1993 World Championships in Germany:  ====================================   Group A results:   SWEDEN - SWITZERLAND  4-6 (0-3,3-1,1-2)   1st: SWI 0-1 Manuele Celio 1                                         3:21       SWI 0-2 Patrick Howald 1                                       11:37       SWI 0-3 Patrick Howald 2   (Sven Leuenberger)                  16:00  2nd: SWE 1-3 Peter Andersson 1  (Michael Nylander)                   2:47 (pp)       SWI 1-4 Roman Waeger 1     (Martin Rauch,Sven Leuenberger)      8:53 (pp)       SWE 2-4 Jonas Bergqvist 3  (Markus Naslund)                     9:08       SWE 3-4 Jan Larsson 1      (Patrik Juhlin)                     18:50  3rd: SWE 4-4 Mikael Renberg 2   (Thomas Rundqvist,Peter Andersson)   7:49       SWI 4-5 Roman Waeger 2                                          9:07       SWI 4-6 Felix Hollenstein 1 (Sven Leuenberger,Thomas Vrabec)   11:29                Shots on goal:   Penalties:   Attendance:   Referee:  Sweden        5 20 18 - 43    4*2min       6,000         Rob Hearn, USA  Switzerland  10  6  7 - 23    5*2min   Switzerland beat Sweden in a WC for the first time since 1950, and the Swiss  now have a small chance of reaching the quarterfinals (if Austria beats  Italy tonight).   The Swiss took the lead after Hakan Ahlund made an incredibly stupid drop  pass at his own blue line, and Celio came in alone with Soderstrom and beat  Tommy to the stick side. The Swedes continued to make mistakes as Howald  was allowed to skate in between the Swedish D and put the puck past Tommy  to make it 0-2. 0-3 was a nice one, Howald entered the Swedish zone, slammed  on the breaks, and his shot went in by Tommy's far post. One of the lousiest  periods I've seen Sweden play this year.  Second period saw a new Swedish team, and the Swiss had to ice the puck many  times. On a pp, Nylander skated in from the boards, Pavoni made the initial  save, but Peter Andersson scored on the rebound.  Then a power play goal  from the Swiss, a slap shot from the blue line hit two players on the way  to the goal and past Soderstrom also. Jonas Bergqvist made it 2-4 after a  nice pass from Naslund behind the goal. Jan Larsson reduced the lead to 3-4  just before the end of 2nd period, on a pp skated in unattacked in front of  the goal, and put the puck through Pavoni's 5-hole.   Third period, Sweden equalized on a slap shot from Renberg that trickled  through Pavoni's 5-hole. Then, another defensive mistake by the Swedes,  Waeger was allowed to skate around the Swedish goal unattacked and from close  range could make it 4-5. Hollenstein then scored 4-6 on a 2-on-1 break away,  and put it top shelf with no chance for Soderstrom.   Switzerland:   Goaltender:  20 Reto Pavoni  (28 Renatio Tosio)  Defense:     26 Rick Tschumi, 2 Martin Steinegger               16 Sven Leuenberger, 5 Martin Rauch                7 Sandro Bertaggia, 17 Patrick Sutter               31 Samuel Balmer  Forwards:    22 Alfred Luthi, 11 Felix Hollenstein, 25 Roman Waeger               23 Gil Montandon, 12 Roberto Triulzi, 10 Patrick Howald               35 Christian Weber, 18 Andreas Ton, 24 Joerg Eberle               15 Bruno Erni, 13 Thomas Vrabec, 29 Manuele Celio   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   RUSSIA - CANADA  1-3 (0-2,1-1,0-0)   1st: CAN 0-1 Kevin Dineen 1     (Garry Galley)                       4:28       CAN 0-2 Paul Kariya 2      (Eric Lindros)                      12:20 (pp)  2nd: CAN 0-3 Eric Lindros 10    (Paul Kariya,Shayne Corson)          9:40       RUS 1-3 Valeri Karpov 2    (?)                                 16:24  3rd:   Penalties: RUS 2*2min 1*5min, CAN 5*2min  Referee: Anton Danko, Czech republic  Attendance: 8,600   Russia probably made their best game of the tourney, but yet there wasn't  enough to win against the effective Canadians.   Galley took a slap shot that found Dineen by the far post, and Dineen just  deflected the puck past Trefilov in the Russian goal. Then a power play  goal, after a couple of deflections Eric Lindros found Kariya alone by the  far post, and Kariya put the puck high over a sliding Trefilov.  Russia won the shots in the first period 12-5, and they had the most of  the scoring opportunities, but they just couldn't score.  Second period saw Lindros scoring his 10th (!!) goal of the WC. Kariya  entered the Russian zone, slammed on the break to get past his defenseman,  then made a nice pass to Corson who just got the stick on the puck to  deflect it to Lindros who one-timed the puck.  The Russians then finally got their goal, Karpov broke in from the side  and made a slap shot in Tugnutt's top right hand corner.    Player of the game in Canada was voted Paul Kariya, and for Russia Valeri  Karpov. I agree, the difference in this game was Lindros and Kariya, and  in part also Tugnutt. Kariya had a far better game now than vs the Swedes,  and he was very impressive. Kariya got the place in the line with Lindros  after Mike Gartner went out with a rib-injury early in the first period.   Lindros, BTW, lead the point scoring with 14 pts (9+5) before this game,  7 pts ahead of the next player! i.e. double as much as the next player  (among those Kariya with 1+6). Amazing!  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Group B results:   FINLAND - CZECH REPUBLIC  1-3 (0-0,1-1,0-2)   1st:  2nd: CZE 0-1  Petr Hrbek 2           11:04       FIN 1-1  Mika Alatalo 1         17:51  3rd: CZE 1-2  Jiri Dolezal 3          5:04       CZE 1-3  Martin Hostak 2        19:45 (en)   Penalties: FIN 8*2min, CZE 9*2min  Referee: Vincent Moreno, Switzerland  Attendance: 4,300  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   GERMANY - USA  6-3 (5-0,0-0,1-3)   1st: GER 1-0  Raimond Hilger 2        7:12       GER 2-0  Gerd Truntschka 3      11:16       GER 3-0  Ernst Kopf 3           11:55       GER 4-0  Michael Rumrich 3      16:06       GER 5-0  Benoit Doucet 1        18:45  2nd:  3rd: USA 5-1  Derek Plante 1          4:06       GER 6-1  Dieter Hegen 5          6:57       USA 6-2  Craig Johnson 1         7:30       USA 6-3  Rob Gaudreau 3         13:07   Penalties: GER 7*2min, USA 10*2min  Referee: Valeri Bokarev, Russia  Attendance: 11,000