{"id":101653,"date":"2026-01-06T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/czech-republic-necas-leads-czechs-in-hockey-towards-olympics\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:56:24","slug":"czech-republic-necas-leads-czechs-in-hockey-towards-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/czech-republic-necas-leads-czechs-in-hockey-towards-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic: Necas leads Czechs in hockey towards Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Czech Republic announces its ice hockey team for the Winter Olympics<\/h2>\n\nPrague \u2013 The Czech Republic has revealed its selection for the ice hockey tournament at the Cortina Milan Winter Olympics.\n\nThe Czech team will have three NHL goalies.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lukas Dostal (Anaheim Ducks)<\/li>\n<li>Karel Vejmelka (Utah Mammoth)<\/li>\n<li>Dan Vladar (Philadelphia Flyers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nAmong the selected NHL players are Martin Necas (Colorado Avalanche), David Pastrnak (Boston Bruins), and Tomas Hertl (Vegas Golden Knights).\n\nThe team, which includes 12 NHL players, will not have Filip Chytil (Vancouver Canucks), who has not yet recovered from a concussion.\n\nOther notable forwards in the call-up are Pavel Zacha, Ondrej Palat (New Jersey Devils) and Radek Faksa (Dallas Stars).\n\nThe Czech defense in the NHL will be represented by Radko Gudas (Anaheim) and Filip Hronek (Vancouver).\n\nA total of nineteen players from the current squad were part of the team that won the world championship two years ago in Prague.\n\nThe Czech Republic&#8217;s debut in the Olympic tournament will be against Canada on February 12. France and Switzerland are also part of Group A.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Republic announces its ice hockey team for the Winter Olympics Prague \u2013 The Czech Republic has revealed its selection for the ice hockey tournament at the Cortina Milan Winter Olympics. The Czech team will have three NHL goalies. Lukas Dostal (Anaheim Ducks) Karel Vejmelka (Utah Mammoth) Dan Vladar (Philadelphia Flyers) Among the selected NHL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2653,662,454,631],"class_list":{"0":"post-101653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-czech-republic","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-olympics"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}