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Czech women record second straight shutout win

4. 6. 2017 | Derek OBrien
In their first game, the Italians took the USA to a shootout, but in their second game they ran into a determined Czech team with almost 1000 fans behind them, which has now outscored its opponents 17-0 in two games. In this game, the Czechs led 3-0 after two periods before adding four goals in the third. Pavlina Horalkova led the team offensively with two goals and two assists.
 

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Karel Manhart (head coach of the Czech Republic): I am really proud of the players because they played a really good game. We had a long meeting in the morning, encouraging them to play defensively because the Italians are much faster than the British, but they did it perfectly. The only things I´m not happy about is the number of penalties, which meant that all the players couldn´t play as much as we wanted, and in addition we had two players injured during the game.

Rick Di Biase (head coach of Italy): We lost to a very good team. We got into a bit of penalty trouble and they took advantage. As I said, the Czech Republic have a very good, well prepared team.