Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:30:38 PM
USA 8, Sweden 2 ~ Jan. 1 /RELEGATION
U.S. Advances to World Junior Championship Semifinal Round With Win Over Sweden;
Phil Kessel Notches Hat Trick, Assist
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AL Montoya made 29 saves Saturday to help
Team USA top Sweden, 8-2.Herald photo by Jackie Lorentz
Sweden's Per Salvilahti-Nagander and USA's Drew Stafford
throw punches in the second period during Saturday's game.
Herald photo by Jackie Lorentz
Sweden's Per Salvilahti-Nagander and USA's Drew Stafford throw punches in the second period during Saturday's game.
USAHockey
January 1, 2005
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Phil Kessel (Madison, Wis./U.S. Nat’l Under-18 Team) scored three times and added an assist as the U.S. defeated Sweden, 8-2, to advance to the Semifinal Round of the 2005 IIHF World Junior Championship tonight. With the win, the U.S. is guaranteed a spot in the Medal Round.
Sweden took its only lead of the game, scoring at 4:20 of the first session before Kevin Porter (Detroit, Mich./Univ. of Michigan) lifted a Kessel rebound into the high corner to knot the score. The teams went to the locker room tied after one.
“We knew it was going to be tough game. We got behind but managed to battle back and get the lead,” said Head Coach Scott Sandelin. “I thought we got better as the game went on.”
Just over three minutes into the middle stanza, Drew Stafford (Faribault, Minn./Univ. of North Dakota) broke the tie with a glove-side shot through traffic.
Kessel then notched his first of the night, going coast-to-coast before firing five-hole on Sweden goalie David Rautio Berguv. The Swedes narrowed the U.S. lead to one at the midpoint, when Loui Eriksson maneuvered around Al Montoya, (Glenview, Ill./Univ. of Michigan) scoring low, glove-side.
Kessel struck again early in the third, skating around Sweden’s Johan Fransson and pushing the puck off the far post, to score the eventual game-winner. He completed the trick 3:06 later, when Patrick O’Sullivan’s (Winston-Salem, N.C./Mississauga Ice Dogs) shot hit the post and squirted out into the slot where a waiting Kessel jammed it in.
“Thank god we had Phil Kessel.” Sandelin said, “I thought he was the difference tonight. He just continues to get better.”
With the U.S. on the man-advantage, and Sweden opting for a goaltending change, Robbie Schremp (Fulton, N.Y./London Knights) bounced the puck over Christopher Heino-Lindberg’s pads for 6-2, USA. Ryan Suter (Madison, Wis./Milwaukee Admirals) tallied the second U.S. power play goal of the night, knocking in a hard slapshot from the high slot at 12:46, and T.J. Hensick (Howell, Mich./Univ. of Michigan) punctuated the U.S. win with a backhanded shot high to the stick-side with 15 seconds remaining.
The win sends the U.S. to a Semifinal matchup with Russia on Sunday, Jan. 2, at 7:38 p.m. CST (ESPN2). The winner of that game will advance to the gold medal game while the losing team will play for the bronze. Both games of the Medal Round are set for Tuesday, Jan. 4. If the U.S. reaches the gold medal game, ESPN will broadcast it live, beginning at 7:08 p.m. CST.
U.S. Advances to World Junior Championship Semifinal Round With Win Over Sweden;
Phil Kessel Notches Hat Trick, Assist
AL Montoya made 29 saves Saturday to help
Team USA top Sweden, 8-2.Herald photo by Jackie Lorentz
Sweden's Per Salvilahti-Nagander and USA's Drew Stafford
throw punches in the second period during Saturday's game.
Herald photo by Jackie Lorentz
Sweden's Per Salvilahti-Nagander and USA's Drew Stafford throw punches in the second period during Saturday's game.
USAHockey
January 1, 2005
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Phil Kessel (Madison, Wis./U.S. Nat’l Under-18 Team) scored three times and added an assist as the U.S. defeated Sweden, 8-2, to advance to the Semifinal Round of the 2005 IIHF World Junior Championship tonight. With the win, the U.S. is guaranteed a spot in the Medal Round.
Sweden took its only lead of the game, scoring at 4:20 of the first session before Kevin Porter (Detroit, Mich./Univ. of Michigan) lifted a Kessel rebound into the high corner to knot the score. The teams went to the locker room tied after one.
“We knew it was going to be tough game. We got behind but managed to battle back and get the lead,” said Head Coach Scott Sandelin. “I thought we got better as the game went on.”
Just over three minutes into the middle stanza, Drew Stafford (Faribault, Minn./Univ. of North Dakota) broke the tie with a glove-side shot through traffic.
Kessel then notched his first of the night, going coast-to-coast before firing five-hole on Sweden goalie David Rautio Berguv. The Swedes narrowed the U.S. lead to one at the midpoint, when Loui Eriksson maneuvered around Al Montoya, (Glenview, Ill./Univ. of Michigan) scoring low, glove-side.
Kessel struck again early in the third, skating around Sweden’s Johan Fransson and pushing the puck off the far post, to score the eventual game-winner. He completed the trick 3:06 later, when Patrick O’Sullivan’s (Winston-Salem, N.C./Mississauga Ice Dogs) shot hit the post and squirted out into the slot where a waiting Kessel jammed it in.
“Thank god we had Phil Kessel.” Sandelin said, “I thought he was the difference tonight. He just continues to get better.”
With the U.S. on the man-advantage, and Sweden opting for a goaltending change, Robbie Schremp (Fulton, N.Y./London Knights) bounced the puck over Christopher Heino-Lindberg’s pads for 6-2, USA. Ryan Suter (Madison, Wis./Milwaukee Admirals) tallied the second U.S. power play goal of the night, knocking in a hard slapshot from the high slot at 12:46, and T.J. Hensick (Howell, Mich./Univ. of Michigan) punctuated the U.S. win with a backhanded shot high to the stick-side with 15 seconds remaining.
The win sends the U.S. to a Semifinal matchup with Russia on Sunday, Jan. 2, at 7:38 p.m. CST (ESPN2). The winner of that game will advance to the gold medal game while the losing team will play for the bronze. Both games of the Medal Round are set for Tuesday, Jan. 4. If the U.S. reaches the gold medal game, ESPN will broadcast it live, beginning at 7:08 p.m. CST.
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