Extraliga Preview: Pardubice to Olomouc

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Everyone starts at zero, every club has the theoretical hope. We have compiled a scenario that must happen to win the most valuable title. The line -up of the main favorites is clear – two giants of Pardubice with Sparta and then the teams that have been taking the cup since 2017, the comet with Třinec.

Category by Message List: Main favorite.

What must happen to win the title: Actually, we can say that everyone does their work as they are waiting, and then Pardubice won the seventh match until it comes to it. It’s so simple.

Purely by names, no one in the extraleague has as strong cadre as Dynamo. It is a great luxury to shoot a team around Červenka and Sedlak. In addition, they have players with NHL experiences like Jakub Lauk, Johnny Ludvig, Jiří Smejkal or Martin Kaut.

The defense strengthened a lot, a year ago there were all defensive types, now thanks to Košťálka, Tourignny and Gazdy, an offensive concert can come. Of course, the names are not enough, of course, but if the new coach Filip Pešán tunes the team from the big stars, it should be the strongest machine in the competition.

One “but”? Three times in a row the team ended up in the play off in the match number seven. This is where Bubák gradually grows.

Category by Message List: Main favorite.

What must happen to win the title: Stay calm. As for promotion and work with fans, the NHL club plays. It uses O2 arena fully, enjoys people, attracts other fans.

Well, then there’s a sport. Sparta longs for the title, she won the last one in the spring of 2007. She looked perfect all the time a year ago, everything was pedaling. But the series with Kometa did not work, a bunch from Brno won the seventh match and everything disappeared.

If there is no panic in Sparta and the team does not eat its own pressure, this is a file that can be measured with Pardubice.

There are a lot of players from whom there is a further improvement: Michael Špaček, Pavel Kousal or Filip Guy can have a much better season than a year ago. This is always a plus when you know that your core is not behind.

It is also necessary for Dzierkals to pay for one of the best weakening players, Shore scored at least thirty points and raged in the playoffs and the lisy still played as a defender just below the NHL. Thus, abbreviated, foreign reinforcements must fulfill the roles they come to.

Category by Message List: FAVORITE.

What must happen to win the title: To make newcomers to give energy that the aging team in the last play off. Třinec focused on high quality goods on the market.

Oscar Flynn is one of the best shooters of the extra league, Michal Kovařčík has collected 107 points in Finland in Finland and Jakub Galvas can ask for the Olympics. He came from Sweden, but he is still underestimated against what he can do. It should be among the elite defenders of the competition.

This trio should help raise Třinec.

The winning bottom makes no sense to underestimate, it is still in the club. The old Guard, led by Martin Růžička, can come alive whenever they come key matches. He, Ondřej Kacetl, Vladimir Dravecky et al. They still remember Varaďa’s era. All they need is to want to win, and they will be afraid of them.

Category by Message List: FAVORITE.

What must happen to win the title: It is ideal to move somewhere around the fourth to sixth place, no one paid much attention to her and was going to be in peace. Well, and in the playoffs to work again “instructions” hockey.

Coach Kamil Pokorný carries a personal charm that worked last season. In addition, players have accepted his view of hockey that no one must risk, all situations are solved simply and responsibly.

It is important that Filip King, one of the most talented defenders in the extraleague, fits into the system. It is wilder forward, but if everything fits together, the comet has gained a big ace. There is no need to worry about the gate. Michal the character was the king, but Ales Trail can be at least as good.

Category by Message List: Can surprise.

What must happen to win the title: Liberec stands and falls with Radim Šimek. The tigers have a leader who played 209 NHL matches and can easily get into the nomination for the Olympics. Hook? It must be healthy.

And that’s a crucial thing for him. He is unlucky injury, last season he stood for almost two months because of problems with groin. Without it, Liberec is half, Šimek manages to play for over 25 minutes by default. There are quite a lot of options in the attack, but the defensive looks very closely.

Radan Lenc, a return from Sweden, will be a great reinforcement. If the connection of the bag + Sandberg in the third formation fits well, it will be very difficult to beat Liberec.

Category by Message List: Can surprise.

What must happen to win the title: All seasons, when Josef Jandač fell out with the national team, Magnitogorsk, Sparta, Liberec and České Budějovice below the summit. An experienced coach kisses a magic being on the forehead and begins to be lucky.

For a long time he had a sticker of a man who wouldn’t win anything. But in recent years it has calmed down significantly and has the impression that it is prepared for the great result. A year ago he did a great job with Pilsen when he finished eighth after the regular season.

The fact is that the cadre cannot be measured with the giants. Also in Sparta, Jandac had a much stronger set under his hands.

On the other hand, the defense managed to build on the conditions of the club from the center of the table of exhibition – Percy and Jeřábek are good shopping. If Adam Měchura manages to score goals on the front, Pilsen can be a pleasant shock of the extra league.

Category by Message List: Can surprise.

What must happen to win the title: Withstand. Already last season it was a great start, but since December victory jumped at a significantly milder pace.

She can never be underestimated when he has Dominik Furch in the gate and one of the most elegant defenders of the Filip Pyrochta competition rules.

Boleslav could get higher when tall attackers Tomáš Mazura with Vojtěch Hradec and Dominik Lakatoš again became a twenty -gram shooter after four seasons.

Category by Message List: Can surprise.

What must happen to win the title: First of all, stop filling the sickness. Hockey Tomáš Martinec is very dependent on the defenders and there are three out at the start of the season, the fourth Martin Planek transmits disciplinary punishment from the playoffs.

Healthy Hradec can do virtually anything. Lukáš Radil should be the desired star. Not in the sense that the game would make a fundamentally spinning around him, the coach of Martin looks different. They try to have all four formations balanced.

But they were advised by an attacker who should be able to decide the play off match, if the team had about fifty shots and lacked productivity.

Category by Message List: On the way.

What must happen to win the title: Milan Gulaš, a veteran even at the age of 39, was able to go to 40 points. But he ended his career. So the engine needs a new productivity boss.

Michal Bulíř? When he was healthy, he managed to score 27 goals per season, which would light up a lot. Otherwise, it needs stability and maintain a high level for a long time. The assumption applies to the goalkeeper, a defensive that was completely shut down in places last season and the attackers worried about changing chances.

Category by Message List: On the way.

What must happen to win the title: It doesn’t sound so complicated, it is enough for Varaď’s “D” plan to work again. The letter indicates the term ‘defensive’. Thanks to her, the coach won the titles with Třinec and everyone will tell you that he brought the winning thinking to the club.

But if it were so simple, everyone would be monkey.

Varaďa’s journey is full of pain, when you are fed up with a coach, because it pesks you in full details. But everything together can create a strong whole, a machine for winning.

It is also essential that it turns out that Václav Varaďa is a good manager, the team built himself. So he needs to hit the players. Marek Hrivík had a worse season in Sweden when he scored only two goals as an attacker. Jakub Zbořil did not completely shine in Pardubice. Varaďa welcomed them in the team. To move Vítkovice upwards, both reinforcements are needed.

Category by Message List: On the way.

What must happen to win the title: Can Ondřej Beránek still improve? In the spring ended the basic part with 50 points and 30 goals. At least the same portion will want him now.

The goals of Ondřej Procházka with David Gríger (26) and the assistance of Tarma Reunanen (27) left goals. Productivity was to be replaced by a bomber traalmaks from Kladno, but a contract from Detroit landed on his table.

With him, Vary would look very good and it would be said that they had two very strong attacks. Without it, they look the same, the team from the center of the table. It doesn’t look much to improve.

Category by Message List: Last dance.

What must happen to win the title: No club is in such a difficult situation as Litvínov. After the season the owner leaves and is looking for a new one. Fans are raised by money, former players headed by Martin Ručinský and Robert Reich put together scripts. But Unipetrol is Unipetrol, his “goodbye” hurts.

And everything can end up with hockey in Litvínov, during the season the cadre and goodbye will be sold. This is how a black scenario looks like no one wants to admit, but the option is too.

It is essential that in the autumn we can find a solution to keep extraleague hockey in the city. If not, it does not matter that the club Ondřej Kaše has an interesting thing in the preparation of goalkeeper Pavel Čajan. Actually, the topic is not the title now, rather how to stay alive. This is more than one cup. The future is played.

Category by Message List: Once every 100 years.

What must happen to win the title: Repeat Vegas from the first NHL season. Sixteen players came, created a brand new to do sowhich in itself sounds in team sport Much wildly.

In the group Tralmaks, Smoleňák, Ticháček, Pytlík, Jarůšek, Filip disappeared 80 goals that will have to be scored. And even though Tralmaks won the extraleague scoring, Kladno ended the penultimate.

So in order to talk about the title, the team would have to be far but far better.

The chance is not even in percent, rather in tenths of a percent. But there is no zero. Theoretically, you can just clamp to the story of Vegas in the NHL. The club grew out of players who became the other organizations and went from zero to one hundred.

In the first year, when a new group was formed, he reached the Stanley Cup final. They were nicknamed “scrap”. Well, this is similar and the only chance of Kladno.

Coach David Čermák must also create “scrap”. The role of Jaromír Jágr will also be crucial. You must not use it too much, but not little so that it does not feel pushed. It is also a great job to hit the balance, when the team will still help.

Category by Message List: Miracle.

What must happen to win the title: The combination that every player in Olomouc will experience a season of life, thirteen teams of the underestimation, the stars in the other teams tired of the Olympics and become a trouble after which the opponents are deducted points.

But at Olomouc, it will be a big thing if it gets into the play off, so it ends up in the first twelve.

The last team of last season is waiting for hard times. The youth left the elite categories, there is only one ice area in the city. It is waiting for the construction of a new arena that would kick hockey in the city and in the region.

The fact is that the Olomouc always suits when others speak of her as an outsider. He can historically translate the forecasts as an attack on the brand, club, his own work. All of this works like a kind of putty “we show them”.

But the title? Probable variant probably as a landing of an extraterrestrial ship on Wenceslas Square. It can happen, but…