🇸🇪 Sweden 6-4 Russia 🇷🇺
Carlson Hockey Games
Ericsson Globe, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 01 May 2019

In the first match of the concluding 2018/2019 Euro Hockey Tour stage, the senior Russian national team conceded a 4-6 loss to Sweden in Stockholm.

Sweden took the lead early on, but with the first period approaching its conclusion, defenceman Alexander Yelesin thumped in a powerful slap shot from the right faceoff circle to draw the visitors level.

However, the opponents pulled away in the second, as they netted three markers with two of them arriving on the powerplay. Sergei Andronov conjured up a response for Russia.

Loui Eriksson increased the Swedish lead to 5-2 at the start of the third frame. Not long later, Mikhail Grigorenko tipped an attempt beyond the goalkeeper, but Mario Kempe then hit the empty net after Andrei Vasilevski had been pulled for the extra skater. Nikita Kucherov had the last word with a clever goal from a tight angle, but it didn’t save Russia from a 4-6 defeat.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:37 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Nygård (Bratt)
11:56 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Bratt, hooking
15:55 – 🇷🇺 PEN – team, too many players
18:08 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Yelesin (Gusev, Malkin)

2nd Period
20:20 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Malkin, high sticking double minor
20:57 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Eriksson (Lander, E. Pettersson)
23:04 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Krüger (Bengtsson)
24:50 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Plotnikov, roughing
24:50 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Nygård, roughing
27:20 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Yelesin, holding
30:54 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Andronov (Plotnikov, Gusev)
36:38 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Khafizullin, hooking
37:33 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Grigorenko, delay of game
38:17 – 🇸🇪 PP2 GOAL – Lindblom (Bratt, E. Pettersson)

3rd Period
44:31 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Malkin, slashing
46:37 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Eriksson (Lander, E. Pettersson)
49:58 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Grigorenko (Anisimov, Nesterov)
51:03 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Holm, holding
52:41 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Nesterov, slashing
57:52 – 🇸🇪 EN GOAL – M. Kempe (Eriksson, Lander)
59:26 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kucherov (Sergachyov, Kaprizov)

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇸🇪 Markström (19-23)
L: 🇷🇺 Vasilevski (32-37)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇸🇪 11+18+9 = 38
🇷🇺 9+7+7 = 23

ROSTERS
🇸🇪 Goaltenders: Jhonas Enroth, Jacob Markström. Defence: Oliver Ekman-Larsson (C), Erik Gustafsson, Robert Hägg, Philip Holm, Adam Larsson, Marcus Pettersson, Viktor Svedberg. Forwards: Lukas Bengtsson, Jesper Bratt, Loui Eriksson, Adrian Kempe, Mario Kempe, Marcus Krüger, Anton Lander, Oskar Lindblom, Joakim Nygård, Elias Pettersson, Dennis Rasmussen, Anton Wedin.
🇷🇺 Goaltenders: Alexander Georgiev, Andrei Vasilevski. Defence: Artyom Blazhiyevski, Dinar Khafizullin, Bogdan Kiselevich, Nikita Nesterov, Mikhail Sergachyov, Alexander Yelesin, Artyom Zub. Forwards: Sergei Andronov, Artyom Anisimov, Alexander Barabanov, Yevgeni Dadonov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Nikita Gusev, Alexander Kadeikin, Kirill Kaprizov, Ilya Kovalchuk (C), Nikita Kucherov, Yevgeni Malkin (A), Ilya Mikheyev, Sergei Plotnikov (A).

Article Credit: FHR
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