Men's Ice Hockey World Cup of Hockey 2016

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Canada - Russia  5-3  HIGHLIGHTS

 

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D. Sedin - H. Sedin - Eriksson

Forsberg - Backstrom - Hornqvist

Hagelin - Kruger - Silfverberg

Landeskog - Berglund - Soderberg

 

Ekholm - Karlsson

Hedman - Stralman

Ekman-Larsson - Hjalmarsson

 

Lundqvist (Markstrom)

 

Scratched:  Lindholm, Backlund, Enroth

 

 

  Team Europe

 

Tatar - Kopitar - Hossa

Gáborík - Nielsen - Zuccarello

Rieder - Draisaitl - Niederreiter  

Vanek - Bellemare - Hansen

 

 

Sekera - Chára

Josi - Seidenberg

Streit - Ehrhoff

 

 

Halák (Greiss )

 

 

Scratched:  Boedker , Sbisa , Grubauer

 

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Absolute choke !!! Team of absolute underdogs. A mixed team of SlovakoGermanoDenmarSwitzerlanAustriNorwaSloveniFrance advance to Final of the World cup.

 

Just crazy !  btw all 3 todays goals scored by slovaks   Marián Gáborík and the hero Tomáš Tatár + another fantastic performance of Jaroslav Halák in the net. Team Europe will play the World cup final

 

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Wow Europe! Arguably the team everyone thought would be the worst in the tournament, makes it to the final! A very strong part of me wants them to do the unthinkable and beat Canada!

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Sweden - Team Europe  2-3  (OT)

 

 

 

 

 

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Tatar's second stuns Sweden

Team Europe eliminates Tre Kronor in OT, 3-2, off to finals

Sweden and Team Europe were tied 1-1 after two periods of a tense game to determine who would play Canada in the finals.

 

Tomas Tatar's second goal of the game, at 3:43 of overtime, gave Team Europe an incredible 3-2 win over Sweden to advance to the World Cup finals.

The winning goal started with goalie Henrik Lundqvist throwing the puck around the boards where Mats Zuccarello cut it off and fired it towards the goal. Tatar controlled the puck with his skate and got off a quick shot before Lundqvist could recover.

Sweden has yet to make another Canada Cup/World Cup finals since 1984.

The first period passed almost without incident. Shots were 10-5 for the Swedes, but neither goalie had to make a great save. Team Europe went 20minutes without recording even one hit, perhaps a first in top-level hockey since that stat has been recorded.

But play opened just a bit in the middle period. Tre Kronor got things going at 2:31 on a nice all-around play by Nicklas Backstrom. First, he won a faceoff in the Europe end and got the puck back to Anton Stralman at the point.

Stralman beat his man inside the blue line and moved down the boards, firing a quick snap shot on goal. Halak made the save but kicked the puck out to Backstrom who knocked it in for the 1-0 lead.

But Team Europe, with all its international experience, was unfazed. Indeed, the team seemed to play more aggressively after that goal, coming close twice on a Sweden power play. Lundqvist denied Marian Hossa and Tobias Reider in quick succession.

Late in the period, Team Europe managed the equalizer. Christian Ehrhoff skated behind the Sweden goal, but on the way he passed the puck in front to Marian Gaborik.

Gaborik was surrounded by three Swedes and managed to get his stick on the pass only weakly, but the shot had enough momentum to squeeze between Lundqvist’s pads and over the goal line.

Europe stunned the Swedes again by going ahead only 12 seconds into the third period. Right off the face-off Andrej Sekera spotted Tomas Tatar who fired a long shot that Lundqvist fumbled. Tatar roared in to collect his own rebound and beat the goalie before he was set.

The Europeans then settled in and played a sound period, one in which they might have gone up two goals but for a nice save by Lundqvist on a Thomas Vanek breakaway.

Just when it looked like the Euros were headed to the finals, though, Erik Karlsson's quick point shot was tipped in front and beat Halak with only 4:32 to tie the game, 2-2. That set the stage for NHL-style unlimited overtime.
 

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On 2016-09-18 at 07:20, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Yeah, the biggest challenge for Team Europe was whether they could play together in a short time. On paper the team is pretty good. On a good day Slovakia can defeat anyone while Switzerland, Germany and Denmark have solid players, though lack depth when it comes to international play (not a problem here obviously). Add a sprinkle of other nation's top players and you could have something special.

 

Congrats to Team Europe, but you'll need something extra special to defeat Canada (aka 2010 Halak)

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Congrats to Team Europe, but you'll need something extra special to defeat Canada (aka 2010 Halak)

 

well, no one expected this team to win a single game, and they are in final...you know hockey is amazing game everything can happen in a seconds,,but Canada is ofc Canada and here no doubts about who is going for the cup..impossible to defeat the maple leafs in Toronto 2 times even with Halák 2010