Kaberle To Captain Czech National Team
April 28th, 2008 by Steve
Tomas Kaberle has been handed the captaincy of the Czech Republic national team for the IIHF World Hockey Championships. His assistants will be Patrik Elias of the New Jersey Devils, and Filip Kuba of the Minnesota Wild.
The Czech national team should be decent at this year’s tournament, with Zbynek Michalek, Karl Rachunek, and Ladislav Smid joining Kuba and Kaberle on D, and Radim Vrbata, Ales Kotalik, Martin Hanzal, Jiri Novotny, Jakub Klepis and young Boston sniper David Krejci joining Elias up front. The typical strength of the Czech program, Goaltending, could be fairly weak at this year’s tourney with Milan Hnilicka being the only guy with any NHL experience.
Also of note, Nikolai Kulemin is still playing regularly with the Russian National Team in Exhibition matches, having skated in the 4-1 victory over Canada, and scoring a goal and 2 assists in a 9-7 victory earlier in April over the Austrian national team. He was initially skating on a line with Fedor Fedorov, though at this point I am unclear as to who he’s playing with.
Posted in Announcements, Prospects
4 Responses to “Kaberle To Captain Czech National Team”
By Navin Vaswani
on Apr 29, 2008
attaboy Kabby! He deserves to wear the “C”…and I’m stoked about watching Kulemin…
By loser domi
on Apr 29, 2008
I’ll drink to Kabs wearing the C! WOOOOO!
also, I always, ALWAYS read “Filip Kuba” as “Flip Kuba”, and I always think, “a guy named Flip–that is so COOL!”
By Steve
on Apr 29, 2008
You don’t even think “a guy named Flip Cup? Beer anyone?”
By LeaferSutherland
on Apr 30, 2008
Heh.
Can you imagine him arguing with the refs?…. with that voice?…. and those rosie cheeks of his?