penepi
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Just getting older. Moreover new and better players arrived who are leaders now, and he hasn't been able to keep up with them.
Slovan Bratislava 2015/2016
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Just getting older. Moreover new and better players arrived who are leaders now, and he hasn't been able to keep up with them.
Just like he exceeded expectations last season, he has underperformed this season. For Nagy to be successful, he needs to play on the 1st or 2nd line, but he's barely been able to hold on to a 4th-line spot lately. There's simply no spot anymore for Nagy on Slovan's 1st or 2nd line (although it took the coach ŘÃha around half a season to determine that), and that means he'll be struggling. Slovan now has a clear-cut "Czech" 1st line and a "Slovenian" 2nd line. The 3rd line of Slovak veterans is currently Slovan's weak spot, and it would probably be best for Slovan to let those veterans (and Nagy) go following this season. (Not to mention Mihálik.)
20 minutes to go to make the series really exciting.
Nagy gets to play on the 2nd power-play unit, though, as a fake defenseman along with Višňovský. Fruitless so far. Barker & Kundrátek are the defensemen on the 1st power-play unit.
penepi
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http://www.cas.sk/clanok/367858/mil...k-nechutnemu-tahu-slovanistov-zamkli-v-kabine
The team was locked in a dressing room during the CSKA training prior to the 2nd game, and a policeman was stood in front of the door. Subsequently, home team was of course allowed to watch Slovan training... Very strange practices in my opinion.
The team was locked in a dressing room during the CSKA training prior to the 2nd game, and a policeman was stood in front of the door. Subsequently, home team was of course allowed to watch Slovan training... Very strange practices in my opinion.
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Also, if you remember from last year's World Championship, when the Russian team was moved from Ostrava to Prague they had the whole hallway closed off by their dressing room so that a bunch of other teams had to take a complicated detour to get to their own changerooms. They've never been big fans of the idea that everyone should play by the same rules
hansomreiste
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I always forget that in Europe whistling isn't cheering it's essentially booing.NO, just NO!
tobu
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NO, just NO!
This one hurts even more than the previous loss. Why? Because to me Slovan was slightly the better team tonight, but big teams can score when it matters, CSKA is a big team... :/
NO, just NO!
We can't really complain. The hit was in the "grey area", the refs had every right to call it. It's just that they don't call those grey areas against CSKA. And in this series, they seem to like to call them against Slovan with 2 minutes left during tie game.
Oh well, at least I got to hear the Radulov chant
penepi
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This doesn't hurt. If sth hurts, it's been the second game, but not this one. We played nothing, literally.
Anyway, I would admire Radulov for doing what he was doing if he was intelligent and realize the public emotions. But everyone knows he is a pure primitive so I wish he, well, I'd better stop it here.
Anyway, I would admire Radulov for doing what he was doing if he was intelligent and realize the public emotions. But everyone knows he is a pure primitive so I wish he, well, I'd better stop it here.
tobu
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what did he do today? I didn't notice anything in the TV and then all of the sudden the chants...
hansomreiste
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The only game I missed in this series was the first one and honestly, anyone judging only from second and third games would not think CSKA came 1st in regular season and Slovan 8th. There was not much difference. If Slovan played nothing; then CSKA did not create much, either. If Slovan played OK, CSKA was mediocre as well. At least, that has been my impression in this series.
The games so far have been only decided by experience and the virtue of being a "big team". Slovan is on par with CSKA, they are not getting destroyed or being swept on ice as many would have expected. However, in critical moments, they fail to deliver.
2-0 lead lost in Moscow, followed by a very quick OT goal and loss. Now, tonight, amazing atmosphere in Bratislava and relatively OK play; not giving CSKA many chances, having the lead etc and then suddenly, two goals in last 4 minutes, one of them with only 45 seconds left to go, and bam, you already trail 3-0.
On bracket, yeah, things look ugly. However, on ice, Slovan did not look bad at all. Though CSKA was not in the best shape either, that's also an important factor. For example, Sochi or Torpedo would probably be much more motivated and sharp against Slovan.
Anyways, I feel sad for Slovan because they deserved much more than this. Losing this series to CSKA would surprise nobody. It's totally fine. But this team, in the two I saw, deserved at least one win. With a little bit of luck, this series could've been 2-1 for Slovan now.
tobu
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Salavat Yulaev
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CSKA fans who brought water into the stadium are going to be blamed for this one. There should be a sign on the door that says explicitly "no water in the stadium, home team choking hazard"
geri
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well, after 3 games against the best team of the world, we slovan fans can be proud of our team. the games were close, with luck we would even win 1 or 2 times.. but to be honest, CSKA players are amazing, i watched them, they are so quick, get almost every puck like they have magnet...and have radulov machina..
hope today we get luck back and can extend the series..
for next season i m quiet optimistic, if we hold players and riha, slovan will continue to get better, and then we could fight for 5-7 position and not 8 to get playoff easier...
hope today we get luck back and can extend the series..
for next season i m quiet optimistic, if we hold players and riha, slovan will continue to get better, and then we could fight for 5-7 position and not 8 to get playoff easier...
Honestly, I don't really think CSKA is playing that well. I expected much more from them. But anyway, they are still one or two tiers above us. With that being said, we could have won previous 2 games with a little more luck. I hope we at least get the win today.
For next season, I'm especially optimistic if we finally get rid of certain notorious players (I don't need to spell it out, do I). There's just no place for "dead weight" on a bona fide play-off team. It can cost you dearly in these tense, hair's-breadth situations.
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