ANTOŠ’S RAZOR: About Hudáček’s stroke and the brutal fall of Comet, which can end up at the bottom

Referees Hejduk and Sýkora didn’t even go to look at the video, because they said they themselves saw that Chmielewski was in the goal area. Those watching on TV knew immediately that this statement was not true.

But the TV footage was not watched by the Třinec shifter. A while before, the network went down, so she did not receive the information from her video coach that she should take the coaching challenge and have the situation reviewed. They were afraid of receiving a two-minute penalty if the video didn’t prove them right, so they preferred to stay silent and take no chances. The Steelers thus lost a goal that would have given them a 2:1 lead, and the match would then develop in a completely different direction. That doesn’t change the fact that it was Třinka’s fault.

But why didn’t the judges go and watch the video on their own? In key situations around the goal area, they should use the videos and quickly make a summary. Instead, Hejduk just asked Třinka if he wanted to take up the challenge… At the same time, referees should have a primary interest in making the right decisions and in keeping the game clean. That didn’t happen, which I’m sorry about.

In the end, Třinec could not handle the match in the south of Bohemia and lost 2:3. Also because Libor Hudáček, who is not having a bad season, had two negative moments that affected the match. First, he greased Valské for a goal to make it 3:1, and then came a moment in the last seconds of the third period that dismayed almost everyone in the Budvar arena.

Hudáček didn’t hit an absolutely empty goal by a few steps, and he had no choice but to grab his head, go to the corner and say to himself: “Then I screwed up!”.

But such strokes do happen. I remember how 19 years ago we played with Slavia in the fifth semi-final against Sparta. If its striker Chabad had hit a completely empty goal and not a stick at the very end of the third period, Sparta would have advanced. But we decided in extra time, then we won the next two matches and went to the final.

Time and space pressure also play a role, the player makes decisions in a fraction of a second, as well as slight underestimation. You see an empty goal, you know it’s over soon, so you want to send the puck into it quickly, without preparing it better.

Anyone who wants to see the fall of the Comet can watch now. But not to heaven. What Brno is showing now is not a good look for its fans. In January, the Comet got 36 goals in eight games, 21 in the last four, which are completely incomprehensible numbers for the fact that they bet on defense before the season.

Brno fell to the penultimate place, with a lead of six points over Kladno, which is still enough. But when I watch how the team fails brutally, I start to fear that Kometa may fall to the very bottom of the extra league. It will be all the more difficult to recover.

I’m not training with them, so I don’t know how they are doing physically. But the Comet as a whole team does not work defensively at all. There is not even a trace of compactness in the defense.

Brno already knows that it has huge problems, that it is not about one match failure. And above all, the current situation is not good for the club’s PR. They try to act like one big family that goes to hockey. Spectators have always brought Kometa enough money for the entrance fee, sold out home matches, but now the attendance is decreasing. Which is particularly bad news for the club’s coffers.