🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Skellefteå Kraft Arena, Skellefteå 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 04 January 2000
The Czech Republic won the World Junior Hockey Championship for the first time ever with a 1-0 shootout win over defending champion Russia yesterday.
It was the first medal at the World Juniors of any colour for the Czechs, who had won five Silver and five Bronze medals as Czechoslovakia from 1977-93. The Czechs finished ninth in Winnipeg last January when Slovakia grabbed its first-ever medal, a Bronze.
After no scoring in regulation and 20 minutes of overtime, the Czechs outscored Russia 2-1 in the shootout with goals from Milan Kraft, who plays for the WHL’s Prince Albert Raiders, and Libor Pivko.
But it was goaltender Zdeněk Šmíd who was the hero for the Czech Republic, stopping four of five shots in the shootout and 34 shots in the game.
“I’m pretty excited,” Kraft said. “I have to take my jersey and medal and show it to the people in Prince Albert.”
BOXSCORE
1st Period
11:04 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Pivko
2nd Period
none
3rd Period
42:43 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Duma
Overtime
none
Shootout
🇷🇺 Muratov scored
🇨🇿 Krstev stopped
🇷🇺 Zinoviev stopped
🇨🇿 Pivko scored
🇷🇺 Smirnov stopped
🇨🇿 Kraft scored
🇷🇺 Tereshenko stopped
🇨🇿 Irgl stopped
🇷🇺 Fyodorov stopped
GOALTENDERS
W: 🇨🇿 Šmíd (34-34)
L: 🇷🇺 Bryzgalov (45-46), Volkov (0-0)
SHOTS ON GOAL
🇨🇿 11+18+5+11+1 = 46
🇷🇺 8+12+4+10+0 = 34
ROSTERS
🇨🇿 Goaltenders: Tomáš Duba, Zdeněk Šmíd. Defence: Jiří David, David Hájek, Martin Holý, Josef Jindra, Angel Krstev, Zdeněk Kutlák, Petr Svoboda. Forwards: Jan Boháč, Martin Havlát, Tomáš Horna, Zbyněk Irgl, Milan Kraft, Jaroslav Kristek, Václav Nedorost, Vladimír Novák, Libor Pivko, Michal Sivek, Jaroslav Svoboda, Josef Vašíček.
🇷🇺 Goaltenders: Ilya Bryzgalov, Alexei Volkov. Defence: Mikhail Balandin, Denis Denisov, Alexander Lyubimov, Artyom Maryams, Alexander Ryazantsev, Igor Shchadilov, Kirill Safronov, Andrei Yesipov. Forwards: Dmitri Afanasenkov, Anton But, Pavel Duma, Yevgeni Fyodorov, Valeri Khlebnikov, Yevgeni Lapin, Yevgeni Muratov, Denis Shvidki, Oleg Smirnov, Alexei Tereshenko, Alexander Zevakhin, Sergei Zinoviev.
| 🇨🇿 CZECHIA (C) | vs. | RUSSIA 🇷🇺 |
| current champion (since 31 Dec 1999) |
Last Title | 08 Nov 1998 |
| 19 | All-Time Wins |
84 |
| 4 wins | Head-To-Head (+ 2 ties) |
18 wins |
| First IHLC Meeting (CZE vs. RUS) 🇷🇺 URS 7-5 TCH 🇨🇿 – 29 Dec 1973 – WJT – Leningrad 🇷🇺 |
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| Previous IHLC Meeting (CZE vs. RUS) 🇷🇺 RUS 5-1 CZE 🇨🇿 – 01 Jan 1998 – WJC – Helsinki 🇫🇮 |
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| Last IHLC Game 🇨🇿 CZE 4-1 USA 🇺🇸 – 03 Jan 2000 – WJC – Skellefteå 🇸🇪 |
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| Next IHLC Game 🇸🇪 SWE 6-5 CZE 🇨🇿 (OT) – 30 Aug 2000 – FINC – Omsk 🇷🇺 |
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Article Credit: The Canadian Press
Photo Credit: Denik – IIHF – HHOF – IOC
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