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June 11th, 2008 issue

RETIRED Star goalie Dominik Hašek announced his retirement June 9, only days after his team, the Detroit Red Wings, won the NHL’s Stanley Cup. “Sixteen years is a long time in a life that has unfortunately gone by too fast,” he said. Hašek, the only goalie to ever win the NHL MVP award twice, lost his job during Detroit’s run to the cup. The 43-year-old from the Czech Republic was benched during Detroit’s opening-round series in favor of Chris Osgood and never regained the starting job.

RECORDS Dominik Hašek leaves professional hockey having won 389 games with the Red Wings, Ottawa Senators, Buffalo Sabres and Chicago Blackhawks, who drafted him in the 10th round in 1983 and had to wait until the 1990–­91 season to get him on the ice. Chicago kept him just two seasons, then watched him become one of the game’s greats in Buffalo. Hašek ranks 10th in all-time in wins, 10th in goals-against average and 18th in games played; he is tied for sixth in shutouts.
TENNIS Argentinean Augustin Calleri won the Czech Open tennis tournament in Prostějov, south Moravia. In the final match June 8, he beat compatriot Martin Vassallo Arguello 6-0, 6-3.
BASKETBALL The men’s team ČEZ Nymburk won its fifth consecutive league title in the Mattoni NBL, the Czech Republic’s top-flight basketball division. Nymburk beat Nový Jičín 93-70 June 7, winning the best-of-seven finals 4-1.
ADVANCED The second division soccer teams Bohemians Praha and Marila Příbram will advance to the Gambrinus liga next season. They will replace Most and Bohemians 1905, which were demoted after finishing with the league’s two worst records. While Bohemians Praha will be a newcomer to the Gambrinus liga, Příbram will make a comeback after just one year away.
EXHIBITION Some of the world’s hockey legends will likely be seen at a charity exhibition game to be played Aug. 17 in Pardubice, east Bohemia. Among the all-time stars should be Czech players Jaromír Jágr and Dominik Hašek, Canada’s Steve Yzerman and Mark Messier, Finland’s Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu, and Russia’s Slava Fetisov and Igor Larionov.
SHUFFLE Vítězslav Lavička has been confirmed as the new head coach of the soccer club Sparta Praha. He takes over the team from Michal Bílek, who resigned after Sparta failed to win the Gambrinus liga title in early May. Lavička gave up his position as the head coach of the national under-21 team. The national team’s new manager will be Jiří Kotrba, who in the past also led Sparta.
WEBER Top men’s tennis player Tomáš Berdych began his defense of the Gerry Weber Open with a win over Sweden’s Thomas Johansson 6-3, 7-5 June 9. Berdych, ranked No. 12 in the world, won the grass-court competition last year in the absence of the world’s top player, Roger Federer, who had won it the previous four years. The tourney is a key tuneup for Wimbledon.


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