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From: [email protected] (Staffan Axelsson)
Subject: Re: WC 93: Results, April 18
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[email protected] (David Stein) writes:
> What's going on? The Russians and the Czechs are unable to beat easy
>opponents, and the Swedes beat Austria only 1:0?!?
>
It's the "opening-game effect" maybe. Pros arrive late, nervousness for
rookie WC players, and problems to get the lines clicking may make things
hard to get it going against these "worse" nations.
I'd guess that the better team you face in the opening game, the better
it is, since the chances of an upset are greater then.
Some other reasons why the "worse" teams are so tough to beat was presented
by Hans "Virus" Lindberg (former coach in Switzerland).
1) The "worse" teams (referring to France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy etc)
have now usually world class goalies.
2) Their defensive play have become much more disciplined, they take much
less unnecessary penalties.
3) They use four lines which makes it harder to make them "run out of gas."
4) The ice quality in the German WC rinks is poor.
> The only convincing winner was... Germany. Wierd.
>
Another weird thing was that the Czechs played entertaining hockey..
err.. just kidding, David.
>p.s. Alex, I would like to see the Czech roster, including, if possible,
>the clubs from which the players come. How many are "Finnish", "German",
>or "Swiss"?
>
Alex? That's a new name for me ;)
OK, I forgot the Czech roster at home yesterday, but now I have it.
I don't know the teams for all players, so I would appreciate if
you guys could fill in the blanks for me (especially I think some
of these players play in Finland).
The Czech Republic
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Goaltenders: 1. Petr Briza (Finland somewhere, right?)
2. Roman Turek Motor C. Budejovice
Defense: 3. Leo Gudas ?
4. Milos Holan TJ Vitkovice
5. Drahomir Kadlec ?
6. Bedrich Scerban Brynas, Sweden
7. Antonin Stavjana HV 71, Sweden
8. Miroslav Horava MoDo, Sweden
9. Ales Flasar TJ Vitkovice
Forwards: 10. Petr Rosol ?
12. Kamil Kastak HV 71, Sweden
13. Richard Zemlicka ?
14. Jiri Kucera ?
16. Jan Caloun HC Litvinov
18. Petr Hrbek ?
19. Tomas Kapusta ?
20. Otakar Janecky (Finland?)
21. Roman Horak Motor C. Budejovice
22. Martin Hostak MoDo, Sweden
24. Radek Toupal ?
26. Jiri Dolezal ?
Staffan
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