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The Dukla Ingem Michalovce Hockey Club is gradually giving fans the names they will play in orange and black in the new year. The novelty is that so far it is explicitly only about Slovak players. Among them is the captain from the last two seasons, Vladimír Mihálik.
Captain Michaloviec VLADIMÍR MIHÁLIK only solved the dilemma of whether to travel or move
“We agreed with Michalovce after the season. I was just solving the dilemma of whether I would stay in Prešov and come or move to Michalovce. In the end, we decided to stay in Prešov, because one son starts school in September and another son and daughter go to kindergarten. The contract itself was just about the details, “ said the 35-year-old experienced defender, for whom Michalovce was the first choice.
He will start his third season in Zemplín. The first two were also in the role of captain. Will there be a third? “I hope so. A new coach will come, the implementation team and a new team, we’ll see. “ He knows about Tom Coolen that he worked in the NHL, at the national teams of Latvia and Poland, and in recent years on the club scene in our northern neighbors. “We’ve already called. A very nice person, “ said Vladimír Mihálik.
One of the most experienced players in Michalovce closely monitors the team’s composition. And not only watching. It also shapes him with advice and knowledge. “It looks good. I think that Marek Mašlonka has set out on the right path. In recent years, it was first about the legionnaires and then they added Slovaks to them. Now it’s about quality Slovak players at the beginning, then the legionnaires will start to increase.
He will take over some of the names with me. He asks for my knowledge of what kind of opinion I have of which player, if I have worked with him in the same team in the past. How he worked on and off the ice. Character traits are also important so that players fit well into the locker room. ”
There is currently no talk about Michalovce about anything other than Pavel Regend and his transfer to the NHL to the Anaheim Ducks team. The shapely defender remembers how a young man who had had youth seasons in Sweden and Finland came to show himself two years ago in the summer. Nobody knew him and bothered if Michalovce would choose him in a try-out.
Pavol Regenda
Source: TASR
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“At that time, no one really knew what Pavol Regenda was and who he was. However, from the beginning of the try-out, it was clear that he would stay in the team, “ Vladimír Mihálik mentions the summer of 2020, who was clear that there would be nothing from the transfer to Mladá Boleslav.
“From the beginning, we talked about the pros and cons of engagement in the Czech club. I told him that if he had a clause in the contract that guaranteed him to go to the better league he had, he had nothing to fear. Even if he stays in Mladá Boleslav, it’s still progress. “
In the end, he will not even wear the jersey of the Czech club, but he immediately signed a contract with the NHL team. It’s a minor miracle. “I totally agree. When I watched him during the season, how he is improving and how the Olympics and the World Championships came out, where he was the best scorer in Slovakia, it is not such a surprise. “
Vladimír Mihálik also helped the long-haired wingman with advice. “I had a few phone calls about him. Jara Obšuta was contacted by his former overseas teammate, who is a scout for Anaheim. He wanted to know the information directly before his arrival was baked. He asked me what a boy he could do on the ice and how he had it in his head. I told him unequivocally that Paľo had no problem. When he is well-directed, he can do it. In addition, typologically it definitely fits into the overseas competition, “ added Vladimír Mihálik.
A dozen NAMES YET
So far, the people of Michalovce have announced the names of twelve players who will wear a jersey with a fox on their chest. The complete coaching staff is already known. As is well known, he will be headed by Canadian Tom Coolen. His assistant will be Dušan Devečka and Maximilián Bača has become the coach of the goalkeepers.
The people of Zemplín have already revealed the name of the second assistant, Peter Kudelka. The native of Bratislava has worked in Finland for the last two years and in Michalovce he will get his first chance with seniors.
GOALKEEPERS: Tomáš Vošvrda, Stanislav Škorvánek, Jakub Hrubovský.
DEFENDERS: Vladimír Mihálik, Jakub Cibák, Adam Stripai.
ATTACKERS: Radovan Puliš, Roman Žitný, Samuel Chalupa, Jakub Suja, Peter Bjalončík, Dávid Buc.
It is also certain that four Slovaks left Michalovce from last season – Andrej Kukuča, Tomáš Bokroš (both Poprad), Dávid Mudrák (Zvolen), Pavol Regenda (Anaheim).
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