My Teams 2007/08 Part I

So all the major Euro hockey nations seasons are now over, all the champions have been crowned and a long summer without hockey is about to begin, so how did my teams get on this year:

Pardubice: - The less said the better I think. After winning the pre-season Tipsport cup the 2007/08 Czech Extraliga season turned out to be a complete nightmare for the team and the fans. The season started off with the shock death of D man Martin Cech, who passed away after losing control of his car on a journey home. Pardubice also had to start the campaign with 12 road games as the Cez Arena was being renovated. The team couldn't recover from either early season blow. That wasn't the only troubles at the club. Several of the new signings mostly on the defence failed to perform leaving Janko Lasak hanging out dry more times than not. The team just couldn't string together a winning streak and in the end they finished in 12th spot and missed out on the playoffs. The team had to compete in the very silly play-down series. I hope the powers at be ditch that idea, anyway the club survived that to put an end to a season that everyone involved with the club would like to quickly forget.

12.HC Moeller Pardubice 52 147:157 70pts

MHC Martín: - The complete opposite of Pardubice. 2007/08 was an extremely successful and break out season for MHC in Slovakia. They were extremely competitive on the ice with arguably their strongest ever roster being assembled. Captain Michal Beran led from the front with Jaro Torok and with the best netminder combination of Vlasta Lakosil and Michal Dzubina keeping out the pucks they went on to finish the regular season in 3rd place. The clubs highest ever finish to a regular season. Only a last day defeat cost them the 2nd spot. Finishing there would have secured MHC a spot in next seasons new look European Cup. In the first round of the play-offs MHC faced off against Dukla Trencin. MHC raced to a 3-0 series lead and at one point were 4-1 up in game 4. Everything looked good and the semi-finals were waiting. Dukla and especially netminder Vlad Kovac had other ideas. Trencin took game 4 and went on to win the series. MHC crashed and burned in their remaining playoff games and it took a little bit of the shine away from the excellent season long performance.

3. MHC Martin 54 169:123 102pts