Hockey World Championship 2025: Czechs reign, but shom to the B -tournament (day 11)
Stockholm. Slovenian hockey players have long been said that they are too weak for the elite category and too good for the lower 1A division. Every time they advanced to the top, they lasted only one tournament and went down.
But in Stockholm to the World Championship 2025 has changed. The Slovenes will play among the elite in a year. They rescued for the first time since 2005. After the 3: 1 victory over France, they enjoyed winning a medal.
The Slovenes led 2: 0, but when the French dropped without a goalkeeper at the game, panic broke out in the Slovenian team. Their victory, however, seated in the empty goal Matic Török.
Hero burner and complications for IIHF
« It’s incredible. I’ve been playing in the national team for a long time, about 15 years, but only today did I see that we saved ourselves in the elite category and we played it twice at the Olympic Games. This year the young blood came to the team and everything fell into each other.
We believed from the first day, from the national team in Maribor. All honor to the player, from the first to the last, but our main savior was the goalkeeper Horák. It is great that they got his passport and that he became a new Janez, ”said defender Blaž Gregorc.
The hero of the Slovenian was the Czech goalkeeper Lukáš Horák. A native of the bridge got through France and Denmark to Ljubljana, where he also captured the national coach Ed Terglav.
VIDEO: Cut out of the match Slovenia – France
He suggested him last fall whether he wanted to catch Slovenia. He nodded and received Slovenian citizenship shortly before the championship.
The goalkeeper, who had no place at home even in the first league bridge, captured in Stockholm against the Canadian stars, on Sunday, thanks to him, the Slovenes made the match against the Austrians and shone against the French.
Since Janez is a traditional Slovenian name, his teammates have made it clear that he was already a member of their hockey family.
French falling means complications for IIHF. France is to be the venue of the World Cup in 2028. If he fails to return to the elite, IIHF will have to be able to put it administratively.
And it still has a puzzle on his neck, as it will solve the position of Russia in the future, which does not play championships for the occupation war in Ukraine, but has a frozen position in the ladder. This means that once it returns, it will be part of the elite category.
The second newcomer is also close to the rescue. The Hungarians needed to score against Norwegians to definitely, but they decided to lose a single goal.
This means that the Norwegians will remain between the tip and the Hungarians will keep their fingers crossed for the favorite Swiss in a duel against Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
If the Kazakhs come out in it, they will fall out. Out of the five mutual matches at the World Championship, the Kazakhs won the Swiss one – nine years ago for raids.
A weak tournament, a bite in the Czech Republic
In Group B in Herning, Czechs have been dominated by six games, six victories. On Monday they also gave a lesson to the Germans (5: 0).
Guests Podcast Zimák portal isport.cz Vladimír Růžička and Zbyněk Irgl praised mainly the captain of the team Roman Červenka and the star Boston Bruins David Pastrňák.
« I like the paste that even when he is a shooter, he is not self -employed and records it beautifully into an empty goal. He has a great movement, head up. All of this makes him an excellent player. I think it is currently one of the best in the world, » said Růžička.
« He plays hockey specifically. He waves, does not scare, it plays completely VV peace. As we can cool in front of the house with a tennisian, » Irgl added.
VIDEO: Cutting of the match Czech – Germany
The pair of Pastrňák and Červenka is still in the Canadian scoring of the championship.
However, Růžička and Irgl criticized the level of the championship.
« The whole championships act as a B group. It seems like a world championship dehonestation. Slovaks have a B -B -C -C -C -Cup, the Finns also did not bring extra maneuver. The only countries that have some team there are Canada, Swedes and we.
However, the Finns turned off on Monday evening to excellent performance and conquered the favorite Canada 2: 1 after the raids. Finnish television described this as the greatest victory of the « lions » from the final to the World Championship 2022, in which they conquered Canada at home.
VIDEO: The Match of the match Finland – Canada
The hero of North was the striker Patrik Puistola, who equalized to 1: 1 and also changed the raid and especially goalkeeper Juuse Saros. He coped with 37 cars of Canadians and only collected from five attempts once.
« We defended so well that we gave the Canadians very few dangerous situations. It probably frustrated them a bit. I don’t remember the good performance of the goalkeeper as Juusen (Saros), » he praised Puisto.
The Finns will be the last rival of the Slovaks in the tournament on Tuesday from 16.20.
