U18 Women come up short vs Slovakia

Hungary comes up short in the first game against Slovakia as they get shut out 5-0.

Hungary-Slovakia 0-5

Hungary opened the first day of the U18 women's tournament with game against neighboring Slovakia. Norbert Buzás started Venessa Horváth in net with Yumi Maruyama as the backup. Slovakia scored first in the ninth minute when Annamaria Surakova put the puck past Horváth from just outside the crease. Slovakia scored twice more before the period was out to take a 3-0 lead into the first intermission on two goals by Viktoria Maskalova. In the second period Hungary picked it up defensively as no goals. In the third period Slovakia made it 4-0 when Tatiana Istocyova redirected a shot, and later in the period Sulikova made it 5-0.

Before the game former national team player Vanda Pál gave a scouting report on the Slovaks. “We have to work really hard, even though we beat them last year by multiple goals we should respect our opponent. I’m sure they are not gonna take it easy on us because they are gonna try to take their revenge on us for last year’s game.”

Lineup

Horváth V. (Maruyama Y.)

Fodor L., Holzer D.

Mayer F., Preisinger D.

Szűcs A., Gaitz H.

Váradi O., Pintér H., Pavuk P.

Odnoga L., Gottlibet Z., Szick D.

Horváth D., Galántai M., Páterka L.

Egyedi N., Sőléd O., Csontos K.

Coaches corner:

Hungarian coach Norbert Buzás: The game didn't start the best for us as we were not able to pick up their pace at the start of the game and they were able to score goals, we eventually picked it up in the second period and we had some positives. We lost to a very good Slovak team, the girls battled hard and worked hard, we knew we would have games like this.

Slovak head coach Tomas Psenka: The girls started off great, they stuck to the game plan in the first period and we were able to open up a 3-0 lead, in the second period we didn't play our best and did not concentrate but luckily we were able to get ourselves together for the final period.

View from the ice:

Goalie Vanessa Horváth:The Slovaks were a very tough opponent but I think we played well, the coaching staff told us it was not the end of the world if we lost as long as we play 100%, we didn’t fall apart when they scored goals.