IIHF World Cup 2010

[K-Menki]

QUARTERFINALS SET

Russia-Canada re-match highlights huge day

The Qualification Round is now complete and the four quarterfinal games are now set for Thursday. The schedule looks like this:

Cologne:
Finland-Czech Republic, 16:15 (CET)
Russia-Canada, 20:15 (CET)

Mannheim:
Sweden-Denmark, 16:15 (CET)
Switzerland-Germany, 20:15 (CET)

The winners advance to the semi-finals, both of which will be played in Cologne on Saturday, while the losers go to the airport.

The semi-finals will feature the winner of Russia-Canada against the winner of Switzerland-Germany, while the Sweden-Denmark winner plays the Finland-Czech Republic winner (times still to be determined).

NOTES:

    * This is the first time Denmark has appeared in a quarterfinal game.
    * Sweden, Canada, Russia, and Czech Republic have appeared in the quarterfinal every year since the playoff format was introduced in 1992 (except Russia in 2000 and 2004)
    * Russia-Canada is a repeat of the quarterfinals matchup from the Vancouver Olympics two months ago, won handily by Canada, 7-3.
    * Finland-Czech Republic is also a re-match from Vancouver, the earlier game being won by the Finns, 2-0.
    * Natural rivals Switzerland and Germany can expect to play before a sold-out SAP Arena; the first time the teams played was back in 1910 at the inaugural European Championship in Les Avants, Switzerland. That game was won by Germany, 9-1.

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[CanadianJacketsFan]

kris russel played well

[K-Menki]

Voracek, Czech Republic Win Gold at World Championships
Sweden captures Bronze with win over Germany
Monday, 05.10.2010 / 4:55 PM / News
By Blue Jackets Staff  - Writer

The Columbus Blue Jackets had two players, forward Jakub Voracek (Czech Republic) and defenseman Kris Russell (Canada) participate in the 2010 World Championships in Cologne and Mannheim, Germany.

Voracek and Team Czech Republic defeated Team Russia 2-1 Sunday to claim the Gold Medal. Voracek had two shots on goal and was a +1 in the game. He finished the tournament with 0-2-2, +1 plus/minues, six penalty minutes and 18 shots on goal in nine games.

The Czechs advanced to the Gold Medal game by beating Team Sweden in dramatic fashion on Saturday, scoring an extra attacker goal with eight seconds left and winning in a shootout to advance to Sunday's Final vs. Russia. Voracek was on the ice in the final seconds and picked up an assist on the game-tying goal. Czech Republic team defeated Finland 2-1 in the Quarterfinals on Thursday.

Team Canada was elminated by Russia 5-2  in the Quarterfinals. Russell finished the tournament with 1-3-4, a -2 rating, 2 penalty minutes and 13 shots on goal. His lone goal was a power play goal and the game-winning goal in the tournament opener for Canada.

Russell and Voracek squared off May 18 with Czech Republic winning a 3-2 game at Mannheim. Russell had one shot on goal, while Voracek registered two shots on goal and accumulated four penalty minutes.

During the first round of games, Team Czech Republic defeated Team France 6-2. Voracek logged 15:40 of ice time in his first World Championship experience and registered one shot on goal. The Czech Republic lost 3-2 to Team Norway. Voracek registered four shots on goal and played over 16 minutes in the defeat. He registered his first point with an assist in a 3-2 loss to Team Switzerland last Saturday. Czech Republic defeated Sweden 2-1 in the final game of the opening round. Voracek registered four shots on goal last Tuesday in a 3-1 victory over Team Latvia.

Canada defeated Team Italy 5-1 in the teams' first game. Russell scored a power-play goal, which turned out to be the game-winning goal in that contest. He also had three shots on goal during the game.

Russell added two assists and two shots on goal in a victory over Latvia, Canada won the game 6-1 and then completed the preliminary round Wednesday with a 4-1 loss to Switzerland. Russell had one shot on goal in the game.

Canada defeated Norway 12-1 in the first game of the Qualifying Round. Russell added one assist and two penalty minutes vs. the Norweigns. Sweden defeated Canada 3-1 in thr opening round and he had four shots on goal.

Check out Kris Russell's Blog or tournament results by going to IIHF.com.


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[addison]

Any time a hockey team from the Czech Republic wins a tournament people are not surprised. After all, the nation is among the big seven in international hockey, a country that loves the game and has many of the world’s greatest players.

When the Czech national team returned to Prague on Monday, they were celebrated with the usual accolades that come with winning a major world hockey tournament. People jammed the streets, the players were paraded on a bus and it all ended with the heroes on stage presenting the World Championship to their fans.

But this time it was different. Although the city of Prague has celebrated 12 World Championship titles and one Olympic gold team, the 2010 title was by far and away the most unexpected.  After almost four years of basically no success, the Czechs were suddenly back on top of the world.

The most surprising thing is that the team that won the World Championship in Germany just a few days ago was comprised of mostly unknown players, young players from the Czech league and other European leagues, almost entirely bereft of NHL players and superstars. Indeed, after the team lost games to Norway and Switzerland in the early going, both by 3-2 scores, it seemed pretty clear this was not the usual top-notch World Championship team from the Czech Republic.

Yet, two weeks after the tournament began, it was the Czechs who won gold. Even more incredible, they beat a Russian team loaded with many of its Olympic players from two months ago in Vancouver. The names of Ovechkin, Malkin, Kovalchuk, Semin, Fedorov, Gonchar, Afinogenov, and Datsyuk are the stuff of modern Russian legend.

Yet, for all intents and purposes, the Czechs had exactly two star players from their Olympic roster (i.e., best of the best) – Jaromir Jagr and Tomas Vokoun. The second and third goalies were also at both events, but Ondrej Pavelec didn’t play in Vancouver and appeared only once in Germany, and Jakub Stepanek didn’t play a minute of either tournament. Other than that, the only other players were Roman Cervenka, Miroslav Blatak, and Tomas Rolinek, hardly names to rely on for a gold medal.

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