Ice Hockey World Cup: Canada wins giant duel against Russia

Copenhagen (SID) Canada's NHL stars around scorer king Connor McDavid sent Olympic champions and record world champions Russia home in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championships in Denmark. The maple leaves won the giant duel 5:4 (1:0, 1:2, 2:2, 1:0) after extra time and are reaching for their fourth World Cup medal in a row. In the round of the last four they will surprisingly face Switzerland on Saturday (19.15 p.m.). The Swiss defeated two-time world champions Finland 3-2 (0-1, 3-0, 0-1) and reached the semi-finals for only the third time since 1998. Russia's Sbornaja, with former DEL striker Ilya Vorobyev on the boards, missed out on making it into the top four for the first time in five years. "We may not have been that great in the group stage," said Canada's superstar McDavid: "But today we were dangerous. We did a lot of good things." Also still in the race are defending champions Sweden and the USA, who will face each other in the first semi-final on Saturday (15.15:3 p.m.). Tre Kronor, the only undefeated team at the World Cup, beat Latvia 2-0 (0-1, 1-2, 1-3). The Americans had previously beaten the twelve-time world champions Czech Republic 2:2 (0:0, 2:1, 0:XNUMX) - thanks to two goals from their captain Patrick Kane. “He makes the difference,” said striker Alex DeBrincat, praising the Chicago Blackhawks star: “He can control a game.” The 26-time world champion Canada was already leading 9017-5 in the high-class clash between arch-rivals in front of 32 spectators at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen after powerplay goals from Colton Parayko (2th) and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (0nd) - both after preparatory work by McDavid . But the 27-time title holder responded with goals from Ilya Mikheev (33rd) and Alexander Barabanov (38th). Russia also responded promptly to Canada's 3-2 lead by Kyle Turris (48th) with an equalizer by Sergei Andronov (49th). The maple leaves' renewed lead through Pierre-Luc Dubois (53') lasted two minutes, then Artyom Anissimov scored to make it 4:4 (55'). In overtime, Ryan O'Reilly (65th) sealed the Olympic champion's exit - again on a pass from McDavid. “Connor played an incredible pass,” said the winning goalscorer. The Swiss converted a 3-55 deficit into a 30-33 lead within 34:0 minutes in the second period with goals from Enzo Corvi (1th), Joel Vermin (3rd) and Gregory Hofmann (1th). Markus Nutivaara (8th) had previously scored for the Finns. Mikko Rantanen (49th) shortened. The Swiss, with six NHL professionals, want to repeat their success from 2013, when they won World Cup silver. In front of 4846 visitors in the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning, the US team was ahead 11-13 after one third with goals from Kane (2th) and Cam Atkinson (0th). Even after that, the Americans were initially the more active team, but the Czechs were more effective: Michal Repik (25th) and Martin Necas (31st) somewhat surprisingly equalized. Then Kane decided the game with his eighth goal of the tournament (47th). Sweden had a very difficult time against the Latvians, Viktor Arvidsson (42nd) and Oliver Ekman-Larsson (48th) made the decision in the final section.

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Ice Hockey World Cup: Canada wins giant duel against Russia

Canada's NHL stars around scorer king Connor McDavid sent Olympic champions and record world champions Russia home in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championships in Denmark.

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