Ivan Hlinka Memorial Day 5 - O Canada

Canada-Sweden 7:3 (4:0, 2:1, 1:2)

Canada killed the final already in the first period with four unanswered goals. Pierre-Luc Dubois opened the scoring after only 2:28 of play with a quick one-timer from behind the circles. Dubois also made it 2-0. Mike McLeod and Tyler Benson also scored before the first break. After the fourth goal Swedish netminder Filip Gustavsson, who had been maybe the best Swedish player of the tournament, was replaced with Isak Wallin. It took about ten minutes until Wallin allowed his first goal. Tanner Kaspick pushed the puck behind him. At 33:19 the Swedes finally got on the scoring sheet when Jesper Bratt beat Dylan Wells for 1-5. Jordan Kyrou scored his team's sixth goal before the end of the second period. Sweden scored two goals early in the third by Alexander Nylander and William Fällström but failed to get any closer. Instead Beck Malestyn made it 7-3 Canada at 51:13 which also was the final score. Alexander Nylander of Sweden and Pierre-Luc Dubois of Canada were named best players of the game.

Coach comments to hlinkamemorial.com:

Stan Butler (head coach of Team Canada): I´m really proud of this group of players. They all pulled together for one thing. We told them when we got here: this is about one team and one goal. We were one team and we chased one goal, which we got here today. I think we had a big scare with the Russians last night and we wanted to make sure that didn´t happen again today. We wanted to play our best game today and we got off to a good start. We probably deserved more goals in some of the other games, like last night, but today we got to the point where we needed to score.

Torgny Bendelin (head coach of Team Sweden): I´m very disappointed. We didn´t have the energy. But I am happy that even though the first two periods were very bad, we didn´t give up, the boys gave everything into the third period and we won the period. We were spoiled by the excellent play of our goaltender, but today we needed to helped him and they got a few easy goals. We won the silver medal, which is not easy. During the 12 days we played eight games, six of which we won, so I´m proud of the whole team.

Finland-Russia 3:4 (2:1, 1:0, 0:3)

In the game for the third place Russia was down 3-1 after two periods but scored three in the third. The winner was a nice break-away goal by Artur Kayumov at 52:37. Vyacheslav Shevchenko cored the first Russian goal while Nikita Popugaev got the second and third. Juha Jääskä, Juuso Välimäki and Joona Koppanen scored for Finland.

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