Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Round-Robin

DAY 5

Kazakhstan 4 - 2 Ukraine
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 0-2, 2-0
April 26th 2017, h. 20:30, Palace of Sports, Kyiv

 

Round-Robin Provisional Standing After Day 5

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
South Korea	3	3(0)	0(0)	12	5	+7	9
Kazakhstan	4	3(1)	1(0)	10	9	+1	8
Austria	3	2(0)	1(0)	6	4	+2	6
Poland	3	1(0)	2(1)	4	6	-2	4
Hungary	3	1(0)	2(0)	7	9	-2	3
Ukraine	4	0(0)	4(0)	6	12	-6	0

 

 

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DAY 5

Kazakhstan 4 - 2 Ukraine
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 0-2, 2-0
April 26th 2017, h. 20:30, Palace of Sports, Kyiv

 

Kazakhstan in, Ukraine down

Last-period goals seal win for favourites

Kazakhstan beat Ukraine 4-2 to remain in race for promotion while the fourth loss for the hosts means it will be relegated back to the Division I Group B.

 

Kazakhstan improved its record to 3-1 to remain in contention for a top-two spot and continue its ambition to return to the top division.

Ukraine needed at least one point to keep hopes alive to stay in this group. The team battled hard and came back from a 2-0 deficit but Kazakhstan was too strong, outshot the Ukrainians 47-22 and eventually got the expected win after two third-period goals.

 

Nigel Dawes gave Kazakhstan the lead after just three-and-a-half minutes when he redirected a shot from the blue line by Maxim Semyonov through Bodgan Dyachenko’s five-hole.

 

The 18-year-old goaltender who led HC Donbass to the Ukrainian championship recently got a rough start in his debut but eventually made 43 saves and had a 91.49% save percentage in his debut in an IIHF men’s championship.

 

“We trusted in him from the beginning and he became more confident with every save,” said Ukraine’s assistant coach Pavlo Mikhonik.

 

The Ukrainians got hope when Kazakhstan took three consecutive penalties during the rest of the period but it didn’t result in more than a post shot. With one second left in the period Martin St-Pierre made it a two-goal gap after a pass from behind the net from Brandon Bochenski.

 

“We haven’t had any easy games here. We got the win and we’re back on track, that’s what we needed in the end,” said Bochenski, who contributed three points to the 4-2 win. “They were smart. They played good defensively and were waiting for counter-attacks and scored on their chances. That’s how to play if I was them.”

 

At 14:24 of the second period Dmytro Nimenko eventually made the home crowd cheer when he concluded a successful Ukrainian attack after a side pass in front of the net from Olexander Pobiedonostsev to make it a 2-1 deficit. And it took less than a minute and the game was tied at two. Sergei Babynets got the puck on the left side, skated and got little opposition from Kazakh defenceman Alexander Lipin to be able to shoot and score.

 

“We had more chances but when we were up 2-0 our players played risky. The Ukrainian team was quite active until the end,” said Kazakhstan coach Eduard Zankovets, who took his time-out after the 2-2 goal.

 

Kazakhstan made up for the blackout early in the third period. At 1:59 Nikita Mikhailis skated through the Ukrainian defence after a great pass from Roman Starchenko to regain his team the lead. And Bochenski made it 4-2 with his shot from the face-off dot on a power play with three minutes left in the game.

 

“We became more confident in the second period but the Canadian players on the Kazakh team are much stronger than our players,” said Mikhonik.

 

 

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DAY 5

Kazakhstan 4 - 2 Ukraine
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 0-2, 2-0
April 26th 2017, h. 20:30, Palace of Sports, Kyiv

 

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DAY 3

Japan 6 - 2 Estonia
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 3-1, 2-1
April 26th 2017, h. 12:30, SSE Arena, Belfast

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

Netherlands 2 - 6 Croatia
Period-by-Period: 0-4, 1-1, 1-1
April 26th 2017, h. 16:00, SSE Arena, Belfast

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

Great Britain 5 - 2 Lithuania
Period-by-Period: 4-1, 0-0, 1-1
April 26th 2017, h. 19:30, SSE Arena, Belfast

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

Round-Robin Provisional Standing After Day 3

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Japan	3	3(0)	0(0)	16	5	+11	9
Great Britain	3	3(0)	0(0)	14	5	+9	9
Lithuania	3	2(0)	1(0)	13	5	+8	6
Croatia	3	1(0)	2(0)	10	10	0	3
Estonia	3	0(0)	3(0)	3	14	-11	0
Netherlands	3	0(0)	3(0)	3	20	-17	0

 

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Division I Group A World Championships 2017 in Kyiv (UKR)

Day 6 Schedule (27th April 2017)

GMT +3

 

17:00  Poland vs Hungary

20:30  Austria vs South Korea

*If South Korea win this match (Doesn´t matter if in Regulation Time or after Overtime) South Korea will re-write the sport and Ice Hockey history confirming their first ever historic promotion into the Top Division.

 

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DAY 6

Poland 2 - 0 Hungary
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 2-0, 0-0
April 27th 2017, h. 17:00, Palace of Sports, Kyiv

 

 

 

 

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DAY 6

Poland 2 - 0 Hungary
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 2-0, 0-0
April 27th 2017, h. 17:00, Palace of Sports, Kyiv

 

Poland remains in race

Hungary to stay in Div. I for 2018

Poland beat Hungary 2-0 to remain in the race for promotion while for Hungary the dream of returning to the top division is over.

 

After this game only four teams are able to earn promotion: Korea, Kazakhstan, Poland and Austria. However, opposed to the other teams Poland doesn’t have destiny in its own hands and will need favourable results in the other games beside a win against Austria tomorrow to earn promotion.

 

“We won against Hungary. We played really well, strong and fast,” said Krzysztof Zapala, who won the player-of-the-game prize for his team and scored the game-winner. “We don’t watch the other teams, we just have to win our game and we will see what will happen.”

 

“We were able to dominate in the beginning of the first period and then lost momentum with a couple of penalties and had even more in the second,” said Hungary’s assistant coach Gergely Majoross. “We had a lot of chances in the third period but didn’t score. We played against a good goalie. We always play close games with Poland with very little amount of goals. The same happened tonight and unfortunately we’re the ones who scored less often. Power plays and special teams are key in tight games like this and we couldn’t produce much on power play. We will have to analyse and find the reasons.”

 

Poland outshot Hungary 10-6 in the first period but neither team managed to score after 20 minutes.

 

Early in the second period Tomasz Malasinski had a huge chance when he came to the puck just right of the goal post but it was some millimetres too late. A few moments later Poland eventually scored.

 

Zapala got the puck at the blue line from Malasinski, skated towards the net and around Hungarian defenceman Bence Stipsicz to beat goaltender Bence Balizs for the first time.

 

“I saw the defenceman doesn’t move so I know I have to move around and shoot. And I scored,” Zapala said.

 

14 seconds later Poland had to play shorthanded after an interference call against Damien Kapica. But a giveaway in the offensive zone by the Hungarians offered Malasinski a breakaway that he gladly accepted. He skated faster than Bence Sziranyi and Vilmos Gallo and at the end of the road he lifted the puck backhand over Balizs for the 2-0 goal.

 

“It was a really tough game, it could have been ending both ways. We played good in the first period and stepped up in the second and were finally able to score goals. The third period was really tough, they found back into the game but we managed to win,” said Poland’s assistant coach Torbjorn Johansson and added before tomorrow’s game against Austria: “In tight games you need to have good offence and good defence. It’s a new game. It will be the last game. We will do everything to win it.”

 

Hungary became stronger in the third period and outshot Poland 12-5 but they didn’t manage to get the puck past goaltender Przemyslaw Odrobny, who earned his shutout with 25 saves.

 

While Poland still has hopes for the last game against Austria, Hungary will finish the event in fifth place no matter what the outcome of their game against Kazakhstan will be.

 

“Against Kazakhstan it will be about pride now. There are many fans who came over to support us. The least thing we have to do is to battle as much as we can. It’s really tough to move up especially if expectations are high,” Majoross said underlining how competitive the Division IA has become in which he played and coached so many times for almost 20 years.

 

 

 

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DAY 6

Poland 2 - 0 Hungary
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 2-0, 0-0
April 27th 2017, h. 17:00, Palace of Sports, Kyiv

 

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8 Days to Go, Time to introduce another participating Team of the 2017 World Championships,

today its the turn of the Czech Republic,

The Czechs have great memories of their last time in Cologne.

Can they recapture the magic from the 2010 gold medal run at this year's IIHF World Championships

 

CZECH REPUBLIC