wc results april world championships in germany group a results sweden canada st nd can geoff sanderson kevin dineen swe patrik juhlin jan larsson pp rd can geoff sanderson ps can mike gartner greg johnson adam graves can rod brind amour shayne corson shots on goal penalties attendance referee sweden min rob hearn usa canada min bill ranford stopped shots to lead canada to a victory in a very well played game the first period started with a give away from a canadian defenseman and rundqvist came in alone on ranford but couldn t put the puck over a sliding ranford later on kevin dineen had a great opportunity but soderstrom played very well too stefan nilsson had a couple of great dekes and set up jan larsson but again ranford came up big period ended scoreless but the edge to sweden in creating more opportunities second period action saw tommy soderstrom making a great save mark recchi made a backhanded cross ice pass to lindros eric one timed the puck but soderstrom was there to make a glove hand save at the minute mark canada started applying pressure on the swedes sanderson dineen brind amour worked hard and kept the puck in the swedes zone dineen gave the puck to sanderson who skated around a screened swedish defenseman came in on soderstrom and made a wrist shot that went it by soderstrom s far post canada the swedes picked up their game after that and peter forsberg had a shot that hit ranford s post the inside went parallel to the goal line and out then gartner got a penalty and the swedes a power play jan larsson took a shot from the slot ranford gave a rebound to larsson who saw juhlin by the far post passed the puck and ranford was beat third period started as the other periods swedes having most of the pressure but the canadians always dangerous once they were close to the swede goal at canada created some great chances and arto blomsten was forced to cover the puck in the swede goal crease since soderstrom lost sight of it that resulted in a penalty shot since a defenseman can t cover the puck in the goal crease geoff sanderson took the penalty shot his first ever he explained afterwards and he put it low on soderstrom s stick side close to the post excellent penalty shot to give canada a go ahead goal canada increased the lead on a very suspect offside gartner volleyed a bouncing puck past soderstrom to make it the swedes ran out of gas then and couldn t produce as good scoring chances as they had for periods the goal came with only second left rod brind amour scoring on a rebound from soderstrom where the swedish defense already had their minds in the dressing room a very good game the best in the wc so far with both goalies playing great soderstrom best player in sweden but ranford even played better than soderstrom that tells you something about ranford probably the best goalie in the world were some comments after the game canada played a very disciplined defense ranford pointed out that it is easy to play well with a good defense lindros played a lot and played well sanderson naturally game hero with two goals the forsberg naslund bergqvist line sweden s best along with larsson juhlin nilsson swedish defense played well cm kg peter popovic had the task of neutralizing cm kg eric lindros and managed this very well ranger defenseman peter andersson finally got to go to the wc and considering that he landed in germany just a few hours before the game he played very well swedish coach curt lundmark was irritated after the game partly because of the swedes inability to score and partly because of the linesman s mistake on the goal lines information follows further below italy switzerland st nd ita orlando rd penalties ita min swi min referee anton danko slovakia attendance group b results czech republic germany st nd cze kamil kastak cze jiri dolezal cze petr hrbek rd cze radek toupal cze josef beranek penalties cze min ger min min min game penalty referee darren loraas canada attendance the czechs were clearly better than the germans and the german crowd showed their discontent by throwing in stuff on the ice after a while finland usa st nd fin jarkko varvio rd usa ed olczyk penalties fin min usa min referee valeri bokarev russia attendance i hope some finns can provide information from this game i didn t see the whole game the finns took the lead on a jarkko varvio slap shot from the blue line and a soft goal for an unscreened mike richter as far as the play in the second period goes the finns seemed to have the most control so a lead was warranted as i saw it sweden canada goaltender tommy soderstrom bill ranford defense kenneth kennholt norm maciver fredrik stillman dave manson peter popovic geoff smith peter andersson brian benning arto blomsten terry carkner roger akerstrom garry galley derek mayer forwards mikael renberg dave gagner thomas rundqvist adam graves mikael andersson mike gartner markus naslund paul kariya peter forsberg eric lindros jonas bergqvist mark recchi patrik juhlin rod brind amour jan larsson shayne corson stefan nilsson kevin dineen charles berglund geoff sanderson michael nylander greg johnson andersson bergqvist brian savage kelly buchberger staffan axelsson etxonss ufsa ericsson se r s h contact for swedish hockey
