tiistai 30. maaliskuuta 2010

New additions to camp roster

Due to the fact that some players are still tied with their club teams and we also have 1 injured player, coaches have decided to add following players to the training camp roster:

Kirill Kolpakov - D

Anton Jasterbov - F
Sergei Novikov - F

These players as all the other ones invited to the training camp will be fighting for their spots at the final roster for the tournament.

Ismo & Jukka

Training camp program

Team Estonia will use next week to get ready for the games. Here's the program.

Monday 05.04.2010

12:00 -14:00 Gathering in hotel (Go Scnhelli).
14:00 Lunch
18:30 Ice practice @ Jeti (100 minutes)
22:00 Dinner

Tuesday 06.04.2010

08:00 Breakfast
10:00 Morning ice @ Jeti (60 minutes)
14:00 Lunch
19:00 Ice practice @ Jeti (120 minutes)
22:00 Dinner

Wednesday 07.04.2010

08:00 Breakfast
10:00 Morning ice @ Jeti (60 minutes)
14:00 Lunch
19:00 Pregame @ Premia
20:00 Team Finland vs. Team Estonia @ Premia
23:30 Dinner

Thursday 08.04.2010

08:00 Breakfast
10:00 Morning ice @ jeti (60 minutes)
14:00 Lunch
16:30 Ice practice @ Jeti (100 minutes)
21:00 Dinner

Friday 09.04.2010

08:00 Breakfast
09:30 Bus to Narva

NOTE! All players must bring their passports for IIHF control meeting.

More info here in the blog as it becomes available

lauantai 27. maaliskuuta 2010

Team Estonia roster

Coaching staff has selected following players

Goalies

1. Mark Rajevski
2. Villem-Henrik Koitmaa
3. Kristjan Eerme

Defence

1. Dmitri Suur
2. Lauri Lahesalu
3. Kaupo Kaljuste
4. Pelle Sildre
5. Stanislav Pankov
6. Aleksandr Ossipov
7. Pavel Narvet

Forwards

1. Toivo Suursoo
2. Andrei Makrov
3. Aleksandr Petrov
4. Vassili Titarenko
5. Anton Nekrassov
6. Maksim Semjonov
7. Olle Sildre
8. Veikko Suvaoja
9. Jaanus Sorokin
10. Mihkel Vorang
11. Kaspar Karik
12. Aleksei Sibirtsev
13. Maksim Ivanov

Coaches will make final roster / playing line-up during the training camp.

The following players have also been listed as eligible to play in IIHF roster and can be called up as replacements in case of injuries etc

Kirill Kolpakov
Anton Jastrebov
Robert Rooba
Sergei Novikov (Assuming that he has Estonian passport by the time)
Igor Savvov
Denis Konõshev
Jan Rajevski

Right now we are doing final checkings on everyones availability and health status while making rapid changes based on the fact that games are now at Narva.

While we feel bad for Estonian hockey and Tallinn about this move we have to say that we are thankful for the city of Narva to support the games in such a short notice.

Ismo & Jukka

perjantai 26. maaliskuuta 2010

Huge disappointment

We were informed today that games will be moved to Narva instead of Tallinn. This is huge disappointment to us coaches as we had agreed to donate our time to help Estonian hockey with goal of having great training camp (including game against Finland) at Tallinn and then play tournament in front of home crowd at Saku Suurhall.

Right now we have no information what will this mean, how things will be arranged and what will happen. We feel very sorry for the Estonian hockey and especially our players. Hopefully things will be resolved at least some way during the next couple of days. Once we have all the information we have to see what will be done next.

In any case, this is not good for the great game of hockey and for Estonian hockey people.

Ismo & jukka

maanantai 15. maaliskuuta 2010

26 Days left...


Only 26 days left before the puck will drop at the Div-II World Championships at Tallinn. Team Estonia will be ready and we should have the best possible team if a few players will be able to recover from their injuries in time and a couple of other ones can make it back to Estonia in time after their own seasons have ended at the foreign countries where they play.

The result of the games will depend on the whole TEAM Estonia. How well can WE play as a team and how well can WE execute the playbook, i.e. follow the system designed by us coaches for OUR team. Naturally that will also require that OUR players are in better shape than before, which WE believe is the case as WE have seen good dedication and work ethics demonstrated by OUR national team candidates.

WE are looking forward for an exciting tournament and great training camp before the games.

Ismo & Jukka