Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Preliminary Round

DAY 12

 

Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Canada 5 - 2 Finland
Period-by-Period: 3-1, 1-1, 1-0
May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

Group B Final Standing

 

Nation	P	W(OTW)	L(OTL)	GF	GA	+/-	Pt.
Canada	7	6(0)	1(1)	32	10	+22	19
Switzerland	7	5(2)	2(2)	22	14	+8	15
Czech Republic	7	5(2)	2(0)	23	14	+9	13
Finland	7	4(2)	3(1)	20	22	-2	11
France	7	4(2)	3(0)	23	19	+4	10
Norway	7	2(0)	5(2)	13	19	-6	8
Belarus	7	2(0)	5(1)	15	27	-12	7
Slovenia	7	0(0)	7(1)	13	36	-23	1

 

 

 

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Group B
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Canada 5 - 2 Finland
Period-by-Period: 3-1, 1-1, 1-0
May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

Canada takes first

Finns outhustled all night, lose 5-2

 

Canada finishes in first, Finland fourth. Canada will play Germany, the Finns will play the U.S. in the quarter-finals.

 

Mitch Marner, a natural passer of great skill but often reluctant shooter, scored two goals in the first period and assisted on another to lead Canada to an impressive win over Finland in the final round-robin game in Paris.

 

The win gives Canada six wins an an overtime loss to conclude the round robin while the loss leaves the Finns with a 2-2-1-2 record.

 

"I hope we’re peaking at the right time," said Canada's Matt Duchene. "This is the time to peak right now. We have three games left in our season and we want to make them count. We go 3-0 and we’ve got a three-peat here. It’d be huge."

 

"Our last two games were good," said defenceman Colton Parayko, who scored another goal on a rocket shot form the point tonight. "I thought we basically played two 60-minute games. This was a good test for us, a good way to go into the quarter-finals. We know it’s going to be a tough challenge no matter who we play. These are games that can go either way with one bounce, so we want to be on top of our game. We’re all clicking well, and I think we’ve done a good job."

 

"I think they’re really fast," Finn Valtteri Filppula said of the United States. "They play that North American style, and you can’t turn the puck over. They’re going to turn the puck quick and go the other way. It’s going to be tough to chase. We’ve got to play really close defensively, play well, and hopefully turn those things into offence. We'll make sure we get the pucks in deep every time and hopefully spend some time in their zone."

 

Teams combined for three goals in an 80-second span early in the first, after which Canada settled down and controlled play the rest of the night.

 

The Canadians played with an intensity the Finns couldn’t match, chasing down loose pucks, cycling, effectively, and fighting off checks to make plays. In short, the winners looked more intent on winning.

 

Marner opened the scoring at 2:46 on a beautiful play. Coming down on the right wing on a two-on-one, he waited for a Finnish defence man to slide, toe-dragged the puck to an open area, and beat goalie Harri Sateri to the near side.

 

Just 22 seconds later, though, Suomi tied the score when Cal Pickard couldn’t handle a shot and the puck dropped in the crease for Jani Lajunen to whip home.

 

The quick burst concluded with Marner making a nice drop pass to Colton Parayko, and he wired a wicked shot unobstructed past Sateri at 4:06 to give Canada a 2-1 lead.

 

Marner got his second goal and third point of the period at 13:45 off a beautiful spinning back pass by Mark Scheifele behind the goal line. The move surprised the Finnish defence, and Marner was wide open, sliding a shot between Sateri’s pads.

 

Canada kept up the intensity and puck pressure and made it 4-1 off a lucky play midway through the second period. Mike Matheson broke his stick after taking a shot from the point, but the puck bounced off the end glass and back into the crease. Brayden Point knocked it in before Sateri could figure out where the puck had gone.

 

Ate Ohtamaa gave the Finns some hope when he wired a shot over Pickard’s glove at 16:51.

 

Any hopes of that goal spurring a third-period comeback were thwarted 34 seconds into the final period when Matt Duchene went the length of the ice and beat Sateri with a nice deke to make it 5-2.

 

 

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Group A
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Sweden 4 - 2 Slovakia
Period-by-Period: 2-0, 1-1, 1-1
May 16th 2016, h. 12:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

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Belarus 4 - 3 Norway
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 2-1, 2-2
May 16th 2016, h. 12:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

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Russia 3 - 5 United States
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 2-3, 0-2
May 16th 2016, h. 16:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

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

 

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Germany GWS4 - 3 Latvia
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 2-1, 1-2, OT: 0-0, GWS: 1-0
May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

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Canada 5 - 2 Finland
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May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

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POWER RANKING

As of May 16th, 2017

 

The U.S. beat rival Russia 5-3 to enter the quarter-finals atop our sixth Power Rankings. Canada’s second, and the Swiss are third after downing the Czechs.

 

1.		United States:	Tonight, WE are the greatest hockey team in the world
2.		Canada:	Mr. Parayko? You’re hurting the net!
3.		Switzerland:	Ha ha! We used our secret goalie. Ha ha!
4.		Sweden:	Do Men Over 35 Stop Pucks Better?
5.		Russia:	That classified information was so bogus
6.		Czech Republic:	Now we’ve got Mother Russia issues
7.		Finland:	As long as we’re not playing Sweden in Helsinki, we’re good
8.		Germany:	Yay, we get to hear that "Playground" song some more!
9.		Latvia:	Wes deserveds as betters fates
10.		France:	Merci Cristo et Meun’s!
11.		Norway:	Obviously, we didn’t eat enough pickled herring
12.		Denmark:	That goal was The Ugly Duckling – but we’ll take it
13.		Belarus:	Like, dudes, the Soviet Union was totally better!
14.		Slovakia:	Being 14 means bad fashion choices and crying on your bed
15.		Slovenia:	As a hockey nation, we’re good at ski-jumping
16.		Italy:	Fellini’s lens caresses the tragedy as the puck slides in

 

 

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*The Power Rankings are for the enjoyment of IIHF.com readers, and reflect the progress of teams during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. They are distinct from the official standings and IIHF World Ranking.

 

 

[Finnator123 292]

I still don't get it what the **** was our Captain's "Misconduct" 
When Aho got the 2 min penalty over nothing, Kukkonen went to ask the refs what's going on. Kukkonen said to our media that refs basically said him to f***k off & gave the 10min penalty.