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Zvolen's hockey team have advanced to the semi-finals of the Tipos Extraliga play-offs after defeating Spišská Nová Ves 3-0 in Game 6 of the quarter-final series, winning the series 4-2 overall.
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Zvolen find their moment, Košice leave no doubt

Play-off picture takes shape as Tipos Extraliga reaches semi-final stage.

Dalibor Dvorský during his NHL debut for the St. Louis Blues.
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Dvorský’s NHL debut was short notice — but he made it count

In his first NHL game, the Slovak teenager showed calm, creativity and the signs of something special.

Spišská Nová Ves players huddle before their March 2 match against Slovan Bratislava in the Tipos Extraliga, played in Spišská Nová Ves.

Spišská Nová Ves completes improbable rise to the top of Slovak ice hockey

After finishing first in the Extraliga regular season, the playoffs await for the club that's stunned Slovak hockey.

Slovakia’s flag was mistakenly replaced with Slovenia’s during the Czech television broadcast of a Czechia-Slovakia game in Canada on December 30, 2024.
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Czech TV confuses Slovak flag at world championship

Czech public television has issued an apology over a flag blunder.

Conor Geekie (right) and Slovak forward Martin Pospíšil of the Calgary Flames tussle during an NHL game between the Flames and the Tampa Bay Lightning in Calgary on 12 December 2024.

Slovak ice hockey bruiser tops the NHL's 'naughty list'

Martin Pospíšil has spent well over two hours in the sin bin this year.

Former Slovak goalkeeper Peter Budaj.

Former Slovak goalie now making waves in NHL as goalie coach

Peter Budaj started coaching only three years ago.

Slovak forward Juraj Slafkovský has signed an eight-year contract with Montreal Canadiens.

Slafkovský skates to history: Slovak player signs mega deal with NHL club

Juraj Slafkovský, a young Habs forward, will be the highest-paid Slovak in the top North American hockey league in history.

Goalie Stanislav Škovránek (Michalovce) in the fifth game of the Tipos Extraliga quarterfinal playoff between HK Dukla Ingema Michalovce and HKM Zvolen on March 27, 2024 in Michalovce.
Slovak players (from left to right): Libor Hudáček, goalie Samuel Hlavaj, Pavol Regenda, Michal Ivan, Peter Cehlárik, Peter Čerešňák, Miloš Kelemen a Lukáš Cingel after a lost game against Canada on May 23, 2024, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Who will Slovakia play against at the 2025 hockey world championship?

The IIHF tournament will take place in Sweden and Denmark.

Slovak hockey fans in Ostrava, Czechia, on May 21, 2024.

Slovakia advances to hockey quarterfinals

When and against whom will Slovakia play next at the championship?

The joy of Slovak forwards, goal scorer Peter Cehlárik, left, and Marek Hrivík, right, during the Slovakia - Poland game at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Ostrava on May 15, 2024.

Súpers are super: Winning and losing in Slovak

The Slovak language in the context of hockey.

Goalkeeper Samuel Hlavaj, Peter Čerečňák (both Slovakia) and goal scorer William Smith (USA) during a friendly match between Slovakia and the USA ahead of the upcoming Ice Hockey World Championships in Bratislava on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

Ice-hockey world championship kicks off on Friday, and Slovakia will open it

The last game will take place on May 26 in Prague, Czechia.

Finland's Jani Nyman, right, and Slovakia's Juraj Pekarčík, left, challenge for the puck during the in IIHF World Junior Championship ice hockey quarter final match between Slovakia and Finland at Froelundaborg in Gothenburg, Sweden, on January 2, 2024.

Slovakia denies plans of playing games against Russia

A Russian website has written about Slovakia-Russia preliminary games ahead of the world championship.

Július Hudáček in 2019.

Slovak player from KHL boycotted in Czechia joins German club

Goalkeeper Július Hudáček forced to leave Czech club Rytíři Kladno after two days.

Slovak national hockey team will be without the KHL players at this year's World Championship.

We play hockey, they say. Which Slovaks play in the KHL and will they be missed?

Slovak players in the KHL will not attend the 2023 World Championship.

Slovak team at the 2023 World Pond Hockey Championship.

Slovaks crowned world pond hockey champions

'Frosty Shots' beat Czech rivals in final.

Slovak player Juraj Slafkovský and German player Moritz Seider are fighting for the puck at the world hockey championship in Finland on May 14, 2022.

Slovakia will have to wait for second win following 1-2 loss to Germany

Slovakia had 29 shots on the German net, visibly more than Germany.

Slovak goalkeeper Patrik Rybár during the first game at the 2022 world hockey championship in Helsinki, Finland, on May 13, 2022.

Slovakia wins first game at this year's world hockey championship

Pavol Regenda scored the opening goal against France.

Craig Ramsay.

Slovakia coach Ramsay: I'm nervous as always

The boys will try hard, coach says.

Boris Vanya
Slovakia poses for a photo after defeating Sweden in the men's bronze medal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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