USA, Canada, Finland and Sweden get wins on 3rd day of Tournament

With a 3:0 win over the Czechs, USA get first win of tournament

A goal in the first period and 2 goals in period two sealed the win by the
US squad over the Czechs. Vitek Vanecek was beaten a first time in the 9th
minute by Auston Matthew, assisted by Jack Dougherty and Brandon Fortunato.
A goal just 58 seconds into the middle period by Forward Frank Milano who was assisted by
Jack Eichel and Alex Tuch and increased the score to 2:0. The US Team got on the scoreboard a third
and last time in the 25th minute when Kyle Connor got the puck passed the czech netminder.

The east europeans weren't able to react in the second or the 3rd period where the US had 15 shots on goal while the Czechs amounted 5 shots. Both netminders were voted to the best players of their team.


Germans keep score tied wide into the third period, then break down within 5 minutes against Canada

The germans started with Daniel Fiessinger instead of Florian Proske in goal and were off to a good start. But it was the Canadian squad who got on the scoreboard first when Daniel Audette, assisted by Jayce Hawryluk and Ben Thomas scored. It took the German team 34 minutes when Andreas Eder got passed Julio Billia who replaced Mason McDonald between the pipes. It took the Canadians a little more than a minute to take the lead when Connor Bleackley capitalised on a pass by Clark Bishop. Germany kept on pushing and with 2 minutes go in the second period Maximilian Kamerer scored the game tying goal. What then happened in the 3rd period can only be called a collapse, within the 55th and 60th minute the Canadians scored 3 unanswered goals. Ryan Gropp in the 55th, Travis Konecny in the 57th and Jared McCann in the 60th minute were the scorers for the Maple Leafs.

While Canada now is 2:0, Germany is still waiting (0:2) for their first victory either against Russia or Sweden.

Finland beats Switzerland 2:1 in a tight game

Host Finland faced Switzerland in their second game for the lead in Group A. In goal for Switzerland was
Gauthier Descloux who played his second game and for Finland Kaapo Kahkonen was between the pipes. It took the Finns only 5 minutes to get on the scoreboard a first time when Juho Lammikko shoved the puck over the red line, assisted by Mikko Rantanen. Halftime of the first period was played and now Switzerland with Denis Malgin, Kevin Fiala and Noah Rod was harmonising together which resulted in the equalising goal. The second period ended goalless but wasn't less thrilling with chances for both teams to play with a man advantage. With the 3rd period going along it was Sebastian Aho assisted by Manu Hopponen and Jere Rouhiainen who scored the game winning goal at 49:09 minutes played. A Time-Out by Swiss head coach Manuele Celio and replacing goalie Descloux couldn't avoid the first loss for the Swiss squad at this tournament. Finland is 2:0 challenging the Czechs on Monday, Switzerland 1:1 and will face Denmark on Monday as well.

First Shoot-out game goes to Sweden with a 4:3 win over Russia

In goal for Sweden was Linus Söderström, Russia had Alexander Trushkov as netminder in a game between last years quarterfinalist Sweden and 4th placed Russia. The 6th minute saw 5 players (2 Swedes, 3 Russians) get benched for Roughing but it took another 6 minutes until the first goal would be scored. Swedens Oskar Lindblom got passed Trushkov assisted by William Nylander (his father is retired NHL star Michael Nylander) who had 8 assists at last years U17 World Hockey Challenge. As Russia was forced to play with one man less it was Gustav Forsling and again Nylander with the assist to score the first powerplay goal of the game. Period two was on it's way when in the 27th minute Sweden got another chance for a powerplay, this time it was Oskar Lindblom with Gustav Forsling and Adrian Kempe receiving the points for assists who increased the lead to 3:0. Nothing seemed to indicate that this game would go anywhere near overtime but with the 3rd period in motion it was Danil Vovchenko scoring and Kirill Shukin and Yevgeni Svechnikov with the assist in the 43rd minute. But it got even better when at halftime of period 3 Alexei Sleptsov scored the 2nd goal for Russia, assisted by Danil Vovchenko. Team Sweden then received a penalty for too many players on the ice in the 52nd minute, Russia made short work out of that power play chance and scored the game tying goal. Each Team took their Time-Out at the end of the 3rd period but the regular time remained scoreless. The 5 minute overtime didn't bring a decision and so a Shootout competition would eventually decide.

While both Russians (Ivan Nikolishin and Danil Vovchenko) missed their attempts, Adrian Kempe, William Nylander and again Adrian Kempe again, scored for Sweden. Sweden now has a regulation plus a Shootout win, while Russia has an Overtime win and Shooutout loss.

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