GDT: Group H • May 10 • United States 5, Belarus 3

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2012 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | ROUND ROBIN GAME
MAY 10, 2012
6:15 AM PT • 9:15 AM ET • 15:15 CET • 16:15 EET

HARTWALL ARENA, HELSINKI, FINLAND
(CAPACITY: 13,464)

United States

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing

67 Max Pacioretty​

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26 Paul Stastny​

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9 Bobby Ryan​

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21 Kyle Okposo​

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19 Jim Slater (A)​

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11 Ryan Lasch​

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13 Cam Atkinson​

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18 Justin Abdelkader​

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23 J.T. Brown​

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39 Patrick Dwyer​

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44 Nate Thompson (A)​

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15 Joey Crabb​

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-​

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61 Kyle Palmieri​

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Left Defense | Right Defense

3 Jack Johnson (C)​

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4 Cam Fowler​

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7 Alex Goligoski​

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27 Justin Faulk​

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34 Chris Butler​

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2 Jeff Petry​

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-​

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20 Justin Braun​

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Starting Goalie | Backup Goalie

35 Jimmy Howard​

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31 Richard Backman​

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Scratches | Reason
G 36 John Curry|

Healthy​

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F Craig Smith|

-​

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Belarus

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing

18 Alexei Ugarov​

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71 Alexei Kalyuzhny (A)​

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84 Mikhail Grabovski (A)​

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11 Alexander Kulakov​

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77 Alexander Kitarov​

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28 Konstantin Koltsov​

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19 Dmitri Meleshko​

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26 Andrei Stas​

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8 Andrei Kolosov​

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10 Andrei Mikhalyov​

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88 Yevgeni Kovyrshin​

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16 Andrei Stepanov​

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-​

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13 Sergei Drozd​

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-​

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Left Defense | Right Defense

7 Vladimir Denisov (C)​

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89 Dmitri Korobov​

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43 Viktor Kostyuchyonok​

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22 Oleg Goroshko​

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5 Nikolai Stasenko​

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82 Pavel Chernook​

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92 Roman Graborenko​

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Starting Goalie | Backup Goalie

31 Andrei Mezin​

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1 Vitali Koval​

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Scratches | Reason
G 40 Dmitri Milchakov|

Healthy​

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F 23 Andrei Kostitsyn|

Arrives Friday​

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F 74 Sergei Kostitsyn|

Arrives Friday​

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Officials

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|Georg Jablukov

|David Lewis

|Stefan Schulz

|Jesse Wilmot

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[Dima_BLR]

koval hasn't recovered after his injury yet, so mezin will be the starting goalie again go andrei!

 

[Xokkeu]

Great, we started poorly against Slovakia and the response is to allow Belarus two immediate scoring chancs.

 

[Xokkeu]

Well I'll take that I guess.

The guy who has like two shifts in the tournament gets the goal.


EDIT: Nevermind it's Abdelkader. JT Brown with the assist.

 

[ozo]

Well, Mezin is ****.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

koval hasn't recovered after his injury yet, so mezin will be the starting goalie again go andrei!

Mezin didnt look good against Kazakhstan and cant say that this game started any better

 

[Dash22]

Talk about a fluky goal.

I'll take it.

 

[Xokkeu]

Mezin didnt look good against Kazakhstan and cant say that this game started any better

Yeah Mezin gets beat again with a weak floater and he's getting pulled.

 

[Dash22]

Ugh another ugly goal for Belarus to give up.

2-0 lead for the United States!

 

[ozo]

Mezin is done.

 

[Dash22]

Yeah Mezin gets beat again with a weak floater and he's getting pulled.

Crazy seeing a goalie pulled just 10 minutes into a game.

 

[Like Wall]

You was saying?

1:2 BLR scores.

 

[Dash22]

Belarus scores a huge goal to cut the lead to 2-1.

That was pretty much the first chance they had.

It was a really nice slap pass to set the goal up.

 

[Xokkeu]

Paging Justin Braun, your man is calling you to check out his goal highlight.

 

[Exit Dose]

Slater is looking pretty bad.

 

[Dynheart]

Wow, what a slap pass from the blue line.

 

[Xokkeu]

That 10 minute misconduct hurts


The US basically have two decent pairs, Johnson-Fowler, Faulk-Goligoski and now the horse is gone.

 

[gn2007]

sucks for johnson but dumb play by him

 

[Dash22]

Jack Johnson gets a 2+10 for a hit to the head.

Belarus on the PP.

 

[Like Wall]

BLR has to try hard, otherwise their president will put the whole team in the jail.

 

[kunabai]

still wondering why koval hasn't started

 

[SabresBillsBuffalo]

WoW IIHF refs are scary bad.

 

[AmericanDream]

stupid penalty call on the US....pretty big kill here for the US

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Koval is playing hurt, lets see how he can manage when US gets some pressure on him.

 

[AmericanDream]

this big ice does make it possible to stay in the zone for almost an entire 2 minutes!