Kazakhstan gold medal winners in the 7th Asian Winter Games

Both teams came to the final game with three wins; against South Korea, China and Taiwan. The first period was scoreless. There were no goals until the final minutes of the second period.  Evgeny Blokhin shot at Japan´s goalie Fukufuji Yutaka who touched the puck, but it went up in the air and then landed in the Japanese net at 38:46. Ilya Solarev scored 2-0 for Kazakhstan with just two minutes remaining of the second period.

Maksim Semenov scored his first goal of the tournament when he made 3-0 on the power play. Japan’s only goal was scored at 48:37 by Jun Tonosaki. Also a power play goal. Roman Starchenko got the last goal of the game at 56:04 when he scored 4-1.

The game between South Korea and China earlier today was also important for the final standings. Thanks to a solid 11-1 win the Korean team captured the bronze medals while China ended fourth. Ki-Sung Kim, Won-Jung Kim and Sang-Woo Sin scored two goals each.

Taiwan also played in the Top Division but was never close to the other teams. 4 losses; 0-22, 0-18, 0-35 and 1-10. North Korea didn’t participate in the tournament this year.

Top Division

#	Club	G	W	W-OT	D	L-OT	L	Score	P
1	Kazakhstan	4	4	0	0	0	0	62:3	12
2	Japan	4	3	0	0	0	1	32:6	9
3	South Korea	4	2	0	0	0	2	35:16	6
4	China	4	1	0	0	0	3	13:33	3
5	Taiwan	4	0	0	0	0	4	1:85	0

 

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