The lately finished 2011 Inline Worlds had been kept in Pardubice, Czech Republic. Among the participants were former NHL players forward Petr Tenkrat and defenseman Karel Rachunek. The two accepted an invite in order to for the host nation, and played pivotal roles in their squad capturing its to begin with gold medal in tournament heritage.

game titles while using and Boston Bruins through parts of 4 seasons. An offensive-minded player in Europe and also the AHL, he posted a modest 52 points (22 ambitions, thirty helps) through his stints inside NHL. He returned to Europe permanently in the summertime of 2008. Tenkrat split the 2010-11 season involving Karpat Oulu in Finland's SM-Liiga (17 plans, 33 details in 45 video games) and Swedish Elitserien club Skelleftea AIK (9 game titles, 0 factors). Tenkrat is slated to gamble inside Czech Extraliga upcoming season for Sparta Prague.


Rachunek, who will flip 32 following month, has a a lot more notable NHL job. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound blueliner invested elements of six seasons from the NHL, dressing in 371 video games with the Ottawa Senators, Ny Rangers and On the internet services Devils. His best entire year inside the NHL came in 2002-03, when he posted 29 points in addition to a plus-23 rating for Ottawa in 58 games, along 4 factors in 17 playoff game titles. He left the NHL in 2008, and he has played inside KHL the final three seasons, scoring eleven ambitions and 46 details in 50 video games for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in 2010-11.

Tenkrat and Rachunek have obtained worldwide expertise playing for Czech Republic on the Planet Championship, and Rachunek must have been a member from the bronze medal-winning team at this year's tournament. While our planet's best ice hockey gamers are certainly not immediately the top inline players, the existence of Tenkrat and Rachunek produced an enormous difference for your Czechs, along with ahead Ludek Broz.
In five tournament game titles, Rachunek created eight factors (2 plans, six assists) and concluded with a plus-13 rating. Tenkrat took part in six game titles, scoring 7 targets and incorporating 3 assists. Meanwhile, Broz finished third in scoring for the tournament with 14 points (nine ambitions, 5 assists) in 6 game titles.

A heavily partisan crowd of six,000 followers ended up in Pardubice for the gold medal showdown in between the Czechs plus the U.S group. The Czechs jumped into a 3-1 lead and held now on to win 3-2. Czech goalie Roman Handl (who played a few seasons of minor league ice hockey with his home country) nailed on the ultimate victory with a 28-save functionality.

"They are worthy of instructed IIHF.com. "The Czechs are possibly the most beneficial European nation. They acclimated to inline hockey with the ice hockey affect."

In the bronze-medal video game, Canada defeated Sweden 13-7. Sweden played without former Detroit Red Wings prospect Dick Axelsson, who is regarded as the earth's best inline offensive player.