Russia’s redemption tour starts with a win

In the last 3 games the Swiss had only managed to score one goal, a fact that had haunted the Swiss through out their Olympic campaign. And it continued with 13 seconds played when Sergei Plotnikov scored a first time.

Plotnikov scores 1-0 at 13 seconds.
Photo: Roman Kucera

It seemed the Swiss had a hard time finding a way to get the puck into the offensive zone through the whole game. 7 minutes were played when the Russians got a chance to play with a man advantage and it didn't take Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin long to score the 2nd goal of the evening and to make things for the Swiss worse, Vadim Shipachyov decided the game with the 3rd goal with 18 minutes played.

The story of the middle period was quickly told, Anton Belov's goal at halftime was just about it. A last goal by Danis Zaripov in the last minute of the game secured the first 3 points for Russia while Switzerland now hasn't scored a goal in over 240 minutes which seems like eternity. But not everything was bad, the shots on goal was close to even but the Swiss simply lack a strong scorer. It won't get easier tomorrow, when the USA await the Swiss.

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