GDT: Pre-tournament • Dec. 23 • Switzerland vs. Slovakia

[Systemfel]

Pre-tournament
Switzerland vs. Slovakia
December 23
8:00 AM ET • 14:00 CET
Kisakallio Sports Institute — Lohja, Finland

Television: None
Live Summary: Tilastopalvelu

Switzerland
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

28 Timo Meier ”A”​

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24 Pius Sutter​

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22 Tino Kessler​

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26 Noah Rod ”C”​

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17 Johnny Kneubuehler​

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19 Damien Riat​

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18 Nico Hischier​

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14 Dario Meyer​

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12 Calvin Thürkauf​

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15 Kris Schmidli​

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11 Julien Privet​

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21 Chris Egli​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

25 Jonas Siegenthaler​

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4 Roger Karrer​

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20 Simon Kindschi ”A”​

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3 Andrea Glauser​

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9 Marco Forrer​

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27 Fabian Heldner​

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5 Tim DuBois​

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Starter​

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Backup​

29 Gauthier Descloux​

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1 Ludovic Waeber​

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Slovakia
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

23 Lukáš HrušÃ­k​

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9 Juraj Šiška​

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15 Jozef Huňa​

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27 Filip Lešťan​

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22 Kristián Pospíšil​

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11 Radovan Bondra​

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17 Maroš Surový​

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18 Boris Sadecký​

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10 Dominik Briestenský​

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8 Matěj Paločko​

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19 Matúš Sukel​

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12 Juraj Milý​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

5 Matěj Moravčík​

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13 Samuel Ivanič​

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3 Adrián Sloboda​

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26 Christián Jaroš ”C”​

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16 Patrik Maier​

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7 Ladislav Romančík​

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6 Patrik Koch​

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14 Erik Černák​

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Starter​

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Backup​

30 Adam Húska​

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2 Stanislav Škorvánek​

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[Systemfel]

6:37, 1-0. Suter from Kessler and Heldner.

9:37, 2-0. Suter again, from Kindschi and Kessler.

13:13, 3-0. Kessler from Suter, on the powerplay.

Shots 14-8 after 20.

 

[joe89]

Based on the exhibition games Switzerland are having, our group will be extremely tight.

 

[Wooren]

Based on the exhibition games Switzerland are having, our group will be extremely tight.

Poor Denmark. It will be interesting if Switzerland can pull out some upset.

 

[1Gold Standard]

Based on the exhibition games Switzerland are having, our group will be extremely tight.

A few weeks I picked Denmark to upset the Swiss and take 4th spot in the group. I thought it was a bold prediction at the time, but now it is just looking like a foolish prediction. Switzerland is going to be a tough matchup for every team in the group. Group A could very easily be the 4 semi-finalists.

 

[Systemfel]

2nd period.

4:32, 4-0 Rod on the powerplay.

8:22, Jaroš gets Slovakia on the board, from Lešťan.

 

[joe89]

A few weeks I picked Denmark to upset the Swiss and take 4th spot in the group. I thought it was a bold prediction at the time, but now it is just looking like a foolish prediction. Switzerland is going to be a tough matchup for every team in the group. Group A could very easily be the 4 semi-finalists.

Better case for top-5 than bottom-3 for sure.

 

[VictorLustig]

Based on the exhibition games Switzerland are having, our group will be extremely tight.

Yup, don't think the Swiss will be an easy task for anyone. Slovakia does seem to have a weak team this year but beating Finland was pretty impressive. Imagine winning the other group and then having to play CAN/USA/SWE in the quarters...