wc results april world championships in germany group a results sweden switzerland st swi manuele celio swi patrick howald swi patrick howald sven leuenberger nd swe peter andersson michael nylander pp swi roman waeger martin rauch sven leuenberger pp swe jonas bergqvist markus naslund swe jan larsson patrik juhlin rd swe mikael renberg thomas rundqvist peter andersson swi roman waeger swi felix hollenstein sven leuenberger thomas vrabec shots on goal penalties attendance referee sweden min rob hearn usa switzerland min switzerland beat sweden in a wc for the first time since and the swiss now have a small chance of reaching the quarterfinals if austria beats italy tonight the swiss took the lead after hakan ahlund made an incredibly stupid drop pass at his own blue line and celio came in alone with soderstrom and beat tommy to the stick side the swedes continued to make mistakes as howald was allowed to skate in between the swedish d and put the puck past tommy to make it was a nice one howald entered the swedish zone slammed on the breaks and his shot went in by tommy s far post one of the lousiest periods i ve seen sweden play this year second period saw a new swedish team and the swiss had to ice the puck many times on a pp nylander skated in from the boards pavoni made the initial save but peter andersson scored on the rebound then a power play goal from the swiss a slap shot from the blue line hit two players on the way to the goal and past soderstrom also jonas bergqvist made it after a nice pass from naslund behind the goal jan larsson reduced the lead to just before the end of nd period on a pp skated in unattacked in front of the goal and put the puck through pavoni s hole third period sweden equalized on a slap shot from renberg that trickled through pavoni s hole then another defensive mistake by the swedes waeger was allowed to skate around the swedish goal unattacked and from close range could make it hollenstein then scored on a on break away and put it top shelf with no chance for soderstrom switzerland goaltender reto pavoni renatio tosio defense rick tschumi martin steinegger sven leuenberger martin rauch sandro bertaggia patrick sutter samuel balmer forwards alfred luthi felix hollenstein roman waeger gil montandon roberto triulzi patrick howald christian weber andreas ton joerg eberle bruno erni thomas vrabec manuele celio russia canada st can kevin dineen garry galley can paul kariya eric lindros pp nd can eric lindros paul kariya shayne corson rus valeri karpov rd penalties rus min min can min referee anton danko czech republic attendance russia probably made their best game of the tourney but yet there wasn t enough to win against the effective canadians galley took a slap shot that found dineen by the far post and dineen just deflected the puck past trefilov in the russian goal then a power play goal after a couple of deflections eric lindros found kariya alone by the far post and kariya put the puck high over a sliding trefilov russia won the shots in the first period and they had the most of the scoring opportunities but they just couldn t score second period saw lindros scoring his th goal of the wc kariya entered the russian zone slammed on the break to get past his defenseman then made a nice pass to corson who just got the stick on the puck to deflect it to lindros who one timed the puck the russians then finally got their goal karpov broke in from the side and made a slap shot in tugnutt s top right hand corner player of the game in canada was voted paul kariya and for russia valeri karpov i agree the difference in this game was lindros and kariya and in part also tugnutt kariya had a far better game now than vs the swedes and he was very impressive kariya got the place in the line with lindros after mike gartner went out with a rib injury early in the first period lindros btw lead the point scoring with pts before this game pts ahead of the next player i e double as much as the next player among those kariya with amazing group b results finland czech republic st nd cze petr hrbek fin mika alatalo rd cze jiri dolezal cze martin hostak en penalties fin min cze min referee vincent moreno switzerland attendance germany usa st ger raimond hilger ger gerd truntschka ger ernst kopf ger michael rumrich ger benoit doucet nd rd usa derek plante ger dieter hegen usa craig johnson usa rob gaudreau penalties ger min usa min referee valeri bokarev russia attendance staffan axelsson etxonss ufsa ericsson se r s h contact for swedish hockey
