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The semifinals of the Hockey World Championship were revealed on Thursday night in Riga, Latvia.
Canada, which started the championship with three defeats in the impressive and final quarter-finals and took fourth place in Group B after extra time twenty-one He broke the Russian Olympic team (ROC) and will face the American team in the semi-finals.
The Russians pulled it off Jengenijus Timkinas (34:32), but at the beginning of the third quarter Adamas Enrique (45:03) tied the score 1: 1 with a shot from mid-range.
A LOT of things are happening here, including the first goal! 🚨@russiahockey Get on the board first! #IIHFWorlds #ROCAN pic.twitter.com/jLmbjukjq8
– IIHF (@IIHFHockey) June 3, 2021
TIE GAME! 🚨
Adam Henrique = Clutch Captain 🔥@hockeycanada #IIHFWorlds #ROCAN @AnaheimDucks pic.twitter.com/aFZZNZbw5z
– IIHF (@IIHFHockey) June 3, 2021
Troy Stecheris played in an impressive way, which “bathed” two Russian players and gave an ideal pass to the first Andrew Mangiapane’ui (62:12), who sent the puck into goal and gave the Canadians victory and a ticket to the semifinals.
THEY DID IT!!! 🇨🇦
Canada wins in overtime !!
Andrew Mangiapane is the hero in OT to defeat Russia! 🔥@ HockeyCanada #IIHFWorlds #ROCAN @NHLFlames pic.twitter.com/xeIcJBUTzV
– IIHF (@IIHFHockey) June 3, 2021
During the last 7 championships, the Russian team was delighted three times with bronze (2016, 2017, 2019), once with silver (2015) and once with gold (2014). Only now and in 2018 the Russians did not reach the semi-finals. Officially, this time the ROC team took fifth place.
Canadian team since 2015 won two gold medals (2015 and 2016) and two silver (2017 and 2019), while in 2018 fourth on the left. For Canadians, this will be the sixth consecutive World Cup semifinal.
Russia reached the quarterfinals as the winner of Group A, scoring 17 points in 7 games. Meanwhile, their rival Canada started the championship unsuccessfully and only after a good result of the match between Latvia and Germany did they reach the quarterfinals, taking fourth place in Group B.
In the next quarterfinals, the Finnish team after a very tenacious fight 1: 0 He broke the Czech team and will face the German team in the semi-finals.
The teams did not score goals in the first half, although the Finns played in the majority at the end of the half.
When the second half went to the second half, Jere Innala (32:55) repeated the teammate’s throw-off and scored the first Finnish goal – 1: 0. At the end of the quarter, Liro Pakarinen was fined 2 + 10 minutes for the Finns, but the Czechs did not take advantage of the quantitative advantage.
Jere Innala opens the scoring. 1-0 for @leijonat.🚨🇫🇮 #FINCES #IIHFWorlds pic.twitter.com/pZ9yRDZnRS
– IIHF (@IIHFHockey) June 3, 2021
The Czechs replaced the goalkeeper with the sixth player on the field after 2 minutes of play. 16 seconds, but despite the pressure of the opponents, he did not score a goal that could equal the result and had to recognize the advantage of the Finnish team.
The Finnish national team was second in group B, while the Czechs were third in group A.
The Finnish team won gold medals in the last championship (2019). They are in the last 10 championships only in 2015 and 2018. You did not reach the semi-finals and won two gold and two silver medals during this decade and now you can add another medal to your trophy collection.
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