“The matches here are very different for me than the ones I experienced in the NHL this year, where I was in permanent shooting. I try to move in different ways when I don’t have long intervention to keep up with the pace and operating temperature. Concentration is important, matches with weaker units are difficult, “says Vejmelka.
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He also learned from the failed premiere. “A slightly different style of hockey is played on a wider rink than overseas. I try to cope with it and I do what I can to help the team not get goals as much as possible when something passes to me, “explains the Czech goalkeeper number one.
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“The main thing is not to make an unnecessary mistake,” says Vejmelka, who was helped twice in Saturday’s match with Norway. “I have to stay alert. , but thank God the Norwegians didn’t punish it and we came to the necessary win quite calmly, “he thinks.
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However, after a negative experience with Austria, when the representatives lost the lead 37 seconds before the end, and then lost the match in the raids, he is already very careful in the courts about the decided match. “You have to catch until the last second, it’s never done before,” says Vejmelka, who has no problem entering the goal every other day and otherwise has a looser regime.
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“I have a similar team in the NHL. In addition, when so many matches are played, there is no need to train extra long. Just put on the equipment to skate so that you feel comfortable, at the same time you don’t want to get tired in any way, it’s more of a maintenance phase for us. We are saving energy for the match, “says the goalkeeper, who will celebrate his 26th birthday at the World Championships on Wednesday.
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And he is very happy when the disco tailor Maxim Turbulenc and their remix from the film Long Live the Ghosts sound through the hall in Tampere. “It’s nice to hear the goal horn. It means a signal to me that I will have it a little easier again, because something happened to the boys there, “he smiles.
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