STEVE YZERMAN MAKES A SURPRISING SIGNING + JURAJ SLAFKOVSKY CONTROVERSY IN SLOVAKIA (Habs, Detroit)

STEVE YZERMAN MAKES A SURPRISING SIGNING + JURAJ SLAFKOVSKY CONTROVERSY IN SLOVAKIA (Habs, Detroit)

[Music] ah it’s time to talk about two of my favorite teams in the National Hockey League teams number two and three the Habs and the Red Wings are taking center stage here today because we have some topics that I thought were actually really good to dive into here now this is not going to be the only video we make about the Detroit Red Wings we’re going to make another commentary later in today’s show talking about some of the updates that they’ve got in regards to trades that future video is going to go over stuff that hasn’t happened but stuff that has been talked about in this video we’re going to go over stuff that actually did happen because we have some really interesting Montreal Canadians controversy to highlight as well as a Red Wings signing beating out other teams like the Utah Mammoth and the Edmonton Oilers let’s start things out here by talking about the Montreal angle and I wanted to use this article from sport.actuality.sk to help us out this is an article from the Slovak sport website sport.sk that talks about some of the controversy with Yuri Slavkovski and how he is being defended here by Tomas Yurko communication with the Union was poor almost non-existent jüko stands behind Yuris Lavkovski whom he says did not give up on the national team essentially just getting the gist of reading this article it seems like for Uruskovski Montreal Canadian’s forward and first overall pick the fact that he did not suit up for team Slovakia at the World Championships this year was highly controversial for some of the folks in the country who pay attention to him and who have seen his story develop you know they often say that when it comes to the Slovak hockey fan base how the body of hockey is done over there in Slovakia it’s often said that these hockey players are treated like some of the biggest celebrities in the country i get it you know we might not necessarily feel that all the way here in Canada because oh Slovakia it’s all the way across the pond maybe not too many of us are familiar with how their culture defines the sport of hockey but hockey players in Slovakia are a really big deal and for Uras Levkovski the fact that he was the first overall pick just a few years ago he was one of the biggest most high-profile celebrities in that country too so to see him suit up for team Slovakia at all the international tournaments and to also see him call out the Slovak Hockey Federation a few years ago it’s no surprise that there has been a lot of media attention in Slovakia and in Canada in regards to Slovkovsky’s participation in these tournaments so let’s go back over onto this article and read some commentary made by former Detroit Redwing Tomas Jüko i can’t speak for others but for me the communication with this Slovak team was pretty bad almost zero i hope it was because they had an overview of my health at the time I was seriously injured and I was speculated about whether or not I could actually play for the World Championship team euro admitted about the poor communication from national team management adding that he would gladly accept a possible invitation in the future he considers the criticism of Urus of Kovski who did not come to the world championship to be unjustified there are still many championships ahead of him and we have to realize that he won’t go to all of them his body wouldn’t be able to handle it in Slovakia not many people deal with this but the psychological well-being of the player is also important after a difficult season you can be exhausted not only physically but also mentally the fact that he didn’t come now doesn’t mean anything slowski can easily come to the next eight or 10 world championships it all depends on how he feels people have the misconception that every player from overseas whose season ends must automatically come to represent so there you go those are some pretty strong words from Tomaso seems like this Yuri Slovkovski thing was quite the big deal in Slovakia the fact that he did not end up participating in the World Championships this season but leave it to fellow Slovak Yurko to go out there and come to Slaf’s defense i feel it’s so interesting man like we don’t usually get too exposed to these kinds of things like we hear it in passing once in a while philip Mar or Yuri himself will speak out about how crazy Slovak hockey fans are and can be but it seems like just based off of what this article is talking about and what Yurko is talking about it might have gotten a bit out of hand here with Slaf’s absence from the national team but speaking about Tomaso that does relate to the Detroit Red Wings and we had ourselves a signing yesterday that I actually didn’t get a chance to talk about in a video commentary last night but it was notable enough to dive into and talk about here in a video today let’s talk about the newest Detroit Red Wings goalender sneige it is Michael Pustava who has signed a contract officially with the Detroit Red Wings from yesterday evening take a look at this the Red Wings have signed goalender Michael Pastava to a 2-year entrylevel contract press release goes out there and says this the Red Wings signed goalender Pastava to a 2-year ELC bastava 23 years old spent the 24-25 season with HC Ketta Berno in the Czech extra liga posting up a 23-18 record with a 23-9 goals against average a 921 save percentage and three shutouts in 42 regular season appearances the 6’2″ 205-lb Netminder also led HC Committ Barino to a Czech extra Liga championship in 2025 logging a 10-7 record with a 1 197 goals against a 940 safe percentage and three shutouts in 17 postseason games his playoff save percentage of 940 was the best amongst all goalies in Czecha’s top pro league mustava stopped all 21 shots he had faced in game seven of the Czech Extraina final against HC Dynamo Parard Dubis for all y’all Lego Rocks 999 historians out there yeah Dynamo Parard Dubis does have a very significant presence on this YouTube channel in the years before we actually made news related videos a native of Velasque Mez Rickya Postava spent the entire 23-24 campaign with HC Pereirav in Czecha’s second highest pro league earning the best goalender honors after showing a 2320 and0 record with a 184 goals against average a 943 save percentage and six shutouts in 44 regular season games okay we don’t really need to go into his entire history here but Michael Pastava is a guy that we actually did make a video about before we had spoken about how the Red Wings were interested in signing this goalender this young Czech goalender out of free agency and they were potentially bidding with teams like the Edmonton Oilers the Utah Mammoth and the Seattle Kraken to get this done they ended up winning the bidding war now the question is all of a sudden going to ask itself for a lot of Red Wings fans hey what the hell does that mean for everybody else there’s another goalender who’s going to be brought in here most likely into North America what does that mean for Sebastian Kosa what does that mean for the rest of the system here trey Augustine has another year in the NCAA so it doesn’t really look like he is going to be that next guy so what you’re going to run with Morazzic and Talbot at the NHL level and then in the AHL you’re going to have Kosa Gilander and Pastava trying to rotate as a threegoalie rotation there i mean you can debate the need for a goalender like this to step into the Red Wings organization it doesn’t change the fact though that Pastava does have a very good profile for what he is czech goalie who was one of the best in the league who ended up taking this big step into the promised land of Czech hockey and now he’s in a position where he has signed a contract with Detroit and he’ll be heading over probably to playing with the Grand Rapids Griffins that is of course unless some unexpected news pops up that he ends up just staying in KDA Berno and playing another season in Czecha or maybe he gets loaned over to some other place in Europe who really knows possible but we’re going to have to wait and see what the plan is here for Pastava heading into the 2025 2026 season ultimately though this is a Redwing signing that I did think was interesting enough to make a video about and because it’s not that big of a deal I didn’t want to make an entire fulllength commentary about it like we did last time just combine the news here with the Yuri Subkovski stuff out of Montreal so with all this in mind let me know your thoughts in the comments section below about these Red Wings and Habs updates what are your thoughts on the Yuri Slavsky Slovakia controversy that seemed to have gone down over the past few weeks and what are your thoughts on Michael Pastava’s signing with the Detroit Red Wings do you have any high expectations here how do you feel about his future let me know in the comments section all your opinions i hope you enjoyed this British roll and bye [Music] [Music]

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We’re going over Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky, and the latest drama surrounding his absence on the Slovak national team. We’ll also talk about the Detroit Red Wings signing goalie Michal Postava.

Tomas Jurco Article: https://sport.aktuality.sk/hokej/clanok/komunikacia-so-zvazom-bola-zla-takmer-nulova-jurco-stoji-za-slafkovskym-na-reprezentaciu-nezanevrel-2025060612405710796

This video is taking place after the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2024 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) San Jose Sharks, Macklin Celebrini
2nd) Chicago Blackhawks, Artyom Levshunov
3rd) Anaheim Ducks, Beckett Sennecke
4th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Cayden Lindstrom,
5th) Montreal Canadiens, Ivan Demidov
6th) Utah Hockey Club, Tij Iginla
7th) Ottawa Senators, Carter Yakemchuk
8th) Seattle Kraken, Berkly Catton
9th) Calgary Flames, Zayne Parekh
10th) New Jersey Devils, Anton Silayev
11th) San Jose Sharks (from Buffalo Sabres), Sam Dickinson
12th) Minnesota Wild (from Philadelphia Flyers), Zeev Buium
13th) Philadelphia Flyers (from Minnesota Wild), Jett Luchanko
14th) Buffalo Sabres (from Pittsburgh Penguins via San Jose Sharks), Konsta Helenius
15th) Detroit Red Wings, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard
16th) St. Louis Blues, Adam Jiricek
17th) Washington Capitals, Terik Parascak
18th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Sacha Boisvert
19th) Vegas Golden Knights, Trevor Connelly
20th) New York Islanders (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Chicago Blackhawks), Cole Eiserman
21st) Montreal Canadiens (from Los Angeles Kings), Michael Hage
22nd) Nashville Predators, Yegor Surin
23rd) Anaheim Ducks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Stian Solberg
24th) Utah Hockey Club (from Colorado Avalanche), Cole Beaudoin
25th) Boston Bruins (from Boston Bruins via Detroit Red Wings and Ottawa Senators), Dean Letourneau
26th) Los Angeles Kings (from Winnipeg Jets via Montreal Canadiens), Liam Greentree
27th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Marek Vanacker
28th) Calgary Flames (from Vancouver Canucks), Matvei Gridin
29th) Dallas Stars, Emil Hemming
30th) New York Rangers, EJ Emery
31st) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Edmonton Oilers via Anaheim Ducks), Ben Danford
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Florida Panthers via Philadelphia Flyers), Sam O’Reilly

This video is also taking place after 2024 NHL Season, and after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

Juraj Slafkovsky was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.

The 2022 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The Top 27 of the draft went as follows:

1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt

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