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Originally Posted by Suave
I don't see Horak making it. Here are the players the czech hockey website is thinking might be on the team:
Brankář:
Ondřej Pavelec (Winnipeg).
Obránci:
Filip Kuba (Florida, NHL), Ladislav Šmíd (Edmonton), Zbyněk Michálek (Phoenix), Jan Hejda (Colorado).
Útočníci:
Jakub Voráček (Philadelphia), Jiří Tlustý (Carolina), Tomáš Fleischmann (Florida), Radim Vrbata, Martin Hanzal (oba Phoenix), Roman Červenka, Jiří Hudler (oba Calgary).
www.hokej.cz
Plus they will probaley keep a couple of roster spots open for guys that get bounced in the first round. |
Wow, no Klesla on defence? I'd take him over Michalek. He's one of the few shutdown defence the Czech's have.
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By my count , there are only 12 Czech born forwards (in the NHL) available for the WC. Assuming that a bunch refuse invites, Horak may get a look.
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I'd love to see Horak make the team as I'm a huge fan of the kid, but he's just that, a kid. The Czech League has some ex-NHL players as well as "unknowns" that will probably make the team before he does, and argueably rightfully so. You've got Petr Cajanek, Martin Straka, Jaroslav Hnlinka, Martin Ruzicka (who freaking killed it with Trinec this year), Radek Bonk, Lukas Pech and Petr Nedved all playing for the Czech League that I think would make the team before Horak. And guys in the KHL too. Horak's numbers just don't look as good against these guys.