🇷🇺 Soviet Union 9-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Preliminary Round
Luzhniki Palace Of Sports, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 15 April 1979

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:21 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Svensson
05:05 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Mikhailov (Babinov)
10:28 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Balderis (Zhluktov)
13:55 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kharlamov (Petrov)

2nd Period
24:40 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Tsygankov
25:51 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Labraaten (Hammarström, Edberg)
26:45 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Lutchenko
29:17 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Balderis (Zhluktov, Makarov)
30:44 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Vasiliev (Babinov)
32:29 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Holmgren
36:49 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Svensson
38:21 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Bilyaletdinov (Pervukhin, Petrov)

3rd Period
44:28 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – V. Golikov (Makarov)
45:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Yakushev (Skvortsov)
48:02 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kharlamov
48:30 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Lundqvist
50:18 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Gimayev
51:54 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Yakushev
54:34 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Hammarström (Wallin)
59:17 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Tsygankov (A. Golikov)

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇷🇺 Tretyak (13-16)
L: 🇸🇪 Lindbergh (33-42)

ROSTERS
🇷🇺 Goaltenders: Vladimir Myshkin, Vladislav Tretyak. Defence: Sergei Babinov, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, Irek Gimayev, Vladimir Lutchenko, Vasili Pervukhin, Gennadi Tsygankov, Valeri Vasiliev. Forwards: Helmuts Balderis, Alexander Golikov, Vladimir Golikov, Sergei Kapustin, Valeri Kharlamov, Sergei Makarov, Boris Mikhailov, Vladimir Petrov, Alexander Skvortsov, Alexander Yakushev, Viktor Zhluktov.
🇸🇪 Goaltenders: Pelle Lindbergh, Sune Ödling. Defence: Sture Andersson, Thomas Eriksson, Tomas Jonsson, Tord Nänsén, Leif Svensson, Mats Waltin, Ulf Weinstock. Forwards: Rolf Edberg, Lars-Erik Ericsson, Håkan Eriksson, Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Inge Hammarström, Leif Holmgren, Dan Labraaten, Roger Lindström, Per Lundqvist, Mats Näslund, Peter Wallin.