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UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finland - Switzerland 2-0 HIGHLIGHTS

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USA - Canada 3-1 HIGHLIGHTS

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweden - Czech Republic 5-2 HIGHLIGHTS

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russia - Slovakia 2-0 Russia takes 3rd place 2-0 win over Slovakia sets up date with Danes Russia and Slovakia played the final IIHF game of 2016 in the final group game of the U20s, beating Slovakia 2-0 to complete the round-robin stage of play. Ilya Samsonov stopped 16 shots for the shutout. It was a tame game which saw only five minor penalties called (three to Slovakia). The result means that the quarter-finals include the Russians playing Denmark in Toronto at 1:00pm while Slovakia will now travel to Montreal to play Sweden at 3:30pm on the same day. "We wanted to win and give our fans a little gift for New Year's," a playful Mikhail Sergachyov said. "We got a lot of pucks on net and our power play was working, but our defensive play wasn't that good." Despite the fact that almost the entire first period was played in the Slovak end, the game was scoreless after 20 minutes. While the Russians were the faster and more skilled team, the underdogs did a great job of keeping them to the outside and limiting dangerous scoring chances. Russia came close to the first goal midway through the second when captain Kirill Kaprizov fed a nice pass to Mikhail Vorobyov in full flight, but Vorobyov’s shot rang off the post. Moments later, Marek Sloboda took an unnecessary tripping penalty deep in the Russian end, and this time the Russians made no mistake. Denis Guryanov snapped home a loose puck from a scramble in the slot at 9:06. Slovakia had its best chance to score early in the third when the Russians incurred their first penalty of the game. Vorobyov was called for a hook deep in the Slovak end, but the ensuing man advantage was of little benefit for the Slovaks and the score remained 1-0. The Russians doubled their lead at 9:39 off the rush. The puck ended up in the corner where Kirill Urakov made a nice pass in front to Yakov Trenin. Trenin fired a quick shot to the far side, past the outstretched blocker of Matej Tomek. "We're getting better every game," Sergachyov said. "We are mostly from the KHL, so it's taking a bit of time to get used to the smaller ice. But we're happy where we are. But we have to be better in our own end against Denmark."

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russia - Slovakia 2-0

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finland - Switzerland 2-0 Finns blank Switzerland Swiss face U.S. in QF, Finland plays relegation With a 2-0 loss to Finland, the Swiss came fourth in Group A and will face the U.S. in the quarter-finals. The Finns take on Latvia in the relegation round. This New Year’s Eve tilt only affected Switzerland’s quarter-final seeding. Relatively speaking, their tournament is already a success. After finishing ninth the last two years, they have a shot at medalling for the first and only time since 1998’s bronze. The Swiss, who now head to Toronto, are playoff underdogs. They have an all-time record of zero wins, two ties and 20 losses versus the Americans. The Finns have fared abysmally at the Bell Centre. They came in as defending champions, but were eliminated from quarter-finals contention when Switzerland beat Denmark 5-4 in a shootout. Compounding the shock, the Finnish federation then relieved head coach Jukka Rautakorpi and his assistants of their duties. New Finnish coach Jussi Ahokas made his World Junior debut against Switzerland, assisted by Tommi Niemela and goalie coach Aki Naykki. Ahokas, who had done commentary for Finnish TV network YLE at this tournament, was originally slated to take over the World Junior team at the 2018 tournament in Buffalo, New York. He led Finland to U18 gold in April. Finland's best-of-three relegation series versus Latvia kicks off on Monday. It's the first time in history that a defending World Junior champion has had to play relegation games. The Latvians, who have a 6-29 goal differential, are at their sixth elite World Juniors of all time. Twice they have avoided relegation, finishing eighth in 2009 and ninth in 2012. Versus Switzerland, Aapeli Rasanen and Eeli Tolvanen notched a goal and an assist apiece. Final shots on goal favored Finland 51-17. Finnish goalie Veini Vehvilainen got his second career World Junior shutout. Swiss captain Calvin Thurkauf returned to the lineup after serving a one-game suspension for slewfooting Sweden's Rasmus Dahlin. Yannick Zehnder, who scored twice against Denmark, sat out due to illness. Finland outshot Switzerland 17-8 but couldn't click on two power plays in a scoreless first period. Arttu Ruotsalainen hit the crossbar early in the second period. At 4:35 of the second, Finland’s top line finally broke through. Rasanen went to the net and fluttered a Tolvanen rebound over Swiss goalie Joren van Pottelberghe to make it 1-0. It was the first time Finland had scored since Rasanen's first-period goal in the 3-1 loss to Sweden. At 13:53, Tolvanen gave Finland a 2-0 lead with his power-play one-timer. With under three minutes left in the second, Tolvanen was barely stopped by the overworked van Pottelberghe on a breakaway. The Finns finished group play with just six goals. Their lowest-scoring World Juniors ever was also here in Montreal. In 2015, under coach Hannu Jortikka, they totalled eight goals in five games, losing 6-3 to Sweden in the semi-finals.

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finland - Switzerland 2-0

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USA - Canada 3-1 USA ends NYE drought Nerves, special teams Canada’s undoing The United States put on a shot- and pass-blocking clinic in defeating Canada, 3-1, this afternoon at the Air Canada Centre to claim first place in Group B. The result marked the first New Year’s Eve victory for the U.S. over Canada in 18 years, a streak of seven games (six losses, one tie). The U.S. was full measure for the win, playing with greater confidence and surety, capitalizing on early power plays, weathering the storm when Canada turned on the heat, and getting better goaltending at crucial moments from Joseph Woll than that provided Canada by Connor Ingram. The Americans silenced the crowd early with two quick power-play goals. The first came at 4:31 on a play around the goal. Jordan Greenway feathered a nice pass from the corner to Colin White, and his quick shot beat Connor Ingram to the far side. Just a minute and a half later, after a lazy kneeing penalty by Philippe Myers, Greenway walked out form the corner and tucked the puck between Ingram’s pads, a soft goal, to be sure but a great burst of speed from the American forward. Later in the period Canada had a great chance t get on the board thanks to a two-man advantage for 47 seconds, but it got nary a decent shot off during the power play. Canada had another great chance early in the second when Luke Kunin took a five-minute major (and game misconduct) for interference, followed by another minor soon after, giving the home side a two-man advantage for 1:48. This time they connected. Thomas Chabot got a rebound to the back side of the net and drilled it in before Joseph Woll could get over. This started several minutes of intense pressure, but Canada couldn’t get the equalizer and the visitors silenced the crowd with a goal off a juicy rebound from Ingram. This time it was Jeremy Bracco who found the back of the net to make it a 3-1 game.

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USA - Canada 3-1

and it´s the end of the olympic year 2016, a very very succesful one for Slovakia with 4 olympic medals 2 of them golds, first historic football EURO participation with qualification for the second round and many others great achievements and results, wish the next year will be even better for our sport. a happy one for our forum and very succesful for all you members of the Totallympics community. Happy and successful New Year 2017 everybody !!! Šťastný Nový Rok 2017 !!!

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweden - Czech Republic 5-2 Fourth straight Swedish win Dahlen's hat trick leads Sweden over Czechs Jonathan Dahlen starred with a hat trick as Sweden beat the Czech Republic 5-2 to complete a perfect round-robin. Goalie Filip Gustavsson debuted with a win. In Monday’s quarter-finals, Sweden will face the loser of the Russia-Slovakia game in Montreal. Topping Group A with 12 points, Sweden is questing for its first gold medal since 2012 and first medal of any shade since 2014's silver. The Czechs last won gold in 2001 and haven't won anything since 2005's bronze. This was a battle of back-up goalies. Gustavsson, who was named Best Goalie at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship en route to silver, made 36 saves to triumph in his first World Junior game. The Czech Republic’s Daniel Vladar had 33 saves. Other scorers for Sweden were Rasmus Asplund, who chipped in a goal and an assist, and Jens Looke, who had a single. Team points leader Alexander Nylander earned two helpers. David Kase replied with a goal and an assist for the Czech Republic, and captain Filip Hronek also scored. The Czechs had an up-and-down round-robin. After upsetting defending champion Finland 2-1 in the opener, they lost two games in extra time to underdogs, 4-3 to Switzerland and 3-2 to Denmark. The Swedes clearly had no intention of letting the Czechs finish second in the group. On a 2-on-1 rush, Asplund went to the net and banged in a rebound to open the scoring at 0:37. The Swedish assistant captain continued to make noise, laying out Kase with a big neutral-zone hit that had the Bell Centre crowd gasping. Kase came close to equalizing when he shoved a puck through Gustavsson’s legs, but it trickled harmlessly past the post. On Sweden’s first power play of the game, Asplund maintained his hot hand, sending a lovely pass from the right faceoff circle to Dahlen, who directed the puck past Vladar at 8:56. The 3-0 goal showed that this just wasn’t the Czechs’ day. Czech forward Lukas Jasek went to the net to clear away the loose puck on a Swedish rush and it deflected into his own net off his right skate at 16:46. Looke, a three-time World Junior participant, got credit for his first goal of the tournament. Early in the second period, Swedish forward Tim Soderlund was shaken up when he slid hard into the boards on a shorthanded rush. However, the 18-year-old Skelleftea forward would return to action. On this Czech man advantage, Gustavsson made a pair of dazzling close-range saves to preserve his team's commanding lead. With 2:51 left in the middle frame, Dahlen fought off defenceman Jakub Zboril's checking to push a backhand deke past Vladar for a 4-0 lead. Filip Ahl nearly added Sweden's fifth goal just before the buzzer when he rang one off the iron. In the third period, Dahlen completed his hat trick at 3:34 on the power play, as he skated out of the corner along the goal line and squeezed another backhander in. The Czechs spoiled Gustavsson's shutout bid at 13:09 with Kase's jammed-in goal. Hronek cut the gap to 5-2 on the power play at 17:28, but it was too late for a miraculous comeback. Gabriel Carlsson, who played a team-leading 20:53 on defence in Sweden's 3-1 win over Finland, sat this game out. Sweden has now won 40 consecutive World Junior group games. The Juniorkronorna's last round-robin loss was on 31 December 2006 when Jack Johnson scored at 3:16 of overtime to give the Americans a 3-2 win in Leksand, Sweden.

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweden - Czech Republic 5-2

Nothing, he just DNS, as one of the world cup top 10 he is automatically pre-qualified. It´s his right to save some energy for tomorrow and DNS in the qualifiers.

Nilsson and Ustiugov win opening stage of Tour de Ski Stina Nilsson (SWE) and Sergey Ustiugov (RUS) have won the opening stage of the 11th FIS Tour de Ski. Both athletes were untouchable in the 1.5 km free technique sprint competition. They were each the fastest qualifiers of the day and in the end the best on the day. Following Nilsson onto the ladies' podium was a pair of Norwegian athletes. Maiken Caspersen Falla took second place +2.48 seconds off the lead with Heidi Weng in third +6.47 seconds back. Nilsson and Falla have now won the last 9 sprint competitions the longest streak ever between two athletes in the sprint event. Nilsson will carry a +10.7 second lead into tomorrow's stage two 5km mass start in classic technique. Weng sits 3rd in the standings +16.6 seconds back. There will be bonus seconds available for the ladies on the first lap for the first 10 athletes and again in the finish for the top 3. Italy's Federico Pellegrino followed Ustiugov on to the podium in second place today for his first podium of the season. He finished +2.03 second back just ahead of Norway's Finn Haagen Krogh who was +2.80 behind the Russian. Ustiugov now leads the Tour after one stage by +8.2 seconds. Tour favourites along with Ustiugov will have some time to make up over the coming stages. Krogh sits in 3rd place +13.8, Martin Johnsrud Sundby in 4th (NOR) +17.0, Alex Harvey (CAN) in 6th +27.6 and Dario Cologna (SUI) in 13th +47.9. The men will be back in action tomorrow on stage 2 with a 10 km mass start classic with bonus seconds available on lap 2 of 4 and in the finish like the ladies. Full Results Women and Men

newest episode of the telenovela http://trib.com/sports/hockey/nhl-still-searching-for-reason-to-play-at-winter-games/article_83d311db-f177-5f1f-8c74-5e93569020e3.html they are searching for a reason to play...lol

4 Hills Tournament Stage 2 Garmisch-Partenkirchen KO Round Starting Order Q Athlete Pairing Athlete Q 26 Robert JOHANSSON 1 Anze SEMENIC 25 27 Mackenzie BOYD-CLOWES 2 Andreas WANK 24 28 Taku TAKEUCHI 3 Jernej DAMJAN 23 29 Daiki ITO 4 Florian ALTENBURGER 22 30 Kevin BICKNER 5 Karl GEIGER 21 31 Antti AALTO 6 Severin FREUND 20 32 Evgeniy KLIMOV 7 Jakub JANDA 19 33 Anders FANNEMEL 8 Stefan HULA 18 34 Pius PASCHKE 9 Dawid KUBACKI 17 35 Roman KOUDELKA 10 Andreas WELLINGER 16 36 Denis KORNILOV 11 Andreas KOFLER 15 37 Lukas HLAVA 12 Cene PREVC 14 38 Simon AMMANN 13 Vincent DESCOMBES SEVOIE 13 39 Jurij TEPES 14 Richard FREITAG 12 40 Dimitry VASSILIEV 15 Andreas STJERNEN 11 41 Markus SCHIFFNER 16 Peter PREVC 10 42 Jan ZIOBRO 17 Stephan LEYHE 9 43 Tom HILDE 18 Daniel Andre TANDE 8 44 Halvor Egner GRANERUD 19 Michael HAYBOECK 7 45 Constantin SCHMID 20 Piotr ZYLA 6 46 Vojtech STURSA 21 Maciej KOT 5 47 Ryoyu KOBAYASHI 22 Domen PREVC 4 48 Jarkko MAEAETTAE 23 Manuel FETTNER 3 49 Noriaki KASAI 24 Stefan KRAFT 2 50 Kamil STOCH 25 Markus EISENBICHLER 1

Spengler Cup, Team Canada won the prestigious 90th edition of the Spengler Cup in Davos, in todays New Years Eve Final the "European" Canadians won against HC Lugano from Switzerland 5-2. Team Canada won the Spengler Cup for the 14th time in history.

nah, it was just about luck usually I am a pretty unlucky guy when it come to games

Drastic way to solve problems unprecedented act in the mid tournament in world hockey history

Under 20 Top Division World Championships in Canada Day 6 Schedule (31st December 2016) (GMT -5) Group A (in Montreal) 13:00 Sweden vs Czech Republic - Sweden is already the Group winner, Czech Republic will fight for 2nd place, in case of Regulation Time win the will be 2nd for sure, in case of OT/GWS win they will need a help from Finland in the last this group match, 17:30 Finland vs Switzerland - Last match of the preliminary round Group A, Finland is already send downto the relegation round, so this match hasn´t any special matter for them, Switzerland still can dream about 2nd place in group in case of win and help of Sweden. Group B (in Toronto) 15:30 USA vs Canada - The traditional sweet cake of the New Years Eve day in hockey world, the battle of North America, once again it will be a direct match for 1st and 2nd place of the group between both undefeated teams so far. 20:00 Russia vs Slovakia - The Last match of the preliminary round. Direct game for 3rd and 4th place of the group...or in short, the game for avoid still unbeaten Sweden in the Quarterfinals.

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slovakia - Latvia 4-2 HIGHLIGHTS

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Switzerland - Denmark 5-4 after GWS HIGHLIGHTS

UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slovakia - Latvia 4-2 Slovakia avoids Finns Latvia loses, 4-2, moves to daunting relegation Slovakia played its best and most inspired game of the tournament, putting 36 pucks on net and skating to a crucial 4-2 win over Latvia. The win gives the Slovaks three points in the Group B standings and means tomorrow's game against Russia (also with three points) doesn't have relegation-round implications. The Latvians have finished the group stage with no wins and zero points and will now face Finland in a best-of-three relegation-round series. "It was a tough start," captain Erik Cernak admitted, "but we played really well after that. We dominated, really. We were stronger on the puck and pressured them a lot. We knew we had to win. I'm very happy right now." "They were the better team," affirmed Latvian captain Kristaps Zile. "We can do better, and we'll keep our heads high. Finland is a great team, but it's not impossible to beat them. We'll do our best." It was a big game on the calendar all along, but soon after the opening faceoff it got even bigger. It was about that time that Switzerland defeated Denmark in a shootout in Group A in Montreal, sending Finland to the relegation round. "We were watching the game before we went out and during the first period as well," said Milos Roman, who was dominant tonight with a goal and an assist. "We knew if we won tonight, we'd be in the quarter-finals, which was our ambition all along." That, in turn, meant that the loser of today’s game at the ACC would face the daunting task of having to defeat last year’s gold medallists twice in three tries to avoid being relegated for 2018. Slovakia responded, peppering two Latvian goalies with 36 shots while surrendering only 24. Latvia struck first, scoring just 3:40 into the game when a Karlis Cukste point shot drifted and dipped as it reached the net. The trajectory fooled Adam Huska and it slipped through his pads and in. "That was their first shot on goal" Milos Roman said, "so we weren't nervous at all at that point. We knew we'd be the better team, and we scored soon after." Indeed, four and a half minutes later the Slovaks got the equalizer thanks to some hustle by Milos Roman. Goalie Mareks Mitens had played the puck behind the net, leaving it for defenceman Tomass Zeile, but Roman pressured Zeile into making a bad pass. The puck came right to Filip Lestan, and he found the net before Mitens had a chance to get square in the crease. Most of the second was dominated by the Slovaks, who were the more determined side. They got to the loose pucks, moved up ice with confidence, and generated double the shots of the Latvians. It wasn’t until 18:11 that they were rewarded, though. Milos Roman won a faceoff in the Latvian zone and went to the net. A point shot by Michal Roman was blocked in front, but Milos knocked in the rebound to give Slovakia a huge 2-1 lead heading to the dressing room. "I won the faceoff and my brother took a quick shot from the point. Our wingers checked their men, leaving some space in front for me when the puck came free," Milos described. Continuing where they left off, the Slovaks added a third goal just 41 seconds into the third off a point shot from Andrej Hatala that beat Mitens cleanly. They got an insurance goal at 5:01 on another long shot, this from Milos Roman, that was redirected by a Latvian player in front of the goalie to make it 4-1. Latvia had a two-man advantage later on, converting at 13:29 as Filips Buncis swatted home a loose puck from the crease, but it was too little too late.