From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Subject: Team Sweden - Team Russia, November 12
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:42:32 GMT


 Scaniarinken, Sodertalje, November 12:

 TEAM SWEDEN - TEAM RUSSIA  6 - 4 (2-0,2-2,2-2)

 1st - SWE 1-0 Patrik Juhlin - 5:41 (pp)
       SWE 2-0 Markus Naslund - (Thomas Rundqvist) 16:13
 2nd - SWE 3-0 Kenneth Kennholt - (Fredrik Stillman,Markus Naslund) 4:44 (pp)
       SWE 4-0 Stefan Ornskog - (Lars Edstrom) 8:20 (pp)
       RUS 4-1 Alexander Barkov - (Alexei Tkachuk) 13:55 
       RUS 4-2 Alexei Tkachuk - (Alexander Barkov) 17:23
 3rd   SWE 5-2 Kenneth Kennholt - (Jan Larsson) 7:18 (pp)
       RUS 5-3 Igor Fedulov - (Konstantin Astrachantsev) 10:46
       SWE 6-3 Peter Larsson - (Christer Olsson) 13:24 (pp)
       RUS 6-4 Oleg Maltsev - (Igor Fedulov) 14:23

 Shots on goal: SWE  12 14 15 - 41
		RUS   3  9  5 - 17
 Penalties: SWE 3*2min, RUS 8*2min
 Attendance: 4,313
 Referee: Tor Olav Johnsen, Norway

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 Sweden played excellent hockey for 1 1/2 period and could after that hang
 on to a 2 goal lead despite sloppy defense from time to time. The key for
 Sweden's victory was a working power play, 5 for 8. Power play is otherwise
 known as a Russian trademark, but not this time.

 We thought that Russia would come out as a new team from their poor showing 
 on Tuesday. However, it was Sweden that took the command. 1-0 Juhlin put
 in the rebound after a shot in 5on3 power play. 2-0 Markus Naslund, also
 on a rebound after Rundqvist's hard work. 3-0 Kennholt finally can hit the
 goal on his shots. Beautiful slap shot from the blue line. 4-0 Ornskog
 scored his first goal for Team Sweden ever, after Edstrom's hard work and
 nice pass. 4-1 Barkov on a nice pass from Tkachuk. 4-2 Tkachuk skated around
 the Swedish defense a shot a quick wristshot. 5-2 Kennholt, a hard wrist shot
 from near the blue line. 5-3 Fedulov on a 2on1 breakaway, looked for the pass
 but shot himself, one of the nicest goals. 6-3 Larsson picked up the rebound
 after a hard shot from the blue line by Christer Olsson that hit the crossbar.
 6-4 Maltsev scored when goaltender Andersson collided with Jan Larsson.

 In Sweden there are quite a lot of players that deserves credit but let me just
 mention a few. Mikael Renberg, big'n'strong. Markus Naslund, knows where the
 goal is. Kenneth Kennholt, good work in power play. Thomas Rundqvist, getting
 better and better. Jan Larsson, Lars Edstrom, Stefan Ornskog worked hard.

 Goaltender Fredrik Andersson had a mediocre game but in his defense it was
 a difficult one. The Russians only shot a total of 17 shots which makes it
 hard for a goalie. Defenseman Peter Popovic also made a few errors.

 In Russia the shining star was Alexei Tkachuk, he was outstanding. Also
 credit to his linemates Barkov and Selivanov. Torgaiev and Cherbaiev also
 had a few good moments. Oksiuta played well the few moments he was able to
 control his temper.

 Overall, Russian coach Boris Michailov can't be too happy with these two
 games. He was impressed by the Swedes power play, and also said he that
 Sweden effectively used interference (screening) to improve their play.
 "This can hardly have been surprising news for him" said Thomas Rundvist.

 It seems like the Russian team needs a lot of improvement in order to be a 
 major force at the WC'93. They will of course add the Dynamo Moscow players
 and players from the Swiss league (Bykov,Khomutov etc) but the question is
 if that's going to be enough. The SC playoffs is colliding with the WC this
 season so not many NHL players will be able to participate in WC'93.

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	TEAM SWEDEN			       TEAM RUSSIA
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  G 30. Fredrik Andersson	     	 G 20. Alexei Cherviakov
 BG  1. Rolf Ridderwall		 	BG  1. Andrei Zuiev

 RD  8. Kenneth Kennholt		RD 16. Oleg Davydov   
 LD 14. Fredrik Stillman		LD  5. Alexander Sapoznikov

 LW 11. Peter Larsson			LW 24. Oleg Maltsev  
  C  9. Thomas Rundqvist		 C 15. Igor Fedulov    
 RW 19. Markus Naslund			RW 12. Konstantin Astrachantsev

 RD  2. Tomas Jonsson			RD  7. Sergei Tertishny
 LD  3. Peter Popovic 			LD 14. Alexander Smirnov   

 LW  5. Patrik Juhlin  			LW 25. Sergei Yashin
  C 20. Jan Larsson			 C 26. German Titov 
 RW 18. Jonas Bergqvist			RW 31. Pavel Torgaiev          

 RD 28. Christer Olsson			                        
 LD  7. Arto Blomsten			LD 18. Dmitri Frolov

 LW 29. Mikael Renberg			LW 28. Alexander Cherbaiev
  C 21. Peter Forsberg			 C 27. Sergei Pushkov
 RW 26. Jan Viktorsson			RW 22. Roman Oksiuta 

 LW 23. Lars Edstrom			LW  9. Alexei Tkachuk 
  C 22. Charles Berglund		 C 29. Alexander Barkov
 RW 24. Stefan Ornskog			RW 23. Alexander Selivanov

 16. Niklas Eriksson and 4. Joacim Esbjors played the last half of the game.

 Team Russia played with 5 defensemen due to Sergei Selinanin's injury Tuesday.

 Hakan Loob and Peter Ottosson declined due to minor injuries.

 No players from Malmo or Dynamo Moscow played because the upcoming
 European Cup.

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