HC Slavia Praha

Slavia to semis

HC Slavia Praha was the first team to clinch a semi final spot in the Czech Extraliga. Slavia beat Kladno 4-0 today to win the series 4-1.

Czech Extraliga shows up two hattricks

Lukáš Klimek scored three goals during today's game of the 35th Czech Extraliga round between Zlín and Vítkovice. Thanks to its 26-year forward HC Vítkovice Steel fed its tie hopes until the game's very ending. However in time 59.05 Čajánek scored an empty net goal to make the final score a 5-3 victory for Zlín. In another game of the day Lukáš Krenželok scored three Slavia's goals to win surprisingly 2-4 at home of the fearless Czech Extraliga standings leader Plzeň. Accidentaly both hattrick scorers of the round grew up in the team of Vítkovice.

Pirati Chomutov joins European Trophy

Pirati Chomutov replaces Slavia Praha in the 2012 European Trophy.

European Trophy schedules

European Trophy announced today the schedule for the 2012/13 season. Find the complete fixture list here.

Start of Czech Extraliga postponed

Originally, Tipsport Extraliga would start this Friday, Sep 16, with seven games. Because of Yaroslavl jet crash all the first round games are postponed. "Jan Marek, Karel Rachůnek and Josef Vašíček were friends of many Czech Extraliga players. Their friends would be unable to attend Jan Marek's funeral if we will make them play hockey on Friday," Czech Extraliga head commisioner Stanislav Šulc said. New dates for the games is unknown, the clubs will arrange date of their 1st round games themselves.

The Czech top-level ice hockey competition will start on Sunday, Sep 18, with games of the second round.

Mannheim drown their chance in penalties

Adler Mannheim missed out on their chance of making European Trophy finals as they lost their final group game 3-5 against Slavia Praha. Mannheim needed a win to climb over Linköping to second place of South division, but conceded three goals in the 2nd period in a nervous game with 270 penalty minutes (133 to Mannheim, 137 to Slavia).

Růžička rejected an Omsk offer: Slavia is not prepared for my leaving, he said

Vladimír Růžička has rejected an offer from the club Avangard Omsk, this season’s KHL regular season winner. As he said, a future of his current club, where he is already acting as the club’s general manager and co-owner, is on the first place to him. "I had a stomach-ache for three days when I was thinking over Omsk’s offer," Růžička said, "but it’s better now. If all the thinking was about money, I would already be sitting on a plane."

"But the situation isn’t about money at all. There was a contract with a stamp already prepared for me in Omsk, but I cannot sign it. Slavia is on my very first place and the club isn’t prepared for my leaving now," the former Czech national-team player told.