Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2018

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MEN'S

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2018

 

 

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Knock-Out Round

 

Semifinals

 

 Canada 2 - 3 Switzerland
Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-1, 1-1
May 19th 2018, h. 19:15, Royal Arena, Copenhagen

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

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Power Ranking

USA

 

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Since almost everything is clear in the IIHF ranking (the only question remains if USA will earn bronze and thus overpass Finland in the 4th place of the ranking) we have already the version of the preliminary round group for the next years world championships in Slovakia.

 

*Slovakia will be 10th in the tomorrows IIHF Ranking and will be seeded in the group by the schema 2-3-6-7-10-11-14-15 so it form a group with Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Latvia, Austria and Italy.

**BUT according to the really strong rumors that SVK will play in Košice, the organizing committee has possibilties to make some swaps in order to protect it´s marketing priorities, so by this logic it´s almost certain Austria and Czech Republic should be moved to Bratislava (near to their respective national borders) and by this replaced in the SVK group by USA (or if the Americans took bronze today) by Finland in the place of the Czechs and France in the place of Austria.

***BUT there also another option and also quite realistic, to just swap SVK with Norway and just change the groups from Košice and Bratislava.

 

Groups for next year as it stands by the newest IIHF Ranking  (0% chance)

 

A: Canada, Finland, USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, France, Great Britain

B: Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovakia, Latvia, Austria, Italy.

 

But very likely the groups will be as follows (after the swap of CZE + AUT to Bratislava for FIN/USA + FRA to Košice - if the rumors about Košice being the home venue of the Slovak NT  the preliminary round)  (50% chance)

 

Košice: Russia, Sweden, Finland or USA, Switzerland, Slovakia, Latvia, France, Italy

Bratislava: Canada, USA or Finland, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Great Britain.

 

or there another version posibility to just swap SVK to NOR so basically just swap the groups as they are from Bratislava and Košice:  (50% chance)

 

Bratislava: Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Norway, Latvia, Austria, Italy.

Košice: Canada, Finland, USA, Germany, Slovakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain

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Here we go, the Bronze Medal Match just started.

 

USA vs Canada for the very first time ever in a Bronze medal game at any High world competition level !

 

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Both teams already faced each other in Denmark, it was the opeing game of the Herning preliminary Round group and USA defeated Canada 5-4 after Penalty Shoot-Outs

 

Slovak Jozef Kubuš altogether with Kaukokari from Finland are the referees of this game, they will be assisted by Lhotský (CZE) and Suominen (FIN) as linesmens

 

Line-up of the Bronze medal match

 

USA: Kinkaid (Darling) – Martinez, McAvoy, Butcher, C. Murphy (A), Pionk, Jensen, Hughes – DeBrincat, White, P. Kane (C) – J. Gaudreau, Bonino, Atkinson – Kreider, D. Larkin (A), Lee – Milano, Coleman, D. Ryan – T. Thompson.

Canada: McElhinney (Kuemper) – Vlasic, Parayko, Edmundson, Ekblad, R. Murray, Nurse, Chabot – Nugent-Hopkins, McDavid (C), B. Schenn (A) – Beauvillier, Barzal, R. O'Reilly (A) – Horvat, Turris, Pageau – Jost, Jo. Bailey, Dubois – Eberle.

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Result after 1st Period

 

Bronze Medal Match in Copenhagen

United States - Canada  0-0 (0-0,-,-)

 

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So USA who scored the most goals in the tournament 42 goals scored in Herning is now 80 minutes scoreless in Copenhagen

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Chris Kreider power play goal opened the score and punished the 2 minutes Joel Edmundson minor penalty for roughing . 1-0 USA

 

 

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canada is the worst team , plzzz replace it by or  

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8 minutes ago, bestmen said:

canada is the worst team , plzzz replace it by or  

Worse than South Korea?