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The Slovak hockey representatives also won their second match at the final tournament of the Olympic qualification in Bratislava. On Friday, they clearly defeated Poland 5: 1 and lead the D-group with a full number of 6 points.
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In the final duel, they will encounter Belarus on Sunday (5.30 pm), while they will have enough points to advance to the 2022 Olympic Games, ie to bring the duel into overtime.
The Slovaks had a clear advantage at the Ondrej Nepel Ice Stadium from the beginning and in the 9th minute they took the lead after the premiere national team intervention of Adam Ružička. They finally broke the opponent’s resistance in the second period, in which Libor Hudáček, Miloš Roman, who replaced the injured Miloš Kelemen, and Peter Cehlárik added more goals. Only Krystian Dziubinski prevailed for Poland. In the third part, he highlighted the dominance of the home team with his second goal in the Ružička match.
Only the winner of the Bratislava tournament will qualify for Beijing. The advancing team will meet Sweden, Finland and other successful qualifiers in the basic C-group of the Olympic Games 2022.
D-group:
Slovakia – Poland 5: 1 (1: 0, 3: 1, 1: 0)
Goals: 9. Ružička (Čerešňák, Gernát), 25. Hudáček (Čerešňák, Gernát), 27. Roman (Slafkovský, Nemec), 33. Cehlárik (Hudáček, Jurčo), 49. Ružička (Pospíšil, Lantoši) – 31. Dziubinski (Lyszczarczyk) , Chmielewski)
Referees: Öhlund (Sweden), Tscherrig (CHE) – Kröyer (DEN), Zunde (LVA), disqualification: 3: 6 for 2 min, power-ups: 1: 1, weakening: 0: 0, 3685 spectators
Assemblies:
Slovakia: Konrád – Jaroš, Marinčin, Gernát, Čerešňák, Kňažko, Grman, Nemec, Ďaloga – Jurčo, Hrivík, Cehlárik – Lantoši, Ružička, Pospíšil – Studenič, Hudáček, Daňo – Slafkovský, Gríger, Roman
Poland: Murray – Kolusz, Ciura, Wajda, Kostek, Górny, Bryk, Wanacki, Jaskiewicz – Pas, Dziubinski, Chmielewski – Zygmunt, Pasiut, Wronka – Urbanowicz, Komorski, Lyszczarczyk – Walega, Starzynski, Przygodzki
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The Slovaks started actively, dictating the pace of the game from the beginning and employing the opponent with combinations. However, he carefully defended his pre-goal area and most of the shots were aimed at Murray from a distance. The home team managed to overcome the Polish wall in the 9th minute, after Čerešňák’s shot the puck returned in front of the Ružička goal and the disoriented Wanacki knocked him behind the line with a skate – 1: 0. The Poles complained about the offside, but they did not succeed with the “challenge” and the main arbiter, after consulting with the video referee, acknowledged the goal. The Slovaks allowed the opponent to threaten more significantly only with his power-ups, in the 14th minute Konrád hit his shoulder at the backhand end of Pasiut. The home team dominated, only the great Murray kept the Poles afloat. In the 15th minute, he performed a lightning-fast intervention with a shot by Dan after a quick renumbering, in the Slovak power play he neutralized Hudáček’s chance, with a shot by Slafkovsky he was saved by a throat and at the end of the third he also caught Hrivík.
The home team relented their pressure in the second period and were rewarded with more goals. In the 25th minute, Čerešňák extended Hudáček on the left side with a diagonal waist, who skated between the circles and increased the shot to 2: 0. Immediately, Slafkovský found a completely free Roman from the guardrail, who overcame Murray in cold-blooded backhand. The Poles responded in the middle of the match when Pospíšil was eliminated, Dziubinski reduced the shot to Konrád’s rash. Ramsay’s charges did not derail and continued to crush the opponent. Daňo was close to the fourth goal after a backhand shot. The Poles threatened only sporadically, in the 32nd minute Zygmunt pushed through Cehlárik, but Konrád did not overcome. In the 33rd minute, the Slovaks prevailed in the power play for the first time in the tournament, after Hudáček’s cross pass, Cehlárik aimed exactly at the far end – 4: 1. The Poles were no longer able to dampen the Slovak pressure and at times they could not even throw the puck out of the defense zone, Pospíšil and Lantoši had the fifth goal on hockey sticks.
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In the third part, the Slovaks were able to control what was happening on the ice. Studenič could increase the lead over the difference of four goals after a cheeky penetration, it was not until Ružiček who managed to puck the puck into the net after Pospíšil’s throw. The goal had to be confirmed by the scorer. In the 50th minute, Ružička was close to the hat-trick, the goalkeeper Murray was against. Lantoši and Čerešňák had another chance to increase their lead, Gernát’s knocked down shot ended up on the goalpost, but the score did not change. The Slovaks finished the duel at a leisurely pace and after the 5: 1 victory they scored three more points in the table.
Marc-André Fleury performed a famous procedure during the training:
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