Forward Roman Červenka won the productivity of the World Cup as the fourth Czech hockey player in history. He scored 17 points for five goals and 12 assists. In addition, the 36-year-old captain was voted the best striker of the World Cup and also got into the All Star team of the tournament in Tampere and Helsinki.
The captain of the Czech hockey players Roman Červenka was voted the best striker of the World Championships in Tampere and Helsinki and also got into the All Star team of the tournament. Slavia, a 36-year-old offspring and player of the Swiss team Rapperswil-Jona, helped his team gain bronze 17 points for five goals and 12 assists in 10 matches, thanks to which it controlled productivity and became the best recorder of the tournament.
The Czechs were represented among the best players at the last championship in 2019 in Bratislava and Košice, where Filip Hronek was chosen as the best defender and Jakub Voráček joined the All Star team.
The most useful player of the tournament was the Finnish goalkeeper Jussi Olkinuora, who was also the best player in his post and was not missing in the top six of the championship.
Czech striker David Pastrňák shared the position of the best scorer of the World Championship with the Canadians Dylan Cozens and Pierre-Luc Dubois with seven goals.
In the independent Czech national team, the best scorers of the World Cup before Pastrňák were only three players. In 1997, Vůjtek and Procházka shared first place with the Frenchman Roger Dubý and a year later Pavel Patera with six goals with the Swede Peter Forsberg and the Russian Sergey Berezin.
In addition to Vůjtek, Procházka and Pastrňák, Michael Frolík also managed to score seven goals in 2019 in Bratislava. Vladimír Zábrodský holds the record from the times of Czechoslovakia with 26 goals from 1947.
Červenka helped to win the medal 17 points for five goals and 12 assists from ten matches. He surpassed Canadian Drake Batherson by three points, who also scored three goals and 11 assists in 10 duels. He surpassed him even at the head of the recorders.
He joined the side of Vladimír Martinec, Vladimír Vůjtek and Martin Procházka. Martinec won productivity in the days of Czechoslovakia in 1976 in Katowice, where he contributed 20 points for nine goals and 11 passes in 10 matches.
Vůjtek and Procházka together dominated the Canadian scoring in 1997 at the championships also played in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku, where they collected 14 points for seven goals and the same number of assists. Vůjtek managed it in eight matches, Procházka in nine.
In addition, Červenka created the second best record of the Czech representative in history. He surpassed the trio of Jiří Novák, Milan Nový and Jakub Voráček, who had the same 16 points in the World Cup after 10 points. Novák recorded nine hits and seven assists in 1976, Nový a year later helped to defend the title in Vienna with six goals and ten passes, and three years ago in Bratislava four hits and 12 assists were enough for only 4th place.
Individual awards of the World Hockey Championships in Tampere and Helsinki:
The best World Cup players in individual positions (according to the tournament directorate):
Goalkeeper: Jussi Olkinuora, defender: Mikko Lehtonen (both Finland), forward: Roman Červenka (Czech Republic).
The most useful player of the tournament (according to accredited journalists): Jussi Olkinuora (Finland).
All Star team (according to accredited journalists): Jussi Olkinuora – Mikko Lehtonen (oba Finsko), Seth Jones (USA) – Pierre-Luc Dubois (Canada), Roman Červenka (ČR), Sakari Manninen (Finsko).
