The first time on home ice, the B team was successful and defeated Hvězda Praha
M l. B o l. – After the first round, in which the B-team played a challenging match against B team Kolín, from which they took a point, another challenging match followed on home ice, this time against a well-known opponent. And he proved to be quite tenacious and led in Boleslav at first. However, thanks to a great performance, the skaters were able to take the reins and gradually play the score. The match was challenging, very skating, and the home goalkeeper caught a lot of great chances of the opponent, who did not give up until almost the last moment.
Right from the start, the home team came under pressure and played mainly in its defensive zone. Especially since they went to four soon after the start. The star, when he showed some shots, but in this initial advantage, it is impossible to get through and the Skaters defended themselves. Even in other moments, they rather defended themselves and punished the visitors in the 9th minute. At first, they went two on one goalkeeper, which Boleslav managed to defend, but the Praguers kept the puck on their sticks and goalkeeper Tadeáš Zeithaml was no longer good enough for a shot from the ring, which he sent just arriving Michael Love. When this insined goal kicked Bruslar to activity forward, and for the next four minutes, they almost shot most of the way at the visiting goal, until finally they succeeded after a throw-in Lukáš Rovny unfurl their net. This leveled the game, but also the picture of the game, because what followed was brisk and eye-pleasing up-and-down hockey, which brought some more chances on both sides, but no clear goal.
The second act started similarly, with Boleslav soon going to four again, but the similarity ends there, as this time Hvězda failed to create sustained pressure. Boleslav took the initiative after the weakening ended and came up with some nice actions. And the game slowly started to harden. And so that even the judge had to be verbally very emphatic at one point. The skaters persevered in the pressure and the turn of the match was again merited Lukáš Rovný, who at first failed from the circle, but then the second chance, when he was again in the jam in front of the goal area, pushed the puck over the goal line. The guests wanted to equalize right away, but they only hit the post. In the following situation, the Boleslav goalkeeper did not have the situation under control and the puck rolled along the goal line, but did not cross it. Although the opponent was already rejoicing at the goal, the referee saw everything clearly and could not recognize the goal. Two minutes later, Velas could have equalized when he gave it away from close range only against the goalkeeper, which he easily beat, but again only into the post. The skaters faced more pressure, which they withstood and scored themselves on the power play when the Michal Mares. In the end, Hvězda still had a power play, but she didn’t use it.
Neither did the rest of her in the third period. After the end of the weakening, he could have punished a huge foul in Hvězd Petr Zvolenský, but his cannon shot from the middle ring was brilliantly eliminated by Vokatý with a catcher. This was followed by a counterattack by Hvězda and another Boleslav expulsion. During this weakening, things began to boil on the ice. After one jam in front of Zeithaml, who eliminated Čmejl’s attempt, a fight broke out and two Boleslav players plus one Hvězdy went out. The guests played a five-on-three power play, and a moment later, a total of four Boleslav players were on the penalty spot. However, Hvězda discarded this possibility and the Skaters defended their lead in this unequal number of players on the ice. In the 51st minute, he added insurance in the form of a fourth goal Dušan Kerdawho is in a hopeless position he tried to aim at the goal from the left circle from a blind corner and the black ball flew into the net. It was nice of the opponent that they didn’t give up in this situation and it was enough to threaten the home team’s goal again. But they were afraid of moments, as if the individual players were to take that responsibility on themselves, and so they passed a half-empty gate and so on. Two and a half minutes before the end, they got thanks after all Benjamin Velas, who received a great pass to the right circle at a moment when Zeithaml was rather waiting for a shot from Čmejla at the second post, so he headed into the empty goal. Then the match could be over.
Testimonials from coaches
Jiří Klikar (BK Mladá Boleslav): We didn’t know what to expect from Hvězda. It’s a young opponent with young players who struggled, but we performed well. Already in the second match, we repeated a good performance and we have well-deserved points.