Five games, five straight wins for the defending World Champions. Czechia pounded Kazakhstan 8-1 on Saturday at the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Herning to keep their streak rolling. And Czech captain Roman Cervenka scored a hat trick in his 100th career Ice Hockey World Championship game.
The two-time World Champion, who was named the IIHF’s Male Player of the Year in 2024, debuted in 2009. He now takes over the all-time points lead at this tournament in the 21st century (87 points) from Ilya Kovalchuk (86 points). Cervenka has also tied Jaromir Jagr for the most Czech WM goals all-time (32), not counting the Czechoslovakia era.
The Czechs were solid and opportunistic, scoring repeatedly on…