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Winter Universiade men’s hockey: Canada claims bronze
Photo credit FISU http://www.fisu.net/en/2011-WU-Update-Day-11-Ice-Hockey-Mens-Medal-Games-2644.html?idProduit=1337
ERZURUM, Turkey (CIS) – The Canadian men’s hockey
team claimed the bronze medal at the 25th Winter Universiade thanks
to a 3-1 win over Kazakhstan, Sunday morning, at Cemal Gursel
Arena.
IIHF game summary: http://www.erzurum2011.gov.tr/pdfts/IHM400102/C74
Team Canada website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/universiade/winter
2011 Winter Universiade website: http://www.erzurum2011.gov.tr/english
Canada now has 11 men’s hockey medals in history at the
World University Games including three gold, three silver and five
bronze. It marked the third consecutive Universiade podium for the
Canadians following a second-place finish in 2009 and a
championship title in 2007, and their seventh medal in the last
eight Games going back to 1997.
The red-and-white squad comprised of all-stars from the Ontario
University Athletics conference, which took second place in Pool B
in the preliminary round, finishes the tournament with four wins
and two losses, including one in a shootout.
Later on Sunday, defending champion Russia faces Belarus for gold.
In Saturday’s semifinals, Russia beat Canada 4-2, while
Belarus defeated Kazakhstan 3-1.
“We’ve been together as a team for 22 days and these
guys worked extremely hard from day one, so I’m really happy
that they get to go home with a medal. They battled back after a
heartbreaking loss yesterday. It’s a well-deserved bronze
medal,” said Team Canada head coach Clarke Singer of the
University of Western Ontario. “Kazakhstan has a good team.
We got up by a couple of goals but they just hung around. Their
goalie had an outstanding game.”
“It’s not exactly what we set out to do but I
don’t think we can be disappointed. We had a great
tournament,” said team captain Jordan Smith from Lakehead
University. “We had a really hard game last night against the
Russians. We know we gave it everything we had and we’re
happy to be going home with a medal.”
“Overall it was an unbelievable experience. We had a great
group of guys, and I can’t say enough about the coaching
staff. It’s a great feeling right now,” added the
defenceman from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., who carried the Canadian
flag into the opening ceremonies.
McGill forward Maxime Langelier-Parent of Montreal, Western
Ontario’s Yashar Farmanara of West Vancouver and Waterloo
rearguard Kyle Sonnenburg of Waterloo, Ont., each scored their
second goal of the tournament for Canada, while Western netminder
Anthony Grieco of Brampton, Ont., made 30 saves to earn his third
win in five starts.
Pavel Zhitkov was outstanding in front of Kazakhstan’s net
turning aside 43 pucks as the Canadians outshot their rivals 46-31
including a 16-5 advantage in the first period and a 17-10 edge in
the third.
Langelier-Parent opened the scoring with 82 seconds left in the
first when he pushed a rebound past Zhitkov.
Eight minutes into the middle stanza, Farmanara also beat Zhitkov
on a rebound to double Canada’s lead only 17 seconds after he
got out of the penalty box.
Sonnenburg gave Canada some breathing room at 6:39 of the third
thanks to a one-timer during a power play.
Mikhail Kachulin brought Kazakhstan back to within two less than
three minutes later but the Canadians managed to hold on for the
win.
The red-and-white penalty-killing unit excelled once again blanking
Kazakhstan on nine opportunities. The Canadian PK was the best in
the competition with only one goal allowed in 28 chances
(.964).
Canada went one-for-five on the power play to finish the tournament
in fourth place thanks to a 31.6 percent success rate
(12-of-38).
SCORING
SUMMARY
Canada 3, Kazakhstan 1
FIRST PERIOD
SCORING:
1. CAN Maxime Langelier-Parent (2) (Keaton Turkiewicz), 18:38
PENALTIES:
Team (KAZ) delay of game, 3:13;
Maxime Langelier-Parent (CAN) boarding, 6:40;
Dmitriy Tikhonov (KAZ) kneeing, 11:20;
Evan Vossen (CAN) tripping, 15:03.
SECOND PERIOD
SCORING:
2. CAN Yashar Farmanara (2) (Kevin Baker, Tim Priano), 8:09
PENALTIES:
Yashar Farmanara (CAN) hooking, 5:52;
Jean-Michel Rizk (CAN) slashing, 16:12.
THIRD PERIOD
SCORING:
3. CAN Kyle Sonnenburg (2) (Matt Caria, Dominic Jalbert), 6:39
PP
4. KAZ Mikhail Kachulin (2) (Yevgeniy Zhdanov), 9:11
PENALTIES:
Brandon MacLean (CAN) holding, 0:27;
Eduard Mazula (KAZ) elbowing, 3:06;
Kevin Baker (CAN) high sticking (double minor), 3:14;
Pavel Zhilin (KAZ) cross checking, 5:37;
Alexandr Nurek (KAZ) hooking, 6:28;
Evan Vossen (CAN) tripping, 11:32;
Jean-Michel Rizk (CAN) tripping, 19:02;
Jean-Michel Rizk (CAN) misconduct, 19:02.
GOALS (by period)
CAN: 1-1-1: 3
KAZ: 0-0-1: 1
SHOTS ON GOAL (by period)
CAN: 16-13-17: 46
KAZ: 5-16-10: 31
POWER PLAY:
CAN: 1-5
KAZ: 0-9
GOALTENDERS
CAN – Anthony Grieco (W, 3-2, 31 shots, 30 saves, 1 GA,
60:00)
KAZ – Pavel Zhitkov (L, 46 shots, 43 saves, 3 GA, 59:02)
KAZ – Team (0 shot, 0 save, 0 GA, 0:58)
REFEREE: Martin Gasparik (SVK)
LINESMEN: Andreas Malmqvist (SWE), Masi Puolakka (FIN)
ATTENDANCE: 2235
START: 11:30
END: 13:39
LENGTH: 2:09
TEAM CANADA
SCHEDULE & RESULTS (local time)
Thursday, Jan. 27: Canada 9, Slovenia 0
Saturday, Jan. 29: Belarus 3, Canada 2 (3-2 in shootout)
Monday, Jan. 31: Canada 3, South Korea 2
Thursday, Feb. 3 (quarter-finals): Canada 9, Slovakia 1
Saturday, Feb. 5 (semifinal #1): Belarus 3, Kazakhstan 1
Saturday, Feb. 5 (semifinal #2): Russia 4, Canada 2
Sunday, Feb. 6 (bronze): Canada 3, Kazakhstan 1
Sunday, Feb. 6, 15:00 (final): Russia vs. Belarus
FINAL PRELIMINARY
ROUND STANDINGS
1. Russia 9 pts (pool winner)
2. Belarus 8 pts (pool winner)
3. Kazakhstan 6 pts (pool winner)
4. Canada 7 pts
5. Slovakia 6 pts
6. Japan 5 pts
7. USA 6 pts (third in pool)
8. Czech Republic 4 pts
9. Slovenia 3 pts
10. Spain 0 pts
11. South Korea 0 pts
12. Turkey 0 pts
Pool A
GP
W
OTW OTL
L
GF
GA PTS
1.
Russia
3
3
0
0
0
34
3 9
2.
Japan
3
1
1
0
1
22
4 5
3. Czech Rep.
3
1
0
1
1
18
7 4
4. Turkey
3
0
0
0
3
0
60 0
Pool B
1. Belarus
3
2
1
0
0
16
4 8
2. Canada
3
2
0
1
0
14
5 7
3. Slovenia
3
1
0
0
2
11
16 3
4. South Korea
3
0
0
0
3
5
21 0
Pool C
1. Kazakhstan
3
2
0
0
1
9
6 6
2. Slovakia
3
2
0
0
1
17
10 6
3.
USA
3
2
0
0
1
11
9 6
4.
Spain
3
0
0
0
3
2
14 0
Scoring system:
3 points for a win in regulation
2 points for a win in overtime or shootout
1 point for a loss in overtime or shootout
Legend: W (win), OTW (OT win), OTL (OT loss), L (loss)
-CIS-
