Jaškin, Krejčík and Sklenička dropped out of the nomination for Karjala

Dmitry Yashkin in the jersey of the Czech national hockey team.

Vlastimil Vacek, Right

There are thirty players in the team, who should travel to the tournament in this composition on Monday. “The management of the tournament allowed us to expand the roster from twenty-seven to thirty players,” Zdeněk Hikmund, a spokesman for Czech hockey, told ČTK. Thanks to this, the team was joined by newcomers Koffer and Novák, and the staff also includes 16-year-old defender David Jiříček, who was in the original wider nomination.

The new coach of the national team Filip Pešán has to do without the currently best KHL scorer in Helsinki. Yashkin shares the lead with the duo Teemu Hartikainen from Ufa and Alexei Makeyev from Ekaterinburg with 12 goals. Krejčík loses the opportunity to play the jubilee 100th match in the national team in Helsinki. The Jokerit is still waiting for a duel on the Sochi ice on Tuesday.

Twelve newcomers

Koffer and Novák expanded the number of newcomers in the squad to twelve. The other juniors include goalkeeper Lukáš Pařík from Liberec, defenders Jiříček, Stanislav Svozil from Kometa Brno and Šimon Kubíček from Litoměřice and attackers Jan Myšák from Litvínov, Adam Raška from Třinec, Michal Teplý from Mladá Boleslav and Jaromír Pytlík from Sault Ste. Marie z OHL.

In addition to the first starts, the current teammates from Tappary Tampere are also waiting for them – goalkeeper Dominik Hrachovina, who was the number three at the World Championships in Denmark in 2018, and forward Michael Špaček.

Jiříček, who will celebrate his seventeenth birthday on November 28, has moved even closer to making history by moving from a wider staff to a final nomination. He could become the youngest player in the history of the independent Czech national team.

This is now Rostislav Olesz, who competed at the Baltika Cup in Moscow on December 22, 2002 against Russia at the age of 17, two months and 12 days. Together with the Czechoslovak team, the record holder is Jaroslav Drobný, who made his debut in February 1937 at the age of 15, three months and 30 days.

Representation in new times. Czech hockey players will be locked in a Finnish bubble

Lenc is next to the defender Filip Hronka, who helps out from Detroit Hradec Králové before the delayed start of the NHL, and the only representative from the Czech clubs with twenty players.

Sweden ‘s first opponent

Pešán did not nominate the players from them otherwise, because due to the valid restrictions in the country, including the ban on training indoors, they can no longer fully prepare from 12 October. He wants to allow the juniors to train at least in Helsinki and include them in the final match with Russia, which completely nominated the selection under the age of 20.

The Czech team will fly to the “bubble” in Helsinki on Monday with two specials from Prague and Moscow, the first training is scheduled for Tuesday morning. On Thursday at 13:30 he will enter the first tournament of the Euro Hockey Tour series in a season duel with Sweden. Two days later, from 4.30 pm, he will play against the home team of Finland, and on Sunday from 12:30 pm against Russia.

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