It also refers to the findings of various sports studies that more successful athletes are born at the end of the year. While Jágr was born in February, Hašek celebrated his 58th birthday on January 29. “Everything is different in hockey. Now it is from the first of January to the last of December according to the years. In my time, it was from September 1, according to the beginning of the school year,” the native of Pardubice refutes the frequent assertion.
“I think that for those hockey players, and in Nagano in particular, the birth month didn’t play a role, the key was the current form the players arrived in,” responds Martin Kézr. “That tournament had no preparation at all. One charter from Europe gathered there, two from America and those players, the whole team of 23 people, met at the first training session in Nagano,” points out the editor-in-chief of Sport.cz and the sports section Práva.
Dominik Hašek’s influence on the NHL, contribution from the program PříklepVideo: Sport.cz
“And some of them met for the first time in their lives,” adds Hašek, reminding that the team only managed three training sessions before starting the first match against Finland.
Hašek also talks about his teammates from Buffalo in Příklep. He mentions Alexej Žitnik and Mike Peca and also how he once advised them what applies to the famous 68. “You have to go hard to Jágr, so that his strength runs out and he doesn’t have time for his tricks,” Hašek recalled.
In the show, he also responds to Matthew Barnaby’s criticism from the recently published book called Unflitered (Czech “Nefiltronova”), he tells interesting stories about his friends Richard Šmehlík and Michal Grošek, as well as what he thinks about Miroslav Šatan’s actions as president of Slovak hockey .
