Game Report 407		IIHF World Championship
PLAYED AT: LANXESS Arena Date: May 21, 2017 GAME NOTES: CANADA TAKES SILVER AT MEN’S WORLDS WENDY GRAVES COLOGNE, Germany – The three-peat wasn’t meant to be. Ryan O’Reilly (Varna, Ont./Buffalo, NHL) scored his sixth goal of the tournament and Calvin Pickard (Winnipeg, Man./Colorado, NHL) turned away 40 shots, but Canada couldn’t score in the shootout, falling 2-1 to Sweden and earning the silver medal at the 2017 IIHF World Championship. After back-to-back gold medals in 2015 and 2016, Canada was looking to make it three in a row for the first time since 1950-52. But Henrik Lundqvist stopped Nathan MacKinnon (Cole Harbour, N.S./Colorado, NHL), Brayden Point (Calgary, Alta./Tampa Bay, NHL), O’Reilly and Mitch Marner (Thornhill, Ont./Toronto, NHL) in the shootout, while Sweden got goals from Nicklas Backstrom and Oliver Ekman-Larsson. Backstrom beat Pickard low stick side, and Ekman-Larsson’s shot went off the blocker and in. It’s the 14th silver medal Canada has won at the men’s worlds, and 49th medal overall. A quick, evenly played opening period came to a goal-less end, and it looked like the same would be said of the second. Canada had drawn its first power play 50 seconds into that middle period. The team registered five shots on net – plus hit one post – and although it couldn’t solve Lundqvist, it was propelled by that early strong play and dominated possession the rest of the period. But Sweden broke the deadlock shorthanded with only 21 seconds left in the period. After a series of miscues by Canada prevented the team from moving the puck out of its zone, Victor Hedman flipped a backhand toward the net that bounced in five-hole on Pickard. Canada enjoyed back-to-back power plays to start the period, and finally solved the tournament’s best penalty kill on its second chance of the period. Travis Konecny (Clachan, Ont./Philadelphia, NHL) drew a questionable high-sticking call, and one minute later O’Reilly scored on a rebound off a Marner shot. Canada scored at least one power play goal in all 10 of its games. Both teams enjoyed power play opportunities as time wound down in regulation, but neither could prevent the need for an extra 20-minute period. Canada had two great chances to end it late in overtime when Alex Killorn (Beaconsfield, Que./Tampa Bay, NHL) just missed an open net and MacKinnon batted the puck just inches wide. Visiting Team: Canada Home Team: Sweden
CANADA LINEUP Pos No.   Name G 30   Johnson, Chad G 31   Pickard, Calvin   4   Barrie, Tyson   5   Demers, Jason   7   Morrissey, Josh   9   Duchene, Matt   10   Schenn, Brayden   11   Konecny, Travis   12   Parayko, Colton   14   Couturier, Sean   16   Marner, Mitchell   17   Simmonds, Wayne   19   Matheson, Michael   21   Point, Brayden   24   de Haan, Calvin   28   Giroux, Claude   29   MacKinnon, Nathan   42   Lee, Chris   44   Vlasic, Marc-Edouard   53   Skinner, Jeff   55   Scheifele, Mark   71   Killorn, Alex   90   O'Reilly, Ryan	CANADA PENALTIES Per. No.  Min  Offence Off PP PS Start On 1st 19  2:00  Tripping 5:56 1   5:56 7:56 1st 71  2:00  Slashing 13:08 1   13:08 15:08 2nd 7  2:00  Holding 10:55 1   10:55 12:55 3rd 19  2:00  Tripping 16:42 1   16:42 18:42 1st OT 14  2:00  Tripping 9:07 1   9:07 11:07	SWEDEN LINEUP Pos No.   Name G 30   Fasth, Viktor G 31   Lack, Eddie G 35   Lundqvist, Henrik   3   Klingberg, John   5   Holm, Philip   6   Stralman, Anton   15   Lindberg, Oscar   16   Kruger, Marcus   18   Everberg, Dennis   19   Backstrom, Nicklas   20   Lundqvist, Joel   22   Eriksson Ek, Joel   23   Ekman-Larsson, Oliver   24   Edler, Alexander   25   Brodin, Jonas   28   Lindholm, Elias   29   Nylander, William   34   Soderberg, Carl   42   Nordtsrom, Joakim   48   Klingberg, Carl   49   Rask, Victor   67   Omark, Linus   71   Karlsson, William   77   Hedman, Victor   92   Landeskog, Gabriel	SWEDEN PENALTIES Per. No.  Min  Offence Off PP PS Start On 2nd 19  2:00  Holding 0:50 1   0:50 2:50 2nd 19  2:00  Slashing 19:17 1   19:17 1:17 3rd 28  2:00  High-Sticking 1:48 1   1:48 1:58 3rd   2:00  Too Many Players 18:36 1   18:36 0:36

CANADA Goals CANADA PLAYERS (plus) SWEDEN PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time    G-As1-As2     3rd 1:58  PP  90-16-29

SWEDEN Goals SWEDEN PLAYERS (plus) CANADA PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time    G-As1-As2     2nd 19:39  SH  77

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES CANADA 1 / 4 SWEDEN 0 / 5 PENALTY SUMMARY CANADA 10 min / 5 inf SWEDEN 8 min / 4 inf POINT SUMMARY CANADA 1 G + 2 A = 3 Pts SWEDEN 1 G + A = 1 Pts

SCORING 1 2 3 OT1 SO Total CANADA 0 0 1 0 0 1 SWEDEN 0 1 0 0 1 2 GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time) 1 2 3 OT1 Tot. On Off CAN - Pickard (80:00) (SL) 12 5 12 11 40 /0:00 1st OT/20:00 SWE - Lundqvist (80:00) (W) 10 12 10 10 42 /0:00 1st OT/20:00 SHOOTOUT SWEDEN shoots first for each round. CANADA SWEDEN #  SHOOTER  29   Nathan MacKinnon    --    21   Brayden Point    --    90   Ryan O'Reilly    --    16   Mitchell Marner    --   #   SHOOTER    --   29    William Nylander  Goal 19    Nicklas Backstrom  Goal 23    Oliver Ekman-Larsson    --   92    Gabriel Landeskog TOTALS:  0  2 Stars of the Game TIME OF GAME:   -  Start:   -  End:   -  Attendance:

OFFICIALS Referee: Referee: Linesmen: Linesmen: CERTIFIED CORRECT   This report has been checked and verified against the Official IIHF World Championship Game Report.

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