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Ruutu kills Slovakia’s last hope

(07 May 2011, 23:25) | The home team Slovakia needed a win against Finland to still have a chance to reach the quarter-finals, but Tuomo Ruutu scored twice for Finland to eliminate the hosts. Read more»

Good but not enough, Norway

(07 May 2011, 22:23) | Canada clinched a spot in the quarter-finals with today’s 3-2 win against Norway. Read more»

Denmark beat Germany but will still miss the playoffs

(07 May 2011, 21:52) | Germany still hasn’t lost a game in regulation in the World Championship but Denmark managed to steal 2 points from them. Read more»

Latvia takes vital win against Belarus

(07 May 2011, 16:18) | Martins Cipulis and Georgijs Pujacs scored two goals each when Latvia won their first game of the tournament.  Read more»

Austria takes the last chance

(07 May 2011, 15:40) | Austria beat Slovenia 3-2 and does still have the chance to remain in the top division. Read more»

Russian goalie Nabokov out with injury

(07 May 2011, 12:57) | Barulin steps in as first goalie while Vasily Koshechkin is added to the roster as backup keeper. Read more»

Slovakia close to elimination after another loss

(07 May 2011, 00:09) | Czech Republic got its fourth win in a row and puts a lot of pressure on their neighbors from Slovakia. Read more»

Sweden wins comfortable against France

(06 May 2011, 23:23) | Sweden killed the game with three first period goals and then cruised through to a 4-0 win. Read more»

Canada gets a shootout win against USA

(06 May 2011, 23:00) | After a tied game at 60 minutes and a 5-minute overtime the game between the North American rivals went to shootout. Read more»

Germans were two goals up, but it was not enough to beat the Finns

(06 May 2011, 19:17) | Germany lost for the first time at the World championship. In spite of leading 3-1 over the Finns, Finland won in penalty shoot-out 5:4. Read more»

"I have two medals from the World Championships, but I don´t have the Gold," says a rising Russian superstar

(06 May 2011, 13:21) | Nikolai Kulemin is the second youngest player in the Russian line-up, but he collected the most points during the regular season [30 goals and 27 assist] after phenomenal Alexander Radulov who´ve got 80 points in 54 matches and Ilya Kovalchuk who tallied thirty-one goals and assisted on another twenty-one in NHL. He had some chances to make yesterdays match against Denmark a little less nervous. Read more»

The sentenced and the executioner meet again. Slovakia will try to get the essential points.

(06 May 2011, 06:24) | The home team expected a much better form in the preliminary round and much more point to bring to the qualification round. However Germans and Russians said no. Czechs may become Slovakia’s executioner once again on Friday night. Read more»

Norway takes a huge step towards the quarter finals

(05 May 2011, 22:35) | In the first game of the qualifying round Norway beat Switzerland 3-2 and Mathis Olimb continues to collect points. Read more»

Hat trick by Zinoviev

(05 May 2011, 22:15) | Zinoviev is the big hero when Russia beats a brave Danish team 4-3. Read more»

Belarus beats Austria in the relegation round

(05 May 2011, 19:07) | Kulakov, Kostitsyn and Kovyrshin all scored three points when Belarus won 7-2. Read more»

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