re wc results april dstein oak math ucla edu david stein writes what s going on the russians and the czechs are unable to beat easy opponents and the swedes beat austria only it s the opening game effect maybe pros arrive late nervousness for rookie wc players and problems to get the lines clicking may make things hard to get it going against these worse nations i d guess that the better team you face in the opening game the better it is since the chances of an upset are greater then some other reasons why the worse teams are so tough to beat was presented by hans virus lindberg former coach in switzerland the worse teams referring to france switzerland austria italy etc have now usually world class goalies their defensive play have become much more disciplined they take much less unnecessary penalties they use four lines which makes it harder to make them run out of gas the ice quality in the german wc rinks is poor the only convincing winner was germany wierd another weird thing was that the czechs played entertaining hockey err just kidding david p s alex i would like to see the czech roster including if possible the clubs from which the players come how many are finnish german or swiss alex that s a new name for me ok i forgot the czech roster at home yesterday but now i have it i don t know the teams for all players so i would appreciate if you guys could fill in the blanks for me especially i think some of these players play in finland the czech republic goaltenders petr briza finland somewhere right roman turek motor c budejovice defense leo gudas milos holan tj vitkovice drahomir kadlec bedrich scerban brynas sweden antonin stavjana hv sweden miroslav horava modo sweden ales flasar tj vitkovice forwards petr rosol kamil kastak hv sweden richard zemlicka jiri kucera jan caloun hc litvinov petr hrbek tomas kapusta otakar janecky finland roman horak motor c budejovice martin hostak modo sweden radek toupal jiri dolezal staffan staffan axelsson etxonss ufsa ericsson se r s h contact for swedish hockey
