2015 U18 World Championship Preview: Slovakia looks to build off of U20 success

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Photo: HC Kosice forward and 2015 prospect Radovan Bondra is hoping to bring some of the success of the U20 Slovakian team to the U18 squad competing at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship in Switzerland (courtesy of Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)


</p>A little miracle took place for Slovakia on the last night of the U20 World Junior Championship this past winter. The bronze medal obtained by Slovakia at this year’s WJC practically rejuvenated an ice hockey nation that was feeling as if its best days were eternally behind it. The tournament darlings made that bronze medal game victory over Sweden feel as if they’d won the Stanley Cup.… read more

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