WJC Roundup: Quarter-final Matchups Set as Canada, Russia, Finland, USA Advance
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- Two minutes later, 6-foot-8 forward Elmer Soderblom scored a power-play goal by putting the puck between the legs for the second time in the tournament, doubling Sweden's advantage.
- The game was fairly even in the first period, and the Czech Republic even led the shot advantage 12-8 despite being down by two goals.
- Two minutes later, defenseman Bowen Byram's shot hit Malik's arm and directed in, marking the first time the Czechs have trailed in the first period at any point at the tournament.
- Connor McMichael scored the lone third period goal, an empty-netter, to finish off the contest.
- Ever since the Americans gave up a late third period goal against the Russians, USA's goaltenders Spencer Knight and Dustin Wolf combined for 218:53 of shutout hockey, the longest in tournament history. .
- That ended late in the second period against Slovakia, but that was the only goal that beat Knight on Saturday as the Americans held on for a 5-2 victory to move on to the next round.
- The score remained the same for another 21 minutes of action until John Farinacci tipped in a point shot from Ryan Johnson, doubling USA's lead against a team that has struggled to score in the tournament. .
- You can see his excitement when Caufield finally grabbed his second of the tournament on a bar-down shot on the two-man advantage at 36:53, only to have Slovakia answer back two minutes later off of Matej Kaslik's blast.
- At 49:50, it paid off as Samuel Knazko's shot from the point was tipped by Dominik Sojka in front of the net. The goal gave Slovakia some new life, but Farinacci added one more and Matt Beniers scored an empty-netter to finish off the 5-2 victory - a game that was closer than the score would suggest.
- At 28:27, Danil Bashkirov scored his first of the tournament after taking Yegor Afanasiev's pass in the slot, doubling Russia's advantage with just over half the game to go.
- John Farinacci, C (USA): Scored USA's second goal and eventually scored the one that put things away with five minutes to go.