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The first batch of weekend testing of the Slovak hockey team revealed one positive case. Yesterday, fourteen hockey players, who came to the Bratislava “bubble” on Saturday, managed two tests for COVID-19. Peter Cehlárik had a positive result.
With Peter Cehlárik in quarantine, the game is about time, he can still fly to Beijing
The offensive leader remains in quarantine until Thursday. Then it is tested. The management of the national team believes that it will be able to fly to the Winter Olympics later. However, the best striker of the last world championships in Riga, according to the rules, needs four consecutive PCR tests with a negative result.
“It all depends on the numbers. Infectivity is essential. We’ll wait to see if he takes the next tests on Thursday or Friday. The weekend is the cut-off date for us. We’ll pray hockey that Peter won’t be infectious. Otherwise, we have to deal with his alternate. It will be day by day. We really need a pete and we want it at the Olympic tournament. He is a key player in the game of five against five and especially in power play. At the world championships and in the Olympic qualification, he was a player in the first formation. We didn’t just lose someone from the fourth line, ” national team manager Oto Haščák told us.
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He also zoomed in as long as they wanted to wait. “It is important that Peter has four negative tests. We will wait for him until the last possible moment. I don’t know if we’ll close it on Friday or Saturday. We need him to complete at least one or two training sessions before the first match against Finland. In this, I also want to ask the public not to speculate. We follow the rules, “ continued Oto Haščák.
According to our information, yesterday’s testing revealed more positive tests, in one case it should be a player. Other hockey players had borderline results. That’s why they didn’t train yesterday either. “I do not want to comment on this because I am not an epidemiologist. I can only say that the other guys did negatively with the tests, ” said a participant in three Olympic tournaments as a striker.
In the current tense situation, the question also arises as to how the national team will decide to use six hockey players who are among the substitutes in the “taxi” team. “We decide whether to keep them in clubs or take three to Beijing in the same way as the Czechs did. We will talk about it in the near future. Substitutes know about it. I hope they will be ready if that happens. We have to follow how many positive hockey players we have. We can fly to Beijing and when someone jumps there. Waiting for everything to happen is like a nightmare. “
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Most of all, at least three deputies should fly to Beijing. It should be the defender Mislav Rosandič and the attackers Róbert Lantoši with Adam Liška.
Cehlárik was not in contact with anyone else from the team or the implementation team after arriving at the “bubble”. “We are all accommodated in units. No one has a roommate. For the first two days we were completely isolated and they brought food to our room. It wasn’t until Monday that those who had negative tests and necessarily low infectivity trained. The others who come will have to pass two negative PCR tests in order to get on the plane and fly behind us. “ added Haščák.
Yesterday, eleven hockey players who came to the minicamp on Saturday underwent their first training under the leadership of Craig Ramsay. “I was very happy. I missed hockey so much. The hand is fine now. I was ready to play earlier, unfortunately, COVID-19 stopped it. I’m ready. For the past month, I’ve only been riding the ice and working out in the gym. I had quasi-summer training. Unfortunately, I did not feel the coronavirus. “ Slovan Bratislava striker Samuel Takáč, who had not played a competitive match since the end of December, spoke for Hockey Slovakia.
Samuel Kňažko experienced the most difficult move. The captain of the junior national team moved by air from Seattle, USA on Friday. During the two days in the hotel isolation, he developed a time shift, but he was no longer missing from the training. “I had slightly heavier legs. The hands didn’t work together, but it certainly worked for everyone. There were only eleven of us on the ice, but another one will join tomorrow and we will be in full force. “ a defender drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets spoke after the training.
Twenty players are still completing one training session in the Bratislava “bubble” today. Tomorrow they will move to Vienna’s Schwechat Airport, from where they will fly via Istanbul to Beijing. The team will have a preparatory match against Germany on February 7 at the Olympic Games, and on February 10 the Slovaks will start the tournament against the Finns.
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