Russia, Canada, Finland and Sweden make it to the semi finals of the World U18 Championship in Frisco, Texas.
After a busy day in Texas the four semi final teams of the U18 Worlds are known.
Russia was the first team to qualify after beating Belarus 5-2. Russia had a 3-0 lead in the second period but Belarus answered with two goals to make it a game again. It took 15 minutes before Ivan Miroshnichenko could make it 4-2 and another two before Vsevolod Gaidamak closed the scoring at 5-2 at 48:34. Sergei Ivanov in the Russian net made 30 saves. Tournament top scorer Matvei Michkov, got another goal when he scored the opening goal of the game.
Canada got a big win over Czech Republic. They had scored 4 goals already after 11 minutes and finally won the game 10-3. Connor Bedard with 2 goals and 3 assists was named best player of the game.
Switzerland managed to keep Finland scoreless for almost two periods but at 39:56 captain Samu Salminen scored 1-0. Aleksi Heimosalmi added a second Finnish goal in the middle of the third period. Finnish netminder Aku Koskenvuo made 23 saves for the shutout.
Fabian Lysell scored two huge goals for Sweden in the 5-2 win over USA that sends the hosts out of the tournament.
Canada and Sweden will play the first semi final on Wednesday and then Finland will play Russia.
Oliver Bjorkstrand
(F)
Seattle Kraken
Tampa Bay Lightning
Jesse Puljujärvi
(F)
Charlotte CheckersFlorida Panthers
Vítek Vaněček
(G)
San Jose SharksFlorida Panthers
Radek Smolenak
(F)
Rytíři Kladnounknown
Michael Loosli
(F)
Genève-Servette HCHC La Chaux-de-Fonds
David Rautio
(G)
Skellefteå AIKretired as player
Charlie Dodero
(D)
Guildford Flamesunknown
Czech Rep.:
Tipsport extraliga |
1.liga |
2.liga
Slovakia:
Tipsport Extraliga |
1.liga
Sweden:
SHL |
HockeyAllsvenskan
Other: EBEL | Belarus | Croatia | Denmark | Estonia | France | Great Britain | Iceland | Italy | Latvia | Lithuania | MOL-liga | Norway | Poland | Romania | Serbia | Slovenia | Spain | NHL | AHL |
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