Bronze medals to Russia

Mikhail Grigorenko and Eduard Gimatov scored for Russia in the first period. No more goals were needed to capture the bronze medals as Andrei Vasilevski had a great day in the net making 30 saves. Josh Morrisey scored the only Canadian goal in the middle of the last period.

Canada's power-play was ineffective. They got five chances to play with a man more on the ice, three times because Russia played with too many players on the ice, but couldn't get the puck past Vasilevski on the man advantage.

"We are all disappointed for sure", says the Canadian top scorer Anthony Mantha. "We lost it. There are no excuses".

The first period had a lot of action, many scoring chances and physical play. It was obvious that both teams were in this game to win it.

Russia got an early power-play and Mikhail Grigorenko had the first big chance. The Russian 1-0 goal came seconds later. A failed pass from Mikhail Grigorenko deflected off Matt Dumba's skate into his own net.

"It was a little lucky", Grigorenko told Eurohockey after the game. "I missed my pass a little bit but there were a lot of guys in front".

With a hard well-placed shot from long distance Eduard Gimatov made it 2-0 Russia. "It was the greatest goal of my career", he says. The goal was special to him as he was injured after a knee-to-knee hit when Team Russia played Quebec in November. "That was my bad for sure", says the Canadian goalie Zachary Fucale.

Canada got its first power-play two minutes before the first intermission when Russia had too many players on the ice. After a hesitant start if got better and Russia was severely pressure, but no goal.

While on the power-play a few minutes into the middle period, Russia once again got called for too many players. Pavel Buchnevich served the two team penalty minutes, just like last time, and shortly after he returned to the ice he got a break-away and was brought down by Aaron Ekblad who got a penalty, but no penalty shot awarded.

Two minutes before the end of the period Griffin Reinhart got the best Canadian chance so far when he had a wide open net at the far post but failed to get a clean hit on the puck.

Canada finally got a goal at 47 minutes when the puck deflected off Josh Morrissey's skate and past Vasilevski. It was allowed after video review as there was no kicking motion. Just a few seconds later Canada nearly tied it as Charles Hudon hit the post.

In the middle of the third period Russia got called for the third time with too many players on the ice and the large Canadian part of the crowd really got going chanting "Let's go Canada".

Zachary Fucale left the net with a minute to go to get an extra attacker but Canada couldn't get any really big chances towards the end and Russia won the bronze medals.

"Obviously we weren't good enough to win", says the Canadian goalie. "We don't want to make excuses. We just lost. We have to be better."

"We came here to play for a gold medal, but of course a bronze medal is better than a fourth place", says Nikita Zadorov who was born in 1995 but already has NHL experience with Buffalo Sabres.

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