The second day at the World Hockey World Championship 2025: Hungarian supertalent and Crosby’s memories
Stockholm. In the popular sports cliché it was a duel of David with Goliath. There are more than half a million registered hockey players in Canada, founded today the most famous and best -quality league competition in the world and the legends of this sport have grown.
Slovenians excel in other sports – basketball, handball, cycling … Hockey players have barely a thousand, only three professional clubs and the national team has been playing for years between the elite category and the lower MS Division.
Yet on the next day World Cup 2025 There was no demolition in Stockholm. The Slovenes played a nice game against the NHL stars.
They lost 0: 4but up to three goals were collected in weakening. On Sunday from 12.20 pm in the second match at the tournament will try to surprise Slovakia.
The biggest Slovenian star Anže Kopitar has not been attending the World Cup for a long time. Captain Los Angeles Kings last started at the I/A. Divisions in 2019. On the other hand, Kopitar’s peer Sidney Crosby is the biggest advertising championship advertising.
Generation talent and past the idol of millions of future hockey players in Stockholm at its third World Cup. He claims that he wants to play as much as possible in the autumn of his career.
In February he led Canada to win at the 4 Nations Face-Off, and since he did not advance to the playoffs with Pittsburgh for the third consecutive year, he enjoyed another portion of the matches.
In Sweden, it has been naturally the center of attention and the requested respondents of the media since its arrival. Latvian reminded him of his premiere championship in Riga in 2006 and Sidney remembered:
« I remember a great atmosphere, noisy fans, and also a crazy match against Latvia when objects were flying on the pitch. Coins, I think I saw a cell phone. It was a unique experience. »
Video: Bizarre match between Latvia and Canada at the 2006 hockey World Championship
At that time, the home supporters hardly carried some verdicts of the referees and the loader 0:11 from the favorite.
Eighteen -year -old Crosby scored one of the eight goals at the 2006 World Cup and contributed to the 4: 1 victory in the quarterfinals.
All of the Slovak selection has everyone after their careers, but several players of the tournament are these days, like Crosby, in Stockholm.
Ján Lašák is a coach of the goalkeeper of the Slovak national team, Milan Jurčina works as a scout for Boston Bruins and Michal Hudec, Dominik Graňák and Tomáš Surový operates in the venue of the World Championship as television experts.
Hungarian supertalent scored in Bratislava also
With the Slovenes, the Hungarians returned to the elite category on Saturday. It wasn’t easy, he didn’t see anything good in history.
Of the 21 matches against Germany, only one won the Hungarians – in 1940 in Garmish -Partenkirchen. And nothing has changed in the Herning where The favorite won 6: 1.
The match was watched by numerous fan camps of both teams.
As the daily Nemzeti Sport noted, Hungarian supporters were amused by the announcer in the Jyske Bank Boxen Arena before the match, who, in introducing Hungarian players, made the right name of only one of them – Henrik Nilsson.
Despite the expected result, history was written. The domain of Kristóf Szongoth, who was at the age of 16, 11 months and 2 days, joined the world championships in the last 76 years for Hungary.
Norwegian Leif Solheim was 16 years, 6 months and 29 days during the World Championship 1949.
« I look forward to the championship. The arena is a bit warm and we are a little far, but it is not a problem. It is an honor for me that they count on me in the senior national team and I will try to make the most of the team, » Szongoth told MTI before the tournament starts.
The Hungarian supertalent plays this season at the third championship this season, and there was also a 1/and division of up to 18 years of age and 20 years. The domain comes from a hockey family, and his grandfather and his father were doing the same sport.
The coach of the Hungarian national team Gergely Majoros, also known to Slovak fans from his work in Nové Zámky, called him for the first time last summer.
Szongoth joined Hungary at the Olympic Qualification tournament in Bratislava and scored Kazakhstan. This season he worked in the Finnish junior league in KOO KOO U20 and was not lost among older players.
He admitted that he was already looking forward to the next year’s NHL draft.
On the opposite pole of the age table like Szongoth, the Swiss veteran Andres Ambühl (41), Canadian goalkeeper Marc-André Fleury (40), Frenchman Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (40), Čech Roman Červenka (39) and Kazy Roman Starčenko (38) are at the World Championship 2025.
The Austrians also worried about the Swedes
Czech striker Martin Nečas could train on Saturday in Herning. He did not start a fight against Switzerland on Friday because he did not reach Denmark with equipment.
« British Airways disappointed us because sending a business class player and not to come to such a fundamental day in the World Cup scene, it is not just seen, » said manager Jiří Šlégr, quoted by isport.cz.
The Colorado Avalanche star captivated at least a luxurious hand bag of Louis Vuitton for almost three thousand euros.
Latvians have taken care of the best atmosphere in the tournament. Several thousand arrived for the evening fight against the French and in the afternoon they could be heard in front of the hall.
100 % are after two matches So far, only the Swedes, but against the Austrians, have been three points.
In the 58th minute, the Austrians led 2: 1 and could build on the sensational result of their grandfathers, who in 1947 in Prague helped win over the north to the title of domestic Czechoslovakia.
But the Swedes worked and turned the result in twelve seconds.
