Štefan Bugan

Slovak sports journalist at Denník N. From time to time I'll tweet something mainly about Juraj Slafkovský, Šimon Nemec and other Slovak NHL players

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I spoke with Kent Hughes for 30 minutes. "Draft wasn't even close, Juraj was clear number one pick." The Interview is in Slovak. https://t.co/m8qHM6CwXX

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Nemec has played 134 regular games for the Devils so far.

List of top 2 picks traded before 200th game in salary cap era:

James van Riemsdyk (traded after 196th game)
Nolan Patrick (197)

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If the Devils trade Šimon Nemec, it would be a salary cap era record. No one has ever traded a No. 1 or No. 2 pick after so few games played for the club.

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@Totik96 Dobrá práca a super nápad na respondenta. :) Dosť mi to pripomína, ako Šťastný opisoval dianie okolo roku 2000. Myslím snahu vtedy SVK a dnes SUI hráčov pravidelne chodiť, aby sa na MS dostali medzi krajiny top 6 a posunuli celý hokej v krajine. Zákazy sú už za mňa trochu príliš.

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MacKinnon was asked about Rantanen second time during the Worlds. He wasn’t thrilled about it.

Journalist: What are your thoughts on Rantanen’s quotes?

MacKinnon: I haven’t seen them.

Journalist: How about now?

MacKinnon: I don’t know. I’ll have to read them myself.

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"The goalie was pretty good," said Sidney Crosby.

"I can't believe it — never even dreamed of this," said goalie Lukáš Horák about facing Crosby.

He spent years in Czech lower divisions, then played in France, Denmark, and Slovenia.

I love these underdog stories at the Worlds.

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The list of forwards with 150+ hits and 50+ points wasn’t very long this season:

B. Tkachuk
Wilson
Slafkovský
Forsberg
Holloway
J. T. Miller
Knies
Schenn
Trocheck

If Slafkovský manages to be physical more consistently, as he intends to, his numbers could be extraordinary.

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Second time in history, Slovakia will not have a player at the World Championship who scored at least 1 point in the NHL during the season.

It happened only in 2017, when players boycotted national team.

Last year SVK had 134 NHL points in the roster, in 2003 it was 623 points.

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@popakev Sorry, it's in Slovak. :D But google translate might help. It's mostly his quotes from today media day in Montreal and some Slovak context. You can find his quotes on Canadiens channel and Habs have great media coverage, so someone definitely wrote about it in English as well.

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Slafkovský will miss his third major event with the national team since the draft. For the first time, it's not due to injury.

https://t.co/04HGSrrsYz

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@SagvanaTof Okrem Šimona Nemca áno. :) Trochu som sa s tým potom ešte pohral a našiel aj videá tých gólov a dal to do článku, keby to niekoho zaujímalo. https://t.co/ycVLSPFPPD

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Slovak players to score OT winner in the Playoffs:

Peter Šťastný, Peter Bondra, Miroslav Šatan, Pavol Demitra, Marek Svatoš, Marián Hossa, Marián Gáborík, Michal Handzuš, Šimon Nemec.

That's the list.

The last one before Nemec was Handzuš more than 10 years ago.

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2020 Covid-19
2021 Cehlárik, Hrivík, Studenič, Lantoši, Július Hudáček
2022 Fehérváry, Tatar, Slafkovský, Nemec, Regenda
2023 Nemec, Hrivík, Cehlárik, Pánik, Regenda
2024 Slafkovský, Nemec, Fehérváry, Tatar, Pospíšil
2025 ?

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Very subjective and just for fun. Top 5 players who came to Slovak team before or during each World Championships since title in 2002:

2003Demitra, Pálffy, Šatan, Bondra, Švehla
2004Hossa, Demitra, Chára, Gáborík, Šatan

Rest in thread. The worst was obviously Cologne 2017.

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2015 Gáborík, Tatar, Daňo, Meszároš, Jurčo
2016 Sekera, Daňo, Jurčo, Marinčin, Meszároš
2017 Libor Hudáček, Miklík, Július Hudáček, Dravecký, Čerešnák
2018 Sekera, Jurčo, Nagy, Jaroš, Fehérváry
2019 Tatar, Černák, Pánik, Sekera, Jaroš

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@MichalSemko29 @SimonCop_ Fehérváry sa tam teda nedostal objektívne, no sú iné štatistiky, ktoré aj spomíname, a podľa ktorých by už bol on tým shutdown D. Použili sme to ako podporu Carberyho tvrdenia, že svet si ho možno nevšimne. Podľa modelu totiž nepatrí medzi top 13 hráčov WSH, pritom v praxi tam je

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@MichalSemko29 @SimonCop_ pozdravujem, tu pasaz som robil ja, takze rad odpoviem. urcite ho Luszczyszyn neodignoroval naschval, "prehliadol" ho skor jeho model, ktory ma svoje kriteria. povedzme Roy mal v niecom strelim 0,91, kym fehervary 0,90, tak sa na zoznam dostal Roy a rovnako van Riemsdyk.

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Slovak 1st line today against Czech republic:

Kašlík28 games 4+4
Roman 51 games 5+8
Čajkovič 34 games 6+4

Stats are from Czech Extraliga.

Nothing against the players and there will be some roster additions, but It could be one of the worst rosters at Worlds in our history.

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Josh Anderson in regular season:
1377 hits in 616 games (2.24 per game)

Josh Anderson in playoffs:
165 hits in 43 games (3.84 per game)