๐จ๐ฆ Canadaย 6-5 Russia ๐ท๐บย (SO)
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scotiabank Place, Ottawa ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 03 January 2009
Canada’s drive for five is alive.
Jordan Eberle scored twice in regulation time, including the equalizer with five seconds left in the third period, and then had another goal in the shootout to pace Canada to a 6-5 triumph over Russia in Saturday’s semifinal at the 2009 IIHF World Junior Championship.
“Those are the biggest goals I remember,” said Eberle. “Now we are going for Gold.”
The Russians were trying to hang on to a one-goal lead in the dying seconds of the game when John Tavares took a quick shot that defenceman Dmitri Kulikov tried to smother. But Eberle stole the puck from the Russian and tucked it past netminder Vadim Zhelobnyuk.
The Canadians carried the play in the 10-minute overtime but failed to beat Zhelobnyuk, sending the game to a shootout.
After Eberle beat the Russian goaltender with a slick backhand and Tavares snapped a shot home, Canadian netminder Dustin Tokarski turned away Pavel Chernov, sending Canada to its eighth straight Gold medal game.
It will be a familiar foe across the ice at SBP Arena on Monday in the tournamentโs final game โ Canada will face Sweden, who it beat for Gold last year in Pardubice, Czech Republic.
In another classic game in hockey most-storied rivalry, the Canadians and Russians alternated on eight goals over the first three periods.
Four times the Canadians took leads โ on goals by Brett Sonne, Patrice Cormier, Eberle and Angelo Esposito โ only to see the Russians claw right back, sometimes just seconds later.
Russia took its first lead at 17:40 of the third period, setting up Eberleโs heroics and a tense shootout.
“You have 20,000 Canadians standing up watching every one and you can’t really watch on the bench,” Tavares said. “Guys had their heads down or were holding each other, praying for pucks to go in and pucks to stay out.”
Tokarski downplayed his heroics in the shootout.
“I have to play better if we want to win,” he said.
The semifinal showdown marked the eighth time in the last decade that Canada and Russia have met in a medal-round game at the World Juniors โ Canada has won four straight, including a 4-2 victory in the Gold medal game in their last encounter in 2007.
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:02 – ๐จ๐ฆย GOAL – Sonne (Kane, Della Rovere)
05:18 – ๐ท๐บย GOAL – Goncharov (Dadonov, Pashnin)
07:04 – ๐จ๐ฆย GOAL – Cormier (Kane)
07:20 – ๐ท๐บย GOAL – Klopov (Klyukin)
08:22 – ๐จ๐ฆย PEN – Eberle, hooking
11:20 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Korostin, high sticking
14:22 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Filatov, elbowing
18:39 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Andronov, clipping
2nd Period
25:16 – ๐จ๐ฆย PEN – Della Rovere, tripping
30:21 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Grachev, high sticking
32:02 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Tokranov, holding
34:39 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – team, too many players
36:20 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Chudinov, high sticking
36:40 – ๐จ๐ฆย PP GOAL – Eberle (Hodgson, Tavares)
36:52 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Chudinov, delay of game
3rd Period
40:51 – ๐ท๐บย GOAL – Grachev (Filatov)
41:18 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Goncharov, interference
44:47 –ย ๐จ๐ฆ PEN – Della Rovere, cross checking
45:44 – ๐จ๐ฆย SH GOAL – Esposito (Sonne)
46:12 – ๐จ๐ฆย PEN – Subban, tripping
46:22 – ๐ท๐บย PP2 GOAL – Andronov (Filatov, Goncharov)
52:55 – ๐จ๐ฆย PEN – Teubert, hooking
57:40 – ๐ท๐บย GOAL – Klopov
59:55 – ๐จ๐ฆย EA GOAL – Eberle (Tavares)
Overtime
70:00 – ๐ท๐บย PEN – Chernov, 10 min. misconduct
Shootout
๐จ๐ฆ Eberle scored
๐ท๐บ Kugryshev stopped
๐จ๐ฆ Tavares scored
๐ท๐บ Chernov stopped
GOALTENDERS
W: ๐จ๐ฆย Tokarski (23-28)
L: ๐ท๐บย Zhelobnyuk (36-42)
SHOTS ON GOAL
๐จ๐ฆ 11+13+13+4+1 = 42
๐ท๐บ 12+3+10+3+0 = 28
ROSTERS
๐จ๐ฆ Goaltenders: Chet Pickard, Dustin Tokarski. Defence: Keith Aulie, Ryan Ellis, Cody Goloubef, Thomas Hickey, Tyler Myers, Alex Pietrangelo, P.K. Subban, Colten Teubert. Forwards: Jamie Benn, Zach Boychuk, Patrice Cormier, Stefan Della Rovere, Chris DiDomenico, Jordan Eberle, Tyler Ennis, Angelo Esposito, Cody Hodgson, Evander Kane, Brett Sonne, John Tavares.
๐ท๐บ Goaltenders: Danila Alistratov, Vadim Zhelobnyuk. Defence: Maxim Chudinov, Igor Golovkov, Maxim Goncharov, Dmitri Kulikov, Mikhail Pashnin, Vasili Tokranov, Vyacheslav Voinov. Forwards: Sergei Andronov, Pavel Chernov, Yevgeni Dadonov, Nikita Filatov, Yevgeni Grachev, Dmitri Klopov, Nikita Klyukin, Alexander Komaristy, Sergei Korostin, Dmitri Kugryshev, Kirill Petrov, Alexei Potapov.
๐จ๐ฆ CANADA (C) | vs. | RUSSIA ๐ท๐บ |
current champion (since 05 Jan 2008) |
Last Title | 22 Dec 2005 |
79 | All-Time Wins |
103 |
18 wins | Head-To-Head (+ 2 ties, 1 void) |
10 wins |
First IHLC Meeting (CAN vs. RUS) ๐ท๐บ URS 4-3 CAN ๐จ๐ฆ โ 05 Jan 1975 โ WJT โ Winnipeg ๐จ๐ฆ |
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Previous IHLC Meeting (CAN vs.ย RUS) ๐จ๐ฆย CAN 6-1 RUS ๐ท๐บ โ 09 Sep 2007 โ SS โ Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ |
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Last IHLC Game ๐จ๐ฆย CAN 7-4 USA ๐บ๐ธ โ 31 Dec 2008 โ WJC โ Ottawa ๐จ๐ฆ |
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Next IHLC Game ๐จ๐ฆย CAN 5-1 SWE ๐ธ๐ช โ 05 Jan 2009 โ WJC โ Ottawa ๐จ๐ฆย ๐ |
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