GDT: May 5 • Slovakia vs. Slovenia

[Systemfel]

2015 IIHF World Championship
Group B

May 5
2:15 PM ET • 20:15 CET

Slovakia
Projected lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

12 Marián Gáborík​

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82 Tomáš Kopecký

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56 Marko Daňo​

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90 Tomáš Tatar​

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25 Marek Viedenský​

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13 Tomáš Jurčo​

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60 Milan Bartovič

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55 Mário Bližňák​

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28 Richard Pánik​

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97 Patrik LuÅ¡ňák​

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43 Tomáš Surový​

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79 Libor Hudáček​

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22 Vladimír Dravecký​

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-​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

51 Dominik Graňák

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14 Andrej MeszároÅ¡​

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8 Michal Sersen​

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68 Milan Jurčina​

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3 Adam Jánošík​

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71 Marek Ďaloga​

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7 Ivan Baranka​

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Starter​

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Backup​

50 Ján Laco​

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88 Július Hudáček​

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Scratched​

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Details​

F 19 Michel Miklík​

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D 26 Juraj Mikúš​

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G 42 Branislav Konrád​

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Slovenia
Projected lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

26 Jan Urbas​

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11 Anže Kopitar

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39 Jan MurÅ¡ak​

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55 Robert Sabolič​

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24 Rok Tičar​

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8 Žiga Jeglič​

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9 Tomaž Razingar

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16 AleÅ¡ MuÅ¡ič​

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19 Žiga Pance​

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71 BoÅ¡tjan Goličič​

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22 Marcel Rodman

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18 Ken OgrajenÅ¡ek​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

28 AleÅ¡ Krancj​

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7 Klemen Pretnar​

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15 Blaž Gregorc​

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51 Mitja Robar​

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86 Sabahudin Kovačevič​

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23 Luka Vidmar​

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4 Andrej Tavželj​

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14 Miha Å tebih​

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Starter​

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Backup​

33 Robert Kristan​

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32 GaÅ¡per KroÅ¡elj​

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Scratched​

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Details​

F 91 Miha Verlič​

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D 17 Žiga Pavlin​

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-​

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G 40 Luka Gračnar​

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Injury​

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Officials​

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Referee​

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24 Konstantin Olenin | -

Referee​

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25 Roman Gofman | -

Linesman​

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59 Anton Semjonov | -

Linesman​

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61 Paul Carnathan | -

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[mrkolice]

team slovenia: urbas is back, gračnar injured.

 

[jcbio11]

Bring it on Slovenia.

 

[slovakiasnextone]

You cannot enter into the same river twice.

 

[mrkolice]

Bring it on Slovenia.

just a reminder

teasing off. it should be an exciting game, both teams need points desperately and both didn't show their best so far. can't wait, have fun!

 

[SlovanHC]

If all our players show up then it should be good

 

[Rexor]

9 out of 10 Americans cannot tell the difference!

 

[BobDobolina]

9 out of 10 Americans cannot tell the difference!

Quiet, silly Chechen.

 

[geri]

because of slovan bratislava´s rok ticar und jiga jeglic my sympathy is normaly also with slovenia..
but not today ;-)
i hope we dont sleep again at beginning, and play mostly in offense- please coach !!
if we compare our roster- so many NHL and KHL players, we must win...
important would be finally to hit inside the net, and get more confident then...

 

[KaraLupin]

Slovakia roster looks way better.

 

[tobu]

Quiet, silly Chechen.

laughed at this comeback

 

[Urbanskog]

Slovakia roster looks way better.

That's hardly a surprise. It's still worse than their Olympic roster whereas Slovenia's squad is basically the same except for the absence of D. Rodman. And we know how did the match between these two go in Sochi.

 

[geri]

Quiet, silly Chechen.

thats not fair.
wasnt ment bad by him. it is just a fact that most of americans dont know this details in geography
same is happening to us austrians- mostly they understand we are from australia

 

[KaraLupin]

That's hardly a surprise. It's still worse than their Olympic roster whereas Slovenia's squad is basically the same except for the absence of D. Rodman. And we know how did the match between these two go in Sochi.

Hmmmm, very good point!

 

[slovakiasnextone]

Baranka is playing today instead of Mikus.

As for the Slovak roster here and at the Olympics. On defense this team is much worse, on offense this team is only missing Hossa from the top players on offense and Gaborik who didn't play there is here, as is Dano. This Slovak team is also missing Nagy and Reway on offense due to injury/sickness from the players who were hot candidates, but neither was at last years' Olympics.

Furthermore last years' OG team was heavily influenced by off ice issues, mainly the Chara vs. Satan feud, neither of them is here today.

 

[flemo]

thats not fair.
wasnt ment bad by him. it is just a fact that most of americans dont know this details in geography
same is happening to us austrians- mostly they understand we are from australia

That answer was also a joke Background here - http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...the-czech-republic-collectors-edition/275193/

 

[carko32]

Urbas was supposed to play with Kopitar and Muršak on 2nd line, that was plan before WHC. And if our reporters saw correctly at yesterday's practice, he is playing with them also tonight.

So our lines should be:
Sabolic-Ticar-Jeglic
Urbas-Kopitar-Mursak
Razingar-Music-Pance
Golicic-Rodman-Ograjensek.

And yeah, Gracnar is injured, so Kroselj will be backup.

I just hope that we don't sleep through the 1st period. We have to be aggressive, try to score and give everything. We really need some positive result.

 

[Babula]

Quiet, silly Chechen.

yeah, good one also.

 

[Chara-3]

By no means an easy match. Slovenia's first 2 lines are on par with ours. We might have the edge at bottom 6.

I hope for a 3-2 win.

 

[Zelena]

Rumours: Hudacek starts.

 

[slovakiasnextone]

Rumours: Hudacek starts.

Source?

 

[peto10]

Rumours: Hudacek starts.

Nope, Laco starts:
http://www.hockeyslovakia.sk/sk/clanok/hokej-ms-do-duelu-proti-slovincom-zasiahne-aj-baranka

 

[Harv]

9 out of 10 Americans cannot tell the difference!

Sadly, true.

 

[SlovanHC]

If anybody has the sofascore app on their phone then feast your eyes on the slovakia flag :///

 

[Eye of Ra]

Urbas on the 4th line? He should play higher. Pance is not better.