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Hockey December 31, 2015, Thursday. 17:25
beaten Slovaks, for the first time since 2007, the Russian team advanced to the quarterfinals MCM out of first place in the group, which will be waiting for the Danes.
Slovaks had nothing to lose
The final match in the group stage for the Russian national team was very important from the standpoint of the tournament situation. The winner of the group with a probability of 99 percent would fall to the Danes, but it is better than playing with Canada, Sweden or the United States.
10 ?? Louth (Mikulovich, Provorov) ?? 15:29.
2 0 ?? Rykov ?? 29:12.
2 1 ?? Jaros (Sukel) ?? 35:50 (4×4).Goalkeepers: Georgiev ?? Guska.
PIM: 14 (6-6-2) ?? 8 (0-4-4).
«Game unhappy, but the main thing – the result today. Now take some rest, we get ready. I think the other team on the Slovaks will come at all. The fight for first place? There Danes, right? Three teams and Denmark, there is probably a difference. Of course, the game will be the outcome of Slovakia “- after the game with Belarus Valery Bragin made it clear that waiting for a completely different game from his players in the match against Slovakia.
At the Slovaks had one advantage: they already does not matter, they will win or lose this match. Wards Yarosh could not rise above fourth place and knew that will play in the quarterfinals against Sweden. “The match with Russia is not so important for the result, but our game is important, we want to be a good match and the opportunity to win,” – said before the game, head coach of Slovakia.
A successful game of the fourth level and the removal of unnecessary Korshkova
In the first period in the face Valery Bragin you can understand how much our coach is going through. Perhaps even more than with the score 1: 3 in a match with the Finns. Russians started the game confidently enough. Not all turned in the attack, but the Slovaks did not have first to score points.
For four and a half minutes before the end of the period of the Russian national team scored an important goal. Important, because they do not want to play catch-up with the Slovaks. Our guys controlled the puck for a long time in another area, and when I had to work on the patch, Dergachev Louth and did their job. First threw Slovak defenders in different directions, and the second after a series of finishing moves still drove the projectile into the top corner Adam Guskov .
In the last minute of the period it was possible to understand why so worried Valery Bragin. Yegor Korshkov some reason brought down the opponent in the neutral zone, and the Slovaks had 39 seconds to realize a double numerical superiority.persevered. Slovaks attacked a lot, but Georgiev well acted on the first roll, and before the gates had already been included in the work of our fielders. Slovaks though perebrosali Russians in the first period – 9-7, but the team went to the break with a minimum advantage of our guys.
Judges Slovaks returned to the game
At the beginning of the second period the Russian team for the fourth time stayed outnumbered. We must pay tribute to the defending player of our team, who spent those minutes active and did not allow an opponent to hold positional attack.
Having ceased for some time to retire, wards Bragin took the puck and the Slovaks have the game under control. All this led to the second goal of the Russians. Yaroslavl trio spent a good positional attack, which resulted in Kraskovsky hit the crossbar, and the finishing was accurate quarterback Egor Rykov .
It would seem that in the future our children had only to increase their advantage, but when you have 12 penalty minutes against 4 opponent, sooner or later, there can be problems. Not to say that Slovaks acted as a neater, more judges were a little stricter with respect to Trust Bragin.
In the last minute of the period it was possible to understand why so worried Valery Bragin. Yegor Korshkov some reason brought down the opponent in the neutral zone, and the Slovaks had 39 seconds to realize a double numerical superiority.
Anyway, in the end of the second period, the Slovaks have reduced the difference in the score. After winning a throw Sukelem Jarosz struck a compelling cast into the top corner.
Russians stood and repeated the achievement in 2007
In the final third of the game the Russian national team has managed to defend the winning result. Several times our guys got into the framework of the Slovak gate, and the opponent has missed its last chance to save the game five minutes from time when Lazarev went on for two minutes in the penalty box to box.
The Russian national team has not shown some incredible results or sverhatakuyuschego hockey in the group stage. Perhaps the Finns, Swedes or North Americans more talent, but the order of class and class are often beaten, as it was in the game Russia – Finland. In terms of the outcome of the game in the preliminary stage of our guys we were not equal. For the first time since 2007, the youth team of Russia has won all the games in the group stage MCM. Then our team got to the finals, where she lost to Canadians. Let’s see how the fate of the team Valery Bragin . In the quarter, it is 99 percent play with the team of Denmark. The game will take place on January 2 at 17:00 Moscow time in the arena, where they spent their matches teams from Group A.
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