GDT: 5/4 • United States 3, Switzerland 4 (OT)

[Systemfel]

QUALIFYING ROUND GDT
LAST GAME DAY BEFORE FINAL ROUND
MAY 4, 2009 - 20:15 CET - 2:15 PM ET

vs.

PostFinance Arena, Bern, Switzerland

Live Box Score

Online Streams
• IIHF.com (Not Free)
• MyP2P.eu

United States
Actual lineup.
55 Jason Blake (A) - 42 David Backes - 23 Dustin Brown (C)
9 Kyle Okposo - 12 Patrick O'Sullivan - 74 T.J. Oshie
18 Chris Higgins - 8 Joe Pavelski - 26 Ryan Shannon
17 Nick Foligno - 33 Colin Wilson - 21 Drew Stafford
22 Lee Stempniak
49 Colin Stuart

20 Ryan Suter - 6 Ron Hainsey (A)
15 John-Michael Liles - 3 Jack Johnson
2 Keith Ballard - 5 Matt Niskanen
4 Zach Bogosian
5 Peter Harrold

31 Robert Esche
30 Scott Clemmensen
35 Al Montoya

Switzerland
Actual lineup.
14 Roman Wick - 35 Sandy Jeannin (A) - 67 Romano Lemm
23 Thierry Paterlini - 38 Thomas Ziegler - 18 Thomas Déruns
32 Ivo Rüthemann (A) - 28 Martin Plüss - 10 Andres Ambühl
25 Thibaut Monnet - 39 Raffaele Sannitz - 86 Julien Sprunger
88 Kevin Romy
51 Ryan Gardner

57 Goran Bezina - 5 Severin Blindenbacher
7 Mark Streit (C) - 77 Yannick Weber
31 Mathias Seger - 13 Félicien Du Bois
90 Roman Josi
54 Philippe Furrer

26 Martin Gerber
66 Ronnie Rüeger

Officials

Peter Ország

Daniel Piechaczek

Éric Bouguin

Andrei Kicha

Scoring
0-1. Ambühl (Blindenbacher, Streit) 9:42, 1st (5v3 PPG)
1-1. Hainsey (Pavelski) 5:57, 2nd (PPG)
1-2. Lemm (Jeannin, Wick) 11:03, 2nd
2-2. Higgins (Ballard) 15:08, 2nd
3-2. Hainsey (O'Sullivan) 19:48, 2nd (5v3 PPG)
3-3. Plüss (Du Bois, Rüthemann) 9:42, 3rd
3-4. Wick (Seger, Du Bois) 0:13, OT

Ice Time Leaders

Jack Johnson - 22:13

Mark Streit - 28:57

Players of the Game

Ron Hainsey

Martin Plüss​

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[4rde]

If Switzerland wins this one and gets the 3 points, USA is out and Switzerland in. However, i doubt USA loses this.

 

[Dr Despair]

If Switzerland wins this one and gets the 3 points, USA is out and Switzerland in. However, i doubt USA loses this.

According to my calculations (and with the assumption that Sweden will take three points from their game against France) it would mean that the standings of group E would look like this

1. RUS 14
2. SWE 10
3. SUI 7
4. USA 7

5. LAT 7
6. FRA 0

For the three teams ending up at seven points, the points gathered from the games they played among themselves would be SUI 4, USA 3 and LAT 2.

Please correct me (anyone), if you find mistakes.

 

[zecke26]

If Switzerland wins this one and gets the 3 points, USA is out and Switzerland in. However, i doubt USA loses this.

not really.

assuming sweden beats france, latvia/USA/switzerland would all sit at 7 points. so only the games between these nations count.

usa beat latvia 4-2
latvia beat switzerland 2-1 after SO
(switzerland beat USA in regular)

usa would have 3 points out of these games, switzerland 4 and latvia only 2. therefore latvia would be out.

at least this is what my mind gives me early in the morning. should be correct though. it's latvia or switzerland, usa is safe.

edit: dr despair beats me to it, drew the same conclusions luckily.

 

[4rde]

Oh yea, i just thought because latvia beat switzerland they would be in instead of usa but yea thats right. When 3 teams are at same points all those games they played against eachother counts.

 

[WeberStreit]

I hope Switzerland wins in regulation! That would mean:
Switzerland plays in the quarterfinals and we have the match-up Canada-USA.

 

[Like Wall]

Switzerland has been in many quarterfinals, and I hope the USA wins this game. However I believe that Americans are not motivated enough and if they lose, Latvia will not be in quarterfinals.

Switzerland is not a weak team, no matter how much they whine about their coach.

 

[stv11]

I think the US players will be motivated, if they lose this one Switzerland will be ranked ahead of them and they'll probably have to play Canada

 

[MaxV]

Switzerland has been in many quarterfinals, and I hope the USA wins this game. However I believe that Americans are not motivated enough and if they lose, Latvia will not be in quarterfinals.

Switzerland is not a weak team, no matter how much they whine about their coach.

I think you're safe. I don't think Swiss will beat USA in regulation.

 

[Like Wall]

Please, USA. Don't **** this up!

 

[bolt thrower]

I cannot believe it that Bezina is playing tonight

 

[EbencoyE]

im giving up on this crappy stream

 

[Systemfel]

What the ****? The ref didn't even see the hit.

 

[bolt thrower]

Backes is gone. He just killed Sprunger with a dirty check into the boards.

 

[Like Wall]

Somebody's injured

 

[svartgul]

Backes, get out of there! You don't do things like that.

 

[DAkings20]

how was that dirty, the ref didn't see it yet he calls a penalty cause the guy stays down.

 

[bolt thrower]

Somebody's injured

Sprunger and it does not look good

 

[asparkoflife]

That wasnt boarding...definitely not a 20 minute misconduct.

 

[Vodka_Tonic]

that was beyond stupid by backes...

 

[bolt thrower]

that was beyond stupid by backes...

Yeah, Sprunger had no chance to get to the puck and was in a vulnerable position

 

[Like Wall]

Sprunger and it does not look good

What happened? Karsums style?

 

[EbencoyE]

wooow are these refs serious?

 

[asparkoflife]

Dont play the Swiss at home...

 

[DAkings20]

What happened? Karsums style?

Not even, it was a weak call imo. The ref wasn't gonna even call anything until the player stayed down.