What to say? We were not good enough.
It is sad to see players such as Lintner or Róbert Petrovický two years ago with tears in their faces...
Here are some interesting facts about team Slovakia from iihf.com:
SVK - Slovakia
Playing Statistics
No Name Pos GP G A PTS PIM +/ - GWG PPG SHG SOG SG% TM M/G TSh AT/S
2 HAMERLIK Peter GK 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
8 MAJESKY Ivan D 6 1 1 2 0 -2 0 0 0 6 16.67 109:34 18:15 155 0:42
14 PODKONICKY Andrej F 6 1 1 2 4 -1 0 0 0 8 12.50 94:09 15:41 133 0:42
15 GRANAK Dominik D 6 0 1 1 2 -4 0 0 0 5 0.00 108:49 18:08 143 0:45
16 KUKUMBERG Roman F 6 0 1 1 0 -5 0 0 0 9 0.00 61:55 10:19 85 0:43
17 MACHO Michal F 6 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 9 0.00 98:54 16:29 152 0:39
18 SATAN Miroslav F 2 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 4 0.00 41:48 20:54 57 0:44
19
STAROSTA Tomas D 6 0 3
3 4
0 0 0 0 4 0.00 106:48 17:48 158 0:40
20 ZALESAK Miroslav F 3 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0.00 21:29 7:09 31 0:41
21 ZAGRAPAN Marek F 6 2 0 2 2 -1 1 1 0 14 14.29 107:21 17:53 153 0:42
22 DRAVECKY Vladimir F 6 0 0 0 2 -2 0 0 0 9 0.00 86:15 14:22 133 0:38
27
CIERNIK Ivan F 6
3 0 3 4 -2 1 1 0 23 13.04 101:56 16:59 147 0:41
28
PANIK Richard F 6 0 2 2 6
+3 0 0 0 7 0.00 87:03 14:30 124 0:42
31 BUDAJ Peter GK 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
35 STANA Rastislav GK 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
40 SVATOS Marek F 6 1 1 2 6 -1 0 1 0 14 7.14 100:03 16:40 154 0:38
41
LINTNER Richard D 6 0 3 3 2
-4 0 0 0 12 0.00 141:11 23:31 178 0:47
43 FRUHAUF Peter D 4 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9:58 2:29 14 0:42
44 SEKERA Andrej D 6 0 2 2 2 -2 0 0 0 18 0.00 127:54 21:19 171 0:44
56 MIHALIK Vladimir D 6 1 0 1 4 -1 0 0 0 6 16.67 111:18 18:33 161 0:41
61
BARTOVIC Milan F 6
2 2 4 2 -1 0 0 0 13 15.38 94:05 15:40 146 0:38
88 BULIK Tomas F 6 0 0 0 4 -2 0 0 0 3 0.00 55:53 9:18 98 0:34
90 TATAR Tomas F 6 2 0 2 4 -2 0 0 0 7 28.57 69:50 11:38 113 0:37
97 GRON Stanislav F 3 0 0 0 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0.00 9:03 3:01 13 0:41