🇷🇺 Soviet Union 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (SO)
Goodwill Games Gold Medal Game
Tacoma Dome, Tacoma 🇺🇸
Sunday, 05 August 1990

The Soviet Union needed a penalty-shot shootout to beat the United States, 4-3, at the Tacoma Dome and win the Goodwill Games hockey Gold medal.

It was the closest the Americans have come to beating a Soviet national team in an international event since 1980 and the Miracle on Ice in the Lake Placid Olympics.

The United States led, 3-2, in the final minute, but Valeri Kamenski sent the game into overtime with his third goal with 21 seconds left.

In the shootout used for the Goodwill Games after a scoreless 10-minute overtime, the Soviets outscored the U.S. team, 2-0, through four shots. Alexander Semak and Dmytro Khrystych beat goaltender Guy Hebert, who made four saves to preserve the shootout win over Canada Saturday.

The Americans were trying to protect their slim lead late in the third period when Kamenski took a cross-ice pass and fired a slap shot past Hebert to complete his hat trick. Both teams were down a man.

The Soviets stepped up offensive pressure in the overtime, taking the kind of clear, hard shots on goal largely denied them in regulation. Several spectacular saves by Hebert prevented a score.

The Soviet Union had scored first on a goal by Kamenski 4:29 into the game.

But the Americans, routed, 10-1, by the Soviets in the preliminary round, played tough defence, seldom allowing the Soviets a clear shot at Hebert. The Soviets had 36 shots in regulation to just 17 by the United States, but few of the shots were from close-range.

The United States bounced back in the second period, scoring twice in quick succession, to the delight of a capacity crowd of 17,442, which chanted “U.S.A., U.S.A.!” waved American flags and booed loudly at every perceived Soviet infraction.

Tim Sweeney’s slapshot after he was fed the puck from the corner behind the Soviet net tied the game at 6:23.

Less than a minute later, David Emma of Boston College passed to C.J. Young of Harvard, whose shot from in front of the net got past goaltender Artūrs Irbe.

With both teams short a man, Kamenski tied it 2-2 at 15:09, taking the puck down the ice and firing it past Hebert from the left.

But 33 seconds later, Emma beat the Soviet defenders down the middle of the ice after blocking a shot and beat Irbe at short range.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:45 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Keczmer, high sticking
04:29 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kamenski (Khrystych, Konstantinov)
15:30 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Sandelin, cross checking
18:08 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Konstantinov, high sticking

2nd Period
21:57 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Zhamnov, tripping
26:23 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Sweeney (McNeil, Keczmer)
27:46 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Young (Emma)
30:28 – 🇺🇸 PEN – McNeil, roughing
34:13 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Byakin, roughing
34:13 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Nesich, roughing
35:09 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kamenski
35:42 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Emma

3rd Period
48:46 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Byakin, high sticking
51:28 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Davidson, holding
55:12 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Tatarinov, roughing
55:12 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Amonte, roughing
57:41 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Keczmer, high sticking
57:41 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kozlov, high sticking
59:39 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kamenski (Tatarinov, Nemchinov)

Overtime
66:52 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Keczmer, delay of game

Shootout
🇷🇺 Semak scored
🇺🇸 Sweeney stopped
🇷🇺 Kamenski stopped
🇺🇸 Amonte missed
🇷🇺 Khrystych scored
🇺🇸 Harlow missed
🇷🇺 Bure stopped
🇺🇸 Sacco stopped

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇷🇺 Irbe (18-21)
L: 🇺🇸 Hebert (41-44)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇷🇺 13+11+12+7+1 = 44
🇺🇸 5+5+7+4+0 = 21

ROSTERS
🇷🇺 Goaltenders: Oleg Bratash, Artūrs Irbe. Defence: Alexei Gusarov, Vladimir Konstantinov (C), Igor Kravchuk, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergei Selyanin, Alexander Smirnov, Mikhail Tatarinov. Forwards: Pavel Bure, Vyacheslav Butsayev, Ilya Byakin, Yevgeni Davydov, Valeri Kamenski, Dmytro Khrystych, Andrei Kovalenko, Andrei Kovalyov, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Sergei Nemchinov, Alexander Semak, Alexei Zhamnov.
🇺🇸 Goaltenders: Guy Hebert, Ray LeBlanc. Defence: Duane Joyce, Dan Keczmer, Ian Kidd, Todd Richards, Scott Sandelin (A), Paul Stanton, Carl Valimont. Forwards: Tony Amonte, Lee Davidson, David Emma, Scot Harlow, Jim Johansson (C), Steve Johnson, Shawn McEachern, Mike McNeil, Jim Nesich, Joe Sacco, Tim Sweeney, C.J. Young.

Article Credit: Los Angeles Times
Photo Credit: Mark Maxwell – IIHF – HHOF – IOC