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Russia wins world hockey championships






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https://themoscownews.com/sports/20120521/189749287.html

Russia wins world hockey championships

by Evgeniya Chaykovskaya at 21/05/2012 13: 39

Russia won all 10 games at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Helsinki, the first country to do so since Soviet Union in 1989.

Slovakia, which won the world championship in 2002 at the expense of Russia, could not repeat the upset and was thrashed 6: 2.

The game started in the best possible way for the Slovaks, who went 1: 0 up one minute into the game after towering defenseman Zdeno Chara’s powerful shot from the blue line flew over Russian goaltender Semyon Varlamov’s shoulder in the far corner of the net.

That just seemed to make the Red Machine angry, and in the middle of the first period Alexander Syomin equalized after a beautiful pass from linemate Alexander Ovechkin.

Alexander Perezhogin increased Russia’s lead at 27 minutes, Alexei Tereshenko scored Russia’s third at 34 minutes, and Syomin got his second at 36 when he sent the puck in the top of the net after an assist from Pavel Datsyuk.

In the beginning of the third period Datsyuk added Russia’s fifth goal, and even Zdeno Chara’s second could not dampen the Russians’ spirits.

“We were disappointed to lose the game, but not in how we finished the tournament, ” Chara told IIHF.com. “It’s a privilege to play in the final and I tried to tell the guys to enjoy the moment. You never know when you get a chance to do that again.”

Evgeni Malkin was the last to score with less than two minutes on the clock, giving Russia a 6: 2 win and its third World Champions title in five years.

Before the final siren even sounded, the team mobbed Varlamov and started their celebrations. Legendary goalie and head of Russian Hockey Federation Vladislav Tretiak was giving out the medals and hugging the players.
“It was a good tournament for us, ” said Nikolai Kulyomin. “We played like a team, every game, every shift.”

“We were prepared for the final game, ” said Russia’s coach, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov. “I reminded my team that the Slovak team is very strong. It won against the Czechs, against Canada. We played really well throughout the whole championship.”

Long after the players boarded the plane to Moscow, celebrations were heard both in Helsinki and in Russia.

 

On the way to the final, Russia gave the hosts and defending champions Finland a battering in the semi-final on Saturday. After going 1: 0 down, the Red Machine got incensed and responded in style. Malkin tied the score at 15: 33, and then gave Russia the lead with 55 seconds left of the first period. In the middle of the second period the forward was injured and had to leave the ice to get treatment. Ovechkin scored a third in the middle of the second period, before Malkin returned to complete his hat-trick. One minute into the third period, Denis Kokarev made the score 5: 1, and Shirokov added a sixth. Finland forward Mikael Granlund scored the hosts’ second, but it was too little too late.

 

 


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