- 17 May 2015
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In the final match of World Hockey Championship Team Canada won the Russian team with a score of 6: 1 (1: 0 3: 0, 2: 1), so way passing this tournament unbeaten and with an impressive goal difference and missed goals – 66:15.
One only its name, it was a match, which say in advance: final dream.
In the eyes of the fans matches Canada – Russia remain so Therefore still, despite the fact that in recent years these teams are rare in the finals – for various reasons, including non-real strength teams.
It is more expensive in the history of hockey every such game – including from a commercial point of view.
First period
The match in Prague started on the script, which could be predicted from previous matches of Canadians: the team confidently took a puck in the opponent’s zone and started sighting. During the first minute of the goal Sergei Bobrov was done three dangerous throw, so that the goalkeeper, “Blue Jackets” started his trademark salvation once and almost never stopped doing it in the first period.
The advantage of Canadians had not been a complete domination, but it was viewed in all elements of the game, and most importantly – in a beautiful vision of the field and with partners.
The heart of Canadian fans certainly also sank at least a couple of times: the first – seven minutes before the end of the period, when Smith rolled out Mozyakin, the second – in five minutes, when the same did Ovechkin. Both times the shots were straight at the goalkeeper.
At the end of the Canadians for a long time locked up in the Russian zone, and Eakin opened the scoring, and Piglet gracefully changing the direction of flight of the puck and showed that it is not so bad Bobrowski how he painted the journalists . After that, the fighting finally crossed into the territory of the Russian team and the end of the period she spent chaotic fighting.
Second period
If the first period, there was an impression that -That fairytale from childhood – a fantastic rate, raspasovki beautiful, wonderful goalkeeping saves, the second advantage of one of the parties was too palpable.
Two minutes after the start of Ennis in Bobrovszky scores Bobrovsky. Yet less than a half of the period, and the score is 3: 0 – Sidney Crosby is.
The Canadians played at that moment seemingly very simple, but amazingly effective, using any chance to punish an opponent for any error.
In the middle period in their zone falls awkwardly Kovalchuk should counterattack, and Seguin makes by almost devastating – 4: 0.
After this, the removal – on both sides. Canada several times was close to score more.
The Russians looked like the team was not sure what to do next, and then I remembered that Oleg Znarka it was the first match against the Canadians as a head coach.
At the end of Russia was locked again in the area – triple Couturier, the fourth link in Canada. But it ended the siren at the break.
Third period
In the third period the team came out with, to put it mildly, a different mood.
It could be assumed that Canadians will decide to play cat and mouse, very dry the game and trying to catch the Russians in a counterattack … And the Russian national team, knowing that these 20 minutes – the last of the season, and the strength to take care is not worth it, go ahead, headlong … But it did not happen.
Picture of the game has not changed: Canadians still-farming located in another area, like in the numerical majority, the Russian team was responsible dashing assaults, non-completion. This is compounded by two important factors: some tired players and a growing sense of doom (the time is coming), which experienced players the Russian national team.
Therefore, the third period was not as bright as the first two. But Canadians have taken their here – most from giving Crosby scored Claude Giroux, the best scorer of the tournament. And almost immediately struck a powerful throw Bobrowski McKinnon – 6: 0.
Something Russians still have – it would be strange if a team has in its composition of stars such as Malkin, Ovechkin and Kovalchuk, I would have left the field without of goals. Malkin scored – modifying throw Mozyakina.
However, it was clear: the puck just sweetened the bitter pill of a big defeat.
“Fathers of the final meetings”
So, implement the results, which even hinted to the final of the championship, all the statistics: of her Team Canada was head and shoulders above all others in this tournament. And before the final passion fueled only by its sign: the game Canada – Russia long ago did not see in the finals of the world championships for most fans, this sign still guarantees the quality and intensity of the game.
The President of the Ice Hockey Federation of Canada Tom Rennie said before the game that “such matches – all fathers of hockey final meetings in the world, it has become a tradition since the days of 1972 Summit”. It seems that the same opinion and Russian national team players: in the pre-match interview Bobrowski even said something about “the most important match of our lives”.
It is fair to note that the Russian team is quite deserved place in the final – she proved cup team in the quarterfinals to cope with the powerful Swedes, and in the semi-finals in a very difficult match beating nimble and well-trained Americans (who on Sunday afternoon in a match for third place easily dealt with tournament hosts the Czechs – 3: 0).
The face of modern hockey
Before the match commentators reminded that 10 years ago, to match the World Youth Championship in 2005 started the confrontation Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin (then Team Crosby was stronger – 6: 1).
However, still never Crosby and Ovechkin did not lead their teams into battle at stake was the fate of the world championship. (Interestingly, Crosby and Ovechkin “liberated” for the world championship in the Czech Republic is the same team – “New York Rangers”, which is now struggling in the Stanley Cup with the “lightning” of the “Tampa”.)
The last time before that Canada has won the World Cup in 2007 (Russia has since made it four times), year after year, bringing to this tournament a team made up of players whose clubs flying out of the Stanley Cup at the earliest stage. (Evil tongues in Canada, christened Stanley Cup championships for the poor.) Canada has demonstrated real strength only at the Olympics (the last example – Sochi).
And this time Team Canada once again brought to the world championship in the Czech Republic is far from his best players but the tournament has won an incredibly confident. 64 goals – as neither team has scored since both the world championships began to allow professionals from the NHL in 1977. Last time in the history of Canada scored almost as many in the distant 1962.
Sidney Crosby became the 27th in the history of Canadian hockey player, who won the championship of the world, and the Olympic Games, and the Stanley Cup.
Team Maple Leaf has demonstrated throughout the tournament a brilliant team play – quick, smart, modern, becoming the best in almost all indicators. Many observers compared it to “the Sochi” Canadians, but it is, of course, the other team – in some ways even more lovely than the Olympic team packed with stars (thanks to the art of head coach Todd McLellan, who, as they say, could soon lead the “Edmonton Oilers “).
Look Like the two Canadian teams do play style defined the modern NHL – the best league of the world absorbed the creative cunning and masterovitost European players, shuffle all of this in one pot with the Canadian power aimed at the gate , the ability to fight until the last second, sparing neither himself nor rival and the American a methodical approach to the training of young players.
This alloy provides output that modern ice hockey, which is played the best teams of the NHL and the new world champion – Team Canada.
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