U20 hockey toilet | The hockey team’s roster for the World Cup is complete, the coaches added Sapoušek

After signing the 18-year-old Karlovy Vary striker, defender Marek Alscher and striker Lukáš Pajer were left off the roster, but will remain with the Czech side in Halifax in case any of their existing players are injured. The International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF recently introduced the ability to substitute a player on the roster for this year’s World Cup.

“The organizers communicated this news to us during the autumn and all the teams accepted it. Of course, to replace a player in the squad you need confirmation in the form of a medical report, and everything still needs to be approved by the championship commission doctor” , national youth coach Otakar Černý said in a press release.

For this Alscher and Pajer will remain with the team until the end of the tournament. “During the championships affected by the covid it was possible to include 22 players and three goalkeepers in the squad, i.e. two more players. This year the organizers have returned to the 20+3 option, but have introduced this possibility of exchanging players, which I consider a reasonable compromise.” Black added.

The defending fourth-place finishers of the August championship in Edmonton entered the tournament on a high note. At the start of the basic group program in Halifax, they surprised home favorite and defending champion Canada (5:2), then confirmed the triumph with a clear victory over Austria 9:0 and are already certain to go through to the quarterfinals. Today the opponents of the young Czechs will also be 100% Sweden, at the end of the group they will face Germany.