USA – Czech Republic 3:4 (end) | Russia – France2 3:0 (end) | Canada2 – Finland 2:3 (end)
Sweden2 – Belarus 3:2 (end)
final
Sweden2
3:2 (1:0, 1:2, 1:0)
Belarus
Thursday 22.05.2014, 20:00 • Minsk Arena, Minsk, Belarus • World Championship
     
    59:53
    Timeout Belarus.
     
    58:53
    Kevin Lalande leaves the net to get the extra attacker on the ice.
     
    53:38
    Goal for Team Sweden!
    MATTIAS EKHOLM redeems for the penalty shot he caused. He took the puck on the blue line on the right, sped down the zone and circled the net exitting on the left and beating Lalande with the backhander.

    Unassisted.
     
    Kalyuzhny takes the puck calmly through the middle and in low slot tries to deke Nilsson out and go for the five-hole but Nilsson stones him cold.
     
    52:41
    Penalty shot for Belarus. A huge mistake in the defense sees Kalyuzhny take over the puck and Ekholm could only obstruct him to stop him from scoring one-on-one.
     
    51:42
    Joakim Lindstrom centers the puck from the left post, no one can slide it in behind Lalande, Moller was on the shot and then Lindstrom finds Moller once more who can't put it in whole Backlund was screening Lalande – the shot came from the slot.
     
    48:44
    Right in front of the ref, Niclas Andersen (SWE) tripps Alexei Ugarov in the Swedish zone, and Belarus will go on the powerplay. Can they score their first PP goal tonight?
     
    45:46
    As the Swedes keep the puck in the zone without the shot, the Belarussians will break with Ugarov leading and dropping the pass for Sergei Kostitsyn though his shot from the blue gets blocked by Nilsson's pads.
     
    42:08
    Sergei Kostitsyn fires from the left circle with two defensemen in front, Nilsson makes the pad save and the defense controls the rebound.
     
    41:08
    Two dangerous opportunities for Belarus before the net, but neither finds the beck of the net. Both from close range, the first in the slot, deflects the puck wide to the left and then from the life sideboards they close up to the goal, but Nilsson makes another stop.
     
    37:27
    Goal for Team Sweden!
    We're tied again. Another powerplay goal for Sweden seems to go to GUSTAV NYQUIST who fired from the blue line and Jimmie Ericsson was screening Lalande in the slot.

    Assist: Mikael Backlund, Joakim Lindstrom.
     
    37:09
    Sweden will go on another powerplay, Alexander Kitarov (BEL) gets the call for hooking.
     
    34:14
    Goal for Team Belarus! Jubilant atmosphere on the bench and in the arena as the hosts take the lead. ALEXEI YEFIMENKO scores his first on the tournament as he makes it through the scramble before the net.

    Assist: Geoff Platt.
     
    33:36
    The Swedes hit the post! As the Swedes broke one-on-one with the netminder, they try to lob him, hit both posts and the puck ricochetes out.
     
    30:34
    Oleg Yevenko (BEL) gets the call for delaying the game as his clearance behind the net went directly out of the rink.
     
    28:41
    Andrei Kalyuzhny got his shot blocked on the blue line but then Andrei Kostitsyn tried to come down from the left and slide it in, somehow the netminder deflects and the defense clears.
     
    25:39
    Goal for Team Belarus! GEOFF PLATT scores as the Belarussians break quickly through the left alley, Alexei Kalyuzhny dashed in, sent the puck to the right where Platt could score in the empty net, while the defenseman in front was helpless.

    Assist: Alexei Kalyuzhny.
     
    23:36
    Belarus with some action in the zone, but two shots from the high slot get deflected by Nilssen.
     
    20:20
    A clear penalty for Sweden as Mathians Ekholm (SWE) tripps Geoff Platt right in front of the referee and behind Nilsson.
     
    13:41
    Goal for Team Sweden!
    Following a shot from the blue line in the middle, NICKLAS DANIELSSON picks up the rebound on the right just before the crease and scores into the empty net while Sjogren was in the middle before Lalande to screen him. Powerplay goal.

    Assists: Mattias Ekholm, Linus Klasen.
     
    11:53
    Nikolai Stasenko (BEL) gets called for interference.
     
    09:07
    Kevin Lalande saves in the end as the slider from the right gets to Oscar Moller in the left circle and he blasts a one-timer, Lalande couldn't control the rebound but in the end covered the puck to stop the play.
     
    05:41
    Another interference call, this time on Sergei Kostitsyn (BEL).
     
    05:04
    Three huge opportunities for Belarus! Before the Swedes cleared, Sergei Kostitsyn had two shots from close range in the slot and then they had another one from the left post, but Anders Nilsson was magnificent.
     
    04:43
    Jimmie Ericsson (SWE) will go to the box for interference, Belarus will have tonight's first powerplay.
     
    03:54
    Another huge opportunity for the Swedes with the puck coming through open ice for Gustav Nyquist in the slot, but he missed the net just wide to the left alone with the goalie.
     
    02:12
    Lundqvist had the game's first huge opportunity. He sped in through the middle and fired one up towards the net, the puck hit the left post and ricocheted out to the right, but the Swedes couldn't put the puck in the back of the net.
    Commentary by

    Alan Ilijic

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 14. Danielsson (Ekholm, Klasen), 38. Nyquist (Backlund, Lindstrom), 54. Ekholm – 26. Platt (Kalyuzhny), 35. Yefimenko (Platt)

    Sweden2: Nilsson (Eriksson) – Fransson, Ekholm (G, A), Lindstrom (A), Moller, Backlund (A) – Burstrom, Andersen, Jarnkrok, Nyquist (G), Klasen (A) – Erixon, Gustafsson, Hjalmarsson, Sjogren, Ericsson – Nygren, Lundqvist, Axelsson, Rasmussen, Danielsson (G).
    Belarus: Lalande (Mezin) – Denisov, Yevenko, Platt (G, A), Kalyuzhny (A), Stas – Korobov, Graborenko, Kostitsyn A., Kostitsyn S., Kitarov – Stasenko, Gotovets, Ugarov, Osipov, Stepanov – Karev, Yefimenko (G), Volkov, Kovyrshin.
    Referees: Bulanov (RUS), Ronn (FIN) – Dehaen (FRA), Semjonov (EST)