Favorites continue to have mandatory victories

Top favorite Russia also narrowly won its second ice hockey game at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. On Friday, the 2018 Olympic champion defeated Olympic newcomer Denmark 2-0. Pavel Karnauchow from CSKA Moscow (29th minute) and Kirill Semyonov from Avangard Omsk into the empty Danish net six seconds before the end of the game were the goal scorers for the Russians, who had already had a lot of trouble in the first game against Switzerland (1-0). Denmark surprisingly beat the Czech Republic 2-1 at the start. Switzerland loses to the Czech Republic after a penalty shootout The Swiss at least rewarded themselves with a point for a decent performance against the Czech Republic. After Gaëtan Haas (9th) equalized the Czechs' early lead with the first Swiss goal of this tournament in the opening third, the decision was only made in the penalty shootout. None of the five Swiss shooters scored there, ex-Boston Bruin David Krejci scored for the Czechs to make the final score 2-1. The Swiss will face what is supposed to be their easiest opponent, Denmark, on Saturday at 14.10:XNUMX p.m. (CET). However, with their win against the Czech Republic on Wednesday, they proved that they should not be underestimated.

Goalkeeper Simon Hrubec saved all 5 Swiss penalty shots © ANSA / ALEX PLAVEVSKI

Sweden defeats Slovakia The Swedes played their second group game more clearly. After winning 3-2 against Latvia at the start, they beat Slovakia 4-1 on Friday and are now top of Group C. The Scandinavians shot ahead 3-0 in the first third. The Slovaks also lost their second game quite clearly after losing 2-6 to Finland the day before. The decision about group victory and direct qualification for the quarter-finals of the ice hockey tournament will take place on Sunday at 9.40 a.m. (CET) in the game against Finland, who also won their game.

Finland triumphs over Latvia Finland also does its homework and beats Latvia 3-1. But for a long time it looked like a difficult game for the Finns. So with 55 minutes to go it was still 1:1. The goals were scored by Valtteri Kemilainen (1:0) for Finland in the second third and Rodrigo Abols (2:1) for Latvia at the beginning of the third third. Shortly before the end, however, Finland turned things up again and Leo Komarov (1:3) and Marko Anttila (2:1) each scored the winning goals 3 minutes and 1 minute before the end.

The top game in Group A continues on Saturday at 5.10:XNUMX a.m. (CET) when the USA meets Canada.

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Favorites continue to have mandatory victories

The favorites Sweden, Finland and Russia didn't miss any points on Friday either. However, the Russians in particular are not yet entirely convincing, so they were only able to win both games by narrow margins.

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