Slovak hockey players have successfully entered the tournament at the World Championships in Latvia. In the match of the basic group A, in which the opponents of coach Craig Ramsay’s charges are among the Czech team, they defeated Belarus 5: 2. The Slovaks won the first part 3: 0, then they also led 4: 0, the opponent prevailed only in the final seven minutes. After two goals, the attackers scored Kristián Pospíšil and Peter Cehlárik.
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Slovak Kristian Pospíšil and his teammates celebrate a goal against Belarus.
Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters
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The Slovaks got off to a great start. They won the opening act with a three-goal difference and laid the foundation for an important win in terms of the fight to advance to the quarterfinals. Pospíšil opened the score in the fourth minute. Conrad, on the other hand, caught Platt. In the ninth minute, Stefanovic was guilty of a foul by a high stick, and his 2 + 2 minute penalty was very expensive for the Belarusians. First, Cehlárik pushed through the great cannon from behind the circle, and then used the second part of the numerical advantage with a similarly resolute blow to Pospíšil.
Goalkeeper Shostak caught the match, Taylor took his place. He stopped the influx of Slovak goals, despite the fact that in the middle of the 16th minute he earned a penalty of five minutes and until the end of the match Komarov. Only shortly afterwards, the upper pole helped him, on which the puck ended after Studenič directed Cehlárik’s offer.
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In the second twenty minutes, the score did not change, although the Belarusians were twice as close. Platt cleverly intercepted the pass and scored to make it 0 – 1. It was 0 – 1 at the break. And when he finished in it after 36 minutes after Šarangovič’s shot, after a long examination of the video, the goal was not recognized due to the position of the attacking player in the goal area.
At the beginning of the 46th minute, Hrivík calmed the Slovaks with a fourth goal, which was used to examine a possible offside after a coaching challenge, but the Belarusian substitute failed. In the 54th minute, Stefanovič used a long power play five to three and deprived Konrád of a clean sheet.
The Belarusians came to life, all the more so when, 57 seconds later, Sharangovic added another goal. It was the New Jersey striker in the NHL who was able to arrange a truly dramatic conclusion after the Dáloga offense, but he did not turn the penalty shootings at 58:54. Cehlárik then closed everything with a goal in an empty goal during the power play of Belarus.
| Riga Ice Hockey World Championships – Group A (Olympic Sports Center): |
| Belarus – Slovakia 2: 5 (0: 3, 0: 0, 2: 2) |
| Goals and recordings: 54. Stefanovič (S. Kosticyn), 55. Šarangovič – 4. Pospíšil (German), 10. Cehlárik (Gernát, Studenič), 12. Pospíšil (Rosandič, Krištof), 46. Hrivík (Lantoši, Cehlárik), 60. Cehlárik (Grman). Judges: Ansons (LVA), Heikkinen – Sormunen (both Fin.), Zunde (LVA). Exclusion: 6: 6, plus N. Komarov (Belarus) 5 min. and until the end of the match. Utilization: 1: 2. No spectators. |
| Belarus: Shostak (12. D. Taylor) – Bailen, Korobov, Znacharenko, Antonov, Lisovec, Chenkel, Falkovskij, Jerjomenko – Šarangovič, Pare, Prince – Děmkov, Drozd, N. Komarov – Platt, S. Kosticyn, Bělevič – Lopačuk, Něstěrov , Stefanovic. Coach: Mikhail Zacharov. |
| Slovakia: Konrád – Gernát, Rosandič, Nemec, Ďaloga, Grman, Jánošík, Gachulinec, Kňažko – Cehlárik, Hrivík, Lantoši – Skalický, Krištof, Pospíšil – Studenič, Miloš Roman, Faško-Rudáš – Slafkovský, M. Sukeľ, Liška. Coach: Craig Ramsay. |
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