HC Slovan Bratislava officially introduced a new coaching pair and the names of five new players – ŠPORT.SK

today 11:18 | The hockey players of Slovan Bratislava will be led in the 2022/2023 season by the coaching duo Ján Pardavý and Andrej Podkonický. Both also work as assistants to head coach Craig Ramsay in the Slovak national team. The club also introduced new reinforcements by Samuel Baroš, Liam Pecarar, Carl Ackered, Tomáš Török and Jakub Minárik. Oto Haščák became the new sports director of the club, who informed about it at the recent World Championships in Finland. Until now, he has worked in the Slovak national team as an assistant to general manager Miroslav Šatan and also as a chief scout. He was appointed to this position at the end of March 2021, he was in charge of communication with selected hockey players in the preparatory period. “I want to thank you for your trust. I appreciate it very much and I believe that we will be successful. Slovan has a tradition and we want to follow up on last year’s title,” Hascak said at Monday’s press conference. Pardavý has been working as the head coach of Dukla Trenčín since the 2019/2020 season, lasting almost three seasons at the helm. Due to unsatisfactory results, he ended up in Dukla by mutual agreement last December. “We want to have the best people in the club, so we paid attention to their expertise, experience, professionalism and character traits. The selection process was longer, we are glad that we agreed,” said one of the club’s shareholders, Roman Hofstädter. Defender Ackered returns to the Tipos Extra League after a year, playing in the IHL for Graz last season. The offensive quarterback scored 19 goals and 39 assists in the Dukla Trenčín jersey in the 2020/2021 season. Liam Pecararo, a second foreign reinforcement, is an American native and will play in Europe for the first time. Last season, he competed in the lower overseas competitions of ECHL and AHL. The 26-year-old American played 52 matches in them and scored 56 points (25 + 31).