Game Report 2163

IIHF World Championship

PLAYED AT: Royal Arena
Date: May 17, 2018
GAME NOTES: CANADA EARNS SEMIFINAL BERTH WITH OT WIN OVER RUSSIA JESSICA GOWANS COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Ryan O’Reilly (Varna, Ont./Buffalo NHL) scored on the power play in overtime to send Canada’s National Men’s Team into the semifinals with a 5-4 victory over Russia on Thursday in the quarter-finals at the 2018 IIHF World Championship. Canada will take on the winner of Switzerland-Finland in the semis Saturday in Copenhagen. O’Reilly set himself up at the top of the crease and redirected a gorgeous feed from Connor McDavid (Newmarket, Ont./Edmonton, NHL) past Russian goaltender Igor Sheshtyorkin to put the Canadians into the final four for the fourth year in a row. McDavid finished with three assists, and sits third in tournament scoring with 16 points. He’s only four points back of the all-time Canadian record of 20, co-held by Steve Yzerman (1990) and Dany Heatley (2008). Colton Parayko (St. Albert, Alta./St. Louis, NHL) had a goal and an assist in the win, while Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (Burnaby, B.C./Edmonton, NHL), Kyle Turris (New Westminster, B.C./Nashville, NHL), and Pierre-Luc Dubois (Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Que./Columbus, NHL) also scored for Canada. Parayko got Canada on the board five minutes into the opening period on the power play, taking a no-look drop pass from McDavid and hammering it home from the point for the 1-0 lead. Nugent-Hopkins stretched the lead to two midway through the second period off a cross-ice pass from McDavid, going off the post and in for another goal with the man advantage. Russia cut into the lead just over a minute later when Ilya Mikheyev converted a scramble in front of Canadian goaltender Darcy Kuemper (Saskatoon, Sask./Arizona, NHL), and Alexander Barabanov got the equalizer for Russia at 17:32, snapping a shot under the arm of Kuemper to send the game to the intermission tied 2-2. Canada took the lead twice in the third period, only to have the Russians tie it within two minutes. Turris put Canada up 3-2 at 7:11, finishing a set-up from Jaden Schwartz (Wilcox, Sask./St. Louis, NHL), but Sergei Andronov tipped in a shot from Nikita Zaitsev 1:33 after that. Dubois was next, outmuscling a defender to chip Tyson Jost (Kelowna, B.C./Colorado, NHL) rebound past Sheshtyorkin, but Artyom Anisimov got a shot up and over Kuemper with 5:26 left to force overtime. Canada finished with a 41-30 advatage in shots on goal.

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: Russia

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	McElhinney, Curtis
G	35	Kuemper, Darcy
	3	Edmundson, Joel
	5	Ekblad, Aaron
	6	Pulock, Ryan
	7	Eberle, Jordan
	8	Turris, Kyle
	10	Schenn, Brayden
	11	Pageau, Jean-Gabriel
	12	Bailey, Josh
	13	Barzal, Mathew
	17	Schwartz, Jaden
	18	Dubois, Pierre-Luc
	21	Jost, Tyson
	25	Nurse, Darnell
	27	Murray, Ryan
	44	Vlasic, Marc-Edouard
	52	Chabot, Thomas
	53	Horvat, Bo
	55	Parayko, Colton
	72	Beauvillier, Anthony
	90	O'Reilly, Ryan
	93	Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan
	97	McDavid, Connor

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
2nd	3	2:00	Holding	14:08	1		14:08	16:08

RUSSIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Shestyorkin, Igor
G	83	Koshechkin, Vasili
	3	Khafizullin, Dinar
	4	Gavrikov, Vladislav
	7	Kaprizov, Kirill
	11	Andronov, Sergei
	13	Datsyuk, Pavel
	15	Anisimov, Artyom
	19	Buchnevich, Pavel
	22	Zaitsev, Nikita
	25	Grigorenko, Mikhail
	29	Kablukov, Ilya
	41	Soshnikov, Nikita
	44	Yakovlev, Yegor
	51	Bereglazov, Alexei
	55	Kiselevich, Bogdan
	63	Dadonov, Yevgeni
	66	Mikheyev, Ilya
	78	Mamin, Maxim
	87	Shalunov, Maxim
	88	Tryamkin, Nikita
	89	Nesterov, Nikita
	94	Barabanov, Alexander
	97	Gusev, Nikita

RUSSIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	11	2:00	Tripping	2:55	1		2:55	4:05
1st		2:00	Too Many Players	11:36	1		11:36	13:36
2nd	11	2:00	Tripping	10:47	1		10:47	11:51
1st OT	7	2:00	Slashing	3:35	1		3:35	4:57

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

RUSSIA PLAYERS (minus)

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Time

G-As1-As2

1st