Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Result after 2nd Period

 

Semifinal QF4-QF1 in Cologne

Sweden - Finland 3-1 (1-1, 2-0,-)

01:49 Alexander EDLER 1-0

04:45 Joonas KEMPPAINEN 1-1

24:36 John KLINGBERG 2-1

34:52 William NYLANDER 3-1

 

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Final Result

 

Semifinal QF4-QF1 in Cologne

Sweden - Finland 4-1 (1-1, 2-0, 1-0)

01:49 Alexander EDLER 1-0

04:45 Joonas KEMPPAINEN 1-1

24:36 John KLINGBERG 2-1

34:52 William NYLANDER 3-1

53:52 Joakim NORDSTROM 4-1

 

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Finally back in the final! 

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Nicklas Backstrom + William Nylander

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Semifinals
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Finland 1 - 4 Sweden
Period-by-Period: 1-1, 0-2, 0-1
May 20th 2016, h. 19:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

 

 

 

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Semifinals
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Finland 1 - 4 Sweden
Period-by-Period: 1-1, 0-2, 0-1
May 20th 2016, h. 19:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

Sweden powers past Finns

Tre Kronor to battle Canada for gold

 

Sweden’s power play clicked twice in the second period en route to a 4-1 semi-final win over Finland. The Swedes will face Canada for gold on Sunday in Cologne.

 

It was a dominant performance for Sweden in this latest episode of the fabled Nordic rivalry on Saturday night. The underdog Finns worked hard, as they traditionally do, but were outsmarted and outskilled by their big-name opponents.

Sweden is now one win away from capturing its first IIHF World Championship gold medal since 2013, when it famously ended the 27-year-old “home ice curse” in Stockholm with a 5-1 victory over Switzerland. Dating back to 1953, the Swedes have won nine golds at this tournament. Defeating Canada, the two-time defending champions, will be a big challenge.

In goal, Finland’s Harri Sateri came to play, but the Vityaz Podolsk backstop couldn't win his duel with superstar Henrik Lundqvist. Shots on goal favored Sweden 41-23.

The late addition of Lundqvist from the New York Rangers and Backstrom from the Washington Capitals continues to pay off. Lundqvist, who led Tre Kronor to victory at the 2006 Turin Olympics, has won four straight starts and is hungry for his first IIHF World Championship gold medal. The 35-year-old has silvers from 2003 and 2004 -- the last two times Sweden played Canada in the final.

 

In front of 11,242 spectators, William Nylander led the way with a goal and an assist, while Alexander Edler, John Klingberg, and Joakim Nordstrom also scored for Sweden. Nicklas Backstrom added two assists. 

 

Joonas Kemppainen had the lone goal for Finland. The disappointed Finns, who settled for silver last year with a 2-0 final loss to Canada, still have a chance to medal for the second consecutive year when they take on Russia for bronze.

 

Despite not blowing most of their opponents out of the water, the Swedes have gotten stronger and stronger since early group-stage losses to Russia (2-1 in OT) and the United States (4-3).

 

Sweden has scored first in every game so far. Edler maintained that trend when Backstrom won a faceoff in the Finnish end and the Vancouver Canucks defenceman blasted it inside Sateri’s left post for a 1-0 lead at 1:49. It was Edler’s second of the tournament, as he also tallied in the 3-1 quarter-final win over Switzerland.

 

The Finns quickly tied it up on an Edler turnover. He tried to backhand it out up the middle and Kemppainen jumped on it and wristed it past Lundqvist at 4:45.

 

Emotions ran high as scrums broke out around both goalies. When Backstrom and Nylander worked a neat give-and-go off a Finnish giveaway, Sateri stood his ground on Nylander’s backhander and surrendered no rebound. The Swedes outshot Finland 11-5 in the first.

 

At 4:36 of the second period, Sweden grabbed a 2-1 lead on the power play with Finnish assistant captain Valtteri Filppula off for tripping.

 

Klingberg’s seeing-eye shot from the centre point whizzed high past Sateri. Battling to keep the game close, the Finnish netminder robbed Oscar Lindberg with his glove on a shot from the left faceoff circle.

With Jesse Puljujarvi in the box, the Backstrom-Nylander combo clicked at 14:52. The veteran centre found Nylander cruising in the slot, and he squeezed a high one home for a 3-1 lead. Sateri persevered during a late-period Swedish man advantage, stoning Nylander at the side of the net when he tried to finish off a tic-tac-toe passing play.

There was little hope of a third-period Finnish rally. Coach Lauri Marjamaki has a far less offensively stacked team than last year’s edition with Patrik Laine and Aleksander Barkov. The blue-and-white boys got just 20 goals in the preliminary round, compared to 29 in 2016.

In the first half of the third period, the biggest fireworks came when Anton Stralman laid out Finland's Mikko Rantanen at the Swedish blue line with a colossal bodycheck.

With 6:08 left, Nordstrom added some insurance with a short-side wrister to make it 4-1. The Finns pulled their goalie for the extra attacker with 2:07 left, but it was too little, too late.

 

Surprisingly, this was just the third time in history that Sweden and Finland have faced each other in the World Championship semi-finals since the IIHF inaugurated the playoff system in 1992. The Finns prevailed in the two-game format in 1999 in Norway, while Sweden blanked the Lions 3-0 in Stockholm in 2013.

 

 

 

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Semifinals
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Canada 4 - 2 Russia
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-2, 4-0
May 20th 2016, h. 15:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

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Finland 1 - 4 Sweden
Period-by-Period: 1-1, 0-2, 0-1
May 20th 2016, h. 19:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

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Knockout Round

 

Bronze Medal Match
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)
Finland vs Russia
Period-by-Period: -
May 21st 2016, h. 16:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

Spoiler

Gold Medal Match
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

  Sweden vs Canada
Period-by-Period: -
May 21st 2016, h. 20:45, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

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*Playing Format for the Gold Medal Match:

If after 60 minutes of regulation Time the score will be still tied in the Gold Medal game there will be a 20-minute sudden-death overtime period, following a 15-minute intermission during which the ice will be resurfaced.

The teams will change ends. (the Bronze Medal Game is played by same format as all previous KO phase matches so a 10 minutes "sudden death" overtime played by 4 skaters in both sides)

The Gold Medal Game overtime period shall be played with each team at the numerical strength of five (5) skaters and one (1) goalkeeper.

The team which scores a goal during this period is declared winner

If no goal is scored during the sudden-death overtime, there will be Penalty-Shot Shootout according to the Penalty-Shot Shootout Procedure.

five in playoff and medal games - will take alternate shots, until a decisive goal is scored.

If the game is still tied after five shots by each team, the shootout will continue with a tie-break shoot out by one player of each team, with a reversed shooting order. The same or new players can take the tie-break shots.

 

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POWER RANKING

As of May 20th, 2017

 

After a spirited third-period rally to beat Russia 4-2 in the semi-final, Canada sits first in our eighth Power Rankings. Sweden is second and Russia is third.

 

1.		Canada:	Russia, you don’t scare us with your fancy goals
2.		Sweden:	Kneel before Nylander!
3.		Russia:	Bear bites beaver, beaver eats bear
4.		Finland:	You laugh, but we try hard in bronze games!
5.		United States:	Hey, there’s 5 million Finns and only 320 million of us
6.		Switzerland:	Sixth in hockey, first in yodeling
7.		Czech Republic:	Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
8.		Germany:	Give Grubauer whatever kind of massage he wants
9.		France:	Asterix skating to AC/DC > the Mona Lisa
10.		Latvia:	In 2021, we’ll win gold as the LOUDEST host nation!
11.		Norway:	Has Jonas Holos ever met Jenni Hiirikoski?
12.		Denmark:	Is it weird Korea’s coming here but we’re not going there?
13.		Belarus:	We’ll do ANYTHING to get the attendance record back!
14.		Slovakia:	God, it’s been years since we lost a quarter-final
15.		Slovenia:	Anze? Have more babies!
16.		Italy:	Does anyone have Enrico Ciccone’s phone number?

 

 

 

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