Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Preliminary Round

DAY 8

 

Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Sweden 8 - 1 Italy
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 1-1, 5-0
May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

 

 

 

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Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Sweden 8 - 1 Italy
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 1-1, 5-0
May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

Italy no match for Sweden

Tre Kronor cruises on eight even-strength goals

 

Eight different scorers pace the Sweden offence on the day.

 

Sweden won its second straight game and third of the 2017 World Championships with an 8-1 win over Italy at LANXESS arena. Goals by Victor Rask and Philip Holm in the first period sealed the win as Sweden awaits the arrival of goaltender Henrik Lundqvist to the team here in Germany.

 

With the New York Rangers eliminated from the NHL playoffs, Lundqvist accepted an invitation to join Sweden and his brother Joel, who is captain of Tre Kronor, at this last major international ice hockey event of the season. 

 

"It's a dream come true to play a WC together." Joel Lundqvist said. "This is my seventh tournament I think and it's never worked out before. It's fun to have him here and be on the same team again. He's a big part of the team, he's stopping the pucks but we need to score as well. He's a big part but we need the whole team. We feel we have the players we need to do well in this tournament."

 

In fourteen previous World Championship encounters going back to 1935, Sweden has defeated Italy eleven times with three ties. The last time these teams met was in 2014 in Minsk when Sweden won 5-1.

 

Philip Holm contributed a goal and two assists in only his second game played in the tournament.

 

"You're always looking for the perfect game. Probably we didn't get it today, but I think we stepped up from yesterday." Lundqvist said of how Sweden played. "We had more speed in our game, we created better chances and had more attacks on the net. We're happier today than we were yesterday."

 

Sweden was strong on the puck early on and kept Italy on defence. They outshot Italy 15-4 with Holm and Joel Ek Eriksson accounting for six of them. Sustained offensive pressure kept goaltender Frederic Cloutier busy. But the Italians stayed close and had their moments. 

 

Victor Rask scored his second goal of the tournament to make it 1-0. Rask took a pass in the neutral zone from Elias Lindholm and moved swiftly into the Italian zone. With Gabriel Landeskog and Alexander Egger tied it up in front of him, Rask used them as a partial screen and scored. Rask leads Sweden in scoring with seven points. 

 

With continued pressure in the Italian zone, Sweden scored again at 8:34 when Holm picked up a rebound off the backboard and punched the biscuit past Cloutier.

 

When Joel Lundqvist was sent off for tripping three and a half minutes into the second, Italy had several good chances, the first coming when Tommaso Goi was on the doorstep to take a whack at the puck but was stopped. Then Giovanni Morini took a pass from Giulio Scandella and got off a forehand shot that squirted through goaltender Viktor Fasth to halve the lead to 2-1.

 

This gave the Italians a bit of a boost.

 

Sweden regained their two goal lead as Jonas Brodin’s slapshot found its way through a crowd.

 

"In the first two periods we had the puck a lot but the Italians did a great job keeping us outside." Swedish head coach Rikard Gronberg said. "In the third period we finally got some goals as well."

 

Forty one seconds into the third period, Elias Lindholm added to the offence. Lindholm’s goal was his fifth of the tournament. The dam broke then as Sweden would go on to score four more goals in the period over a nine minute stretch starting with Linus Omark's tally at 10:09 and capped by Dennis Everberg's at 18:25. 

 

"They hold onto the puck really well, they've got really good players, a great team. I thought we held our own in the first two periods then kind of lost it in the third there. You can't fault us for effort, but they were the better team." Italian defenseman Thomas Larkin, and their best player of the game, said.

 

Italy played the third period without two skaters. Luca Frigo and Daniel Frank were injured and had to leave the game.

 

 

 

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Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Czech Republic 5 - 1 Slovenia
Period-by-Period: 3-0, 1-0, 1-1
May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

 

 

 

 

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Czech Republic 5 - 1 Slovenia
Period-by-Period: 3-0, 1-0, 1-1
May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

Czechs trounce Slovenia

Fourth straight win for CZE, SLO misses QF

 

Roman Horak led the way with two goals as the Czechs beat Slovenia 5-1 on Friday. It’s four straight wins for the Czechs and no quarter-finals for Slovenia.

 

Roman Cervenka chipped in a goal and an assist, and Michal Repik and Michal Kempny also scored for the canny Czechs, who are hunting for their first medal since 2012's bronze. Jan Kovar added a pair of assists.

 

Coach Josef Jandac's crew fell 4-1 to Canada to start the tournament, but have found a path to victory in every game since then. This was a cool display of skill, focus, and execution.

"We knew if we skated, we'd be fine," said Czech captain Jakub Voracek. "We skated well today all game, and that's why we won. It could have been 10-2 today easily."

 

Miha Verlic replied for Slovenia, which was outshot 37-15.

 

Since rallying to secure a point in their tournament opener, a 5-4 overtime loss to Switzerland, the Slovenes have sagged with four lopsided regulation defeats in Group B.

 

Newly promoted Slovenia now faces a must-win game versus Belarus on Saturday in the battle against relegation. In IIHF World Championship history, the Slovenes have only spent two consecutive years in the elite division once (2005, 2006). They have a tiny talent pool with 141 registered male players.

 

At 2:12, Repik opened the scoring. Kroselj stopped Roman Cervenka’s initial shot, but Kovar grabbed the rebound and sent it over to Repik, who fired it into the open side.

"Against teams like these, they have to play defence, so when we scored early that opened it up for us," said Czech goalie Petr Mrazek. "Yesterday [in the 1-0 win over Norway], we couldn't get an early goal, so it was a better start today."

 

Near the midway mark of the first period, Repik thought he’d made it 2-0. But instead, it turned out that the second goal belonged to Horak, who’d been set up during the preceding power play by David Pastrnark and had zinged the puck off the net cam before the officials noticed. That goal occurred at 8:20, and time was added to the clock.

 

At 11:46, Horak whacked a rebound through Slovenian goalie Gaspar Kroselj’s pads to put the game out of reach at 3-0. Shots favored the Czechs 18-4 in the opening stanza.

"We got more traffic in front today," said Czech defenceman Radko Gudas. "Our forwards did a good job of that. They got some rebounds, made some plays around the net. I think the Slovenians didn't have an answer for that."

 

Kempny got the fourth Czech marker at 2:09 of the second period. He sent the puck cross-ice to Petr Vrana and then skated to the front of the net to convert Vrana’s deft backhand feed from behind the goal line.

Verlic cut the deficit to 4-1 at 4:04 of the third on a quick, close-range shot that beat Mrazek cleanly, but was video-reviewed. Just over three minutes later, Cervenka restored the four-goal lead with a nice breakaway tally on the backhand.

 

Despite missing the quarter-finals in Paris, the Slovenes have already qualified to participate in their second straight Olympic hockey tournament in South Korea in February. They finished a surprising seventh in their 2014 Winter Games debut in Sochi, Russia.

The Czechs will seek a fifth straight victory against host France on Saturday.

"Now we have to focus on France," said Voracek. "They played well against Canada, so it's going to be a tough game."

 

 

 

 

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Results after 1st Period

 

Group A in Cologne
Denmark - Germany  2-2 (2-2,-,-)

08:26 Patrick REIMER 0-1

09:43 Brooks MACEK 0-2

16:09 Frederik STORM 1-2

16:34 Morten POULSEN 2-2

Group B in Paris

France - Belarus 1-0 (1-0,-,-)

12:29 Sacha TREILLE 1-0

 

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Results after 2nd Period

 

Group A in Cologne
Denmark - Germany  2-2 (2-2, 0-0,-)

08:26 Patrick REIMER 0-1

09:43 Brooks MACEK 0-2

16:09 Frederik STORM 1-2

16:34 Morten POULSEN 2-2

Group B in Paris

France - Belarus 2-2 (1-0, 1-2,-)

12:29 Sacha TREILLE 1-0

20:54 Damien FEURY 2-0

26:40 Aleksander PAVLOVICH 2-1

37:47 Yegor SHARANGOVICH 2-2

 

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Final Results

 

Group A in Cologne
Denmark - Germany  3-2 After Overtime (2-2, 0-0, 0-0, OT: 1-0)

08:26 Patrick REIMER 0-1

09:43 Brooks MACEK 0-2

16:09 Frederik STORM 1-2

16:34 Morten POULSEN 2-2

Overtime Winning goal scored at 61:40 by Peter REGIN 3-2 OT

Group B in Paris

France - Belarus 4-3 After GWS (1-0, 1-2, 1-1, OT: 0-0, GWS: 1-0)

12:29 Sacha TREILLE 1-0

20:54 Damien FEURY 2-0

26:40 Aleksander PAVLOVICH 2-1

37:47 Yegor SHARANGOVICH 2-2

41:20 Alexander KULAKOV 2-3

52:35 Pierre-Edouard BELLEMARE 3-3

Winning Shootout Scored by Stephane DA COSTA 4-3 GWS

 

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Preliminary Round

DAY 8

 

Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Denmark OT3 - 2 Germany
Period-by-Period: 2-2, 0-0, 0-0, OT: 1-0
May 12th 2016, h. 20:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

Group A Provisional Standing After Day 8

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Russia	4	4(1)	0(0)	21	5	+16	11
Sweden	5	3(0)	2(1)	21	9	+12	10
United States	4	3(0)	1(0)	15	7	+8	9
Latvia	4	3(0)	1(0)	8	4	+4	9
Germany	5	2(1)	3(1)	12	19	-7	6
Denmark	5	2(2)	3(0)	9	18	-9	4
Slovakia	4	1(1)	3(2)	9	12	-3	4
Italy	5	0(0)	5(1)	5	26	-21	1

 

 

 

 

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Denmark OT3 - 2 Germany
Period-by-Period: 2-2, 0-0, 0-0, OT: 1-0
May 12th 2016, h. 20:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

Regin reigns in OT

Denmark rallies from 0-2 to win it

An overtime goal from Peter Regin gives Denmark a dramatic victory over Germany after a 2-2 tie in Cologne.

 

Denmark battled back from two goals down to stun Germany in overtime, dealing a blow to the host nation's hopes of progressing to the quarter-final.

 

Peter Regin got the vital goal, 1:40 into the extras, when he supplied a five-hole finish beyond Danny aus den Birken off a delightful Nikolaj Ehlers feed.

 

"I lost the face-off and for the next minute and a half I don't think we saw the puck," Regin said after the game. "We were extremely tired but Nik Ehler is one of the fastest skaters in the world and he somehow created a two-on-one for us and I was lucky to get a break and put it five hole and it went in."

 

To make defeat even more painful for Germany, it was inches away from snatching the win itself moments earlier. Danish goalie Sebastian Dahm flung himself to his right to beat away a testing effort; play switched to the other end of the ice and Regin wrapped up the win.

 

Oliver Lauridson picked out Dahm's save as the turning point. "They were cycling the puck and as soon as Dahm made the save they were thinking 'change'," he said. "Suddenly we had a couple forwards who were off to the races. That’s how 3-on-3 goes. It could look like one team is dominating it and all of a sudden it is an odd man rush the other way. Tonight that went our way."

 

The defeat leaves Germany on six points, three adrift of fourth-placed Latvia but having played a game more. Tuesday's meeting between the Latvians and the host is shaping up to be a showdown.

 

For Felix Schutz, the battle will continue - aided by the upcoming arrival of Leon Draisaitl. "At the end of the day it is about points. Leon will help us a lot," Schutz said. "He had an incredible year in the NHL for such a young player. He’s the best German player we’ve ever had. He’s going to give us some offense and on the power play."

 

Everything started so well for the Germans. A lively home crowd got behind the team from the get-go, and  was rewarded with two goals in little over a minute midway through the first period. First Patrick Reimer did enough to screen Sebastian Dahm as Yasin Ehliz fired in a shot, and as the puck looped up Reimer put it away with something approaching a baseball swing.

 

Then Yannic Seidenberg got away down the right and fizzed a cross-ice pass from the boards for Brooks Macek to score from close range. With 10 minutes gone, Germany was looking good and the arena was responding with plenty of noise. But it took less than a minute for the home team to go from complete control to almost total disarray.

 

Denmark pulled a goal back on 16:09 when Frederik Storm reacted fastest to the rebound of a sot from Emil Kristenson. There was concern about a possible kicking motion, but the video review gave it the all clear.

 

Then, just 25 seconds later, the Danes were level. There didn’t seem to be much danger when Mads Christensen swung the puck in from the boards, but aus den Birken offered up a big rebound and Morten Poulsen gobbled it up.

 

A combination between Nichlas Hardt and Julian Jakobsen almost split Germany open once again before the intermission, and aus den Birken was left clinging on to deny Christensen as the host staggered woozily into the intermission with the scores tied.

 

The middle stanza was all about power plays. Germany had two in quick succession, giving it a chance to regain the momentum it lost at the end of the first period. But the home team seemed nervous, frequently snatching at its chances. Macek was guilty of a particularly big miss after a slapshot deflected into his path, before Dominik Kahun forced a good sliding save from Dahm when he shot from the right-hand circle.

 

Then Denmark got its chance, including a long spell of 5-on-3 play. There was more composure here, but still no goal: Patrick Russell fired wide with the best shooting chance for the Danes.

 

Germany had the better of the final frame, but could not find the killer touch in front of the net. Early on, Matthias Plachta fed Schutz but the much-travelled forward steered the puck wide of the mark. Then, as time began to run out, Dahm delivered a big save to deny Marcus Kink and defenceman Frank Hordler threatened to become an unlikely hero with an astonishing solo rush that ultimately drew a penalty.

 

That power play came to nothing, but there was still time for one last big save from Dahm in regulation, grabbing hold of a Reimer attempt with six seconds left to play. The drama continued as Oliver Lauridsen and David Wolf picked up roughing penalties in the final second after disagreeing about Danish tactics at the subsequent face-off and the game moved to overtime.

 

 

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Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

France GWS4 - 3 Belarus
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-2, 1-1, OT: 0-0, GWS: 1-0
May 12th 2016, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

Group B Provisional Standing After Day 8

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Canada	4	4(0)	0(0)	20	5	+15	12
Czech Republic	5	4(2)	1(0)	17	9	+8	10
Switzerland	4	3(1)	1(1)	14	8	+6	9
France	5	3(2)	2(0)	17	13	+4	7
Norway	4	2(0)	2(1)	8	7	+1	7
Finland	4	2(0)	2(1)	12	13	-1	7
Belarus	5	0(0)	5(1)	6	22	-16	1
Slovenia	5	0(0)	5(1)	10	27	-17	1