Russia in the playoffs Hockey World Championship came to Sweden – RBC

Russia in the playoffs Hockey World Championship went to Sweden

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The Russian national team has completed the group stage of the World Cup hockey match against Finland. For a couple of hours before the match, the Americans won in overtime in the national team of Slovakia and guaranteed themselves first place in the group, so that the Russians and the Finns were determined which team will take the second place in the group and will play in the quarterfinals against the Czech Republic, and who will be the third and will meet in the quarterfinals with Sweden.

The first minutes of the Russian team had very weak, particularly in the defense – for the first ten minutes of three Finns to open an account. The outputs of the two into one, two three – the Finns had a distinct advantage, and only thanks to Sergei Bobrovsky the Russian team managed to maintain a zero score.

But the Finland squad for a long time was not enough. On the eve of the Finns had a tough match against Belarus, who won only in overtime, and by the middle of the first period of the match with Russia, they slow down.

By the end of the period of active national team has played in Russia, and two minutes before the break the Finns missed the first goal of the match. Malkin threw the puck on Mozyakina, and he snapped almost from the blue line. Rinne, who in the previous matches played correctly, this time not rescued – the puck hit him in the shoulder and flew into the net.

The Finns played in the beginning of the second period. Anisimov earned optional removal, and the Finns quite quickly realized that majority. Anton Belov was alone on the patch against two opponents and was not able to cover any Pesonen nor Barkov. The last and sent the puck into the net from close range.

The Russian national team after the puck skipped continued very weak play defense, but the Finns began to unfold. In the first matches, they conceded just seven goals, five of them – in a game against the US, but in the match against Russia at Rinne was a lot of work.

However, despite the abundance of things, following the puck was abandoned only Five minutes before the end of the match. After throwing the puck soared Chudinov snout, Dadonov propihnul it to Panarin, who has sent into the net.

The Finns had very little time to even the score, but they were just three minutes. Once again, the Russian team played poorly in defense, and left alone in front of goal Jonas Don was a very long time to take the puck to earn it, to see where the goalie and backhand throw the puck through the plate.

Overtime proved goalless and the winner of the match determined a series of shootouts. The first eight throws the keeper and then Don is still able to beat Bobrowski. In the Russian team performed the bullet back Panarin, who struck up with a throw to the last, but still could not deceive Rinne.

quarterfinal match Sweden – Russia will take place on Thursday at 17-15.

Group B

Finland – Russia 3: 2 B

 Washers: Barkov, 25, Don, 58 – Mozyakin, 18, Panarin, 55