Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Preliminary Round

DAY 11

 

Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Denmark 2 - 0 Italy
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-0, 2-0
May 15th 2016, h. 16:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

Green retires with a win

Denmark leaves it late, relegates Italy

 

Italy stumbled in its must-win game, struggling to generate offence and losing to a pair of late Danish goals as the two nations finish their 2017 campaigns.

 

Denmark left it late, but a 58th-minute goal from Nichlas Hardt gave the team its first regulation time victory of this year’s championship and condemned Italy to relegation. The result also means that Belarus and Slovakia have definitely secured their spots in 2018.

 

Hardt struck on the power play, receiving the puck at the side of the net after Frederik Sturm and Julian Jakobsen found the passes to slice through Italy’s defence and producing the kind of decisive finish this meeting had lacked for the previous 57 minutes of play.

 

Italy, seeing its slim hopes of survival disappear, gambled on withdrawing its goalie to try to save itself. By that backfired in the most agonising way imaginable: Alexander Egger stumbled in front of his own empty net while collecting a pass from Thomas Larkin, and watched in horror as the puck slithered between the piping. The goal was credited to Denmark’s Peter Regin.

 

It had been a high-stakes game – Italy’s last chance of survival was on the line. A regulation-time victory for the Italians would have given Stephan Mair’s team a real shot at staying in the Elite Pool if Slovakia were to lose to Sweden on the final day of group phase action.

 

Denmark, exempt from relegation worries as it hosts next year, also had plenty of motivation going into the game. First, the Danes faced the prospect of finishing bottom of Group A if it failed to garner at least one point from the game. There was also the small matter of helping national team stalwart Morten Green finish his international career on a winning note. Those late goals gave the Danish captain a victorious farewell; his player of the game award was a small tribute to a great career on the world stage that began with the under-18s back in 1997.

 

After the game and the presentations, Denmark's traveling fans held up posters of Green, chanting 'Morten! Morten!' as their hero took his final lap of honour.

 

Morten Poulsen explained how much Green's presence meant to team Denmark over the years.

 

"He’s probably the first great player we’ve had on the international stage playing for Denmark. I’ve never played a team game without Morten," Poulsen said. "It is going to be crazy coming to these tournaments without him. He’s such a huge part of this team. Not only on the ice but off as well. He’s like a father figure and he’s going to be missed."

 

The game itself was never a classic encounter. Italy, aware that lapses in concentration had been its downfall earlier in the competition, set up to give nothing away. A cautious defensive approach, paying special attention to the pace of Nikolaj Ehlers, ensured that the squaddra azzurra remaining in contention for that vital victory. However, it limited opportunities at the other end, and too often the team fluffed its lines at the crucial moment.

 

Simon Kostner was the first to miss his chance inside the first five minutes. A breakdown in the Danish defence saw the puck come to Kostner as he stood all alone on Sebastian Dahm’s doorstep; the Italian failed to control it and the chance evaporated. Hesitancy also denied Raphael Andergassen midway through the second period after Giulio Scandella’s rush took him behind Dahm’s net. Andergassen collected his pass in a dangerous position, but took an extra touch and allowed Dahm to position himself for the block. Just as in its previous World Championship campaign in Minsk, Italy finished with a meagre six goals in seven games, clear evidence of where it needs to improve at this level.

 

However, in three games the Italians would have taken more points had they not conceded goals in final two or three minutes. Those late lapses cost a win over Slovakia in game one, and denied the team a shot at overtime against Latvia and again today. Scandella cut a frustrated figure at the end.

 

"We tried to work hard and get a goal when we needed it but that didn’t happen and the power play goal was the difference in the third," he said. "We played them close and tough so to lose a late one goal is not bad, but we always want better."

 

Denmark also had chances, with Ehlers’ speed frequently causing alarm in the Italian zone. Morten Madsen went close in the first period with a shot that looped off Andreas Bernard’s helmet and clipped the top of the goal frame before bouncing to safety. Madsen’s feed also presented Peter Regin with a big chance in the second period, but the Jokerit Helsinki forward poked wide of the target from close range.

 

"We wanted to make sure that we go into next year’s World Championship earning our place and we did that today," Poulsen concluded.

 

The third period saw Denmark generate more offence: Bernard finished with 37 saves to Dahm’s 14. And ultimately that pressure paid off as the Danes finished with a win and an emotional send-off for captain Green.

 

 

 

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Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Canada 5 - 0 Norway
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 2-0, 1-0
May 15th 2016, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

 

 

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Preliminary Round

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Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Canada 5 - 0 Norway
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 2-0, 1-0
May 15th 2016, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

Canada back on track

Norway couldn’t contain speed, lose 5-0

 

Canada made a full and impressive recovery from its overtime loss to the Swiss two days ago, pouring on the pressure and defeating Norway handily.

 

Tonight it was the power play that led the way, scoring four of the five goals. Defenceman Colton Parayko counted two of those.

 

Chad Johnson earned the easy shutout, stopping only ten shots (eight in the first, two in the second, and none in the third).

 

The win puts Canada back on top of the Group B standings, but as significantly the loss eliminates Norway from the quarter-finals. It can now finish no higher than fifth in the group.

 

Canada got off to a bit of a strange start. Ryan O’Reilly was awarded a penalty shot at 1:52 and fired high over the net, and at 4:39 Wayne Simmonds scored a nice goal only to have it waived off because the net was clearly off its moorings well before the puck crossed the goal line.

 

It wasn’t until 17:48 on a power play that Canada got one that counted. Brayden Schenn got to a rebound first and popped the puck in after Chris Lee’s point shot started the play.

 

Just 54 seconds later, on another power play, Colton Parayko wired a point shot that went all the way, beating Henrik Haukeland to the glove side.

 

Mark Scheifele added to the lead at 14:57 of the second, also on a rebound. Haukeland had trouble with a bouncing puck, and Scheifele had no trouble sweeping the loose puck in.

 

Parayko scored his second of the night on a virtually identical play to his first. On a power play, he stepped into a point shot and beat the goalie clean, this time over the shoulder.

 

O'Reilly made up for his penalty-shot miss by scoring on a one-timer from in close off a Scheifele pass on the power play at 17:20 of the third.

 

Canada finishes its round robin tomorrow with a late game against Finland. Norway plays the early game against Belarus.

 

 

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I really still can´t believe this goal..here the full video of the goal moment. dear lord, I watched so many hockey games but never saw nothing like this. this is so sad. I feel so sorry for Egger. I would have prefered Denmark score the empty netter but not this way...

 

Really I have bad feelings for Egger. Hopefully Italy will return stronger from this.

Don´t give up Italy. See you in Slovakia

 

https://streamable.com/lnrjc

 

 

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Results after 1st Period

 

Group A in Cologne
Russia - Latvia 2-0 (2-0,-,-)

12:10 Bogdan KISELEVICH 1-0

18:41 Ivan TELEGIN 2-0

Group B in Paris

France - Slovenia 0-0 (0-0,-,-)

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lol Dadonov what a miss

[phelps 8,302]

Ok, we don't belong to this level of hockey...

 

and our relegation was easily predictable well before the start of the World Champs...

 

but...c'mon, man! what a painful and undeserved way to leave the top class it was, today's match!

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8 minutes ago, phelps said:

Ok, we don't belong to this level of hockey...

 

and our relegation was easily predictable well before the start of the World Champs...

 

but...c'mon, man! what a painful and undeserved way to leave the top class it was, today's match!

 

I disagree, you belong there, with this team for sure. I liked your play more than the team from Minsk 2014.

 

Unfortunately there perhaps a problem with stamina..this is not normal to lose 3 matches (SVK, LAT and DEN) in the last 2 minutes...In all 3 games you fought for points 58 minutes and then came the colapse...the second problem was clearly the very low scoring efficiency, I thought we will have the lowest in the tournament but Italy was even worse...only 6 goals scored is very bad result...

 

Yes the Egger mistake is terrible and painful, even our commentators have been shocked and said they are sad for him...I feel so bad for him and that goal...but surely it was about bad ice, there were huge ice issues during the whole tournament in Lanxess this week...

 

all in all I liked your team and play here. will cheer you next year in Div IA.

See you in Slovakia "Blue team"

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Results after 2nd Period

 

Group A in Cologne
Russia - Latvia 4-0 (2-0, 2-0,-)

12:10 Bogdan KISELEVICH 1-0

18:41 Ivan TELEGIN 2-0

20:57 Vladislav NAMESTNIKOV 3-0

39:01 Nikita KUCHEROV 4-0

Group B in Paris

France - Slovenia 2-0 (0-0, 2-0,-)

28:20 Antoine ROUSSEL 1-0

31:08 Yohann AUVITU 2-0

 

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Final Results

 

Group A in Cologne
Russia - Latvia 5-0 (2-0, 2-0, 1-0)

12:10 Bogdan KISELEVICH 1-0

18:41 Ivan TELEGIN 2-0

20:57 Vladislav NAMESTNIKOV 3-0

39:01 Nikita KUCHEROV 4-0

53:17 Anton BELOV 5-0

Group B in Paris

France - Slovenia 4-1 (0-0, 2-0, 2-1)

28:20 Antoine ROUSSEL 1-0

31:08 Yohann AUVITU 2-0

44:01 Antoine ROUSSEL 3-0

44:25 Jan MURSAK 3-1

58:30 Antoine ROUSSEL 4-1