It’s here, the Czech national team enters the home world championship in Prague’s O2 arena! Radim Rulík’s team faces the Finns in an important opening match in Group A, a week ago in Brno the national team lost 1:4 to the Nordic opponent. Will the group around captain Roman Červenka be able to enter the championship? Watch the ONLINE broadcast of the match from 8:20 p.m. on iSport.cz.
In the 25-member nomination of coach Jukka Jalonen, the Finnish hockey players have four reinforcements from the NHL and five Olympic champions from Beijing in 2022. This season, Rulík’s team defeated Suomi 7:3 in Karjala in Tampere in November, then in December in Prague at the Swiss Games 2: 1, but in February he lost at the Swedish Games in Karlstad 2:4 and then by an even higher margin on home ice in Brno.
The two teams last met at the WC two years ago in Tampere, the Finns celebrated a 3:0 win at the end of the program of the regular part.
Probable line-up of the Czech Republic:
Dostál or Mrázek – Gudas, Krejčík, Rutta, Kempný, Kundrátek, Hájek, D. Špaček – D. Kubalík, Tomášek, Palát – O. Kaše, L. Sedlák, Červenka – M. Stránský, Kämpf, Voženílek – Flek, Kondelík , O. Beránek.
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O2 arena, Prague
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