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Four Nations Tournament In Sweden Coming Up For Under-20 National Team
By Radoslav Vavřina, Lead Writer, The Czech List Following a mediocre trip through North America in which the Under-20 national team only managed to beat one of Canada’s teams, the Czechs are getting ready for another tournament of the category, this time a Four Nations Tournament hosted by Sweden in Jönköping, the home of HV71. Roster […]

Under-20 National Team Finds It Difficult To Score, Beats Canada
UNDER-20 NATIONAL TEAM Article written by David Motloch The Czech Under-20 national team traveled overseas to play four tough games in just six days. Led by coaches Miroslav Přerost and Jiří Juřík, the Czechs, however, struggled. In the opening game, they were shut out by Team Russia, losing by the score of 5-0. Just one […]

Czechs Announce Roster for Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup
UNDER-18 NATIONAL TEAM One of the most anticipated events of every season of junior hockey, the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament, is right around the corner and the Czech team coaches Jakub Petr and Petr Svoboda have already announced the roster. Goaltenders Aleš Stezka (Liberec) Jan Růžička (Mladá Boleslav) Daniel Vladař (Kladno) Defensemen Martin Weinhold (Karlovy […]

Important Upcoming Dates for Czech National Teams
CZECH NATIONAL TEAM After the great 2013-14 campaign, the Czech junior national teams are back in for a good-looking season in 2014-15 in which they should be able to at least repeat their previous success and maybe even go further. Let’s take a look at the events in which the five teams will participate. Under-20 […]

Czech U20 National Team Announced for Canadian Tourney
U20 NATIONAL TEAM The new hockey season is right around the corner and so even the Under-20 national team is getting ready for a tournament abroad. This year, the opener will be held in Montréal, Quebec, where the Czech team will square off with Russia and Canada. The event takes place from August 2 to […]

Look back at memorable season for Czech junior national team
By Radoslav Vavřina, Lead Writer, The Czech List Just like every year, it started in August and ended it late June. The 2013-14 season of the Czech junior national team and its categories, however, wasn’t just like every other year. For a first time after seasons that made people believe Czech hockey is heading nowhere, our […]

Czech List: A Look Back at the Minsk World Hockey Championship
By Radoslav Vavřina, Czech Correspondent for All Habs Hockey Magazine MINSK, BELARUS — It’s pretty beautiful here in Minsk. Prior to the 2014 IIHF World Championship, we didn’t know what awaited us. What the place will actually look like? How good the food will be and how open-minded locals would be towards foreigners? Well, politics have nothing […]

Czech List, Olympic Edition: Report Card for the Czech Republic
By Radoslav Vavřina, Czech Correspondent for All Habs Hockey Magazine LIBEREC, CZE — The most anticipated sports event of this year, the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, are over, at least the part that we are interested in – the hockey tournament. Some countries can call it a disappointment, like Slovakia or Switzerland, both looking to score […]