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Successful penalty killing for SUI. 3 and half minutes to go..expecting the Canadian empty net soon

54th minute 1st power play for Canada ! Slovak referee Kubuš send Rod to the penalty box for 2 minutes for interference

Canada has always that marvelous skill and ability to make from the opponents goaltenders a total heroes

and btw shoots on goal so far in 3rd period 10-1 goals 0-1

47 minutes and still not a single penalty for Switzerland.

2nd power play goal for Switzerland. Now Gaetan Haas scored the goal deflecting the shoot of Andrighetto and punishing the 2min minor penalty of Nugent-Hopkins for hooking. 3-1 Switzerland

Result after 2nd Period Semifinal 2 in Copenhagen Canada - Switzerland 1-2 (0-1, 1-1,-) 18:41 Tristan Scherwey (Untersander / Kukan) 0-1 27:20 Bo Horvat (Dubois / Pageau) 1-1 29:40 Gregory Hofmann (Fiala / Andrighetto) 1-2

but honestly I must admit that I am not and never was their biggest fan, since many times they kicked us out with their tactical hockey, ehm...just like this year they denied us the play-offs but

Gaetan Haas power play goal 2-1 Switzerland...expecting another long mute minutes to come

Typical SUI match, following their national team hockey games is sometimes really painful to watch, the hockey "cattenaccio" they play like this for years...but if you are a fan of defensive hockey this is definitely the team to watch meanwhile it´s1-1 now Bo Horvat equalized the score, hopefully SUI will re-open the game now a bit

Result after 1st Period Semifinal 2 in Copenhagen Canada - Switzerland 0-1 (0-1,-,-) 18:41 Tristan Scherwey (Untersander / Kukan) 0-1

After 13 minutes of total borefest the game finally started a bit especially thanks the Swiss, they found themselves rewarded by the opening goal scored by Tristan Scherwey

Some huge surprises happened in our National trials, for example Matej Beňuš finished only 4th and will not be part of the C1 team for the upcoming European championships, the only positive thing for him is that we will use 4 athletes in this category at the world cup and so he still has chance to be part of the best three for the world championships in Rio. Much worse situation is for Andrej Málek in the K1 and the Hochschorner Brothers who finished 4th and will not compete in the very last race of this category at the next Europeans, so de facto the 3 times olympic champions and 2012 bronze medalists just finished their career... Team Slovakia for season 2018 M C1 Alexander Sláfkovský Michal Martikán Marko Mirgorodský + Matej Beňuš - will not be part of the team for the European championships, but thanks the fact we have 4 quotas in world cup, he´ll compete at all 5 stages and thus can still fight for a place in our team for the world championships M K1 Jakub Grigar Martin Halčin Jakub Stanovský M C2 (only for the European Championships in Prague, after the championship this event will be officially dismissed and is already not scheduled for the world cup and world championships) Ladislav Škantár / Peter Škantár Tomáš Kučera / Ján Bátik Matúš Gewissler / Juraj Skákala W K1 Elena Kaliská Eliška Mintálová Michaela Haššová (our best athlete in this category Jana Dukátová is pregnant and will miss this season) W C1 Monika Škachová Simona Maceková Soňa Stanovská

Final Result Semifinal 1 in Copenhagen Sweden - United States 6-0 (1-0, 3-0, 2-0) 14:43 Viktor Arvidsson (J. de La Rose / F. Forsberg) 1-0 27:09 Magnus Pääjärvi (Backlund) 2-0 30:05 Patric Hörnqvist (Backlund / J. Klingberg) 3-0 30:16 Mattias Janmark (Rakell) 4-0 51:07 Viktor Arvidsson (Zibanejad) 5-0 57:01 Adrian Kempe (Backlund) 6-0

Tennis bagel in Copenhagen... Adrian Kempe converting the nice pass of Backlund : 6-0 Sweden

USA trying the impossible and playing the empty net power play already 9 minutes to go...resulting in the 5th goal for Sweden Empty netter of Viktor Arvidsson 5-0

and unfortunately the rumors proved to be true...one of the best Ice hockey players in the history of Slovakia Marián Hossa has been forced to announce his definitive retirement, even if he still have 3 years contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, serious health issues forced him to officially close his career..https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/337721/je-to-definitivne-marian-hossa-sa-uz-na-lad-nevrati-stahuje-sa-na-slovensko/?AT=wgt.article_clanok-najcitanejsie.c.x...B. Thank you Legend ! for everything you did for our hockey and for our country. Marián Hossa tribute

Result after 2nd Period Semifinal 1 in Copenhagen Sweden - United States 4-0 (1-0, 3-0,-) 14:43 Viktor Arvidsson (J. de La Rose / F. Forsberg) 1-0 27:09 Magnus Pääjärvi (Backlund) 2-0 30:05 Patric Hörnqvist (Backlund / J. Klingberg) 3-0 30:16 Mattias Janmark (Rakell) 4-0

Another YUMMY action from Sweden Patrick Hornqvist converted with a great shoot the sublime action of Klingberg and Backlund to 3-0 followed in a couple of seconds (exactly 9 seconds) Mattias Janmark turned on his turbo and American goalie Kinkaid is ready for the bench...4-0 and immediate Timeout for Team USA...

Enormous mistake of DeBrincat on the offensive blue line during the last seconds of the powerplay and Sweden scored by a quick turnover the second goal of the game shorthanded goal of Magnus Pääjärvi 2-0 Sweden

blood on face meaning 2+2 min penalty for highsticking for Adam Larsson.

Result after 1st Period Semifinal 1 in Copenhagen Sweden - United States 1-0 (1-0,-,-) 14:43 Viktor Arvidsson (J. de La Rose / F. Forsberg) 1-0

Fantastic action on the axis De La Rose, Forsberg and Viktor Arvidsson opened the score 1-0 for SWE against USA

Strong rumors going that Slovakia will play all Preliminary Round matches in Košice because last time in 2011 they played in Bratislava, this time they want change it and bring the NT to the east part of the country. https://sport.sme.sk/c/20825220/slovensko-by-na-ms-v-hokeji-2019-malo-hrat-v-kosiciach.html After the quarterfinals it looks like we will have RUS, SWE ?, CZE, GER ?, LAT, SVK, AUT and ITA in the group Košice and CAN, FIN, USA ?, SUI ?, NOR, DEN, FRA, GBR in the group Bratislava but other rumors are saying that Austria will be seeded to Bratislava (so 80km from Vienna) and replaced by FRA in Košice. Pretty sure the same will happen with the Czech team, in this case it will be replaced by USA in Košice...but lets wait, everything will be official after the current tournament and we still have to wait for the final rankings of the 4 semifinalists here to know the real seedings of SWE, USA, SUI, GER

MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knock-Out Round SEMIFINALS SCHEDULE Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Sweden vs United States Period-by-Period: May 19th 2018, h. 15:15, Royal Arena, Copenhagen I Canada vs Switzerland Period-by-Period: May 19th 2018, h. 19:15, Royal Arena, Copenhagen