From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Team Russia-Team Sweden 2-2
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:20:15 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden

Moscow, April 12:

TEAM RUSSIA-TEAM SWEDEN 2-2 (1-1,0-1,1-0)

1st: 1-0 Dimitri Jusjkievitj	(Alexander Barkov)	18:21
     1-1 Peter Ottosson		(Michael Nylander)	19:38
2nd: 1-2 Peter Ottosson		(Michael Nylander)	 8:30	(pp)
3rd: 2-2 Darius Kaspararaitis	(Butsajev)		19:34

Shots on goal: Russia	8  6 10 - 24
               Sweden   6 11  7 - 24
Penalties: Russia 4*2min, Sweden 4*2min
Attendance: 2,000 

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Team Sweden faced Team Russia for the first time ever. The old CCCP and CIS
is now gone and the uniforms now have "Rossija" on them.
Team Russia was pretty much the same team CIS had in the olympics, 13 
of the gold medalists played yesterday.
It turned out to be a good game. Team Sweden were only 26 seconds away from
their first victory (against CCCP/CIS/Russia) in Moscow since 1966,
but a power play goal by Kasparaitis prevented that.
Team Russia opened the scoring on a shot from the blue line between
the pads on excellent goalie Peter Ashlin. Peter Ottosson (or Ottoccoh as
it is spelled in russian) equalized on a pass from Nylander. Ottosson
went around the goal and backhanded the puck by the far post behind
Russian goalie #20 Stalenkov. Team Sweden got the lead in the 2nd period,
again by Peter Ottosson. Michael Nylander had the puck on Stalenko's right
side on a power play. He was unattacked so he decided to shoot, the puck hit
the post and Ottosson got the rebound, 1-2.
Team Sweden played very well and seemed to get the victory but Team Russia
equalized on a shot from Kasparaitis.

Team Sweden's best line was: Peter Ottosson-Lars Karlsson-Michael Nylander.
Michael Nylander was pretty exceptional, you wouldn't now this was his
debut for Tre Kronor. Goalie Peter Ashlin had a great game, it's my opinion
that he will backup Soderstrom in the WC.

Even if it's hard to draw any conclusions after only one game, I think 
Conny Evensson has a nice thing going here. The addition of young players
like Forsberg, Naslund, Nylander seem to have worked out well.
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Team Sweden's lines:

Goalie: 35. Peter Ashlin

Defense:          Left			Right
	22. Joacim Esbjors 	5. Fredrik Stillman 
	 2. Petri Liimatainen	4. Per Lundell
	 7. Tommy Sjodin	3. Per Gustavsson

Forwards:   Left Wing            Center	              Right Wing
	29. Lars Hurtig	     18. Jan Larsson	  26. Anders Huss
 	19. Markus Naslund   21. Peter Forsberg	  23. Lars Edstrom
	15. Patrik Carnback  12. Peter Berndtsson 11. Terho Koskela
     	16. Michael Nylander 28. Lars Karlsson	  24. Peter Ottosson

27. Patric Kjellberg replaced 23. Lars Edstrom in the 2nd and 3rd period
due to an injured knee.
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Staffan
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