WC: 2023 Czech Team
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Hertl could have, I mean he had a whole month to rest and spend time with family. And he will have another time after WC is over.
Hertl was playing several times at the WCH. He just wanted to have a spring time for himself and him family this time. He has a right to that. The WCH is every year and it is a fun, entertaining, but not exactly the elite hockey competition. I am pretty sure he will come to the Prague tournament next year if he's available.
All of this is (for me atleast) really asking questions of how much of a work is Havlat actually doing. I mean did he even tried to convince the guys? Or was it like "you wanna go? no? .. well okay, bye" type of convincing
Feels weird all of it. As I am counting it we got almost 25players which played at least some games in NHL available this year. And got 5 for the team. Sure we got bad luck and lots got injured, some hadnt had contract. but it still leaves me with a bunch of guys who are not in the team for no good reason.
No interest in Francouz, Vrana, Galvas, Svozil (still dont understand why they send him home after one game) , Zacha and Hertl refusing for no good reason and it doesnt seem like there was much convincing going on. Even the Pastrnak "injury" thing seemed a bit off. I dont know its really funny, when you hear in march like everyone wants to go and then you end up with just three regular NHL players and two guys on the edge of their teams lol.
Hope its just this years thing, honestly right now as I see the team and some of the "choices" I am not sure I want Kari and the acutall staff to lead the team for the next season.
I would not say anything if he had to go straight from SC playoff to WCH like day to day. But cmon he got a whole month to relax, WCH is only two weeks, he will also have time to relax after it. I am sure that the preseason doesnt start the moment SC playoff ends, and those guys are starting every season with knowing they can play till half of June.
I knew about Knot, he said in some interview a while ago, that he is too old for this and he wants to play rather in "home" environment, where his family is close. Klok not commenting. Its shame of Galvas I think he could give it at least one more season.
But on the bright side we just got two good defenders who will very likely always be available for upcoming tournaments and thats great.
I just hope that they don't start calling for Vaněček to come maybe soon
Honestly, anyone who saw Knot here in those preseason games must be clear to him that he doesn't belong in the NHL.
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I'd take Palat though! I like Vanecek but it is not going well for him in playoffs.I just hope that they don't start calling for Vaněček to come maybe soon
Honestly, anyone who saw Knot here in those preseason games must be clear to him that he doesn't belong in the NHL.
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Palat and Faksa can be our last additions to our team I'd say 
(Gudas and Necas are leading 3:0/3:1, Kampf has no contract after this season and Vanecek is lost in last days).
So go Canes and Krakens
And we'll probably start like this:
And PP units:
(Gudas and Necas are leading 3:0/3:1, Kampf has no contract after this season and Vanecek is lost in last days).
So go Canes and Krakens
And we'll probably start like this:
And PP units:
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Palat and Faksa can be our last additions to our team I'd say
(Gudas and Necas are leading 3:0/3:1, Kampf has no contract after this season and Vanecek is lost in last days).
So go Canes and Krakens
And we'll probably start like this:
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And PP units:
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If it stays like that.. I really like it!
A great first formation that should be competitive with any top line in the tourney.
A solid second line with 3 players I absolutely love and cheer for.
Third line is super solid with a nice mix of everything!
Fourth line is spectacular for a 4th line.
I'd obviously like to see Kaut in but I'm alone in that.haha
I'll also scream to the rooftops if they put Sobotka in top 6. I'm fine with him in bottom 6 and could even see him helping us win games with his grit, faceoffs and smarts! Once you put him in top 6 though, we are weaker.
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Splitting it up... it's a pipedream but if Palat and Faksa joined then we'd have one of the best forward groups in the tourney! Chlapik or Smejkal to bottom 6 to make room for Palat. Faksa would give us great C depth! Chytil, Spacek, Faksa, Cernoch and Sobotka is beautiful depth for a tourney like this.Palat and Faksa can be our last additions to our team I'd say
(Gudas and Necas are leading 3:0/3:1, Kampf has no contract after this season and Vanecek is lost in last days).
So go Canes and Krakens
And we'll probably start like this:
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And PP units:
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I hope it happens but I doubt it does.
Let's play a prediction game: Top 3 Point Predictions for the tournament for Czech players?
Feel free to add any reasoning also if needed.
Example:
1. Cervenka 3+11 = 14 pts
2. Spacek 4+7 = 11 pts
3. Kubalik 6+3 = 9 pts
Feel free to add any reasoning also if needed.
Example:
1. Cervenka 3+11 = 14 pts
2. Spacek 4+7 = 11 pts
3. Kubalik 6+3 = 9 pts
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I love games!
1. Chytil 5 + 5
2. Kubalik 4 + 3
3. Cervus 1 + 6
Cervus had Pasta and Krejci for large chunks of last years tourney. Curious if he can have similar success with guys not on that level?
Hope you're right about Spacek! Love that guy!
Oh yeah, D scoring...
Kundratek 2 points
Kostalek 2 points
Zboril 2 points
Knot 2 points
Kempny 1 point
Jordan 1 point
Dvorak 1 point
Nemecek 1 point
I'm not expecting many points from our D at all (Svozil probably could've been on our PP since Jiricek, Klok and Hronek were unavailable but I digress)
That's a good point about Cervenka's production last year. However, he showed again in the recent EHT that he's really got what it takes to put up those numbers. Let's hope for yet another brilliant show. And with Spacek, I really like him too, I'm hoping that the PP will click nicely from day one.
Also thanks for the views on the defensemen!
Simon Hrubec speculated to be the starter against Slovakia.
lol can't make this up. A goalie who should have been shot into the sun after last year's olympics, where he put up possibly the worst goaltending perfomace by a Czech at a major tournament in history, and he is likely to be a starter at the WHC only a year later.
lol can't make this up. A goalie who should have been shot into the sun after last year's olympics, where he put up possibly the worst goaltending perfomace by a Czech at a major tournament in history, and he is likely to be a starter at the WHC only a year later.
Well its hard with Hrubec, he clearly had a good season in Switzerland and so far he was good in prep matches. But that being said I would also want to Vejmelka be in the net and be a 1st goalie. I would also take basically any other NHL goalie or Stezka over Hrubec, but we know that that wasnt possible (contracts, injuries).
On the other hand I dont know If I would take Vanecek over Hrubec if he became available honestly. He is in terrible form and his numbers in PO are scary lol
Definitely not Vanecek. He must be at rock bottom psychologically after his recent disasters.
Vanecek is overrated, backup level goaltender who got his numbers boosted by the team in front of him. In the playoffs he is just getting exposed.
But Hrubec is worse and I don't care about his club stats. When he does that at the NHL level we can talk. He has been a 'dominant' Europe-based goalie for 7 years now and hasn't shown anything at the international level. Just mediocrity topped with that abysmal Olympic showing.
As a man of science, I can assure you that you have fallen victim to a very popular bias among sports fans - the dredded small sample bias.
Hrubec has a mere 8 WC games under his belt, with a slightly above mediocre 90,9%. It's not great, but it's certainly not bad.
It's extremely likely his showing at the World Champs is not matching his showing in the KHL/NL due to variance. Which is huge with a sample size of 8 games.
If you don't care about his club stats, that equals pouting your lip and saying that you don't care about this little thing called reality.
Everyone can have opinions, but yours is simply not valid.
