But it wasn’t, Pastrňák’s intervention calmed us down after 137 seconds. And when we bounced back to 2-0, I believed that we could do it now, because the Germans do not have such an offensive force.
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The first three of our goals were scored by an elite power play. When he starts throwing pucks so fast; moreover from the first; it’s very hard to defend. Pasta, Krejča and Červus are very handy, they know about each other and they can put it beautifully.
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PŘÍKLEP EXTRA – hockey studio Sport.cz this time with Radek Duda and Jan NovákVideo: Sport.cz
It’s great, of course, that we made it and we’re in the semifinals. I don’t want to reduce it in any way, but I’m a little surprised that only one line played again. In the semifinals we will have a much harder opponent, who will be about the strength of Pastrňák et al. Good to know. Other formations just have to be involved.
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God forbid that the first line works for us, it plays fantastically and has ensured our progress. But if there are no other players who will be able to score a goal and I decide, I am afraid of that in the semifinals, which will be a different level than against Germany.
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Ice Hockey World Championship 2022: Pastrňák’s goal against GermanyVideo: CT sport, SPORT.CZ
The Germans had several chances, but this is normal. It never happens at the World Cup that the opponent does not create anything at all. It’s about the fact that the goalkeeper has to catch something extra in such important matches, which Karel Vejmelka did exactly.
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He showed a fantastic intervention especially in the second period against Noebels. At first I thought it was a goal that the puck bounced off the goal, but he pulled it wonderfully to the top post.
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This weekend we will play for some of the precious metals we have been waiting for for ten years. I am convinced that any medal would be a success. One hundred percent, unequivocally.
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Tomáš Vlasák
He was with the national team at the golden hat-trick at the World Championships from 1999 to 2001. For the national team, the former excellent striker played 135 matches, in which he scored 43 goals. He also played at the 2004 World Cup, where the Czechs reached the semifinals. He is the champion of the Russian Super League with Omsk, in the domestic extra league he won the championship title with Pilsen. He tried the highest competition in Finland, Sweden, Russia and Switzerland, in the NHL he has 10 games for Los Angeles. For the last seven years he has held the position of sports manager at HC Škoda Plzeň.
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