PLAYED AT: Essar Centre
Date: Nov 3, 2016
GAME NOTES: SWEDES HANG ON TO BEAT U.S., ADVANCE TO U17 SEMIFINALS
LEE BOYADJIAN
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – Carl Jakobsson and Jacob Olofsson scored early in the third period, and Sweden survived a frantic finish to edge the United States 4-3 on Thursday afternoon and move into the semifinals at the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
With the win, Sweden will face the winner of the Canada White-Canada Red quarter-final on Friday. The U.S. will wait on the results from the other quarters to learn who they will face in a placement game.
It’s the second year in a row Sweden has topped the U.S. in the quarter-finals; after nine consecutive tournaments with a medal, the Americans will go back-to-back years without for the first time since 2004-05.
After the teams spent the opening minutes of the game trading chances, Sweden was first on the board after Jonatan Berggren found a rebound at the side of the net and beat U.S. goaltender Keegan Karki to the near post for a 1-0 lead just 6:16 in.
The Swedes ran into penalty trouble (for the first time) in the second period, handing the U.S. five opportunities on the power play in the middle frame, leading to a 15-3 advantage in shots on goal.
But Olof Lindbom and the penalty-killing unit kept the Americans at bay, including during 30 seconds of five-on-three time, and Sweden doubled its lead before the end of 40 minutes.
Coming off the side boards, David Gustafsson ripped a quick shot past Keegan Karki with less than three minutes to go in the middle frame, opening up a 2-0 advantage. But the Scandinavians weren’t finished yet.
Just over a minute into the third, Jakobsson picked up a turnover at the U.S. blue line and deked out Karki for his second of the tournament to make it 3-0, and Olofsson blocked a shot at his own blue-line and raced away to beat Karki for the 4-0 goal.
The Americans quickly turned the momentum to their favour, though, and Erik Middendorf got the U.S. on the board five minutes into the final frame, redirecting a feed from Patrick Giles past Lindbom.
Penalties came back to bite the Swedes again, and Bode Wilde got a shot through traffic on an American power play at 16:45 to make it a two-goal game, before Joel Farabee gathered in a wide shot off the end-boards and beat Lindbom with 43 seconds left on another man advantage, setting up a tense final few seconds.
Karki went to the bench again in the dying moments, but the U.S. couldn’t register another shot, and a valiant comeback attempt fell a single goal short.
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Visiting Team: Sweden
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Home Team: United States
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SWEDEN LINEUP
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| Pos |
No. |
Name |
| G | 1 | Lindbom, Olof | | G | 30 | Jägbring, Lucas | | | 3 | Bokvist, Adam | | | 4 | Fransson, William | | | 5 | Johansson, Filip | | | 6 | Andersson, Axel | | | 8 | Lundmark, Simon | | | 9 | Sandin, Rasmus | | | 11 | Bäck, Oskar | | | 12 | Lilja, David | | | 13 | Gustafsson, David | | | 16 | Fagemo, Samuel | | | 17 | Berggren, Jonatan | | | 19 | Höglander, Nils | | | 21 | Olofsson, Jacob | | | 23 | Wernblom, Lukas | | | 24 | Hedman, Linus | | | 25 | Nässén, Linus | | | 26 | Westfält, Marcus | | | 27 | Jakobsson, Carl | | | | | | | | |
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SWEDEN PENALTIES
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| Per. |
No. |
Min |
Offence |
Off |
PP |
PS |
Start |
On |
| 1st | 6 | 2:00 | Roughing | 18:43 | 1 | | 18:43 | 0:00 | | 2nd | 19 | 2:00 | Interference | 3:48 | 1 | | 3:48 | 5:48 | | 2nd | 3 | 2:00 | Tripping | 6:11 | 1 | | 6:11 | 8:11 | | 2nd | 12 | 2:00 | Unsportsmanlike Conduct | 9:28 | | | 9:28 | 11:28 | | 2nd | 4 | 2:00 | Hooking | 12:47 | 1 | | 12:47 | 10:47 | | 2nd | 5 | 2:00 | Delay of Game | 14:10 | 1 | | 14:10 | 16:10 | | 3rd | 9 | 2:00 | Tripping | 11:07 | 1 | | 11:07 | 13:07 | | 3rd | 17 | 2:00 | Holding | 15:31 | 1 | | 15:31 | 16:45 | | 3rd | 5 | 2:00 | Roughing | 18:13 | 1 | | 18:13 | 19:18 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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UNITED STATES LINEUP
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| Pos |
No. |
Name |
| G | 31 | Ullan, Ryan | | G | 35 | Karki, Keegan | | | 32 | DeBoer, Jack | | | 33 | Goldowski, Jake | | | 34 | Jenkins, Blade | | | 36 | Giles, Patrick | | | 37 | Wise, Jake | | | 38 | Gruden, Jonathan | | | 39 | Wahlstrom, Oliver | | | 40 | Janicke, Trevor | | | 41 | Pivonka, Jake | | | 42 | Middendorf, Erik | | | 43 | Weiss, Tyler | | | 44 | Farabee, Joel | | | 45 | King, D.J. | | | 47 | Stastney, Spencer | | | 49 | Emberson, Ty | | | 50 | Miller, K’Andre | | | 51 | MacKinnon, Will | | | 52 | Wilde, Bode | | | 55 | Krygier, Christian | | | 56 | Semik, Jacob |
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UNITED STATES PENALTIES
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| Per. |
No. |
Min |
Offence |
Off |
PP |
PS |
Start |
On |
| 1st | 52 | 2:00 | Cross-Checking | 3:40 | 1 | | 3:40 | 5:40 | | 1st | 43 | 2:00 | Holding | 10:29 | 1 | | 10:29 | 12:29 | | 1st | 39 | 2:00 | Tripping | 13:08 | 1 | | 13:08 | 15:08 | | 2nd | 40 | 2:00 | Holding | 9:28 | | | 9:28 | 11:28 | | 3rd | 43 | 2:00 | High-Sticking | 7:39 | 1 | | 7:39 | 9:39 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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