Wednesday, August 10, 2005

 

Slovak Golden Puck Award Winners

The Slovak Hockey Federation waited until August to hand out this year's Golden Puck (Zlaty Puk) Awards. This is the 8th annual Golden Puck Awards, and the winners were announced in Bratislava's Crowne Plaza hotel.

The evening's big winner was none other than (Surprise!) Lubomir Visnovsky. (And not just because he had the hot girlfriend)




Best Hockey Player: Lubomir Visnovsky (Last year's winner - Miro Satan)
Runners Up: Marian Hossa, Zigmund Palffy

Best Goalie: Jan Lasak (He won last year, too)
Runners Up: Krazy Karol Krizan, Rastislav Stana

Best Defenseman: Lubomir Visnovsky (Last year's winner - Zdenko Chara)
Runners Up: Martin Strbak, Zdeno Chara

Best Forward: Marian Hossa (Last year's winner - Michal Handzus)
Runners Up: Marian Hossa, Michal Handzus, Pavol Demitra

Best Coach: Milos Riha of evil $lovan Bratislava

Best Extraleague Player, as voted on by the Player's association: Pavol Demitra

Best Extraleague Player, as voted on by the fans: Michal Handzus

Top Rookie: Peter Ölvecký (Minnesota Wild prospect)

Slovak Extraleague All-Star Team
G: Karol Krizan
D: Lubomir Visnovsky, Rene Vydareny
F: Pavol Demitra, Michal Handzus, Miroslav Satan


# posted by Unknown @ 8:05 am
Comments:
That is Handzus, indeed...he of the Kenny G/Michael Bolton Hair Club for Men.
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 3:51 pm
 
Any more pictures from the event?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 5:47 pm
 
You can find some photos here
http://www.startfoto.sk/startfoto/index.php?show1=40&showall=OK

Too bad there are some big watermarks on them... :(
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 7:13 pm
 
Holy crap! Handzus *does* look like Kenny G.

That's scarier than Sean Hill having the tendency to look like a combination of Huey Lewis and Henry Rollins.
# posted by Blogger Stormbringer : 7:27 pm
 
Now, if Sean Hill only had the body and attitude of Henry Rollins!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 12:59 am
 
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