Russia – Finland 7:3 (end) | Canada2 – Switzerland 4:3 (2:0 after SO) | Slovakia2 – USA 2:5 (end)
Czech Republic – Sweden2 5:2 (end)
after shootout (2:0)
Canada2
4:3 (1:1, 2:1, 0:1, 0:0)
Switzerland
Wednesday 07.08.2013, 15:30 • Hlinka Gretzky Cup
     
    Goal for Team Canada!
    SPENCER WATSON gets credit for the game-winning goal.
     
    Brayden Point goes upstairs and scores! Canada wins.
     
    Canada starts with Spencer Watson, scores!
     
    61:27
    Point to Watson in the slot, but he doesn't get much wood on the shot and Fehr makes a stick save.
     
    54:28
    Goal for Team Switzerland!
    It looked like Canada was going into a bit of a defensive shell and that may have cost them. After a lengthy stretch without any shots, the Swiss started a play from their own end that finished with a hard shot from the point by captain SIMON KINDSCHI.
     
    50:05
    Now a penalty to Canada, as Audette goes off for interference. Swiss won't go away and they're down by only one.
     
    48:55
    Shorthanded breakaway for Kevin Fiala, goes to his backhand but I think it was McKeown that got a stick oh his stick to compromise his shot.
     
    47:38
    After a lengthy delay with Billia on the bench, Pius Suter is sent off.
     
    44:56
    Miscue in the neutral zone almost leads to a breakaway for Switzerland's Pius Suter, but Sam Bennett catches him and trips him. It's a minor, not a penalty shot presumably because Suter was chasing the puck. We have 3-on-3 hockey for :43.
     
    44:36
    Canada now going to the power play as Swiss defenceman Edson Harlacher scoops the puck over the glass, then looks skyward after he saw what he did.
     
    43:39
    We've got off-setting penalties on the play, Denis Malgin and Brayden Point for roughing after the whistle.
     
    43:39
    Rourke Chartier with a fake behind the net that almost works, Fehr was going the wrong way and he tried the wraparound but the Swiss goalie got back to the post in time.
     
    41:33
    At the tail end of the penalty Kessler had a shot from the slot, kicked out by Billia.
     
    39:54
    Timo Meier gets a shot from a prime location but Billia kicks it aside.
     
    39:32
    The Swiss are getting a late-period power play as Jake Virtanen is called for roughing after a high hit.
     
    37:48
    Goal for Team Canada!
    After having possession in the zone for ages they finally break through. AARON EKBLAD fakes a shot, moves to elude Swiss forward and scores on a low shot through traffic that I'm not sure Fehr could see. Assist: Joe Hicketts.
     
    30:29
    Goal for Team Switzerland!
    After a bad Canadian line change where a player had to leave the puck to avoid a too-many-men call, the puck slid all the way to the Canadian zone and there KEVIN FIALA made a beautiful move to his backhand and beat Billia upstairs to tie this game up again quickly. Unassisted.
     
    27:46
    Goal for Team Canada!
    Impressive Canadian rush led by Rouke Chartier--his weak-angle shot was stopped, but the rebound came in front to SAM BENNETT, and he had time to pick the low corner. Assist: Rourke Chartier.
     
    22:05
    Bishop with a great chance in front on the backhand, couldn't get it over Fehr's stick. Swiss can't clear the zone.
     
    21:15
    Aaron Ekblad sneaks in from the point and gets a pair of shots, the second one right on the doorstep, both denied by Kevin Fehr, who's under pressure now.
     
    18:40
    Goal for Team Canada!
    The Canadians come out storming after giving up the opening goal. After getting denied on his initial attempt, BRAYDEN POINT made good on his second shot and ties this game. Assist: Spencer Watson.
     
    17:17
    Goal for Team Switzerland!
    The puck is worked from the right wing boards over to SIMON KINDSCHI at the left hashmarks, who beats Billia with a high wrister to the near post. Power play goal. Assists: Cedric Maurer, Julien Privet.
     
    16:31
    Joe Hicketts is sent to the box for the second time today, this time for charging. Swiss 0/1 on the power play.
     
    14:40
    Brendan Lemieux almost had a breakaway but couldn't find the puck in his skates, McCann took a one time shot finally and Fehr made the save.
     
    10:57
    Switzerland's Dario Meyer drives McKeown into the goalpost and is called for interference. First power play for Canada coming up.
     
    05:08
    Canada's Joe Hicketts is getting the game's first penalty as his attempt to clear the puck off the class from behind the net went over untouched. Power play Switzerland.
    Commentary by

    Derek OBrien

    CZ@@Djob76

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 19. Point (Watson), 28. Bennett (Chartier), 38. Ekblad (Hicketts), ?. Watson – 18. Kindschi (Maurer, Privet), 31. Fiala, 55. Kindischi

    Canada2: Billia (McDonald) -- Ekblad (C), Hicketts – McKeown, Fleury – Neill, Pilon – Carrier --Bishop, Bennett, Chartier – Watson, Point, Virtanen – Audette, Fabbri, Dal Colle – Hawryluk, McCann, Lemieux – Pépin.
    Switzerland: Fehr (Descloux) –- Klopfer, Harlacher – Siegenthaler, Karrer – Maurer, Kindschi – Gurtner –- Riat, Suter, Trisconi – Meier, Malgin, Fiala – Kessler, Privet, Schmidli – Meyer, Ritz, Schläpfer – Rod.
    Referees: Fraňo, Hodek – Lhotský, Svoboda