The first round of the jubilee 20th Czech top hockeyball league has begun. The repeat of the last season´s final was watched by fans in Plzen-Kosutka. Pilseners won five from six summer friendly matches, they suffered a loss only against Oberwil Rebells. Kladno does not belong to Pilsen´s favourite opponents. After all, Pilseners outrivaled Alpiq Kladno only in four cases from last twelve games. Both squads will miss several clutch players. “We will travel to Pilsen with new players Wrobel and Stepanik. On the other hand, Kopecky, Sykora, Trcka and Tyburec will not play for us,“ claimed Drahomir Kadlec, the coach of the defending Czech champion before the clash. Big changes have begun also in last year´s runner-up. Rookie Petr Mikl will guard the goal instead of experienced Sulan. The team left Pospisil, Stulc, Komanec and Rousal as well. On the other side, go-ahead rookies Michal Prucha, Lukas Hofmeister a Petr Gronka and Ondrej Krpal form farm team will be playing for Pilsen squad. The beginning of the bout was not too attractive but Kladno managed to build a two-goal lead in the first period. Martin Stahl chalked up his first goal in the league. The clock was showing 9:20. Pilseners had a few scoring chances, but they conceded a second goal. David Rejthar scored from a rebound shot. Pilsen declined opponent´s lead on a powerplay. Michal Edl scored during the traffic in front of the net. Then goaltender Mikl made brilliant saves against Honicky and Prihoda. But Martin Nedved fired a shot past Mikl from the blue line. The end of the game was very emotional. At first, Adam Vagner cut the rival´s lead by one goal. In an absolute end of the clash home Marian Juracek attacked Daniel Hnizdil and was expelled. “It is very difficult to play without clutch players. Prucha, Hofmeister played well but he cannot replace players who have been playing the top competition for a long time,“ was disappointed coach Kurfürst.
1. round:
Pilsen - Kladno 2:3 (0:2, 1:0, 1:1)
Goals and assistances: 17:04 Edl (Arnet), 43:58 Vágner (Kadaně) - 9:20 Stahl(Tvarůžek), 13:41 Rejthar (Štěpáník), 33:44 Nedvěd (Honický, Wróbel) Referees: Vokurka, Kadlec. Poweplays: 5:7, moreover Juráček (Pilsen) was expelled. Goals on powerplay: 2:1. Onlookers: 160. Shots on goal: 35:36.
Pilsen: Mikl - Kadaně, Edl, Hofmeister, Slanec, Juráček, Kavalír - Kejř O., Arnet, Průcha - J. Kejř, Chowaniec, Regner - Krásný, Vágner, Krpal.
Kladno: Jirotka - Soukup, Kudela, Honický, Nedvěd, Dědič - Rejthar, Topolánek, Štěpáník - Příhoda, Hnízdil, Wróbel - Polívka, Tvarůžek, Stahl.
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