linesman for a breakaway or a 2-on-1 or something like that. But I’ve never seen it cause an open net like that before. That’s something new. It’s going to happen once in a blue moon, I guess." Canada tied it up at 3:45 of the second period when Stephens centered it from the corner to an unguarded Speers, who redirected it through Skarek’s legs for his first World Junior goal. That got the home team and fans fired up, and Stephens made it 2-1 Canada on a set play at 7:27. Anthony Cirelli won a faceoff in the Czech end and the Saginaw Spirit forward one-timed it in before Skarek could move. Of Stephens, Chabot said: "He’s a guy who’s always working his ass off on the ice. He’s always first on pucks, winning every battle. He’s also a good, fast player. We’re glad to have him back in the lineup." However, the Czechs drew even on their first shot of the middle frame at 8:53. Soustal got the puck past Jake Bean at the Czech blue line, burst down right wing and executed a toe drag around a sprawling Juulsen before zinging it past Ingram’s glove. At 13:32, Chabot made it 3-2. He took a pass from Stephens and stepped in, stickhandling around a sprawling Radek Koblizek before whipping home a low stick-side wrister. "He’s a fun guy to watch," said Ingram of Chabot, who played one game for the Ottawa Senators this season. "He’s making himself a household name across Canada right now. It’s exciting to see. The guy’s got a ton of skill." At 3:18 of the third period, Gauthier, a 2015 first-round pick of the Carolina Hurricanes, gave Canada some breathing room at 4-2. Nicolas Roy centered it to Gauthier from behind the net and he surprised Skarek with a quick top-corner shot. The Czechs had an answer at 5:54. Ingram made a pad save on Necas's turn-around shot, but Stransky deftly backhanded the rebound in. But Gauthier restored Canada's two-goal edge just 43 seconds later, banging in the rebound from Clague's long shot. "Especially in the second and third, we were hemming them in their D zone," said Stephens. "We had a lot of energy." In the final minute, Petr pulled his goalie and called his timeout, but it was too late for a Czech comeback. The three best Czech players of the tournament were named post-game: Filip Hronek, Michael Spacek, and David Kase. Canada has won the World Juniors five out of the 11 times it has hosted (1991, 1995, 2006, 2009, 2015).

Hirscher stays king of Alta Badia GS Austrian Marcel Hirscher continued his dominance in Alta Badia (ITA) as the defending World Cup Overall winner, took home his fourth straight giant slalom victory on the Gran Risa course. It was the first victory for Hirscher this season in the giant slalom, although he had two second place finishes in the young 2016-17 season. Hirscher was the man to beat the entire day as his consistent skiing gave him the fastest time on both the first and second runs. He started the second run with a 0.21 second advantage over Mathieu Faivre (FRA) and in the end added another half second to the margin as he won by 0.71 seconds. Faivre ended the race in second place, in another strong showing for the Frenchman, who celebrated his first career World Cup victory two weeks ago in Val d’Isere. Much to the delight of the packed crowd, the Italian team placed a racer in the top three after Florian Eisath took home third place. Zan Kranjec (SLO) was a surprise fourth-place finisher, his run today matched his previous best career World Cup finish, when he also took fourth this season in Soelden. There were surprises in the DNF column as well as Ted Ligety (USA) didn’t make it far on his first run. Other notable DNF’s from the first run included Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (NOR), Carlo Janka (SUI) and Philipp Schoerghofer (AUT). Also Alexis Pinturault (FRA) came away with no World Cup points after he suffered a crash in his second run, but fortunately looked to be uninjured. It was Hirscher’s 41st career World Cup win, which now moves him up to fourth on the all-time victory list. Hirscher will look to add to his victory total tomorrow when anything is possible for the nighttime parallel giant slalom. Last year, speed ace Kjetil Jansrud (NOR) took home the crown, so this year the technical racers are sure to be hungry for the victory. Full Results Here Marcel Hirscher 1st Run Marcel Hirscher 2nd Run

Cox and Kingsbury victorious in Ruka Mikael Kingsbury competing at the finals in Ruka The Freestyle Ski Opening officially kicked off the World Cup season 2016/2017 with a single moguls competition that saw Britteny Cox (AUS) and Mikael Kingsbury (CAN) taking big wins under the lights in Ruka Ski Resort. In the ladies competition Australian Britteny Cox stormed through the course today, with style and grace, for her first-ever World Cup win. All this happening seven years after she first entered the World Cup circuit back in 2010 in Deer Valley. While Cox has already stood several times on the World Cup podium before, also taking the third place at the World Championships in Kreischberg in 2015, today’s results is without a doubt the biggest one in her career. “I’m just over the moon to have my first win. It’s been my goal for a long time now and I was really hungry for it. I’m super happy to put some solid runs in the finals especially here in Ruka, where I love competing”. Second place went to Perrine Laffont (FRA) who ended up with a score of 73.13, falling behind the winner Britteny Cox by less than 0.5 point. Perceived as one of the favorites for the overall World Cup ranking, Laffont gained some precious points advantage over her last year’s biggest rivals Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. Canadian skiers finished the competition on fifth and eighth place respectively. “I’m feeling so good to start the season with a place on the podium. I was really stressed at the start, but everything worked out just fine and I’m really happy with my result today”. 2013 and 2014 FIS Junior World Champion from Valmalenco (ITA), Keaton McCargo (USA) scored big today as she claimed her first World Cup podium with a third place finish in Ruka. “I’m still in shock, but also very excited about it. I’m glad I have a chance to share the podium with two of my good friends from the World Cup tour”. On the men’s side unstoppable Mikael Kingsbury went for his 34 World Cup victory and simply dominated the competition. Kingsbury was fast and kept stomping his tricks all day long repeating his last year’s result from Ruka and finishing the day on top of the podium. “It always feels amazing to win. I had a good feeling today when I woke up. I saw a little bit of fresh snow on the course and I think I picked the good line. Before dropping in for the final run I knew Ben and Matt scored in the 80s. I did 82 and 83 in the previous run so I knew that I had to stay clean and not to push too much. It worked out and it feels unbelievable”. Matt Graham (AUS) inspired by a phenomenal performance by his teammate Britteny Cox, also gave his best and ended up taking the second spot, falling short only to Kingsbury. “I’m very happy to start the season with second place. My best result here in the past was fourth so it’s nice to finally step on the podium and share it with my teammate Britt. It’s a very good day for Australia”. Third place on the day belonged to Benjamin Cavet (FRA) who rounded up the podium with his first-ever single moguls World Cup top 3 result. “I’m very happy with today’s results. I like skiing fast and do big jumps and this is how it is here in Ruka, so all in all it’s a perfect day for me”. The moguls World Cup now takes a holiday break and will come back after the New Years Eve with the next competition taking place in Lake Placid on 13th of January. Full Results Women and Men

Well, now you have a very important match against Slovakia, which will also be hungry for the victory. Good luck to both teams

i get it i get it - yes, he behaves like an "animal" (hungry for sth), well - he`s not taking any hostages

Bolt once again hungry for attention...

24 should be gone, 16 was great. Money-hungry leaches...