{"id":11854,"date":"2025-05-04T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/11854\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:14:14","slug":"team-czechia-announces-2025-world-championship-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/11854\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Czechia Announces 2025 World Championship Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Czechia has named their roster<\/a> for the 2025 World Championship. The Czechs face the tough task of maintaining their top play after winning Gold at this tournament with a 4-0-2 record last season. Only 10 players from the championship-winning roster will participate this year. That includes goaltender Karel Vejmelka<\/a>, who operated as the third-string behind Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dost\u00e1l<\/a>\u00a0and Petr Mr\u00e1zek<\/a> last summer. Vejmelka could be in line for the starer\u2019s role this summer, after posting a stout .904 save percentage and 26-22-8 record with the Utah Hockey Club this season. That consistency, in an NHL starting role, should be enough to win a role over Daniel Vlada\u0159<\/a>, who served as the Calgary Flames backup, and Josef Ko\u0159en\u00e1\u0159<\/a>, a starter in the Czcehia Extraliga.<\/p>\n

Czechia\u2019s announcement of the roster made sure to specifically mention that Boston Bruins superstar David Pastr\u0148\u00e1k<\/a> will join the team sometime during the tournament. Pastrnak also joined last summer\u2019s tournament midway through, and uncharacteristically scored just one goal in four games en route to the Gold medal. But Pastrnak once again posted an incredible season in the NHL, with 43 goals and 106 points in 82 games. This is his first season not participating in the Stanley Cup Playoffs since 2017, which could provide a bit more reason to play hard for his country. Pastrnak will be joined by Roman \u010cervenka<\/a>, leading scorer of the country\u2019s 2024 squad, on Czechia\u2019s top line. The 39-year-old Cervenka scored 11 points in 10 games last year, and recently posted a dazzling 19 points in 15 games of the Czechia Extraliga\u2019s Playoffs.<\/p>\n

With old and new leading the charge up front, and Vejmelka looking to duplicate Lukas Dostal\u2019s performance in back, Czechia balances out their lineup with an experienced blue-line group. Their defense is headlined by top-pair Vancouver Canucks defender Filip Hronek<\/a>, who will likely be partnered up with former New York Ranger Libor H\u00e1jek<\/a>. Hronek scored 33 points in 61 NHL games this season, while Hajek scored 10 in 47 Extraliga games.<\/p>\n

In the race for their first back-to-back titles since 2000\/2001, Czechia\u2019s current roster is as follows:<\/p>\n

F Ond\u0159ej Ber\u00e1nek<\/a> (Karlovy Vary, Extraliga)
F Roman \u010cervenka (Padubice, Extraliga)
F Jakub Flek<\/a> (Brno, Extraliga)
F Adam Klapka<\/a> (Flames)
F Petr Kod\u00fdtek<\/a> (HIFK, Liiga)
F J\u00e1chym Kondel\u00edk<\/a> (Pardubice, Extraliga)
F Jakub Lauko<\/a> (Bruins)
F David Pastr\u0148\u00e1k (Bruins)
F Luk\u00e1\u0161 Sedl\u00e1k<\/a> (Pardubice, Extraliga)
F Mat\u011bj Str\u00e1nsk\u00fd<\/a> (Davos, NL)
F Daniel Vo\u017een\u00edlek<\/a> (Zug, NL)
F Filip Zadina<\/a> (Davos, NL)<\/p>\n

D Daniel Gazda<\/a> (Ilves, Liiga)
D Libor H\u00e1jek (Pardubice, Czechia)
D Filip Hronek<\/a> (Canucks)
D Jakub Krej\u010d\u00edk<\/a> (Praha, Extraliga)
D Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kundr\u00e1tek<\/a> (T\u0159inec, Extraliga)
D Filip Pyrochta <\/a>(Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav, Extraliga)
D David \u0160pa\u010dek<\/a> (Wild, AHL)
D Ji\u0159\u00ed Tich\u00e1\u010dek<\/a> (Karpat, Liiga)<\/p>\n

G Josef Ko\u0159en\u00e1\u0159 (Praha, Extraliga)
G Karel Vejmelka (Hockey Club)
G Daniel Vlada\u0159 (Flames)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Czechia has named their roster for the 2025 World Championship. The Czechs face the tough task of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[4508,4509,2178,4238,1512,5,2179,1521,4510,3041,489,403,4511,2182],"class_list":{"0":"post-11854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-adam-klapka","9":"tag-daniel-vladar","10":"tag-david-pastrnak","11":"tag-filip-hronek","12":"tag-filip-zadina","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-jakub-lauko","15":"tag-karel-vejmelka","16":"tag-libor-hajek","17":"tag-lukas-dostal","18":"tag-petr-mrazek","19":"tag-players","20":"tag-roman-cervenka","21":"tag-team-czechia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114451635479477428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}