GDT: Group A - February 18 - Czech Republic (4) vs Switzerland (1)

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2018 Olympic Tournament
Group A

February 18
2:40 AM ET • 8:40 AM CET

Czech Republic
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
33 Pavel Francouz
38 Dominik Furch

Defensemen:
61 Adam Polášek - 87 Jakub Nakládal
29 Jan Kolár "A" - 65 Vojtech Mozík
47 Michal Jordán - 84 Tomáš Kundrátek
23 Ondrej Nemec

Forwards:
91 Martin Erat "C" - 43 Jan Kovár "A" - 18 Dominik Kubalík
10 Roman Cervenka - 86 Tomáš Mertl - 27 Martin Ružicka
64 Jirí Sekác - 42 Petr Koukal - 69 Lukáš Radil
16 Michal Birner - 51 Roman Horák - 62 Michal Repík
79 Tomáš Zohorna

Scratched:
G 32 Patrik Bartošák
D 74 Ondrej Vitásek
F 82 Michal Vondrka


Switzerland
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
62 Jonas Hiller
63 Leonardo Genoni

Defensemen:
58 Eric Blum - 65 Ramon Untersander
4 Patrick Geering - 16 Raphael Diaz "C"
55 Romain Loeffel - 54 Philippe Furrer "A"
27 Dominik Schlumpf - 13 Félicien Du Bois

Forwards:
8 Vincent Praplan - 92 Gaëtan Haas - 70 Denis Hollenstein
82 Simon Moser "A" - 44 Pius Suter - 10 Andres Ambühl "A"
15 Grégory Hofmann - 71 Enzo Corvi - 60 Tristan Scherwey
19 Reto Schäppi - 89 Cody Almond - 9 Thomas Rüfenacht

Scratched:
G 52 Tobias Stephan
F 61 Fabrice Herzog
F 23 Simon Bodenmann


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[mosare]

The swiss won the last two games agst the czechs on olympia. 3:2 for switzerland.

 

[rydsta]

Switzerland is a +145 underdog, was even more before that +175 or so. might drop a few bucks.

 

[jonas2244]

Raphael Diaz back in the lineup for Switzerland. Fabrice Herzog to sit (together with Bodenmann), so 8D and 12F.

 

[Jon Riley]

I enjoyed to see a match were Switzerland managed to score for once, can we do that again?
Anyways, I hope for more hockey like the first period against Korea.

 

[PG Canuck]

swiss tie it!

 

[Voodoozz]

The Swiss .. what a bunch of divers. What goes around comes around tho

 

[jonas2244]

Sticks should be on the ice and not in the face of other players.

 

[stv11]

Sticks should be on the ice and not in the face of other players.

Although in these cases there's a PP for Switzerland and a stick in the face of Rüfenacht, so it's pretty much a win-win situation

 

[KurtSloan]

This is what I really hate about team...when we are dominating like this on 5on5 and still have played so much more time in PK than opposite team..

 

[jonas2244]

Cervenka with a slash to Hillers head. Dirty.

 

[KurtSloan]

Cervenka with a slash to Hillers head. Dirty.

oh, come on..

 

[stv11]

Czech way better in the 2nd period, they would have deserved at least one goal.

I wonder if Fischer would risk pulling the goalie if it's still 1-1 late in the game.

 

[Voodoozz]

There is one team on the ice when it's 5on5. Typicall Czech hockey game ... they completely dominate in possesion and scoring chances, no goals scored. This usually means they lose the game.

 

[KurtSloan]

gooooal, what a play!!

 

[KurtSloan]

and no PK now please..

 

[Jon Riley]

What a sloppy defense

 

[jonas2244]

Praplan benched. And it's not undeserved.

 

[Speyer]

Praplan benched. And it's not undeserved.

Praplan was a big disappointment so far. He showed last year at the WC, that he can hang at the international level. He was also heating up in the NLA before the Olympics, so I had some hopes for him. Unfortunatley he couldn't live up to them so far. Haas below the expectations as well...

 

[Jon Riley]

Much better period anyways, just you need to shoot to score.

 

[kudymen]

That was probably the worst time in the worst tournament possible to miss such puck by the Swiss D

 

[Jon Riley]

Ouch

 

[Maluk11]

Deserved win for Czechs. It was not easy game, like always with Switzerland, but our players show they want it, really good game from them. The dominance in 2nd period was amazing.

 

[Voodoozz]

Deserved win for the Czechs, they wanted it more. Czech players' productivity is very bad tho, so many quality scoring chances and zero goals to see. Gotta hope it brings us some luck into the QF and on.

 

[Old Man Jags]

Considering how much trouble the Swiss have been giving our team in the past few years, this is a win that really counts. Catastrophic conversion of chances though. Dominance on the ice needs to translate into something tangible like goals.

Also, this team needs to improve its discipline, they are shorthanded too often. I could forgive some of the shorthanded situations against Canada because many of the Czech fouls were imaginary (the referees should have just dropped the act and worn Canadian jerseys, it was that ridiculous at times). That said, even in the Canadian game, some of the Czech fouls were proper fouls, and they were unnecessary. If the Czech players end up visiting the penalty box too often, they will lose the quarter finals.