Martin Rucinsky News

Martin Rucinsky, shown here with the St. Louis Blues in April 2003, is having a blast playing at a high level with the HC Sparta Praha in the Czech Extraliga.

The countdown Days until the opening game of the 2010 Olympic tournament -- 124 Czech Republic at the Winter Olympics 2006: Bronze medal 2002: Seventh place 1998: Gold medal 1994: Fifth place 1992: Bronze medal 1988: Sixth place 1984: Silver medal 1980: Fifth place 1976: Silver medal 1972: Bronze medal 1968: Silver medal 1964: Bronze medal 1960: ...

When the Czech Republic won the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first in which NHL players were made eligible, it had one of the biggest big-game goaltenders in Dominik Hasek.