Close call for Russia

When Evgeni Malkin scored his first goal of the game on a breakaway to make it 3-0 in the first minute of the second period. It looked very dark for Sweden. Russia dominated the first period and went up to 2-0 after goals from Mozyakin and Shirokov. The first one on a 5 on 3 power play after some unlucky Swedish penalties and the second one on a rebound where Enroth didn't make a good enough job to keep the puck away.

Jhonas Enroth was replaced by Anders Nilsson just after 0-3 and that was the start of the Swedish come back. John Klingberg gave Sweden some hope and energy with 1-3 from the blue line on a power play.

After that the game was much more open with chances at both end but no more goals were scored in the second period. Instead Sweden's best player of the game Anton Lander made it 2-3 five minutes into the third period when Oliver Ekman Larsson gave him an open net with a great power play pass.

Sweden took over completely after the goal and at times Russia almost seemed paralysed and with about five minutes left to play Sweden tied the game when Lander's shot was tipped in by Loui Eriksson. Lander's third point of the game.

But the joy was short for Sweden as Malkin also would get his third point when his pass was deflected by Ekman-Larsson's skate and found the gap between Nilsson's pads for 4-3 just 26 seconds after the 3-3 goal. A hard blow for Sweden who made a remarkable come back.

Tarasenko sealed the win for Russia with an empty net goal and Russia will play USA in the semi final with a chance to revenge from the loss in the first round.

Sweden are eliminated in the quarter finals for only the fourth time since quarter finals was introuced at the World Championship in    1992.

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