Tomas Plekanec Has Lots To Say
Oct 28, 2002 16:06:30 GMT -5
Post by Bobs_HABit on Oct 28, 2002 16:06:30 GMT -5
From his website:
Finally in my own flat
Tomáš Plekanec, 28.10.2002
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Hello everybody... Firstly let me apologize that you did not hear from me for a long time. I had problems with my flat. Well, I have had my flat longer, but I did not move in until Friday and I waited to Sunday to arrange the phone lines in it.
So, now everything is alright, I have a good internet access in my flat. Well, one thing is still incomplete. Tomorrow they bring me my new TV and make the cable connected. And still - there is a car problem here. Mine is still loaned because I wait for solving for my insurance problem. They are very strict at me with insurance. They want me to pay $800 a month which is DISGUSTING...:-)... So Darren is trying to make the fee as low as it is possible. The main problem is I have an international driving license and this is my first year in Canada. It might end up that I will go to car school again, but I hope not to beacause I cheated in the Czech Republic so I would probably fail here...:-))).. Well, we`ll see how this will turn out.
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By the way, our season already started! Finally, after four months of practicing. That is a half of the season in the Czech Republic. I have been on ice already since July and I played only very few games so I am little bit overtrained... (overpractised?) :-) Our first four AHL games are over. In the first one we won in Rochester 3:1, in the next one we beat Syracuse 3:1 and right after the game we went by bus to Cleveland whicj is about 6 hours long journey. There we went to bed at 4am, woke up at 1pm and had a game since 7pm! :-)) We won 6:3. After this game we went back to Hamilton, went to bed right away at 4am and the next day had another game against Grand Rapids. Unfortunately, we lost this one 1:3. So we played 3 games in 3 days which is a fair portion for the start... I got used to play two times a week in the Czech Republic and being tired after that... :-)
Well, my stats and performancehere have been very piteous so far. In first four games I have no points and -2 in stats scored/allowed goals during my stay on ice. So, in comparision with the practice games in Montreal and in the end in Hamilton it is a very pitious statistics and what is the worst on it is my performance... However, there is still 78 games in front of me, so I try not to think on it and hope that it will turn the other way... So far I have been missing a piece of luck. I need some puck to deflect right on my stick or to score some fortunate goal. I hope this will also improve... I hope it will come and I will get a chance to play at least one game in Montreal... It would be beautiful, but I definitely cannot think about it with such performances which I do now...
In a very similiar situation is Jirka Novotny in Rochester. Out of five games he has no points and is even on -5, so we did not write into people`s minds in the beginning...:-).. In Rochester there is also Ales Kotalik and Slovaks Bartovic and Hecl with him. Here in Hamilton we have another piece from Edmonton - Ales Pisa. He was quite surprisingly sent down with a one-way contract. Most probably he will not stay here very long time and will be either recalled back "up" either will be traded. He might also ended up in Pardubice but he prefers being traded in an NHL club. Also, in Syracuse there was Martin Paroulek from Vsetin on ice. Concerning players I am done :-)
Finally in my own flat
Tomáš Plekanec, 28.10.2002
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Hello everybody... Firstly let me apologize that you did not hear from me for a long time. I had problems with my flat. Well, I have had my flat longer, but I did not move in until Friday and I waited to Sunday to arrange the phone lines in it.
So, now everything is alright, I have a good internet access in my flat. Well, one thing is still incomplete. Tomorrow they bring me my new TV and make the cable connected. And still - there is a car problem here. Mine is still loaned because I wait for solving for my insurance problem. They are very strict at me with insurance. They want me to pay $800 a month which is DISGUSTING...:-)... So Darren is trying to make the fee as low as it is possible. The main problem is I have an international driving license and this is my first year in Canada. It might end up that I will go to car school again, but I hope not to beacause I cheated in the Czech Republic so I would probably fail here...:-))).. Well, we`ll see how this will turn out.
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By the way, our season already started! Finally, after four months of practicing. That is a half of the season in the Czech Republic. I have been on ice already since July and I played only very few games so I am little bit overtrained... (overpractised?) :-) Our first four AHL games are over. In the first one we won in Rochester 3:1, in the next one we beat Syracuse 3:1 and right after the game we went by bus to Cleveland whicj is about 6 hours long journey. There we went to bed at 4am, woke up at 1pm and had a game since 7pm! :-)) We won 6:3. After this game we went back to Hamilton, went to bed right away at 4am and the next day had another game against Grand Rapids. Unfortunately, we lost this one 1:3. So we played 3 games in 3 days which is a fair portion for the start... I got used to play two times a week in the Czech Republic and being tired after that... :-)
Well, my stats and performancehere have been very piteous so far. In first four games I have no points and -2 in stats scored/allowed goals during my stay on ice. So, in comparision with the practice games in Montreal and in the end in Hamilton it is a very pitious statistics and what is the worst on it is my performance... However, there is still 78 games in front of me, so I try not to think on it and hope that it will turn the other way... So far I have been missing a piece of luck. I need some puck to deflect right on my stick or to score some fortunate goal. I hope this will also improve... I hope it will come and I will get a chance to play at least one game in Montreal... It would be beautiful, but I definitely cannot think about it with such performances which I do now...
In a very similiar situation is Jirka Novotny in Rochester. Out of five games he has no points and is even on -5, so we did not write into people`s minds in the beginning...:-).. In Rochester there is also Ales Kotalik and Slovaks Bartovic and Hecl with him. Here in Hamilton we have another piece from Edmonton - Ales Pisa. He was quite surprisingly sent down with a one-way contract. Most probably he will not stay here very long time and will be either recalled back "up" either will be traded. He might also ended up in Pardubice but he prefers being traded in an NHL club. Also, in Syracuse there was Martin Paroulek from Vsetin on ice. Concerning players I am done :-)