Team Canada faces Genève-Servette in 2nd Semi-final

The evening game promised to be an offensive firework from both teams and Steve Moses who had been an offensive powerhouse throughout the tournament got the opening goal for Helsinki within the first minute of the game. Jokerit continued to push forward and when Linus Omark, who had assisted on the first goal, saw his chance, he scored the second goal of the game and forced Canada's Coach Guy Boucher to take his time-out early. Canada then took 3 minor penalties in a row but Jokerit was unable to utilize the advantage. 18th minute, Marco Maurer was benched for holding an opponent when Canada's Micki DuPont took a shot from the blue line and scored goal number one for the red and white team. But the Canadians took their own chance of getting the equalizer  when Bud Holloway and shortly after Brendan Mikkelson were benched. This means Helsinki will start the second period with a two-man advantage.

Team Canada survived the penalties they had taken from period one and got their own chance with 25 minutes played. Alexandre Giroux scored the equalizer on an assist by Micki DuPont. With less than two minutes left, Canada was in the lead the first time in this game after Tambellini scored the 3rd goal.

Mike Hedden took a penalty in the 53rd minute but this didn't stop his team mate Brett McLean to score a shorthanded goal a minute later. Coach Westerlund used the situation, took goalie Helenius off the ice for an additional Forward for almost 4 minutes but Marc-André Gragnani scored the last goal of the game shorthanded into the empty net with 55 seconds left in the game. Jokerit tried hard, had 11 shots in the third period but in the end, Drew MacIntyre was a Wall and only allowed 2 goals.

Canada will now face Servette-Genéve in tomorrow's evening game to find the second finalist. This is the same Semi-final game we saw last year where Servette advanced after a 6-5 win.

Spectators: 6'300

Shots on goal:
Canada: 7/7/4
Helsinki: 7/9/11

Line-up Canada:
Goalies: MacIntyre, Schaefer
1. Line: Mikkelson, Kwiatkowski (A); Holloway, Tambellini, Ritchie (A)
2. Line: Dupont, Walser; Giroux, Hedden, Pouliot
3. Line: Vandermeer, Gragnani; Hamilton, Walter, Martindale
4. Line: Parent, Genoway; Giliati, McLean / Di Domenico

Line-up Helsinki:
Goalies: Helenius, Karlsson
1. Line: Väänänen (A), Gunderson; Hagman, Kapanen (C), Huhtala
2. Line: Lajunen, Ohtamaa, Moses, Koukal, Omark
3. Line: Jaakola, Maurer; Aaltonen, Sallinen, Harju
4. Line: Peltola, Mäki; Ben-Amor, Hahl (A), Pöysti

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