Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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Results after 2nd Period

 

Group A in Cologne

United States - Denmark  6-2 (3-1, 3-1,-)

05:37 Anders LEE 1-0

13:06 Clayton KELLER 2-0

16:10 Morten MADSEN 2-1

18:59 Johnny GAUDREAU 3-1

21:08 Nichlas HARDT 3-2

34:33 Clayton KELLER 4-2

37:09 Anders LEE 5-2

37:37 Brock NELSON 6-2

 

Group B in Paris

Finland - France  1-3 (0-1, 1-2,-)

14:17 Pierre-Edouard BELLEMARE 0-1

21:33 Mikko LEHTONEN 1-1

33:58 Antoine ROUSSEL 1-2

38:49 Valentin CLAIREAUX 1-3

 

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Final Results

 

Group A in Cologne

United States - Denmark  7-2 (3-1, 3-1, 1-0)

05:37 Anders LEE 1-0

13:06 Clayton KELLER 2-0

16:10 Morten MADSEN 2-1

18:59 Johnny GAUDREAU 3-1

21:08 Nichlas HARDT 3-2

34:33 Clayton KELLER 4-2

37:09 Anders LEE 5-2

37:37 Brock NELSON 6-2

53:00 Clayton KELLER 7-2

 

Group B in Paris

Finland - France  1-5 (0-1, 1-2, 0-2)

14:17 Pierre-Edouard BELLEMARE 0-1

21:33 Mikko LEHTONEN 1-1

33:58 Antoine ROUSSEL 1-2

38:49 Valentin CLAIREAUX 1-3

48:27 Antoine ROUSSEL 1-4

57:49 Damien FLEURY 1-5

 

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Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

United States 7 - 2 Denmark
Period-by-Period: 3-1, 3-1, 1-0
May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

 

 

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Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

United States 7 - 2 Denmark
Period-by-Period: 3-1, 3-1, 1-0
May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, LANXESS Arena, Cologne

 

Keller treble downs Danes

US youngster opens account in style

 

A hat-trick from 18-year-old Clayton Keller led team USA to its first victory in this year's World Championship, helping to defeat Denmark 7-2 in Cologne.

 

Clayton Keller, the youngest player on the team USA roster, grabbed a hat-trick to open his World Championship account in style and lead the Americans to a comfortable victory over Denmark.

 

Sunday's feat continued a remarkable season for the 18-year-old, who helped his country to World U20 gold in Canada earlier this season.

 

Keller also enjoyed a fine year for Boston University in the NCAA’s Hockey East section and won a contract with the Arizona Coyotes at the end of the campaign. Today he made his mark on the international stage as the Americans bounced back from an opening day loss to Germany.

 

"First and foremost, it was a good game for our team," Keller said. "As for me, it's always cool to score goals. That's what everybody wants to do. My line-mates made some great plays and I was fortunate to be able to put them in."

 

Keller’s first marker came with a wrister from the bottom of the circle to make it 2-0 in the 14th minute after Anders Lee opened the scoring on the game’s first power play. And the youngster was back on the scoresheet with a big rush down the right channel that saw him get in front of Matias Lassen and round Sebastian Dahm to make it 4-2.

 

His third of the game came on 53 minutes, and involved a slice of luck as he played the puck across the face of Dahm's net towards Andrew Copp. He never found that target; a Danish skate intervened and deflected the disc into the net.

 

Keller wasn’t the only USA player to shine. Goalie Connor Hellebuyck pulled off a couple of key saves, such as the first-period glove save that denied Morten Madsen a tying goal or the blocker save that pushed Morten Green’s shot onto the crossbar with the scores at 3-2.

 

Lee also produced. He delivered a close-range backhand to open the scoring and tucked away the rebound off Noah Hanifin’s shot as the USA tightened the screws in the back end of the second period. Within 30 seconds of that effort, Brock Nelson made it 6-2 and put the game out of reach of the Danes after Nick Schmaltz robbed Jesper Jensen and found a delicious feed that skipped between the goalie and D-man to tee up the team captain.

 

Denmark, sent spinning to a second defeat in Cologne, posed an intermittent threat. Madsen’s power play goal late in the first period, picking up on the rebound from a Nikolaj Ehlers shot, hauled the Danes back to 1-2. Then, after Johnny Gaudreau scored late in the first, Denmark replied early in the second through Nichlas Hardt when the USA was slow to clear its lines following a blast from Julian Jakobsen.

 

It wasn’t enough. A couple of big saves from Hellebuyck denied the Danes the chance to tie the scores before three goals in three minutes in the second period opened up a commanding lead.

 

Green, frustrated, said afterwards: "It felt like we were coming back when we were down 1-2 and then 2-3. But then they scored those quick goals out of nothing and all of a sudden it was game over.

 

"We played some good hockey at times, but it was too easy for them to score on us at important moments in the game."

 

With the result already clear, Denmark struggled to generate much in the final session. One power play aside, Jan Karlsson's team rarely found its way into US territory. The Danes now have a day to regroup before taking on Slovakia on Tuesday, with Patrick Russell insisting that things can improve. "This isn't the way we wanted to start," he said. "But we win as a team and I believe in this team, so I'm looking forward to the next game." 

 

The USA returns to the ice tomorrow with a showdown against Sweden - with Keller preparing to face his Arizona colleague Oliver Ekman-Larsson in his next battle.

 

"It's going to be a great test," he said. "Sweden's a good team with a lot of skill, and Oliver's an unbelievable defenceman. It's always cool to play against team-mates, or future team-mates, but I don't know if I can stop him ... he's a pretty good player!"

 

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Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)

Finland 1 - 5 France
Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-2, 0-2
May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

 

 

 

 

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Finland 1 - 5 France
Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-2, 0-2
May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris

 

France makes history!

Hardy, Roussel shine in first win ever vs. Finns

 

With a gritty, thrilling effort, host France upset Finland 5-1 on Sunday in Paris. It is the first French win over Finland in IIHF World Championship history.

 

In 2013, Florian Hardy backstopped France to a 2-1 stunner over Russia. The veteran EC Dornbirn goalie sparkled again here as Finland outshot the French 43-26, including a 20-6 gap in the third period. When Pierre-Edouard Bellemare was named France's Player of the Game, he insisted that Hardy take his place, to the absolute delight of the crowd.

"Our goalie was outstanding today, and that was the difference," said Kevin Hecquefeuille.

Skilled agitator Antoine Roussel paced the attack with two goals, including the second-period winner, and Bellemare chipped in a goal and an assist. Valentin Claireaux and Damien Fleury scored the other goals, and Anthony Rech had three helpers.

"We were in good spirits the whole game," said Roussel. "We kept it simple and took care of the small details today. Everyone worked hard. We have to keep this mentality going if we want to keep winning games."

 

Mikko Lehtonen replied for Finland. The loss revives pre-tournament fears that coach Lauri Marjamaki's team might not be able to score enough -- especially compared to last year's high-flying silver medal squad (37 goals in 10 games).

"They put pressure on us for 60 minutes and their goalie played well, but we didn't play as well as we can," said Finland's Sebastian Aho.

Previously, France had lost eight straight games to Finland, dating back to 1993. But the French are defeating more top nations in recent years. They also edged Canada 3-2 in a shootout to open the 2014 tournament in Belarus.

This is a huge boost for France's quarter-final hopes. The win was particularly impressive since France played without forward Stephane Da Costa, who scored both French goals in the opening 3-2 loss to Norway but is battling the flu. The Finns went without captain Lasse Kukkonen, who has a hand injury and has returned to Finland for evaluation.

 

The hosts struggled early on. They didn’t register a shot on goal for nearly six minutes. They also took back-to-back penalties, including a misconduct for unsportsmanlike conduct to Roussel after an exchange with Finland’s Atte Ohtamaa.

 

But the tide turned, and the French began to attack with speed. Bellemare opened the scoring at 14:17. With Finnish defenders collapsing on top of netminder Joonas Korpisalo, he harnessed a loose puck in front and roofed it. Tricolour flags waved everywhere as the packed AccorHotels Arena erupted.

"I'm sure they got some extra energy from the crowd," said Aho. "It was a great atmosphere."

 

Marjamaki's boys got a two-man advantage to close the period as Maurin Bouvet and Antonin Manavian took consecutive stick fouls. But there was nothing doing. Mikko Rantanen rang one off the iron, while Jordan Perret hobbled off after a gutsy shot-block.

"We blocked shots, had an excellent PK today," Roussel said. "It was huge."

 

With 18 seconds left in the opening stanza, Hardy made a dazzling Dominik Hasek-style save on Oskar Osala, flinging out his stick when the Finnish forward fired on a wide-open net. Osala raised his arms, sure he’d scored, but Hardy gathered the puck into his body with his blocker hand, and video review confirmed it never crossed the goal line. It was the save of the tournament so far.

 

At 1:33 of the second period, the Finns tied it up on Lehtonen’s blast from the blue line through traffic. In another era, they would have proceeded to take over the game.

 

Yet France regained the lead at 13:58. Bellemare stole the puck from Aho at centre ice and raced in to fire a high slapper. Korpisalo couldn’t control the rebound and Roussel banged it in.

 

With 1:11 left in the second period, France went up 3-1 on the power play. Standing in front, Claireaux redirected Jonathan Janil’s drive from the left point past the goalie.

 

Jesse Puljujarvi, the 19-year-old forward who keyed Finland to gold at both the World Juniors and U18 tournament last year, finally hit the ice in the third period after sitting on the bench during the opening 3-2 win over Belarus and the first two periods here. The big Edmonton Oilers prospect generated some excitement, but, unfortunately, no offence.

Roussel gave the French an insurmountable 4-1 lead when he got a breakaway from the French blueline and tucked a backhand between Korpisalo's pads at 8:27 of the third.

With Roussel in the box again -- he took 14 PIM on the night -- Marjamaki gambled, yanking Korpisalo for the extra attacker with over five minutes left. The move backfired when Fleury added an empty-netter at 17:49. The building shook as the French fans jumped up and down, shouting with pure joie de vivre.

"The atmosphere in the arena was something special today," said Hecquefeuille. "It's so fun to play at home in front of our families and friends and our fans. We don't feel the pressure. We want to enjoy this championship in France."

In the not-so-distant past, Finland had a pronounced influence on French hockey. Juhani Tamminen coached France at the 1995 and 1996 World Championships, while Heikki Leime held the reins at the 2002 Olympics and 2004 Worlds. Goaltender Petri Ylonen was a mainstay at the 1992 and 1994 Olympics and five Worlds.

 

But today, the French program leans on homegrown talent. And what a triumph this was in the city of the Arc de Triomphe.

 

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after watching today's Russian "lesson" to Italy, I thought: "God, bring us back to a 12-team Top Division Worlds"...

then, I saw the French guys...

but I didn't change my mind...it was only an unexpected and exceptional "accident" for the Finns...

@hckosice

by the way, it doesn't look that good for your guys...once you score a good goal, the refs don't even give you that...

 

 

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Results after 1st Period

 

Group A in Cologne

Latvia - Slovakia  1-0 (1-0,-,-)

10:24 Janis SPRUKTS 1-0

 

Group B in Paris

Norway - Switzerland  0-0 (0-0,-,-)

 

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14 minutes ago, phelps said:

@hckosice

by the way, it doesn't look that good for your guys...once you score a good goal, the refs don't even give you that...

 

yes, bad refereeing in that case, it was a heartbreaking period terrible start a major penalty then a 3-5 penalty, then we received a stupid unlucky goal, then we finally scored but the referee apparently whistled before the puck has passed the line... but well, no time to find cheap excuses, because in overall nothing changed, our play is very very bad. the problem is still the same, there no leader in this team, a guy who will lead the players.

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Results after 2nd Period

 

Group A in Cologne

Latvia - Slovakia  2-0 (1-0, 1-0,-)

10:24 Janis SPRUKTS 1-0

27:26 Zemgus GIRGENSONS 2-0

 

Group B in Paris

Norway - Switzerland  0-2 (0-0, 0-2,-)

32:04 Reto SCHAPPI 0-1

34:00 Cody ALMOND 0-2