5th-Place GDT 1/4 • United States 3, Czech Republic 2 (OT)

[Systemfel]

2009 WJC FIFTH PLACE GAME
JANUARY 4, 2009 - 7:30 PM ET

vs.

Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, ON

Live Box Score

United States
21 James vanRiemsdyk - 33 Colin Wilson (A) - 19 Jordan Schroeder
27 Drayson Bowman - 14 Mitch Wahl - 15 Jim O'Brien
25 Eric Tangradi - 9 Matt Rust - 7 Aaron Palushaj
11 Mike Hoeffel - 10 Tyler Johnson - 12 Jimmy Hayes
18 Danny Kristo

17 Ryan McDonagh - 24 Jonathon Blum (C)
28 Ian Cole - 5 Teddy Ruth
4 Cade Fairchild - 8 Kevin Shattenkirk (A)
20 Blake Kessel

1 Josh Unice
30 Thomas McCollum

Czech Republic
9 Jan Káňa - 10 Ondřej Roman - 22 Radim Valchař
27 Petr Strapáč - 15 Tomáš Knotek - 24 Jan Eberle
20 Roman Szturc - 18 Tomáš Kubalík - 28 Tomáš Vincour
11 Zdeněk Okál - 16 Štěpán Novotný - 21 Rudolf Červený
17 Vladimír Růžička

23 Tomáš Kundrátek - 5 Milan Dóczy
19 Michal Jordán - 6 Martin Parýzek
7 David Štich (C) - 3 Radko Gudas
4 Jan Piskáček

2 Tomáš Vošvrda
1 Dominik Furch

Officials

Peter Orszag

Brent Reiber

Roger Arm

Daniel Bechard

Scoring
N/A

Players of the Game

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[SeaBasstian]

Go us.....5th place?

 

[SPORTSMANIAC]

This Game should be televised right?

The NHL Network will televise all U.S. games of the event. In addition, the Network will broadcast all medal-round games and all of Team Canada's preliminary-round games. The U.S. games will have a production and broadcast team, while all other contests on the NHL Network will utilize a feed from TSN.

Will the NHL Network keep its word?

 

[evgeni71]

3-2 Czech.

Now out of a medal, Team US have even less drive to win, and the Czech upset.

 

[Inkling]

Almost cruel to make them play this game. Teams have motivation for 3rd place games (medal) and for relegation games (to stay up) but not much for a 5th place game. Kind of strange that they have this game to begin with.

 

[red_ice4]

Almost cruel to make them play this game. Teams have motivation for 3rd place games (medal) and for relegation games (to stay up) but not much for a 5th place game. Kind of strange that they have this game to begin with.

Actually ends up being a big game for next year's groups, assuming Russia beats Slovakia for 3rd.

Next year's groups:

A: Gold winner (Can/Swe), Slovakia, 5th Place winner, +2 weak teams
B: Gold Loser (Can/Swe), Russia, 5th place loser, Finland, +1 weak team

I'd rather be in a group with Slovakia and two weak teams instead of Russia and Finland.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

The USA has had problems getting motivated for bronze medal games in the past, no clue what to expect out of them playing for 5th.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Ron Rolston will surely fire up the team for this one....

 

[Yst]

I'd rather be in a group with Slovakia and two weak teams instead of Russia and Finland.

Hard to get a hockey team playing with passion on that kind of premise, though.

Not a meaningless game for US hockey, but a game that's got to be hard to convince the team to play hard for.

 

[gnr25]

Yeah, it would be a good thing to finish 5th, because otherwise there could be a group containing Sweden/Canada, Russia and USA. The Americans will prob have a weaker team next year, so it would be preferred if they were in a group with say Canada, Slovakia, Finland and a Swiss/Austria.

The rest of the world will breathe a sigh of relief next year as Janus will be too old to play. In fact, Slovakia loses most of their team after tomorrow. Only 7 players will return from such a successful squad.

 

[Whitesnake]

Guys,

Any free link to watch the game through internet would be gladly appreciated.....

 

[Novak Djokovic]

Group A Next Year Group B Next Year
Sweden Canada
Slovakia Russia
USA Czech
Two other teams

Assuming, Sweden, USA and Russia win their games.

Could you imagine if Canada loses, Russia loses and USA wins.....

Canada
Russia
USA

....in one group.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Must be hard for the US players when they know their goalie wont stop anything.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Must be hard for the US players when they know their goalie wont stop anything.

They'll probably go with Unice.

 

[gnr25]

It could also be Sweden, Russia, USA in one group. There could actually be a group of death in hockey, lol.

 

[GilliesGirlie]

Kinda bummed that this won't be on television.

 

[summerstar22]

I wish this was being streamed somewhere

 

[y2kcanucks]

Go Czechs! 4-1 Czech victory.

Unice to start.

 

[T_Cage]

This Game should be televised right?



Will the NHL Network keep its word?

Good Q..my TV guide says they are showing the Wild-Avs games tonight in that timeslot.

Maybe they'll stick it on TSN2? (Which i dont get...Stupid Rogers/TSN rivalary )

 

[BillyShoe1721]

I really hope that the USA comes out with some sort of motivation, it's been a bad WJC, but to finish in sixth place would be so extremely terrible. I see either a US team that comes out flying and blows out the Czech Republic 7-3, or the unmotivated weak team that they have shown they can be and they lose 5-1. It'll be one extreme or the other.

 

[Yst]

I wish this was being streamed somewhere

This. Though probably a function of lack of TV coverage. Can't believe the world is ignoring an international championship game between the USA and another legitimate contender, even if it is for 5th place.

 

[Kenobody]

Actually ends up being a big game for next year's groups, assuming Russia beats Slovakia for 3rd.

You're going to have a hard time using that as motivation for the 16 players who aren't eligible to return next year.

 

[91]

looks to be 1-0 US already

 

[William H Bonney]

Here's a blog you can follow for some detail on what's going on:

http://www.usahockey.com/world_juni...ult.aspx?NAV=AF_03&id=250502&DetailedNews=yes

Sounds like the US had a close goal disallowed.

 

[The Devil In I]

NHL Network is instead showing a replay of the CAN-RUS game....

W.T.F.