From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: WJHC: Canada-Sweden
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:40:56 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden


 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships, December 27:
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 CANADA - SWEDEN 5-4 (1-0,1-3,2-2) 

 Canada won a close game where American referee Brett A Parson called
 a total of 116 penalty minutes. Many strange calls interrupted this
 game, and the inconsistency of Parson was confusing all players.

 The game started with Parson setting a very low tolerance level. Three
 minor penalties were given the Swedes in the opening minutes of the
 game, giving the Candians two 5on3 power play opportunities. But the
 Canucks failed to score. Instead, Sweden got a power play chance.
 Peter Forsberg had the puck behind the net, faked to go around the net
 but instead passed to Niklas Sundstrom in the slot.
 1st - SWE 0-1 Niklas Sundstrom 1  (Peter Forsberg,Markus Naslund)    6:43 (pp)

 In the beginning of the second period, the Canadians worked hard using
 their usual type of play, shoot the puck and chase the rebound.
 The referee decided not to call anything in the beginning of the period but
 after a while he had to do something. It resulted in two minor penalties
 for each team but somehow Sweden got the 5on4 power play.

 It was Canada's best line (Kariya-Lapointe-Bes) that scored the equalizer.
 Lapointe managed to poke the puck passed Swedish goalie Ronnqvist.
 2nd - CAN 1-1 Martin Lapointe 1   (Brent Tully,Paul Kariya)          5:04

 Sweden regained the lead on another power play. Daniel Johansson shot a
 slap shot from the blue line but the puck went wide, bounced in the back
 boards to Niklas Sundstrom who banged in the rebound.
       SWE 1-2 Niklas Sundstrom 2  (Daniel Johansson,Peter Forsberg)  8:22 (pp)

 Sweden had the control of the game at this point, it seemed. But the Canadians
 continued their hard work. The unfortunate Swedish third line failed to
 clear the zone, and a rebound was poked between the legpads of the
 Swedish goalie, Ronnqvist.
       CAN 2-2 Ralph Intranuovo 1  (Tyler Wright,Rob Niedermayer)    13:19

 I had been looking forward to watch "the next Lemieux", Alexandre Daigle,
 but he didn't show much skills in this game, at least not any positive
 skills because halfway through the game, Daigle made an ugly cross check
 straight in the face/neck of Kenny Jonsson. A major penalty was called and
 Daigle was gone for the game.

 The Canadians took the lead in the end of the 2nd period. A nice pass from
 Aucoin to Bes in full speed, skated around the defensemen and put the puck
 by the far post.
       CAN 3-2 Jeff Bes 1	   (Adrian Aucoin)		     17:12

 The game's second best player, IMO, increased the Canadian lead in the
 beginning of the third period. Paul Kariya beat the Swedish defenseman
 at the boards, going on a 2 against goalie break-away. Kariya passed
 the puck to Lapointe, who passed back to Kariya. Beautiful goal.
 3rd - CAN 4-2 Paul Kariya 1	   (Martin Lapointe,Mike Rathje)      3:42

 The Swedes came closer again, and it was the MoDo-line (Forsberg-
 Naslund-Sundstrom). Sundstrom took the puck in the corner, Forsberg
 got the puck, passed it to Markus Naslund, who rounded Canadian goalie
 Legace, and hanging in the air scored the 3-4 goal.
       SWE 4-3 Markus Naslund 2	   (Peter Forsberg,Niklas Sundstrom)  4:27

 Canada answered fast. Again it was the Swedes failure to clear the zone that
 got them into trouble. Tyler Wright (one of Peter Forsberg's best friends BTW)
 poked another rebound between the legpads of Ronnqvist.
       CAN 5-3 Tyler Wright 1	   (Rob Niedermayer,Ralph Intranuovo) 5:05

 The Swedes got another power play opportunity, after killing many Canadian
 power plays. Naslund passed the puck to Forsberg, in his favorite position
 behind the net, faked a pass, and rounded the goal and put it by the near 
 post.
       SWE 5-4 Peter Forsberg 1	   (Kenny Jonsson)		      8:49 (pp)

 The Swedes pulled their goalie at the end but the game ended 5-4.

 The game's (and Sweden's) best player was no doubt Peter Forsberg.
 His line with wingers Markus Naslund and Niklas Sundstrom scored
 all of Sweden's four goals. Due to the large number of penalties,
 this line got to play a lot, since those are the best players in
 power play and box play situations.

 Canada's best was IMO Paul Kariya. It's good to see the success of
 a small, fast, skilled player like that because 200 lbs almost seem
 to be a prerequisite in today's hockey.
 Of the defensemen, I thought Mike Rathje played very well.

 Canada's goalie, Manny Legace, also played a great game. He made many
 good saves and most of all, he didn't let any pucks slip through his legpads
 like his Swedish counterpart Ronnqvist did.

 Three stars (personal opinion):
 1 - Peter Forsberg
 2 - Paul Kariya
 3 - Manny Legace

 Canada's chances of becoming World Champions increased with this win
 while Sweden now for sure can't take another loss if they want to
 stay in the race for the gold medal.

 It'll be interesting to see Canada match up with Russia on Tuesday.

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 The teams as they played:


 G 30. Manny Legace			 G  1. Peter Ronnqvist

 D 33. Mike Rathje			 D  2. Daniel Johansson
 D 15. Jason Smith			 D  8. Kenny Jonsson

   16. Dean McAmmond			LW 24. Niklas Sundstrom
   29. Jeff Shantz			 C 21. Peter Forsberg
   21. Nathan Lafayette			RW 19. Markus Naslund

 D  6. Chris Pronger			 D  4. Johan Tornberg
 D  2. Brent Tully			 D 17. Hans Jonssn

LW  9. Ralph Intranouvo			LW 23. Fredrik Lindqvist
 C 12. Tyler Wright			 C 18. Mats Lindgren
RW 23. Rob Niedermayer			RW 32. Niclas Sundblad

 D  4. Darcy Werenko			 D  6. Edvin Fryhlen
 D  3. Andre Aucoin			 D 12. Niclas Havelid

LW 32. Martin Gendron  			LW 10. Andreas Johansson
 C 19. Alexandre Daigle			 C 27. Roger Rosen
RW 10. Jason Dawe			RW  9. Magnus Wernblom

LW 18. Paul Kariya
 C 11. Jeff Bes
RW 22. Martin Lapointe

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