MILAN – One day after Canada closed its practice at the Olympics, Czechia followed suit by shutting the media out of their practice on Tuesday.
“There’s obviously some special teams stuff that we want to work on and some other stuff that goes along with the team game,” assistant coach Tomas Plekanec told TSN. “It was an option; we decided to take it.”
Canada and Czechia will play each other in their first game of the Olympics on Thursday. Was Czechia’s decision to close practice a response to what Team Canada did?
“No, not at all,” Plekanec insisted. “I didn’t even know they closed it. We had some team stuff going on so, like I said, it’s an option for teams that is good for them.”
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