USA 12:5 1SW | USA - Sweden2 (IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship)

IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship

Slovakia2 – xxx	2:1 (end)	\|	Croatia – Latvia	4:3 (end)	\|	Slovenia2 – Australia	10:5 (end)
USA – Sweden2	12:5 (end)	\|	Finland – Canada2	6:2 (end)

final

USA

12:5 (3:2, 3:2, 2:1, 4:0)

Sweden2

Saturday 07.06.2014, 16:30 • IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship

		Welcome. This bronze medal game starts at 16:30 CEST, 10:30 EDT.
		They are the two most decorated teams, medal-wise, in the history of the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championships, and today they will face each other for another medal. Truly, the USA and Sweden didn't come to Pardubice to battle for the bronze medal, but that's all that's left for them after dropping their semifinal games yesterday. The Americans lost their first game of the tournament 6-5 to Canada in a thrilling shootout. Sweden lost to Finland for the second time in the tournament, 4-2.
		Starting Lineups: USA: Kuhn (Lane) – Siemer, Cadiz, Kavaya, Thompson – Noe, Novak, Kettler, Lee – Spezita, White, Burnett, Rodriguez. Sweden: Kruse (Ollikainen) – Lilja, Sjören, Nilsson, Höglund – Gunnarsson, Svensson, Axelsson, Berglund – Erkgards, Bejmo, Wall, Eriksson – Johnsson, Kokkonen. Referees: Scott (AUS), Kralj (SLO).
		The USA is designated as the home team this game and is wearing white jerseys with blue and red trim, blue pants and helmets. Sweden is designated as the visiting team and is wearing blue jerseys with yellow trim, blue pants and helmets.
		The teams are on the floor and the opening faceoff is moments away.
	00:01	Game started.
	00:23	We've got a penalty right away, as USA's Junior Cadiz goes off for hooking. Sweden with the early power play.
	00:40	Nilsson to Hoglund at the side of the net, can't get it in.
	00:50	Then Sjoren with the slapper, pad save Kuhn.
	01:14	Goal for Team USA! MATT WHITE gets free, cuts right in on Kruse and slides the puck through his legs for a shorthanded goal. Assists: Raphael Rodriguez, Derrick Burnett.
	02:40	Sweden with a rush, Robin Wall takes the puck to the net but runs out of room.
	04:30	Matt White nearly gets his second of the game but hits the goalpost.
	04:59	Rodriguez circles the net and fires a wrister from in close, caught and held by Emil Kruse.
	06:00	Goal for Team USA! A turnover in the Swedish zone to the wrong player, as TRAVIS NOE walks in and beats Kruse low glove side. The Swedes have to be shaking their heads at the two goals they've given up so far. Unassisted.
	06:24	Goal for Team Sweden! But they get it back right away, as the puck's fed to MIKAEL ERIKSSON and he scores short side. Assists: Robin Wall, Johan Erkgars.
	08:08	Goal for Team Sweden! So the Swedes have erased the early 2-goal deficit as CARL BERGLUND scores and it's 2-2.
	09:10	Puck out of play in the Swedish zone, faceoff inside.
	10:42	The USA is getting their second penalty of the game for hooking as Tyler Spezia goes off, but the first one didn't work out too badly for them.
	10:53	And Travis Noe with a shorthanded chance, hits Kruse in the shoulder.
	11:40	Goal for Team USA! Another shorthanded goal! Noe intercepts a pass and leads the rush the other way, feeds GREG THOMPSON and he slides it through Kruse. Assist: Travis Noe.
	12:00	1st period finished.
		This is a competitive game, but all 3 American goals have been practically gift-wrapped for them by Swedish mistakes. They're fortunate to only be down one goal after 12 minutes.
	12:01	Start of 2nd period.
	12:10	Goal for Team Sweden! It takes them only 10 seconds as Nilsson makes a perfect pass for ROBIN SJOREN's one-time slapper. Assists: Marcus Nilsson, Johan Lilja.
	13:18	Goal for Team Sweden! They get another and take their first lead. CARL BERGLUND eluded a check near the boards, cut in front and fired it home. Assist: Filip Gunnarsson.
	14:56	Travis Noe takes the puck to the net, doesn't score but draws a penalty. Hooking is the call against Robin Sjoren, so the Americans get their first power play chance.
	15:50	Kavaya slaps it wide.
	16:22	The Swedes clear it down the floor, which will kill the rest of the penalty.
	16:31	Goal for Team USA! The penalty was over but the Americans came right back up the floor and TRAVIS NOE wristed it high near side over the glove of Kruse. Assist: Matt White.
	17:38	Kyle Novak drives to the net and draws a hooking penalty against Sweden's Johan Erkgards. USA right back to the power play.
	18:03	Patrick Lee wrists it off the goalpost.
	18:41	Lee fires it just wide, then the puck comes back to him and his next attempt is caught and held by Kruse with :27 left in the penalty
	18:50	Spezia one-times it wide of the far post.
	19:20	Sweden back at full strength, the Americans regroup.
	20:30	Sjoren fires a long wrister right on Jerry Kuhn, who holds on.
	20:55	Rodriguez's shot hit Kruse up high and fell to the ice, it was loose in the crease and he couldn't find it but it's eventually cleared away.
	22:12	Goal for Team USA! White carried the puck down the left wing, centred in front to RAPHAEL RODRIGUEZ, who fired it in to put the Americans back in the lead. Assists: Matt White, Tyler Spezia.
	23:38	Wrister from Burnett, pad save Kruse.
	23:49	Goal for Team USA! What a beautiful give-and-go between PATRICK LEE and Junior Cadiz, with Lee finishing it off. No chance for Kruse. Assist: Junior Cadiz.
	24:00	2nd period finished.
		Well a wild and crazy first half to this bronze medal game with 10 goals. The Americans are up by 6-4, but the Swedes have already erased a 2-goal deficit once, so it's far from over. 2nd half will begin at 17:18 CEST, 11:18 EDT
		The teams have returned to the floor and the 3rd period will start shortly.
	24:00	Goaltending change for Sweden, as Andreas Ollikainen takes over in relief for Emil Kruse.
	24:01	Start of 3rd period.
	26:50	Puck deflected out of play in the USA zone, faceoff inside.
	27:25	Nilsson's wrister deflects wide.
	27:51	A slashing penalty coming against Peter Kavaya, so Sweden to the power play. They're 0/2 with 2 shorthanded goals against.
	28:15	Svensson's slapper is blocked and the Americans start back the other way.
	28:42	Play is stopped as a Swedish attacker was in the goal crease, faceoff outside with :39 left in the penalty.
	29:25	Just as the Americans get back to full strength, Robin Sjoren takes a wrister from in close and Jerry Kuhn makes a big glove save.
	29:56	The Americans force another turnover, Novak takes it to the net, he's foiled and the net is dislodged. Faceoff inside.
	30:39	We've got a holding penalty but we've also got a fight between Mikael Eriksson of Sweden and Patrick Lee of the USA. We'll see how the officials sort this out.
	30:39	Well the Swedish player Eriksson got 4 minutes roughing, Lee got 2 for roughing and another player got the original holding penalty, so it all comes out even, so we'll play 4 on 4.
	31:17	Goal for Team USA! It didn't take long after that for RAPHAEL RODRIGUEZ to score his 2nd of the game and give the Americans their first 3-goal lead of the game. Assists: Tyler Spezia, Derrick Burnett.
	32:56	We've got two more penalties coming, as the two American players now leave the box. Nilsson for slashing Spezia for holding. We'll stay 4-on-4.
	33:50	Breakaway for Patrick Lee, tries to make a move but can't fool Andreas Ollikainen, who stops him cold.
	34:02	Dick Axelsson with the shot, pad save Kuhn.
	34:10	Goal for Team Sweden! Axelsson gets the puck back and feeds FILLIP GUNNARSSON, who scores a big goal to get his team back within 2. Assist: Dick Axelsson.
	34:47	An eventful shift for Dick Axelsson, who's now going to the penalty box for holding. Power play USA.
	35:08	Goal for Team USA! They work the puck to PATRICK LEE at the hashmarks, who fires it home on the power play. Assists: Travis Noe, Kyle Novak.
	35:34	We've now got off-setting penalties to Carl Berglund and Matt White for roughing and cross-checking, so we'll stay 4-on-4.
	36:00	End of the 3rd period.
		This game has become a real goalfest and it's become chippy as well, as tempers have been flaring all game and we've had lots of penalties. that could escalate if the Americans widen their lead in this 4th period.
	36:01	Start of the 4th period.
	37:19	Goal for Team USA! The Americans move the puck around the Swedish zone and TYLER SPEZIA makes it 9-5. Assists: Derrick Burnett, Raphael Rodriguez.
	38:25	2-on-nothing American break, Cadiz passes to Seimer and he one-times it wide.
	40:25	Big slapper from Robin Sjoren deflects high.
	41:00	Emil Bejmo from a sharp angle, pad save Kuhn.
	41:11	Goal for Team USA! American rush the other way, White feeds TYLER SPEZIA and he snaps it over the glove of Ollikainen. Assist: Matt White.
	42:00	Burnett the wrister, pad save Ollikainen.
	42:25	And Erkgards a big slapper the other way, hits Kuhn and goes to the corner.
	43:00	Goal for Team USA! It's a real rout now. Cadiz to JOHN SIEMER and it's now 11-5. Assists: Junior Cadiz, Greg Thompson.
	44:20	Goal for Team USA! They're just piling it on now, as the Swedes seem to have given up. Little resistance there. PATRICK LEE finishes it for the hat-trick. Assists: Kyle Novak, Travis Noe.
	46:10	Wrister by Berglund hits Kuhn in the shoulder.
	47:10	Another wrister by Berglund, pad save Kuhn.
	48:00	Game over.
		It was a close game for much of the way, high scoring all of the way, and in the last period the Americans really pulled away, winning the bronze medal with a convincing 12-5 victory over Sweden.
		Players of the game: USA – Junior Cadiz SWE – Fillip Gunnarsson
		Team USA is now collecting their bronze medals.
		The national anthem of the United States is now being played.
		The players are now shaking hands, but don't forget there's still one more game to go in the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, and it's the big one. Finland vs Canada for the gold medal in less than an hour -- 19:00 CEST local time here in Pardubice, 20:00 EEST in Finland, 13:00 EDT in Eastern Canada, 10:00 PDT on the west coast. (18:07:42)

Commentary by

Derek OBrien

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Goals & lineups Match log

Goals and assists: 2. White (Rodriguez, Burnett), 6. Noe, 12. Thompson (Noe), 17. Noe (White), 23. Rodriguez (White, Spezia), 24. Lee (Cadiz), 32. Rodriguez (Spezia, Burnett), 36. Lee (Noe, Novak), 38. Spezia (Burnett, Rodriguez), 42. Spezia (White), 43. Siemer (Cadiz, Thompson), 45. Lee (Novak, Noe) – 7. Eriksson (Nilsson, Erkgars), 9. Berglund, 13. Sjoren (Nilsson, Lilja), 14. Berglund (Gunnarsson), 35. Gunnarsson (Axelsson)

USA: Kuhn (Lane) – Siemer, Cadiz, Kavaya, Thompson – Noe, Novak, Kettler, Lee – Spezita, White, Burnett, Rodriguez.

Sweden2: Kruse, 25. Ollikainen – Lilja, Sjören, Nilsson, Höglund – Gunnarsson, Svensson, Axelsson, Berglund – Erkgards, Bejmo, Wall, Eriksson – Johnsson, Kokkonen.

Referees: Scott (AUS), Kralj (SLO)

1st period
	00:23
	01:14
	06:00
	06:24
	08:08
	10:42
	11:40
1st intermission
2nd period
	12:10
	13:18
	14:56
	16:31
	17:38
	22:12
	23:49
2nd intermission
3rd period
	27:51
	30:39
	31:17
	32:56
	34:10
	34:47
	35:08
	35:34
	37:19
	41:11
	43:00
	44:20
Final