- Jan 9, 2009
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As a intro in this statement you all should know, that Ernest Bokros (National U20 Coach) is very unpopular between Slovak fans. There are rumors flying, that he takes his horses that are clearly bellow the level. The reason? One fathers firms builds him new cottage, another father will reconstruct his home and so on. Again, that are rumors spoken between fans.
And because that, the best possible team is impossible to build.
Nobody from former teams doesn't speak it loudly. But between friends it is common theme.
And now the two guys (Pospisil and Milos Fafrak) openly say, that he destroyed the team. Pospisil was almost cut, but other players stepped in and clearly said to coach, they want play with Pospisil. Methods from Ernest Bokros seems to come from communist times, because he doesn't respect any player and his methods are horridly bad.
Fafrak said also about the HK Orange team, where most of the U20 players play until WJC. And was the same. Bokros shouldn't be coach any more.
Many others former player, that came to contact with Ernest B, open their Memoares after this and also said, what an distributive person he is.
Today should be press conference. Im curious to hear, what will they say.
Its a big story here in Slovakia.
Wow. Just wow. It seems to be obvious that big changes need to be made and I'm not talking about just the coach. Why is the main governing body of Slovakian U20 hockey allowing stuff like this to go on? Its as much their fault as it is the coach's.Obviously Bokros denied any allegations wrtitten by Pospisil. Accused Pospisil of not writing down the post on his own. Also threatened another former junior player (family relative of Demitra) who made a public comment of a bribe on fb to take a legal action.
The main thing is that Pospisil had enough integrity for the state of hockey in Slovakia and leadership quality so he decided to speak up. Speaking of leadership a captain of Slovak junior team who was also at the same press conference today decided not to take any side.
There were several promising Slovak prospects during Bokros tenure with national team and none of them had the balls to do it publicly. Bokros is well known for his old fashioned Tichonov's style of coaching. Also he is known for telling to quit the hockey a junior prospect at that time as he would never be any good. That prospect had a different opinion than his junior coach, he decided not to quit hockey, made it to the draft, made a NHL team, became a captain, Norris trophy winner, Stanley cup champion. You might seen him, he is still active and 6'9'' tall.