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Hockey players from Slovakia, Latvia and Denmark celebrate advancing to the Beijing Winter Olympics! In the key battle in Bratislava, our eastern neighbors pushed the Belarusians 2: 1, in Riga they ruled over the French and Latvians after the same win, and the Danes won the qualifying group in Oslo with a 2: 0 victory over the organizing country.
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The three winners completed twelve Olympic participants. The host China has already secured a certain place with the top eight in the IIHF rankings – Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the Czechia, the USA, Germany and Switzerland.
While Slovakia and Latvia will present themselves in Beijing in “Nordic” Group C with Finland and Sweden, Denmark will face Russia, Switzerland and the Czech national team in the “béčka”. Group A consists of Canada, USA, Germany and China.
Group A: Canada, USA, Germany, China.
Group B: ROV, Czechia, Switzerland, Denmark.
Group C: Finland, Sweden, Slovakia, Latvia.
Group D results (Bratislava)
The home hockey players entered the decisive duel at full throttle and were more active from the beginning. According to pre-match predictions, the Belarusian hardness on the ice was confirmed, especially at the moment when Sergei Sapego performed a tough intervention and headed for the shower prematurely. The Slovaks avenged their shaken teammate, specifically Peter Cehlárik opened the score with a goal to 1: 0.
However, Belarus did not back down from its sharpness. But the team in blue jerseys made it clear that opponents do not pay to play like this and the home team was not afraid to be excluded because of it. There were also fist exchanges of views, the referees tried to correct the situation with a number of handed penalty minutes.
In the second act, however, the Belarusians cooled their heads, especially the biggest star of the team, Yegor Sharangovic, who in the 22nd minute pushed the disc behind Branislav Konrad with fierce stops. The visiting team got more to say and the Slovaks were in trouble. Their despair deepened even more in the third period, when they were very passive.
The 7,000 spectators who sold out Ondrej Nepely’s Ice Stadium could finally shout one more goal. Two minutes before the end of the basic playing time, the Belarusians tried the game without a goalkeeper and the Slovaks were sent to the lead by Libor Hudáček. The home team advanced to the Olympic tournament.
SLOVAKIA – BELARUS 2: 1 (1: 0, 0: 1, 1: 0)
Goals and recordings: 5. Cehlárik (Hrivik), 58. Hudáček (Čerešňák) – 22. Šarangovič.
Referee: Ohlund (Sweden), Tscherrig (Switzerland) – Ondráček (Czechia), Zunde (Latvia).
Exclusion: 8: 7, plus Sapego (Belarus) 5 minutes and until the end of the match.
Use: 1:0.
Shots on goal: 39:22.
Viewers: 7 105 (sold out).
Slovakia: Konrád – Marinčin, Jaroš, Čerešňák, Gernát, Grman, Kňažko, Nemec, Ďaloga – Jurčo, Hrivik, Cehlárik – Lántoši, Růžička, Pospíšil – Daňo, Studenič, Hudáček – Gríger, Roman, Slafkovský.
Belarus: Taylor – Bailen, Sapego, Solovyov, Lisovets, Gotovec, Kolyachonok, Korobov, Jerjomenko – Sharangovich, Komarov, Stas – Platt, Paré, Prince – Protas, Kodola, Bujnickij – Demkov, Pavlovich, Usov.
POLAND – AUSTRIA 1: 4 (1: 2, 0: 1, 0: 1)
Goals and recordings: 12. Urbanowicz (Kolusz, Lyszczarczyk) – 5. Ganahl (Schneider, Hunderpfund), 20. Lebler (Haudum), 35. Lebler (Wolf), 54. Lebler (dwarf).
The team | WITH | V | VP | PP | P | Score | Body | |
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1. | Slovakia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9:3 | 9 |
2. | Belarus | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6:5 | 3 |
3. | Austria | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7:8 | 3 |
4. | Poland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3:9 | 3 |
Group E results (Riga)
After clear victories 6-0 over Italy and 9-0 over the Hungarians in Riga, Latvia pushed the French 2: 1. Rihards Bukarts from Exzlín opened the scoring, with Miks Indrašis scoring the winning goal. Ivars Punnenovs shone in the goal again, whom Stéphane Da Costa lost to third.
LATVIA – FRANCE 2: 1 (1: 0, 0: 0, 1: 1)
Goals and recordings: 11. Rihards Bukarts, 46. Indras (Blueger, Balinskis) – 52. S. Da Costa.
HUNGARY-ITALY 2: 1 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 1)
Goals and recordings: 39. Nagy (Sofron, Stipsicz), 48. Mihaly (Bartalis) – 54. Morini (Frigo, Kostner).
The team | WITH | V | VP | PP | P | Score | Body | |
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1. | Latvia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:1 | 9 |
2. | France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8:5 | 6 |
3. | Hungary | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5:15 | 3 |
4. | Italy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1:10 | 0 |
Group F results (Oslo)
The Nordic derby was also careful and balanced. The home Norwegians did not find a recipe for a certain Sebastian Dahm in it and after the final siren they were sad, at the end of the second period they were knocked down by Frederik Storm, the insurance was added by Nikolaj Ehlers. The Danes dominated the group in Oslo with a score of 17: 4.
NORWAY – DENMARK 0: 2 (0: 0, 0: 1, 0: 1)
Goals and recordings: 38. Storm (Lauridsen, Blichfeld), 57. Ehlers (Nielsen).
SLOVENIA – SOUTH KOREA 4: 1 (0: 1, 3: 0, 1: 0)
Goals and recordings: 31. Jeglič (Urbas, Kopitar), 33. Tičar (Kopitar, Gregorc), 36. Sabolič (Tičar, Kopitar), 60. Kopitar – 20. Jin Hui Ahn (Ki Sung Kim, Hyun Jung Jong).
The team | WITH | V | VP | PP | P | Score | Body | |
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1. | Denmark | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:4 | 9 |
2. | Norway | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:7 | 6 |
3. | Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:12 | 3 |
4. | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3:19 | 0 |
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