Game Report 1543

World Sledge Hockey Challenge

PLAYED AT: Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre
Date: Jan 18, 2016
GAME NOTES: U.S. USES THREE-GOAL SECOND PERIOD TO TOP RUSSIANS AT WSHC DAVID BRIEN BRIDGEWATER, N.S. – Another multi-point effort from Declan Farmer helped the United States to a 6-2 win over Russia on Monday at the 2016 World Sledge Hockey Challenge, keeping the U.S. perfect in preliminary round play. One day after recording four points in a victory over Korea, Farmer scored twice and adding an assist, leading an American offence that featured five other players with at least two points. Brody Roybal, Dan McCoy, Kevin McKee and Adam Page each chipped in with a goal and an assist, while Josh Pauls added two helpers of his own to push the Americans’ winning streak at the tournament to seven games. Nikolai Terentev scored his second goal in as many games, and Maksim Kuzminykh also found the scoresheet for the Russians, who dropped their second game in less than 18 hours after a tournament-opening loss to Canada on Sunday night. The teams traded goals in the first period; McKee opened the scoring at 6:02, going top shelf on Russian goaltender Mikhail Ivanov, but Terentev redirected a shot past Steve Cash just over six minutes later. The U.S. would take control in the second period, scoring three unanswered goals. McCoy made it 2-1 just 3:39 into the middle frame, surprising Ivanov with a quick shot under his sled, and Roybal snapped home the 3-1 goal less than two minutes later to give the Americans some breathing room. Farmer followed his shot to the net and buried a rebound while shorthanded at 8:50 to send the U.S. to the dressing room up three goals after 30 minutes. The Russians cut the American lead back to two goals just 2:23 into the third period when Kuzminyhk slid a shot underneath Cash, but Farmer’s second of the game at 7:38 made it a 5-2 game. Page capped the scoring with exactly a minute left, finishing off a beautiful under-the-sled deke with a shot just inside the post past Ivanov. Cash earned the win in the American goal, making 10 saves before giving way to Bo Reichenbach, who didn’t face a shot, with 7:04 left. The U.S. will look to finish off a perfect preliminary round when it takes on Canada in a much-anticipated match-up on Wednesday night (7 p.m. AT), while Russia caps the round robin Wednesday afternoon against Korea (noon AT).

Visiting Team: Russia

Home Team: United States

RUSSIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Ivanov, Mikhail
G	20	Plotnikov, Evgeny
	2	Lysov, Aleksei
	3	Berdnik, Ivan
	4	Andriyanov, Maksim
	7	Panfilov, Sergey
	8	Lisov, Dmitriy
	11	Amosov, Alexey
	14	Kuzminykh, Maksim
	15	Shcherbakov, Alexander
	16	Ivanov, Fedor
	17	Selyukin, Vadim
	19	Popov, Ilia
	21	Petrov, Evgeny
	22	Terentev, Nikolai
	23	Volkov, Ilia

RUSSIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On

UNITED STATES LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Reichenbach, Bo
G	34	Cash, Steve
	4	Roybal, Brody
	5	Hanning Jr, Billy
	6	McDermott, Luke
	11	Carron, Tyler
	13	Sweeney, Josh
	14	McCoy, Dan
	15	Landeros, Nikko
	16	Farmer, Declan
	17	Douglas, Chris
	19	McKee, Kevin
	20	Page, Adam
	23	Roman, Rico
	27	Pauls, Josh
	28	Schaus, Paul

UNITED STATES PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	20	2:00	(auto) Holding minor	7:55	1		7:55	9:05
2nd	15	2:00	Teeing minor	7:59	1		7:59	9:01

RUSSIA Goals

RUSSIA PLAYERS (plus)

UNITED STATES PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st

12:34

22-8-23

3rd

2:23

UNITED STATES Goals

UNITED STATES PLAYERS (plus)

RUSSIA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st