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Luca Sbisa, Nino Niederreiter, Sven Baertschi, Mirco Mueller. Since 2008, Switzerland has had more success in the first round of the NHL Draft than Slovakia or the Czech Republic, the two countries that hosted the annual Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament and two of the hockey nations generally regarded as being stronger than Switzerland. If this trend continues, the Swiss may well surpass those two nations.
Slovakia showed a subpar performance at this year's Ivan Hlinka and even though the Czechs kept the bronze medal in the country, the Swiss team might have been the number-one surprise of the tourney.… read more
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