"Validolny" championship (part 2)

However, this meeting also killed a lot of nerve cells of all hockey fans of our national team. Constantly leading the score and showing sharp attacking hockey, Russia could not break the resistance of Canada in the main time, which ended with a score of 5:5. Then there was a very tense overtime, which lasted only a minute and a half. It ended thanks to the excellent individual actions of the youngest player of the Russian team, Valery Nichushkin. This 17-year-old striker scored his first goal in the championship, but how important was this goal! Canada once again failed to defeat Russia in the decisive match, and our team was not left without medals again, which is good news.

Of course, the performance of the Russian youth team at the home World Cup cannot be called successful. All the games were too hard for us and, in many ways, the final result was accidental. After all, playing four overtimes in six matches, there is no need to talk about the regularity of bronze medals. On the other hand, this success shows that there is nothing wrong with the will to win among young Russian hockey players. Others could have given up and given up, but they didn't. Perhaps the key factor that prevented Russia from winning the championship was not the brightest game of its leaders. Nail Yakupov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Anton Slepyshev, and other team leaders did not show even 70% of their real capabilities. There are no complaints about the quality of the game only in relation to the goalkeepers of the Russian team, who frankly helped out.

If we talk about other national teams, then we can note the excellent team play of the American team. Perhaps they do not have such megastars as in Russia and Canada, but thanks to coordinated actions in defense and attack, the US national team was able to confidently win this difficult tournament for itself, despite defeats in the group stage 1:2 from its main competitors — Russia and Canada. The Stars and Stripes swept all other opponents out of their way, both in the group stage and in the playoffs. This is eloquently evidenced by their 32:5 statistics on goals scored and conceded in 5 matches! The Canadians looked strong, but they lacked just the character that the Russians showed. Therefore, despite a good game, Canada again remains without medals of the World Youth Hockey Championship. The Swedish national team did not show an outstanding game, but its level has traditionally been very high in recent years. Therefore, the final second place of this Scandinavian team looks quite natural. I was very surprised by the Swiss national team, which managed to knock out a strong Finland from the playoffs and almost repeated this feat in the match with Russia. Here I would first of all talk about great luck. After all, the Swiss looked much weaker than all the other top teams in the game. Well, in general, we can say that the World Hockey Championship among youth teams was very interesting. There was a place for crushing victories, sensational results, strong-willed feats of teams and the manifestation of individual skill. But there were no pronounced stars, such as Malkin at the spring World Championship among adult teams, at the youth championship. Experience the thrill of winning with https://goldencrowncasino.org Golden Crown Casino!