Mrázek will cover Dostál’s back on Thursday, Vejmelka will remain in the stands. In the field, all seven new signings from the NHL will be included in the game. Dostál’s teammate from Anaheim Radko Gudas and Jan Rutta from San Jose will be included in the defense. Dominik Kubalík from Ottawa will line up in one attacking formation with Tomáš Nosk and Ondřej Palát from New Jersey. Filip Zadina from San Jose will play with Matěj Stránský and Petr Kodytek and Radi Zohorna from Pittsburgh with Ondřej Beránek and Jáchym Kondelík. Palát will start with the captain’s badge, and his assistants will be Gudas and Jakub Flek.
According to assumptions, the finalists of the extra league – defenders Libor Hájek and Jan Košťálek from Pardubice with forward Lukáš Sedlák and fullback Tomáš Kundrátek with forward Daniel Voženílk from the championship team Třinec – will not be included in the game yet. Fullback Jan Ščotka and forwards Roman Červenka, Ondřej Kaše, Filip Chlapík, Pavel Kousal, Radan Lenc, Michael Špaček, David Tomášek and Jakub Vrána will also remain in the stands.
| Expected lineup of the Czech Republic: |
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| Dostál (Mrázek) – Gudas, Kempný, Rutta, Mašín, D. Špaček, Krejčík, Zábranský, Ticháček – Flek, M. Kovařčík, O. Kovařčík – M. Stránský, Kodýtek, Zadina – D. Kubalík, T. Nosek, Palát – O. Beránek, Kondelík, R. Zohorna |
Player St. Louis Vrána, who finished his year on the farm in Springfield in the AHL, was so far the only hockey player from the NHL who started in this year’s preparation. Vrána played matches against Slovakia on Friday in Trenčín and on Sunday in Bratislava.
This season, Rulík’s team first defeated Suomi 7:3 at Karjala in Tampere in November, then 2:1 in Prague at the Swiss Games in December and lost 2:4 at the Swedish Games in Karlstad in February.
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