His nominations are jokes, not only he doesn't take any young players, he doesn't take any rookies at all and instead takes players who should be long gone from national team (Novotny, Nemec...)
WHC team will look like like this.
Well Jagr is obviously not going to happen, but the rest very well might. It's hard to make the defense group good, because whenever someone takes the next step, they are gone to NA (Simek, Rutta, Sklenicka...) I really don't mind Nakladal or Kolar for example, but why ignore Kostalek and Kalina? When do you want to test if not at these joke tournaments? Galvas better be invited after the U20s.
To be honest, the 2001 class has been dissapointing this year. Come Spring it should still be a decent and competetive team though. Barinka is likely not there since Halifax will go deep this, other CHLers might be available though. Mysak, Bednar, Malik and Blaha are the '02s I think should on the team. Maybe Novak and/or Machacek as well, though Novak has been underwhelming this season (despite dominating the junior league) and Machacek is still an unknown for me. Looked very good at the U17 Challene but it's still just one tournament.
Thanks for sharing this. Very interesting for sure.
Founder of the project is Bedřich Sčerban. It started in the 2015/16 season. Basically, there are several tournaments through the season, where the best players from every region are playing, one tournament has 3-4 teams and it takes usually only one or two days. Categories are: U12, U13, U14, U15
I don't understand transforming czech u20 league into u19 league, now it look like that quality of the league is much worse
It would be better if we would have only U20 league, something like CHL, just 12 or 14 teams and that's all... and we should also have some University league where the players can play after their junior age and where they can developing and possibly become proffesional player in future (just like NCAA in US) + there should be also less teams in Extraliga and Chance liga (for example 10 in Extraliga and 10 in Chance liga or something like that... 14 and 16/is too much)... that would be good start for brighter future for Czech hockey.
Not very bold opinion, but I expect the U16 to get smoked in all 3 games, U17 to win one and keep the rest relatively close, U18 to battle in an even game with Finland for the 1st place.
Yeah, it should be a competetive team. I think the biggest question mark is Prikryl, who was a key player for this team for years and he should be available, since his team is not going anywhere, but you can't ignore his very weak season. I very much doubt Barinka is available since Halifax is going far this year. And also I wonder if Novak gets back on track is good enough to compete for a spot as an underager. He is having a weak season.
