Kosice. Canada – Switzerland – 3:2 FROM. 66-I minute. Only mark STONE scored the winning goal. Photo: Reuters

The first semi-finals failed. Team USA, having failed meeting with Russia, still gave her a fight, though eventually conceded.

And the ending of regular time of the match Canada – Switzerland is fantastic….

1/4 finals

CANADA – SWITZERLAND – 3:2 FROM (0:1, 1:1, 1:0, 1:0)

Goals: Andrighetto – 3 (Bal., Diaz, Fiala), 18:06 – 0:1. Stone 6 (Fabbro, Dubois), 25:45 – 1:1. Hiser – 4 (Bal., Marchini, Niederreiter), 39:57 – 1:2. The Syverson – 1 (Stone), 59:59 – 2:2. Stone – 7 (Dubois, Theodore), 65:07 – 3:2.

Goalkeepers: Murray (57:52 – 59:59) – Genoni.

Throws: 42 (12+7+20+3) – 24 (5+9+6+4).

Penalty: 6 – 2.

Judge: Franc (Czech Republic), Rantala (Finland).

May 23. Kosice. Steel Arena. 6157 viewers.

Last year, the Swiss outplayed Canada in the semifinals. They have almost the same team. The “maple” as usual, every year a new composition. Almost no one doubted that the second time overseas comrades on the same rake did not come. Although the Swiss looked very well. They skate well, they are good with the puck. More technically, combinational play, than Canadians. Even before the playoffs have intensified – come forward of “Carolina” Nino Niederreiter.

The Swiss began surprisingly active, and at the very beginning of the game the referee had to watch the video, figuring out whether the puck crossed the line after attempting Niederreiter completing only the second match for the national team after an emergency arrival from overseas, to push it into the goal. Not crossed. But when Canadians held the first elimination, it was all legal. Throw Sven Andrighetto with the left-back position closed each other, the goalkeeper of Canadians Murray just yawned.

The Canadians equalized early in the second peri ode. Spent a positional attack, Dante Fabbro clicked from the blue line, and mark stone from the slot who flicked the puck into the goal. And yet the second time the “maple” went losing. Must have been tough to pass the puck for 3 seconds before the end, but it just happened. Whether still will be… Niederreiter from the starboard side flicked on goal, the puck flaps from Murray bounced to the far post where Hiser added it to the target.

The entire third period, the Canadians were storming the gates of Leonardo Genoni, and firing at them from different distances, and just throwing the puck to the slot to compete for it. For three and a half minutes crack at the Canadians. After throwing Severson the puck was stuck in front of the bared gate, but none of the Canadians to it.

Their goalkeeper played took more than two minutes before the siren. The Swiss has twice managed to throw the puck out of the zone, and once she nearly crawled into the opponent’s net. The final face-off for 19 seconds before the end of the period. Three shots managed to make the guys in the red sweaters during this time. The last one was fatal for the European team. The puck landed in the shoulder Genoni, flew over him and slowly crawled into the gate, breaking the line with Serena.

The joy of Canadians was unbounded, but then the emotions nearly cool the arbitrators conceived, and has not expired. Something that reminds a disallowed goal against Manchester city in the Champions League match with “Tottenham”. Well, in hockey your OPTIONS for a long time. Slow motion replay: the puck flies, and then crawling on the ice, and the stopwatch counts down tenths of a second. Only 0.3 seconds separated Switzerland from semi-finals!

Overtime is now played in the format of three-on-three. At first the chances of Swiss. Fiala drove around rivals on the turn, and just a little bit it was not enough to shift the puck under the comfortable arm. And then beat the Canadians. Surprisingly just scored. Pierre-Luc Dubois easily escaped from Niederreiter and delicately put the washer to the hook the stone in front of which remained empty corner. The Swiss fell on the ice, and the Canadians povyskakivali from the bench…

 

US – RUSSIA – 4:3 (2:0, 0:1, 2:2)

Goals: Gusev – 4 (Sergachev, Kucherov), 1:07 – 1:0. Sergachev – 1 (Bal., Gusev), 15:47 – 2:0. Shay – 2 (Kane, Godro), 22:22 – 2:1. Whims – 2 (Gusev, Sergachev), 41:31 – 3:1. Hanifin – 1 (D. Hughes), 45:53 – 3:2. Grigorenko – 3 (Malkin, Evgeny Dadonov), 47:02 – 4:2. Debrincat – 7 (Kane, D. Hughes), 57:10 – 4:3.

Goalkeepers: Vasilevsky – Schneider (56:45 – 57:10, 58:23 – 59:37, 59:47).

Throws: 43 (17+15+11) – 32 (9+12+11).

Penalty: 2 – 2.

Referees: Bjork (Sweden), Huene (Canada).

May 23. Bratislava. “Slovnaft-Arena”. 9085 spectators.

From the second match of the sensations was not expecting. Although the Olympic champion from Kiev Alexei Zhitnik warned: “the North American teams at the world Championships traditionally are configured in a circular game. The playoffs is in their blood, but the matches that do little to solve the many oppressed. As the North American theatre of the world championship starts in Europe with the bar”.

The beginning of the match between Russia and the United States presaged an easy victory for the Russians. Repulsed the first attack stars and stripes, they are like most Americans besieged gates. In the end, the Sergachev got the puck on the blue line and immediately struck a powerful shot. Schneider shot captured, but then lost sight of the puck, unlike Gusev, who shot into an empty net for the Americans.

That second goal really was in the majority. Gusev again rolled back on Sergacheva and the powerfully clicked from a distance! The puck bounced off Icela flew into the far “nine”.

Not without a deflection in the goal by the Americans. Brady Shay got the puck at the blue line and threw in a touch. The puck bounced off a Russian defender and into the net. Vasilevsky did not react. Most importantly, after that it became clear that the easy life of the favorite, which was wards Ilya Vorobiev will not. And so it happened. Russia won, but the Americans fought to the end.

Eugene BELOZEROV, Sport-Express in Ukraine