Posted on May 08, 2025 at 12:54. / Modified on May 08, 2025 at 4:40 pm.
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In Herning, Denmark, Switzerland opens its world ice hockey championship with a meeting against the Czech Republic this Friday. For the Nati, this inaugural meeting resonates as expected revenge, barely a year after the final lost in Prague during the previous edition. On the other side of the red line, the Czechs approach this duel animated by a completely different design: that of defending a dearly acquired title, and prolonging a founded breath.
They hope to register their brand in the recent history of the discipline, like the great years when Jarumir Jagr and his teammates have made the legend of Czech hockey. Between 1996 and 2005, they won five world titles (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005), in addition to a historic Olympic gold medal in Nagano in 1998, while Canada won “only” four. There was still a Czech coronation in 2010, then nothing before that of 2024. The current generation, carried by figures such as David Pastrnak or Roman Cervenka, hopes that it constitutes the prelude of a new cycle.
