Hockey
The World Hockey Championship is being attacked by scammers. The number of victims is in the hundreds!
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Czech police are catching criminals right near the arena.
The World Hockey Championship had barely even begun before a loud scandal with criminal overtones broke out. Hundreds of ice battle fans in the Czech Republic suddenly became victims of scammers.
“They are doing everything to track down the criminals”
The tournament in the Czech Republic aroused quite high interest in the hockey community. For many matches, even of very modest national teams, it is difficult to get tickets at an affordable price. Because of this, fans often prefer to follow the progress of their favorite teams in fan zones.
But for those who definitely want to be at the ice arenas in Prague and Ostrava, local scammers have prepared an unpleasant surprise. Already on the first day of the competition, fans were faced with massive deception when purchasing tickets from resellers. Only after the first day of the competition, the Czech police officially announced dozens of victims.
— In Prague, during the first match, we noticed more than 40 people with fake tickets. On-site cybercrime specialists immediately deal with cases and do everything to track down the criminals who deceived them, Czech police said in a post on social networks.
Law enforcement agencies even drove a special police truck to the arena in Prague to receive statements from victims, as well as to collect evidence and catch the perpetrators.
“We don’t know what to do”
The Czech press is now awash with stories of upset victims. Thus, the publication iDNES.cz spoke about a family of four who were stopped in full force right at the entrance to the arena.
– We don’t know what to do. At the entrance we were informed that we had fake tickets. Now we need to go and deal with the police,” iDNES.cz quotes the words of the head of the affected family.
The main scheme of deception is the sale of tickets via the Internet on scam sites. The resulting QR codes lead you nowhere. Victims were asked to visit a dental clinic or make a purchase at a shopping mall. The greatest recorded damage was 40 thousand crowns (158 thousand rubles). The woman bought tickets from scammers for several matches at once, and they all turned out to be fake.
For many victims, missing the World Cup was a real tragedy. Some couldn’t hold back their tears, while others were simply furious.
“Families with small children came here, and now the children are crying. One boy received a ticket as a birthday present, and for him it was just a terrible tragedy. We are trying to help these people at least a little on the spot and at the same time, of course, we immediately begin to find out where they got their tickets from and try to prevent this criminal activity,” Seznam Zprávy quotes police spokeswoman Eva Kropachova as saying.
According to law enforcement agencies, the number of victims is already in the hundreds, and yet the tournament has only just begun. However, not all victims of scammers turned to the police. The total damage for the first day of the tournament alone is estimated at around 400 thousand crowns (1.58 million rubles).
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Storm hockey club announced its decision to suspend participation in the Ukrainian Championship. The Odessa team had not come to the Krizhinka match before.
At the same time, Storm denied that the issue was related to financial problems and expressed distrust of the Ukrainian Hockey Federation.
Statement from HC Storm
“Due to systematic violation of the principles of equality and justice in competitions, Shtor hockey club expressed its distrust in the leadership of the Ukrainian Hockey Federation and decided to suspend its participation in the Ukrainian Championship.”
There was already a situation this season when Krizhinka suspended its participation in the championship due to referee problems.
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At the end of game day of the NHL regular season, Carolina defeated the New York Rangers to become the sole leader in the East and sit two points ahead of Detroit with 7 wins in 10 games.
Among other results, we also note Buffalo’s improbable 9 straight wins. Blades, St. It defeated St. Louis and snapped such a long winning streak for the first time since 2018. There are only two points in the top 3 of the league.
Florida won an important victory. The champions were stronger than Washington and were slowly rising to the top of the Atlantic Division.
In the West, Edmonton handed Winnipeg its sixth straight loss, and Oilers goaltender Calvin Picard made 41 saves. Connor McDavid extended his point streak to 13 games.
In the California derby, San Jose beat Anaheim 5:4 and forward McClean Celebrini scored three points to extend their streak of points to eight matches.
Regular season in NHL
Ottawa – columbus 1:4
Florida -Washington 5:3
Caroline – New York Rangers 3:2 in overtime
winnipeg – Edmonton 1:3
St.Louis – buffalo 2:4
colorado -Los Angeles 5:2
Utah – Nashville 3:4
calgary – Boston 2:1 in overtime
Vegas- Minnesota 2:5
Anaheim- San José 4:5
Seattle – vancouver 2:3 in shootouts
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Hockey
Junior World Hockey Championship. Great comeback from the USA, 9 goals and hat-trick from Canada
Another day of play in the elite league of the World Junior Hockey Championship has ended.
The USA team beat Slovakia with a score of 6:5, with big problems. The host team of the tournament lost 0:2 and 1:3 but managed to come back and win.
Forward Tomas Hrenko scored a double for the Slovaks, scoring three goals in the last match. And the Americans have a double thank you to James Hagens.
USA and Sweden are leaders in the group with 9 points.
In the other group, Canada beat Denmark 9-1, while forward Gavin McKenna is expected to score a hat-trick and become number 1 in the 2026 draft.
In another match, the Czech Republic defeated Finland 2:1 in overtime.
Junior Hockey World Championship U-20. Group A
Slovakia – America 5:6 (2:0, 2:4, 1:2)
Discs: 08:53 Pitka – 1:0, 11:15 Khrenko – 2:0, 21:50 Spellasy – 2:1, 26:46 Belushko – 3:1, 38:33 McBorrow – 3:2, 31:00 Riker – 3:3, 34:44 Svrchek – 4:3, 39:15 Hagens – 4:4, 40:18 Hagens – 4:5, 44:34 Zellers – 4:6, 58:06 Khrenko – 5:6
Goalkeepers: Pradel – Hale
Group B
Finland – czech republic 1:2 (extension) (0:1, 0:0, 1:0, 0:1)
Goals: 01:52 Kubiesa (Galvas) – 0:1, 59:10 Hemming – 1:1, in extra time 03:39 Jiracek (Sikora, Chinar) – 1:2
Goalkeepers: Rimpinen – Orsulyak
Canada – Denmark 9:1 (3:0, 2:1, 4:0)
Washers: 03:17 McKenna – 1:0, 08:36 Coates – 2:0, 10:03 Parek – 3:0, 20:28 Cliveau – 3:1, 26:11 Martone – 4:1, 35:03 McKenna – 5:1, 44:11 Misa – 6:1, 45:45 McKenna – 7:1, 54:16 Aitcheson – 8:1, 54:40 Martone – 9:1
Goalkeepers: George – Tijen
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