Ice Hockey 2015 - 2016 Discussion Thread

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Under 10, and we scored a goal. Good.

Our next game is much more important.

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Final Results

 

A

Kazakhstan - Russia  4-6  (3-3, 0-1, 1-2)

06:43 Yevgeni DADONOV 0-1

08:04 Dustin BOYD 1-1

09:02 Roman STARCHENKO 2-1

09:21 Roman LYUBIMOV 2-2

11:11 Sergei MOZYAKIN 2-3

19:43 Yevgeni RYMAREV 3-3

38:02 Anton BELOV 3-4

41:00 Maxim SEMYONOV 4-4

43:57 Anton BELOV 4-5

48:38 Roman LYUBIMOV 4-6

 

B

Hungary - Canada  1-7 (1-2, 0-4, 0-1)

05:54 Mark SCHEIFELE 0-1

10:04 Corey PERRY  0-2

18:14 Istvan BARTALIS 1-2

27:12 Mark STONE 1-3

29:05 Brad MARCHAND 1-4

31:36 Derick BRASSARD 1-5

32:45 Michael MATHESON 1-6

44:35 Taylor HALL 1-7

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Hungary - Canada  1-7

 

 

 

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Canadians triumph again

First goal for Hungary vs. Canada in 78 years

Canada's Taylor Hall #4 celebrates after Team Canada scores a first period goal on Hungary's Zoltan Hetenyi #29 during preliminary round action at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Championship.

 

 

Canada scored four goals in just over five minutes in the second period en route to a 7-1 thrashing of newly promoted Hungary on Sunday in St. Petersburg.

 

The defending champions showcased their balanced attack. Michael Matheson led the way with a goal and two assists. Mark Scheifele, Mark Stone, Derick Brassard, and Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist apiece. Captain Corey Perry and Brad Marchand added singles.

"We have to get a little bit better every period, every game," said Perry. "I thought we did that in the second and third."

Budding superstar Connor McDavid, a Calder Trophy finalist with the Edmonton Oilers, picked up his first two World Championship points, both assists.

Istvan Bartalis replied for Hungary.

Goalie Calvin Pickard won his IIHF World Championship debut for Canada, which outshot Hungary 36-22. The Canadians, who defeated the U.S. 5-1 in their opener, have outscored their opposition 12-2 through two games in Group B.

It was the fourth all-time World Championship meeting between these two countries. For Hungary, it was an improvement over their only previous modern-day encounter, a 9-0 loss on April 26, 2009 in Switzerland. Hungary fell 3-1 to Canada in 1933 and earned a 1-1 tie in 1938.

The Canadians were the favorites, but the Magyars were the crowd favorites at Yubileiny, with a massive bloc of chanting, clapping, drum-beating fans behind their team’s net for two periods.

"The Hungarian fans are crazy," said Perry. "They stayed with them the whole game."

As in the 4-1 loss to Slovakia, the Hungarians came out with a spirited effort. But they simply made too many mistakes against the skilled NHL stars.

Despite the victory, Canada also made some defensive errors, which could have proved costly against higher-caliber opposition, and will need to be corrected.

"Our special teams keep getting better and we’re tightening up defensively," said Hall. "It’s never going to be a perfect game, but we keep improving, and I like where our team is at."

Hungary got the first penalty when defenceman Kevin Wehrs, a naturalized Canadian, hooked Hall as he barreled to the net with a backhand. The Canadians capitalized with the man advantage at 5:54 on a nice passing play. McDavid fed the puck down to Stone, who centered it from behind the goal line to Scheifele, and he beat Hungarian starter Zoltan Hetenyi on the glove side.

At 10:04, Perry made it 2-0. Hall swooped in from left wing and handed him a nifty backhand feed that the Canadian captain tapped in at the side of the net.

"I’m having fun with my linemates," said Hall. "We have some good chemistry."

The Hungarian fans erupted when Istvan Bartalis cut the deficit to 2-1 at 18:14. Istvan Sofron’s forechecking caused defenceman Matt Dumba to cough up the puck, and Bartalis surprised Pickard with a high blocker-side shot from the faceoff circle. It was the first World Championship goal Hungary has scored on Canada in more than 78 years.

"They played really well in the first, trapping us in the neutral zone, waiting for us to force plays into the middle," Matheson said of the Hungarians.

Scrambly Canadian defence nearly led to the equalizer at the start of the second period. However, coach Bill Peters’ squad recovered, jumping into a 3-1 lead at 7:12. Stone jammed in the rebound from Cody Ceci’s center point drive.

Marchand notched the back-breaking 4-1 goal at 9:05 on a beautiful set-up by McDavid, who used his speed to surge past the Hungarian defenders and then backhanded the puck to his Boston Bruins linemate right in front.

At 11:36, it was 5-1 as Chris Tanev found an unguarded Brassard in front, and he whacked his second attempt past a sprawling Hetenyi.

Just over a minute later, Matheson got his first of the tournament, beating Hetenyi with a high shot from the faceoff dot. Matheson, a 22-year-old Florida Panthers prospect on defence, is the only Canadian player who spent most of this season in the AHL (Portland Pirates). After the goal, Hungarian coach Rich Chernomaz pulled Hetenyi in favor of backup Adam Vay.

"I thought we were able to adjust in the second period, and we capitalized on our opportunities," said Matheson.

In the third period, Hall stretched Canada's lead to 7-1 at 4:35, cutting in from the left side to slide the puck off a falling Hungarian defender and through Vay's legs. At the final buzzer, the 24-year-old Pickard scooped the puck up as a memento of his first victory.

Canada's next game is Monday versus Belarus. Hungary takes on France on Tuesday.

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Kazakhstan - Russia  4-6

 

 

 

 

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Russia gets on track

Kazakhstan puts up brave fight in loss

Russia's Yevgeni Dadonov #63 celebrates after scoring a first period goal against Kazakhstan's Vitali Kolesnik #20 while Vadim Kransnoslobodtsev #62 looks on during preliminary round action at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Championship.

 

 

Anton Belov had two goals and two assists to lead Russia to an important 6-4 win over a persistent Kazakhstan team. The teams combined for six power-play goals.

 

The Russian blueliner saved his best for last, scoring once and assisting on another in the third period to break a 4-4 tie.

 

Shots favoured Russia, 49-19, but the game was uncomfortably close for the hosts much of the time. Kazakhstan was, if nothing else, persistent and competitive for most of the game.

"Giving up four goals is a lot, and it’s impossible to be happy with my game after giving up so many," said Russian netminder Sergei Bobrovski. "But the most important thing is that we won, and we can move on to the next game."

"Our first game [against the Czechs] was really emotional," offered captain Pavel Datsyuk. "Today we were a bit calmer but we still made a lot of mistakes. When we started scoring we gained in confidence."

The game started with the wildest period of the tournament so far. Russia went ahead at 6:43 when Vadim Shipachyov made a nice pass to Yevgeni Dadonov charging to the goal. Dadonov made a nice redirect, and the puck squeezed through the pads of Kolesnik for 1-0 lead in front of a sold-out and boisterous Russian crowd.

 

That celebration was short-lived. Just 81 seconds later Dustin Boyd snapped a loose puck in during a power play, and 58 seconds after that the Kazakhs stunned the fans with a go-ahead goal from Roman Starchenko, whose great shot picked the corner over Bobrovski’s shoulder.

 

But Russia came right back, tying the game at 9:21 when Roman Lyubimov converted a nice pass from Sergei Kalinin on the right side. Four goals in 2:38, though, did not spell the end of the scoring.

 

Sergei Mozyakin drilled a point shot past Kolesnik at 11:11 during a 5-on-3 to put the hosts in the lead again, but with only 14.2 seconds remaining, and the Kazakhs on another power play, Yevgeni Rymarev made it 3-3 with a clever play.

 

Behind the Russian goal and seeing no play—they called it Gretzky’s Office back in the day—he flicked the puck in behind Bobrovski. He couldn’t elude the puck in time, and it bounced off the back of the goalie’s knee and in to score a 99-like goal.

 

And so concluded a crazy opening 20 minutes which saw three lead changes and six varied and entertaining goals.

 

The second period was the mirror opposite. While the Russians skated and moved the puck, the Kazakhs seemed content to try to play the game to a 3-3 tie. Most of the period was played in their end, and it seemed only a matter of time before the Russians scored. But the Kazakh defence was relentless, and Kolesnik sharp, until a late penalty gave the Russians an opening.

 

Much to the relief of the evermore anxious crowd, Belov’s point shot got through traffic and into the net at 18:02 to make it 4-3.

 

But the Kazakhs ended the period strongly and Boyd had a great chance to tie the game again. They drew a power play that carried over mostly to the third, and the North Americans converted.

 

Dawes moved the puck to Boyd who found Maxim Semyonov sneaking in the back side, and Semyonov made no mistake, making it 4-4 exactly 1:00 into the final period.

 

Russia took the lead again at 3:57 courtesy of another Belov point shot that tipped off a Kazakh stick in front and over Kolesnik's glove at 3:57 to bring the crowd back into the game.

Five minutes later, on another power play, a Belov point shot was deflected by Roman Lyubimov to give the Russians a two-goal lead for the first time.

"We had to play yesterday, and we couldn’t match the kind of speed we had in that game because there was hardly any recovery time," said Kazakh forward Yevgeni Rymarev. "It’s great playing in an arena like this where everyone is rooting against us. We don’t really hear much of what happens in the tribunes, but the atmosphere is great.

Russia plays Latvia tomorrow as part of the national May 9 celebrations while Kazakhstan has the day off before playing Norway on Tuesday.

 

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Well done guys 

 

 

[Finnator123 292]

Kazakhstan was amazing 

[Canada4thewin 90]

Woohoo very Well done Czech team

 

i know the feeling so sweet.

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Scores after 1st period

 

A

Norway - Switzerland  1-1  (1-1, -, -)

02:27 Samuel WALSER 0-1

14:07 Ken Andre OLIMB 1-1

 

B

Finland - Germany  2-0 (2-0, -, -)

06:22 Patrik LAINE 1-0

09:08 Leo KOMAROV  2-0