“I’ve seen him in a lot of Sparta matches and I know he dominated the extralize. But we had to decide who would go to the power stations and we just didn’t find the place in them, “Jalonen explained the main reason for Guy’s omission.
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Jalonen announced the nomination at Václav Havel Airport immediately after his arrival from Stockholm, where his charges controlled the Swedish Hockey Games without defeat, thus continuing the triumph from the Czech Games last week. For the first time in history, they won two Euro Hockey Tour tournaments in a row.
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| Nomination of the Czech national hockey team for the World Cup 2022: |
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| Goalkeepers: |
| Marek Langhamer (Ilves Tampere / Fin.) |
| Karel Vejmelka (Arizona / NHL) |
| Lukáš Dostál (San Diego / AHL) |
| Defenders: |
| Tomáš Kundrátek |
| David Musil (both Trinec) |
| David Jiricek (Pilsen) |
| Michal Jordan (Khabarovsk / KHL) |
| David Sklenička (Flies Oulu / Fin.) |
| Jan Ščotka (Jyväskylä / Fin.) |
| Filip Hronek (Detroit / NHL) |
| Radim Simek (San Jose / NHL) |
| Attackers: |
| Jiří Černoch |
| Jakub Flek (both Karlovy Vary) |
| Matěj Blümel (Pardubice) |
| Petr Holik (Brno) |
| Petr Kodytek (Pilsen) |
| David Krejci (Olomouc) |
| Roman Červenka (Rapperswil-Jona / Switzerland) |
| Jiří Smejkal (Pelicans Lahti / FIN) |
| Matěj Stránský (Davos / Switzerland) |
| Michael Špaček (Frölunda / Sweden) |
| Hynek Zohorna (Oskarshamn / Sweden) |
| Tomas Hertl (San Jose / NHL) |
| Dominik Simon (Anaheim/NHL) |
| Jakub Vrana (Detroit / NHL) |
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In addition to Chlapík, defenders Michal Moravčík and Jakub Krejčík, forwards Ondřej Beránek with Patrik Zdráhal and goalkeeper Štěpán Lukeš, who was called Anaheim goalkeeper Lukáš Dostál, were eliminated. In the current year’s NHL, he caught four duels for the Ducks, and added another 40 in the basic part of the farm for the San Diego Gulls, which was eliminated from the AHL playoffs on Friday.
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There are three goalkeepers, eight defenders and 14 forwards in the nomination. As many as 17 players out of twenty-five nominees have already started their World Championships. Not all three goalkeepers (Vejmelka, Langhamer, Dostál), Jiříček and Ščotka and forwarders Černoch, Holík and Kodýtek have experience with the championship.
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On the other hand, the attackers Červenka and Krejčí experienced the last Czech medals from the World Championships – bronze in 2012, Červenka is also the world champion from 2010 and the ninth world championship awaits him. Coach Jalonen and general manager Petr Nedvěd will still be waiting for possible reinforcements from the NHL, which will be eliminated with their teams in the 1st round of the NHL playoffs.
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The domestic extra league (9 players) has the largest representation in the 25-member staff, followed by the NHL (6), the Finnish league (4), the Swedish and Swiss teams (2 each) and the KHL with the AHL team (1 each). There are also seven players at the World Championships who have completed the entire six-week preparation for the championship (defenders Jiříček, Ščotka, Jordán) and forwards (Černoch, Flek, Kodýtek and Holík).
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“The results of the last two Euro Hockey Tour events have been good, but the main thing is that we have gained confidence and a system that we would like to play. In Stockholm we beat three teams (Sweden, Finland, Switzerland) and each of them played a little differently. However, we always found the way to victory, which is a good test before the World Cup, “Jalonen praised and is pleased that none of the players will fly to Tampere with even minor injuries.
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The national team will fly to Finland on Wednesday, May 11. He will enter the championship on Saturday with a match against Great Britain. Gradually, in Group B in Tampere, they will encounter Sweden, Austria, Latvia, Norway, the United States and Finland.
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