GDT: Group A - May 15 - Belarus vs Slovakia

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2018 IIHF World Championship
Group A

May 15
10:15 AM ET • 4:15 PM CET

Belarus vs Slovakia

Belarus
confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
79 Vitali Trus
1 Mikhail Karnaukhov

Defensemen:
51 Stepan Falkovski - 4 Pavel Vorobei
14 Yevgeni Lisovets - 18 Kristian Khenkel
89 Dmitri Korobov - 23 Nikita Ustinenko

Forwards:
16 Geoff Platt - 17 Yegor Sharangovich - 70 Charles Linglet
71 Alexander Pavlovich - 88 Yevgeni Kovyrshin - 84 Maxim Sushko
75 Artyom Levsha - 10 Pavel Razvadovski - 78 Artyom Kisly
13 Sergei Drozd - 77 Alexander Kitarov - 91 Artur Gavrus
28 Alexander Materukhin

Scratched:
G 31 Ivan Kulbakov
D 9 Roman Dyukov
D 7 Vladimir Denisov
F 15 Artyom Demkov


Slovakia
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
42 Patrik Rybár
1 Marek Čiliak

Defensemen:
56 Michal Čajkovský - 2 Andrej Sekera
51 Dominik Graňák - 71 Marek Ďaloga
65 Christián Jaroš - 66 Martin Fehérváry
3 Adam Jánošík - 7 Mario Grman

Forwards:
27 Ladislav Nagy - 83 Martin Bakoš - 13 Tomáš Jurčo
87 Marcel Haščák - 19 Michal Krištof - 25 Marek Hovorka
12 Dávid Bondra - 17 Dávid Buc - 88 Patrik Svitana
6 Lukáš Cingel - 65 Tomáš Marcinko - 18 Andrej Kudrna

Scratched:
G 30 Denis Godla
F 33 Juraj Mikúš
F 28 Pavol Skalický


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[Retroglyphs]

Belarus 2 - Slovakia 4

 

[theslatcher]

4-1 Slovakia

 

[maximafinogenov7]

5 - 0 Simple win for Slovakia

 

[Faterson]

Depends on whether the game is meaningless (if Switzerland defeats France in the game currently in progress, which is highly likely) or if it can still push Slovakia into the play-offs.

If the game is meaningless, I agree Slovakia should win it easily. But if it turns out to be all-decisive, Slovakia may well collapse under pressure and lose. Slovaks are (in)famous for their weak psyche – inability to win games they're supposed to win, and being successful when they're underdogs.

 

[swissexpert]

5 - 0 Simple win for Slovakia

3-2 win Belarus.
They both play for absolutely nothing, but maybe Belarus has some motivation to not finish the touenament with 0 points.

 

[flemo]

Very good, Bakos. This is what I wanted from you in SWE or SUI game

 

[flemo]

I hope that scouts have noticed Svitana,Buc, Bondra. Guys deserve real profi league contracts.

 

[Canuckistani]

Poor Slovakia.

That's five straight years of missing the QF at the worlds.

Such a dramatic fall from the 2000-2010 era.

 

[flemo]

Well, instead of improve to 3:0, we use our own powerplay to let BLR even game 2:2. That's why we are out of QF.

 

[Belizarius]

Belaris hit the post ! Who was it ? thanks !

 

[flemo]

Belaris hit the post ! Who was it ? thanks !

Drozd

 

[flemo]

Wow, Sekera's 3rd own goal

 

[Belizarius]

Drozd

man, this guy can't buy any point

 

[Faterson]

Poor Slovakia.

That's five straight years of missing the QF at the worlds.

Such a dramatic fall from the 2000-2010 era.

In terms of this tourney, it's more like the 2000 – 2007 era. Slovakia nearly finished dead-last in 2008, and that's where the downfall officially began. Between 2008 and 2018, that's 11 World Championships, Slovakia has failed to make the play-offs 9 (!) times. There was the flash-in-the-pan silver medal in 2012 and a quarterfinal game in 2013. That's it. In eleven years.

(Even for Vancouver 2010, you could say it was an unexpected "Rebellion of Old Men", sort of "Last Hurrah", rather than a continuation of the Golden Era. Another attempt at "Last Hurrah", largely by the same cast, in front of the home crowd at the 2011 World Championships, failed miserably – you could see that the best days had long passed them by.)

 

[maximafinogenov7]

In terms of this tourney, it's more like the 2000 – 2007 era. Slovakia nearly finished dead-last in 2008, and that's where the downfall officially began. Between 2008 and 2018, that's 11 World Championships, Slovakia has failed to make the play-offs 9 (!) times. There was the flash-in-the-pan silver medal in 2012 and a quarterfinal game in 2013. That's it. In eleven years.

(Even for Vancouver 2010, you could say it was an unexpected "Rebellion of Old Men", sort of "Last Hurrah", rather than a continuation of the Golden Era. Another attempt at "Last Hurrah", largely by the same cast, in front of the home crowd at the 2011 World Championships, failed miserably – you could see that the best days had long passed them by.)

But Slovaks still have some results in WJC20. I think that they played a bronze medal game in 2009 and 2015, while this year beat USA. So, yeah, from Slovaks people still wait more.