Canada2 – Sweden2 3:2 (after OT) | USA – Finland 3:1 (end) | Czech Republic – Norway 1:0 (end)
Russia – Germany2 3:0 (end)
final/OT
Canada2
3:2 (0:1, 2:1, 0:0 – 1:0)
Sweden2
Sunday 18.05.2014, 15:45 • Chizhovka-Arena, Minsk, Belarus • World Championship
     
    That's it for now, tune back in later in the evening with coverage from both Minsk-Arena and Chizhovka-Arena. (18:05:42)
     
    What a great game between two title contenders and Team Canada takes it by one goal after all and they pass Sweden onto the first place in the standings of Group A.
     
    Anders Nilsson and Jonathan Huberdeau named players of the game as "O Canada" will follow here in Minsk.
     
    Game over.
     
    62:38
    Goal for Team Canada!

    Canada wins it! A bad line change saw Scrivens having to make a big stop against Gustafsson and then the puck was carried out by Brouwer who gave it to Scheifele who skated all the way into the offensive zone with it and then centered one on RYAN ELLIS who deflected the puck past Nilsson and in.

    Assisted by Mark Scheifele and Troy Brouwer.
     
    62:30
    Bad line change for Team Canada and that led to a big chance for Gustafsson, but Scrivens comes up with a huge pad save!
     
    61:47
    Ellis for Hodgson twice, but the Sabres forward just can't get his stick on the puck.
     
    61:20
    Myers circled around the offensive zone and then turned it over on a centering pass.
     
    60:36
    Moller and Backlund with a couple of shots on a beautiful counter-attack, Scrivens stays with it and makes the saves.
     
    60:14
    Icing is called against Canada.
     
    60:01
    Overtime began.
     
    No goals in the third as both goalies were perfect, overtime coming up in just a couple of moments.
     
    60:00
    3rd period finished.
     
    59:08
    Centering attempt by Turris blocked by Nyquist.
     
    58:52
    Great forecheck by Chimera, but the time is flying down in this third period.
     
    58:40
    Fransson loses the zone as he was being set up for a long one-timer.
     
    58:28
    Ekholm fires one from bad angle, Scrivens holds on to it.
     
    58:06
    Good shot by Coburn, but it ends up going wide.
     
    58:00
    Offside against Canada.
     
    57:21
    Read dumps it in and it ends up covered by Nilsson as Andersen has some words with the Flyers forward.

    Radoslav Vavřina

    Goals and assists: 24. B. Schenn (Huberdeau), 28. Bieksa (Hodgson, Reilly), 63. Ellis (Scheifele, Brouwer) – 14. Lindstrom (Moller), 22. Klasen (Nyquist, Ekholm)


    Canada2: Scrivens (Reimer) – Bieksa "C", Garrison, Coburn, Myers, Ellis, Gudbranson, Rielly – Turris "A", Read, Chimera "A" – B. Schenn, Huberdeau, MacKinnon – Hodgson, Brouwer, Kadri – Monahan, J. Ward, Scheifele.
    Sweden2: Nilsson (J. Eriksson) – Fransson, Ekholm, Burstrom, Andersen, Erixon, Gustafsson, Nygren – J. Lindstrom, Moller, Backlund "A" – Jarnkrok, Nyquist, Klasen – S. Hjalmarsson, Sjogren, J. Ericsson "A" – J. Lundqvist "C", Rasmussen, Danielsson – Axelsson.

    Referees: Olenin (RUS), Rantala (FIN) – Raming (RUS), Suominen (FIN).

    Attendance: 8,453