Men's Ice Hockey World Cup of Hockey 2016

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Final 1 Line up

 

 

Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron

Tavares - Getzlaf - Stamkos

Couture - Toews - Perry

Thornton - O´Reilly - Duchene

 

Vlasic - Weber

Bouwmeester - Doughty

Pietrangelo - Burns

 

Price (Crawford)

 

Scratched:  Giroux, Holtby, Muzzin

 

 

  Team Europe

 

Tatar - Kopitar - Hossa

Boedker - Nielsen - Zuccarello

Rieder - Draisaitl - Niederreiter  

Vanek - Bellemare - Hansen

 

 

Sekera - Chára

Josi - Seidenberg

Streit - Ehrhoff

 

 

Halák (Grubauer )

 

 

Scratched:  Gáborík   (Foot Injury) , Sbisa , Greiss

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Nah, You can´t play against the gods

 

Congrats Canada ! The best hockey team is now 1 win of the world cup trophy.

 

 

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One more game. Europe played well, but Canada has shown that it is in a league of its own at this tournament.

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Final Serie - Game 1

Canada - Team Europe  3-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Crosby ignites quiet Canada

Europe had its chances in World Cup final opener

Sidney Crosby celebrates Canada's first goal early in the opening period.

 

Sidney Crosby made two signature passes, and each of his linemates--Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron--converted, leading Canada to a 3-1 win over Team Europe in the first game of a best-of-three finals.

It was a docile performance, and but for the steady play of Carey Price in goal the energetic Europeans might have come out on top. As it was, coach Ralph Krueger's team has plenty of confidence heading to the second game on Thursday night.

"It wasn't our best [game]," admitted Steven Stamkos, who scored the other goal for the winners. "But a win's a win. The third period was better. We played with some purpose. We realize the first two weren't what we wanted, but you have to give them some credit. They're very disciplined through the neutral zone and forced us to do some things that aren't characteristic of us."

"We're disappointed," admitted Team Europe captain Anze Kopitar, "but this was our best game so far in this tournament. We can't hang our heads. I thought we dictated the pace and the play for much of the game. It showed we can play with them."

"We scored timely goals, but they were better than us for large stretches of time," admitted Canada's coach Mike Babcock. "We found a way to win, but we have to get better. For whatever reason, we weren't as good as we think we can be."

Although Canada emerged from the first period with an impressive 2-0 lead, the Europeans had a 13-9 advantage in shots and created more around Price’s goal than coach Mike Babcock would have liked.

Nonetheless, Canada opened the scoring just 2:33 into the game thanks to the team’s top line. Crosby fed Bergeron with a nice pass up the middle, and Bergeron went in on goal with Marchand on a 2-on-1.

A quick pass at Halak’s crease gave Marchand an easy tap-in goal just seconds after he stepped out of the penalty box.

Then, at 13:20, the Canadians scored a similar goal. This time Ryan Getzlaf stripped Zdeno Chara of the puck at centre ice and went in with Steven Stamkos. Again, Getzlaf waited, then fired a quick pass to Stamkos who redirected the puck in for his first goal of the tournament.

Canada was lethargic in the second period and paid the price. A shot from the side by Dennis Seidenberg hit a body in front, and Tomas Tatar was right there to pop in the rebound at 7:00.

The goal did little to ignite the home side, and later on a power play Andrej Sekera had a short-handed breakaway. Price made the fine stop, but it typified the sloppy play by Canada.

In the third, Crosby made another great play. He tried to bounce the puck in off Halak, controlled the rebound and went behind the net. He circled, got tangled with a referee, maintained possession and came out the other side where he fed Bergeron with a perfect pass to make it 3-1 at 9:24. Vintage Crosby saved Canada from a less-than-stellar effort.

 

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Final Serie - Game 1

Canada - Team Europe  3-1   HIGHLIGHTS

 

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Final 2 Line up

 

 

Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron

Tavares - Getzlaf - Stamkos

Couture - Toews - Perry

Thornton - O´Reilly - Duchene

 

Vlasic - Weber

Bouwmeester - Doughty

Pietrangelo - Burns

 

Price (Crawford)

 

Scratched:  Giroux, Holtby, Muzzin

 

 

  Team Europe

 

Tatar - Kopitar - Hossa

Rieder - Nielsen - Zuccarello

Vanek - Bellemare - Hansen

Boedker - Draisaitl - Niederreiter  

 

 

Josi - Seidenberg

Sekera - Chára

Streit - Ehrhoff

 

 

Halák (Grubauer )

 

 

Scratched:  Gáborík   (Foot Injury) , Sbisa , Greiss

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Something Unbelievable just happened in Toronto Canada lost the first period !!! this is the first time in th whole tournament Canada lost the 1st frame. So far they won each one with a total score 12:1. But tonight after a goal of the slovak defence tower Zdeno Chára Team Europe is leading 1-0 after 20 minutes.

 

Still a long, very long and very hard road for the unified team of players from the unwanted small europeans hockey countries to go

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Still 1-0 for team Europe after 2nd period...

 

20 minutes of regular time to go....

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Canada won the World Cup of Hockey. Congrats !

 

Fully deserved title in the right hands.