U16: Five Nations Tournament in Romanshorn, Switzerland (3-8 February)

[theslatcher]

Czechia
Finland
Slovakia
Sweden
Switzerland

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[Pazucha]

Slovakia with no big changes. Players playing outside of Slovakia are still not allowed to play.

No underagers either even though they have like 20 points more than most of these players playing in the same league.

Spoiler: Slovakia Roster

BARANI Banská Bystrica: David GUĽAK, Alexander LICHNOVSKÝ
HC SLOVAN Bratislava: Viliam PIKNA
HC SLOVAN Bratislava-mládež: Vincent DONOVAL, Filip HORNÁČEK, Matúš VÁLEK
HC Košice: Jakub HUSÁR, Adam PATLEVIČ, Lukáš TRUSA
HC Košice/HC Bulls Vranov: Róbert KRAJŇÁK
mládež MHK 32 Liptovský Mikuláš/MHK Dolný Kubín: Tomáš DINDA
MHA Martin: Tomáš Vladimír PÚPAVA
HK Nitra: Oliver BOTKA
MMHK Nitra: Eduard MANDELÍK
HK ŠKP Poprad: Dante Maximilián FIGULA, Ivan GONŠOR, Dušan OLEKŠÁK,
Patrik RYCHLÍK, Pavol SMREK
MŠK Púchov: Filip ŠKRIPEC
MHK Ružomberok/MMHK Nitra: Dominik HERBST
HK Spišská Nová Ves: Alex KORHEĽ
HC Topoľčany/HOBA Bratislava: Patrik ŠIŠKA
HKM Zvolen: Alex Michael FERREIRA
HKM Zvolen-mládež: Christopher Tayler PODKONICKÝ

 

[just a hockey fan]

Slovakia with no big changes. Players playing outside of Slovakia are still not allowed to play.

No underagers either even though they have like 20 points more than most of these players playing in the same league.

What (if any) is the reasoning with the bolded parts? Especially the first one, do they dislike it that much if a player goes abroad to continue their development?

Does Slovakia have the same type of "rule" that I think both Finland and Sweden have regarding underagers in the U16 team? Is the U16 team always only for one age group at a time or has there been previous seasons where players who's a year younger gets into the team?

 

[Pazucha]

What (if any) is the reasoning with the bolded parts? Especially the first one, do they dislike it that much if a player goes abroad to continue their development?

People say that this way they want to force players to stay in Slovakia with a fear of missing out on playing for the national team.

But more and more players are leaving anyway. In USA, Czechia, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and even Austria the infrastructure is much better for a Slovak top prospect.

Officially SZLH claims that there is no rule and everyone is welcomed and can play for the national team whenever you play in Slovakia or abroad.

But the stats tell your a different story. In the last five tournaments 0 players from abroad were invited.

If the most productive player that previously played for a national team goes to play abroad he will "by a coincidence" not get an invite to the national team next time.

Is the U16 team always only for one age group at a time or has there been previous seasons where players who's a year younger gets into the team?

Underagers played for the U16 before. Usually its 1 or 2 players.

I really don't care if there is no underager, but because so many good 2009 players are not allowed to play for the national team there is a gap that could be filled with what looks like a great 2010 group.

 

[erikhamren]

This will be a interesting tourney. Swedens 09 age group may be weak on the forward side, no 09 forward really lightning up J18 Nationell although Sundström have decent stats in J18 Region. Hope to see more from him this time in the NT shirt. D-men and goalies are probably this teams strongest part. Johnsson and Törnqvist are putting up impressive numbers in both J18 Region and Nationell.

We will have a clearer look on how this age group stands in the next Finnkampen in August when the coaches have a more wider view of the age group

 

[Antiillafire]

What (if any) is the reasoning with the bolded parts? Especially the first one, do they dislike it that much if a player goes abroad to continue their development?

Does Slovakia have the same type of "rule" that I think both Finland and Sweden have regarding underagers in the U16 team? Is the U16 team always only for one age group at a time or has there been previous seasons where players who's a year younger gets into the team?

The highest scoring player in the U18 league is not nominated, he’s a 2010 born…. coaches think Slovaks have too much “scoring” talent it seems

 

[czech]

The Czechs have a huge depth in all positions for this year of birth. That's why the coach experiments, bringing almost completely different rosters to different tournaments.
In particular, immediately after the end of this tournament, the Czech u16 will go to the EYOF tournament in Georgia (at first glance, the opponents at this tournament will not be the strongest, but most teams there will be represented by players of 2008, while the Czech Republic will bring players of 2009 to the tournament). And this will be a completely different team! Only Michal Hartl will participate in both events.
Here is the roster for the tournament in Switzerland:
Goaltenders:
Petr Kijonka (Kometa Brno), Tadeáš Schejbal (České Budějovice).
Defensemen:
Matyáš Tureček (Liberec), Adam Konvalinka (Mladá Boleslav), Jakub Pekař (České Budějovice), Jiří Gombár, Lukáš Hájek (both Karlovy Vary), Tadeáš Ferda (Škoda Plzeň), Matyáš Michálek (2010) (Sparta Praha), Oliver Andrle (Malmö, Sweden).
Forwards:
Matyáš Čančík, Petr Hörnig (both Liberec), Tadeáš Mikš (České Budějovice), Oliver Vaňha (Pardubice), Jonáš Vaníček, Jakub Kyncl, Eliáš Matoušek (everyone Karlovy Vary), Michal Hartl (Kometa Brno), Jakub Polášek (Třinec), Dario Alessandro Blengino (Škoda Plzeň), Maxmilián Mareš (Vítkovice), Jan Rejthar (Lulea, Sweden).
I won’t list the full line-up for the EYOF tournament, but I will note that among others, such players who are quite worthy of being in the first team will be playing there as goaltender Simon Pešout (Litvínov), defenseman Dominik Novák (Liberec), forwards Antonín Riedl (Zlín), Kryštof Vrbata (Mladá Boleslav), Adam Němec, Matěj Kučera, Šimon Šejc (everyone Liberec), Dominik Drábek (Pardubice), Štěpán Stejskal (Davos, Switzerland), Denis Viedemann (Lausanne, Switzerland).
There are a few more interesting names that are quite competitive with those listed above, were invited to various tournaments, but did not make it into either team this time: František Coufalík (Zlín), Matiáš Piskač (Mladá Boleslav), Melichar Kovář (Pardubice), Štěpán Nevšímal (Tábor).
And then there is the super-talent Stanislav Sanejstr, who is not often seen in the national team jersey, as he plays in North America (however, he was able to join the Czech team for one of the recent tournaments, respect to him and the coaches for that!)
And of course there are also Kachliř and Byrtus, who have been playing for a higher category for a long time.