Belarus - Kazakhstan 7:1
• Belarus bids bye-bye to Kazakhstan
“If Belarus keeps playing this well, they sure won’t take other teams by surprise anymore. The men from Minsk have made it to the Qualifying Round for the second straight year. With a 7-1 rout of Kazakhstan Wednesday night at Riga Arena, Belarus wrapped up the second seed in Group C, behind Russia and ahead of Slovakia. Kazakhstan is doomed to the Relegation Round.”
We enjoyed the ice hockey game at Prague’s famous sport bar “Zlata Hvezda.”
There was a dozen of Belarusans watching the game, waving white-red-white national flags when Belarusians scored.
I’ve bumped into an old “virtual” acquaintance from Belarus. He used to blog at livejournal.com and several years ago sent me some .mpeg CD’s from Belarus as a present.
Unfortunately we could’t talk much because of the noise during the hockey game, but apparently he got too tired from Lukashenka’s Soviet reality and ran away to Czech Republic, now working hard: selling paintings during the day and programming at night (he’s an experienced software developer). He told me that he already got an asylum status and can travel anywhere around Europe without visas.
May 11th, 2006 at 4:50 am
Go Belarus!!!
Sweden, beware of the mysterious puck flying from beyond the blue line! =)
May 11th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Nice :) I didnt see the match tho… Nice you also got to meet up with that old friend. Sorry he was forced to flee also :(
May 11th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
What puck?! Coming from where?!
May 11th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Hanlon rulez.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Tobias: a quick reminder. I understand that for you it was a national tragedy, but for us it’s pride. =)
May 12th, 2006 at 7:29 am
Poor Tommy Salo, he will never forget that goal :) By the way, Mr. Ruslan Salei and Anaheim Mighty Ducks made it to the Western Conference Finals! Justfinished watching the game, and I have to tell you that Salei was very solid throughout the whole series…Cheers
May 12th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Wolny, no reminders needed, I can assure you that no-one in Sweden has forgotten.
May 12th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Wolny : you are a bit unreasonable. Sweden is an Olympic champion.
May 13th, 2006 at 12:47 am
Admin: who cares? We still won that one time. =)
May 13th, 2006 at 12:49 am
“Who cares?” was regarding Sweden being the Olympic champion. Btw, that makes Belarus the strongest team as we defeated them.
May 13th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Well, it didn’t happen again yesterday.
May 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Well, Sweden is a great hockey power. Congrats, Tobias.
P.S. If we could only cancel the first 15 minutes (which were disastrous for Mezin and Belarus’ defense), then Belarus could’ve posted a 1:0 win against Sweden. ;))
May 13th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
You’ll just have to try to be ready from the beginning the next time you get out on the ice to face us.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 am
Thanks for sharing
February 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
March 24th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.