Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2019

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QUARTERFINALS HIGHLIGHTS

 

Canada 1 - 2OT Finland
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 1-0, 0-1, Overtime: 0-1
January 2nd 2019, h. 15:30, Rogers Arena, Vancouver

 

 

 

 

Toni Utunen scored 5:17 into overtime to give the Finns a 2-1 quarter-final win over defending champion Canada.

 

 

 

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QUARTERFINALS HIGHLIGHTS

 

United States 3 - 1 Czech Republic
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 1-1
January 2nd 2019, h. 17:00, Save-On-Foods Memorial Center, Victoria

 

 

 

 

The U.S. continued its history of World Junior quarter-final domination versus the Czech Republic, winning 3-1.

 

 

 

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QUARTERFINALS HIGHLIGHTS

 

Russia 8 - 3 Slovakia

Period-by-Period: 4-0, 3-0, 1-3
January 2nd 2019, h. 19:30, Rogers Arena, Vancouver

 

 

 

 

Russia scored four goals in the first eleven minutes, chased starting goalie Samuel Hlavaj from the crease, and breezed to a 8-3 win over Slovakia in the last of the quarter-finals games.

 

 

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I still can't believe that we won Canada in NORTH-AMERICA!!  

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1 minute ago, Finnator123 said:

I still can't believe that we won Canada in NORTH-AMERICA!!  

 

Congrats  ! Very impressive achievement, and you did it twice, in the pre-tournament test match and now in the most important moment

 

also fun fact: First time ever Canada will not medal at home World Junior Championship (and only second time in a WJC tournament held in North America after the 4th place in Alaska 1989). Canada is hosting the Junior world elite for the 14th time, USA hosted it 5 times.

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a-ma-zing!!! what a night of hockey!

both SUI vs SWE and CAN vs FIN were just unbelievable...and Swiss and Finns recorded 2 of the biggest upsets in the world junior champs history...

 

earlier, after the tournament opener, I wrote that the Swiss goalie Hollenstein in that match has been the weakest figure of his team...well, yesterday instead he's been the hero of a game to be remembered for the ages by Switzerland, he just outclassed the Swedish forwards for the entire 60 minutes...

fun facts: SWE are 48-0 in the last 12 years in the preliminary group matches and they haven't been shut out a single time since Dec. 26th, 2006...

yesterday SUI ended this unbelievable streak and made history...

 

meanwhile FIN won a game at the world juniors on Canadian soil for the first time ever, after 11 losses in the 11 previous meets between them...

and they did it in style, tying the game with only 46 seconds to go in regulation and with their goalie neutralizing a penalty shot in the OT...

 

and who cares if after those 2 matches, the other 2 quarters were not even close in terms of emotions given to the audience...

 

CZE vs USA was also a promising one, but the Czechs were once again really disappointing...the US boys dominated from the beginning to the end and only a very good goalie like Dostal kept them in the game for the whole 60 minutes, but at the same time they never gave the impression of being able to close the gap between the teams...

so, only the last few minutes were quite exciting, even if the Czechs never had a true big chance to score the tying goal...

 

no need to say anything about RUS vs SVK...too big the difference in all the aspects of the game...

 

so far, I still think that FIN is the best team, but RUS now must be considered the favourite to win it all...

 

my heart instead is all for the Swiss boys...Hopp Schwiiiiitz!!!

Edited January 3, 2019 by phelps

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Friday January 4th, 2019 -

Schedule (GMT -8)

 

 

Semifinals
Winning teams will qualify for the Gold Medal Match,

Losing teams will qualify for the Bronze Medal Match

 

Russia vs United States

Period-by-Period:
January 4th 2019, h. 13:00, Rogers Arena, Vancouver

(22:00 CET)
I
  Switzerland vs Finland
Period-by-Period:
January 4th 2019, h. 17:00, Rogers Arena, Vancouver

(02:00 CET)

 

 

 

Relegation Round

Match 2
2nd Game of the Best-of-3 Match Series,

the Nations will be ranked 9th-10th, the series losing team (10th ranked nation) will be relegated to the Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020

 

(0) Denmark vs Kazakhstan (1)

Period-by-Period:
January 4th 2019, h. 09:00, Rogers Arena, Vancouver

(18:00 CET)

 

Series Standing: Denmark - Kazakhstan  0-1

If Kazakhstan win this match, the series will be over and Denmark will be relegated,

If Denmark win this match, they will tie the series and one last decisive third game will have to be played tomorrow

 

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Nightmare start of the existential match for . 2 goals from 3 shots in first 4 minutes. Soegaard ! disaster tournament for the goalie, who was supposed to be the best Dane player and prospect of the tournament

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Denmark will probably no score even if they play until tomorrow

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and this empty netter send Denmark after 5 consecutive years among the juniors world elite definitely to Division I A