He also likes the performance of other former Brno hockey players Michal Kempný with Hynek Zohorná in the Czech national team. “Kempas is playing well and is not making the mistake of not playing much this year. Hynek has traditionally proved to be excellent as a skater. He can win pucks and also score goals, “said the former national team, nicknamed Eiffel.

He is also praised for the future pillar of Comet’s defense by Tomáš Kundrátek. “He is a player who can support an attack and start an action, from this point of view it looks good,” said a Brno legend.

For another Comet player, Petr Holík, the championship ended bitterly. Like five years ago, he traveled to Paris during the championship, but he packed up and flew home without a single match. “I was a little surprised that he was nominated. Even if I prepare a good one. There was no room left for him after the NHL players arrived, but again, I think he could be valid as the center of the second power play. “This is his and it would come in handy,” Meixner thought.

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He has reservations about the performance of the national team at the championship. “It simply came to our notice then. We managed the quarterfinals perfectly, but it is warning that we scored all the goals in overtime. Nothing in the game five for five. There are also zero players, they don’t even have a point yet, “Meixner pointed out.

In the first week of the championship, he shook the cabin of the Czech national team with a physical clash between elite defender Filip Hronek and forward Dominik Simon, who left the team after the incident. “In our time, we fought in training, but never in the cabin. We had a five-crown game on the ice and those were memorable battles. To this day, we remember it as a humor, when Karel Skopal, who was twenty meters long, and Laďa Olejník, who had two meters, wanted to get involved. Coach Laďa Bouzek stopped it, “laughed the participant of the world championships in 1965 and 1966.

He is standing in several dreaded matches at this year’s World Cup against the Czech national team. With Canada, the national team won only one of the last nine games. “Although her team consists of the style of drumming in the city square and shouting, whoever is interested in going and who will get there, it is nevertheless an unpleasant opponent. You can be defeated, “Meixner mused.

The legendary Brno forward Richard Farda trusts the national team in a duel with Canada. “I’ll guess we’ll win, but we have to play the whole match and avoid dead spots,” Farda said.

Statistics of Czech players
associated with Comet at the World Cup
Michal Kempný: 6 matches, 0 points, statistics +/-: 0
Tomáš Kundrátek: 8 matches: 3 points (1 + 2), + 1
Hynek Zohorna: 8 matches: 3 points (1 + 2), + 1
Karel Vejmelka: 6 matches, 93.4% successful hits, 1.44 goals collected per match
Marek Langhamer: 2 matches, 88.6%, 2.79 ink. goals per match
Lukáš Dostál: 1 match, 94.4%, 1.00 ink. goal