As men's hockey got underway at the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina on Wednesday, the Washington Capitals watched Martin Fehervary make his Olympic debut with Slovakia.
Slovakia has seven NHL players on its Olympic roster. The Slovak team doesn't have any goaltenders from the NHL. Slafkovsky is going to have to be the star, and he opened the scoring at these Olympics off a turnover with a goal.
In the first game of the men's hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics, there has already been an upset, with Slovakia defeating Finland.
San Jose Sharks forward Pavol Regenda would love his second trip to the Winter Olympic Games to go as well as his first. Regenda was part of a Slovakian team in 2022 that at first had modest expectations going into the Games in Beijing.
The 23-year-old graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage realized last year that he could race for the country where his mother grew up.
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