Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2022

[hckošice 13,216]

and it is over !

 

Goal   Time 54:42 David Kämpf scored a shorthanded goal assisted by Smejkal.

 

6:3 Czechia 5 minutes to go. First Czech medal after 10 years

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7:3 Time: 58:08 David Kämpf

 

and immediatelly 7:4 Time : 58:41 Thomas Bordeleau

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Time 59:12 minor penalty for Sam Lafferty for Slashing

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and hattrick for Pastrňák assisted by Hertl and Červenka. Power-Play goal 8-4

 

Time 59:23

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Final Score

 

Bronze Medal Game :  (Nokia Arena - TAMPERE)

 

Czech Republic - United States : 8-4  (1-3, 1-0, 6-1 )

09:33 Karlson KUHLMAN (Meyers, Peeke) 0:1

12:14 Adam GAUDETTE (Boldy, Tynan) 0:2

15:19 Jiří ČERNOCH (Flek, Stránský) 1:2

19:47 Karlson KUHLMAN (Schmidt, Lafferty) 1:3

32:12 Jiří SMEJKAL (Sklenička, Kundrátek) 2:3

40:51 David PASTRŇÁK (Hertl, Zohorna) 3:3

42:29 Roman ČERVENKA (Krejčí) 4:3

43:37 David PASTRŇÁK (Jordán, Hertl) 5:3

54:42 David KAMPF (Smejkal) 6:3

58:08 David KAMPF (Šimek) 7:3

58:41 Thomas BORDELEAU (Watson, Hayden) 7:4

59:23 David PASTRŇÁK (Hertl, Červenka) 8:4

 

[Finnator123 292]

That 3rd period reminds me a lot of the 3rd period back in 2011, Gold medal game between Finland & Sweden...

[JoshMartini007 2,200]

That third period was something...

[hckošice 13,216]

Time clocking down...

 

60 minutes to the grand final

 

 

Both line-ups revealed

 

  Olkinuora - Lehtonen, Hietanen, Heiskanen, Pokka, Friman, Vatanen, Lindell, Ohtamaa - Granlund, Manninen, Hartikainen - Rajala, Filppula, Sallinen - Pesonen, Lammikko, Armia - Maenalanen, Bjorninen, Anttila

 

  Driedger - Chabot, Graves, Sanheim, Severson, Holden, Whitecloud, Mayo - Cozens, Dubois, Batherson - Sillinger, Barzal, Anderson - Comtois, Lowry, Roy - Johnson, Mercer, Gregor - 13th forward Geekie.

 

 

For the 3rd time in a row both teams will play the WCh final just like in Bratislava 2019 (FIN beat CAN 3-1) and in Riga 2021 (CAN beat FIN 3-2 after Overtime)

 

The reigning world champs Canada is chasing its 28th World Title, the reigning Olympic champions Finland aim for their 4th world title in history.

 

 

The home team Finns have a lot of motivation, because they have never managed to win gold medals at the home championship. The Finns entered the tournament very well, playing a total of nine matches, of which they lost only one, after penalty shoot-outs, to the Swedes 2:3. They have not yet lost in regular time. The Finns advanced to the quarterfinals from the first place with a record of 6 W - 1 L,

In Quarterfinals they were down 0:2 against Slovakia, but managed to turn the match around and win 4:2. In the semifinals, they met the Americans, they had to turn the game again. After being behind 0:1, but in the end they enjoyed a 4:3 victory.

 

Canada has a strong almost 100% NHL team at the World Champs (The only non-NHL player being O´Dell from Russian KHL). They passed the first four duels in the tournament without hesitation, but then lost to Switzerland 3:6 and then, surprisingly, for the first time in history also to Denmark. In the last match of the preliminary group, Canada returned to the winning wave, gave the French no chance and won easily 7:1.

Canada ran into Sweden in the quarterfinals. After two thirds, the score for the reigning champs was extremely unfavorable 0:3, but at the time the final buzzer was heard Canada managed to even the score to 3:3 and decided on its progress to the semifinals in the 43rd second of overtime. The Canadians were losing also against the Czechs, but managed to equalize and in the 2nd period retake the lead and subsequently the match was easily directed by them. Canada defeated the Czechs 6:1.

 

 

Interesting also to mention Valteri Filppula is the only one who can tonight enter the mega prestigious Triple Gold Club (players who won WCH, OG and NHL Stanley Cup) as first Finn in history, and overall the 30th player to reach this club

 

(There so far in the Triple Gold Club

11 Canadians:

Blake, Sakic, Shanahan, Niedermayer, Pronger, Staal, Toews, Bergeron, Crosby, Perry and Bouwmeester

9 Swedes:

Jonsson, Näslund, Loob, Forsberg, Lidstrom, Modin, Kronwall, Zetterberg and Samuelsson

7 Russian:

Kamensky, Gusarov, Fetisov, Larionov, Mogilny, Malakhov and Datsyuk

and 2 Czechs

Jágr and Šlégr)

 

 

Game Referees: Mikael Nord and Linus Ohlund (both )  Linesmen: Nick Briganti ( ) and Šimon Synek ( Congrats Šimon, enjoy the final )

 

[Finnator123 292]

"because they have never managed to win gold medals at the home championship"

@hckošice , more like we never have managed to win a medal in general xd

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and it started

 

Finland in blue, Canada in white