I was expecting more interest from the NHL in Slafkovsky
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BRATISLAVA – More interest awaited after the Olympics! The coach of the hockey team Craig Ramsay (70) is again in Slovakia, where he is slowly preparing for the upcoming World Hockey Championship. However, after the bronze success of the Olympics, the Canadian coach expressed his disappointment that there is not as much interest around our young players as he would have expected.
Ramsay has been in Slovakia for several days and from behind the guardrail he watched the unofficial national team training for players whose season has already ended. The successful coach does not hide the fact that he would like to take the best team from the Beijing Olympics to the championship in Finland. “Many players deserve another nomination, but you never know how it will be health and developments in the playoffs,“He said in an interview with diary Sport.
Juraj Slafkovský, a 17-year-old striker at the Olympics in particular, shone at the time. The great talent of Slovak hockey scored seven goals, became the most useful player of the tournament and significantly contributed to our bronze medals. Ramsay was taken aback by him and other young men who have one chance of breaking through in the NHL.
“I am most surprised that I did not receive many phone calls. An old NHL friend called me and now I have to talk to Vincent Lecavalier, who works for the Montreal Canadiens. I guess people lost my number. I will honestly say that I expected a lot of calls around our young players such as Slafkovský, Nemec, Mešár, Sýkora. It’s strange,” revealed the disappointed Ramsay.
The coach of the national team was also disappointed that they did not hang a bronze medal around his neck at the Olympics. Only athletes always receive these under the five circles. “At other events, coaches also receive a medal, I don’t know why it’s different at the Olympics. It was the first thing I told Mir Satan that our entire implementation team deserved a medal, he did a great job. The union is preparing something. I believe that it will succeed. ” added an experienced pilot for Sport.