Good day,
in the latest Sport newsfilter you will read:
- on the difficult beginnings of Juraj Slafkovský,
- how the Slav is changing according to the ideas of Vladimír Weiss the Elder,
- what’s new in war hockey
- how he played the twenty-one football team or
- why the world of chess lived.
The winners of the week are Filip Mešár and Pavol Regenda, the loser is the Slovakian national football team.
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The author of the first point is Štefan Bugan, the second Michal Červený, the third Pavel Bielik, the fourth Lukáš Vráblik and the fifth Tomáš Čorej.
1. Slafkovski’s difficult beginnings
A week ago, Juraj Slafkovský was looking forward to his first match with Montreal. The club praised him for his performance at the tournament of hopes and in the training matches between the Canadiens players. He was generally agreed that he should start the season directly in the NHL. Just like every forward enlisted in the first place since 1993.
It’s only been seven days, but the situation has changed. Suddenly, a lot of fans are criticizing him and almost everyone is speculating if he should start on the farm, which is not ruled out by general manager Kent Hughes. Slafkovský is suddenly under pressure.
What happened this week? Slafkovský played two games where he was insignificant, but both were very specific.
The first against New Jersey was his Montreal debut at his home Bell Center, the largest arena in the NHL. It was also his debut as a conscript unit, all eyes of him were on him.
He wasn’t originally supposed to play in the second game in Toronto. He was informed at the last minute that he would replace struggling team-mate Jonathan Drouin and brought in team-mates Remo Pitlick and Joel Armio, who will be delighted to get a spot in the first team’s fourth formation.
No great conclusions can be drawn from such a sample of games. But in Montreal, many are already doing them.
Unlike Slovak fans, Montreal fans don’t have any
