France2 – Slovakia2 2:6 (end) | Czech Republic – Belarus 2:0 (end) | Finland – Germany2 4:3 (after OT)
Sweden2 – Switzerland 2:3 (end)
final
France2
2:6 (0:1, 0:2, 2:3)
Slovakia2
Friday 03.05.2013, 15:15 • Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland • World Championship
     
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    Shots: FRA 11 (26), 13 (37)
    Penalties: FRA 8, SVK 8
     
    An exciting, action packed game, a goal festival in the end, a real opening game and a great announcement of what will be happening in the next days. Slovakia proves powerful, they played with how much they needed to execute a win.
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:00
    One minute left in the third period.
     
    58:57
    Goal for Team Slovakia!
    This is most probably the game-winner! LIBOR HUDACEK somehow saw it in net afterhis shot was stopped by Lhenry and the puck deflected into the net.

    Assists: Andrej Sekera, Roman Kukumberg.
     
    57:45
    Tim Bozon had a fine opportunity one-on-one, his shot hit the goalie though and was reflected.
     
    57:15
    Icing against France.
     
    56:35
    Slovakia can't get on offense, France intercepts most of their passes.
     
    55:49
    France managed to get into the offensive zone, not for long though.
     
    55:18
    Slovakia back at full strength.
     
    54:58
    Slovakian penalty killing works by now, they shoot the puck out of their zone.
     
    54:29
    After one minute of powerplay, Slovakia had a shot on French net, while the French couldn't execute anything offensively.
     
    53:18
    Branislav Mezei called for roughing.
     
    53:27
    Another chance for France, shot came from the blue line but Stana gets the hold of it.
     
    51:58
    Goal for Team France! And France immediately takes advantage of the extra man, DAMIEN FLEURY with the wristshot from the blue line after receiving a pass from behind the net.

    Assists: Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Sacha Treille.
     
    51:38
    Penalty against Slovakia, Andrej Sekera will spend the next two minutes in the penalty box after interfereing with a French player.
     
    50:28
    Hecquefeuille tried a writshot following the faceoff but Stana was ready for that. Stana is now at 94.44 SVS%, allowing 1 goal on 19 shots.
     
    50:03
    Slovakia dumps the puck in, France picks it up and they're on offense now.
     
    49:05
    Milan Jurcina tried with a shot from just inside the blue line, the puck went wide.
    Commentary by

    Alan Ilijic

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 46. Raux (Bozon, Bertrand), 52. Fleury (Bellemare, Treille) – 10. Miklik (Zaborsky), 26. Olvecky (Daloga), 29. Zaborsky, 44. Radivojevic (Kopecky, Bliznak), 45. Satan (Hudacek, Jurcina), 59. Hudacek (Sekera, Kukumberg)

    France2: Huet (Lhenry) – Manavian, Auvitu, Bachet, Hecquefeuille, Janil, Besch, Moisand – Treille Y., Meunier (C), Desrosier, Fleury, Bellemare, Treille S., Henderson, Roussel, Bertrand, Bozon, Raux, Guttig, Da Costa
    Slovakia2: Stana (Janus) – Mezei, Sekera, Daloga, Sersen, Vydareny, Jurcina, Mihalik – Bliznak, Kopecky, Radivojevic, Stumpel, Satan (C), Hudacek, Kukumberg, Miklik, Zaborsky, Bartek, Surovy, Olvecky
    Referees: Reiber, Zalaski – Kilian, Wilmot