Czech hockey player Pavel Pýcha (left) during the match of the Karjala tournament in Linköping.
Stefan Jerrevang, CTK / AP
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The national team did not start badly. Already in the 3rd minute, Pyrochta sent Smejkal into a solo escape, but he failed with goalkeeper Johansson with a backhand bluff. However, it was the last big chance for Pešán’s team in the first period, because the home team took the initiative.
And the rough Mašín from the 9th minute, who smeared Holmberg, who opened the score, while passing behind his own goal, helped them a lot. And the Czechs were lucky that a minute later the Swedes did not punish another kick during the pass, this time by the seventeen-year-old benjamin of the Jiříček team.
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Nevertheless, the selection of the Three Crowns second goal soon came. Although Kváč, who was catching the second match for the national team, still neutralized Lander’s shot from the ring, he no longer had a claim against the arrival of C. Klingberg.
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The Czech hockey players started the opening match of Karjala against the home Swedes.
As in the last match at this year’s World Cup, the Czechs lost 0: 2, but then they managed to turn the match around with four goals in the third period. Now there was no turnaround.
In the second period, Lander, who burns himself on Kváč, failed to punish Flek, on the other hand, during the same weakening, Kaše fired only at Johansson. A few minutes later, Sklenička did not hit the goal in the ideal position and M. Stránský again broke his teeth on the certainly catching goalkeeper of Russia’s St. Petersburg.
The Czechs seemed to be rising at the time, but then the middle third came to an end as if in horror. 68 seconds before the second siren, Olofsson finished the power play combination with a shot into the exposed cage, and in another 35 seconds, Bengtsson increased it to 4: 0.
Karjala Cup: Program and results of the first part of Euro Hockey Tour 2021/22
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There was no doubt about the triumph of the home team, and in the final part of the game it was just a matter of the Czechs not catching the debacle, and on the contrary, they experienced at least an honorable success. Both succeeded, because in the 58th minute a puck happily bounced towards Chlapík from the back guard, where Johansson drove, so the Spartan striker scored his first goal in the half-goal and closed the final 1: 4.
| KARJALA, part of the Euro Hockey Tour (Linköping): |
| Sweden – Czech Republic 4: 1 (2:0, 2:0, 0:1) |
| Goals and recordings: 9. Holmberg, 15. C. Klingberg (Lander, Bromé), 39. J. Olofsson (Tömmernes, Everberg), 40. Bengtsson (Holmberg, Djuse) – 58. Guy (D. Sklenička, Pride). Judges: Nord, Sjöqvist – Yletyinen, Malmqvist (all Sweden). Exclusion: 1: 2. Utilization: 1: 0. Attendance: 7482. |
| Sweden: Lars Johansson – Pudas, Tömmernes, Folin, Djuse, Hansson, Själin – C. Klingberg, Lander, Bromé – Bengtsson, F. Olofsson, Holmberg – Viksten, Linus Johansson, Nygard – J. Olofsson, De La Rose, Everberg. Trainers: Johan Garpenlöv, Marcus Ragnarsson and Markus Akerblom. |
| CR: Kváča – Jiříček, Jeřábek, D. Sklenička, Pýcha, Pyrochta, Ščotka, Mašín – Řepík, Chlapík, D. Kaše – Blümel, M. Špaček, M. Stránský – Flek, Jašek, Smejkal – L. Horký, O. Najman, P. Kousal – Kodýtek. Coaches: Filip Pešán, Martin Straka and Jaroslav Špaček. |
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