Ice Hockey World Cup 2022 | CUTS: The Slovaks ended a series of defeats after a dramatic turnaround! The Finns at the head of the Czech group

The Slovaks kept the game in advance to advance to the elimination part of the tournament. They led quickly, but the two eliminations of striker Kristián Pospíšil were used by Kazakhstan in power play to reverse the development of the score. In the second part of the game, Pavel Akolzin, who served a five-minute penalty, offered the Slovaks a similar chance, and Craig Ramsay’s charges also twice outnumbered and built up a tight lead. In addition, their stellar talent Juraj Slafkovský added a fourth success from the penalty shootout.

In the final twenty minutes, the bronze team from the February Olympic Games in Beijing collected once again, but nevertheless retained the close win and in the incomplete table they reached the fourth Danes in points. It is the duel with them that will probably be crucial for the Slovak team in terms of the chances of advancing to the quarterfinals. Kazakhstan also lost its fifth duel at the championship and is the last in the group A table in Helsinki.

In the duel with Italy, the German semifinalists of last year’s championship scored their fourth victory in a row, which moved them a lot towards advancing to the elimination fights. The basis for a high 9: 4 victory was laid by the German team in the opening third, which they won 4: 0. Alexander Karachun, Yasin Ehliz and Daniel Fischbuch took part in the triumph with two goals, and Kai Wissmann collected four Canadian points. Italy is worried about the tournament, it has scored a single point out of five duels so far and is penultimate in the table.

The home team of Finland shot with pleasure against the outsider from Great Britain and the result was a convincing victory 6: 0. With 13 points, Finland jumped in the incomplete table of the Czech group in Tampere, the still leading Swedes.

Britain still has the only point of losing the raids on Norway.

Paradoxically, the Austrians took the winds from the sails after a raid over the Czech team. After Wednesday’s 3: 5 loss to Norway, they lost points on Friday in a duel with Latvia.

The balanced game had to be decided by separate raids, in which the former player of the Brno Comet Peter Schneider failed in the Austrian team this time. On the other hand, the Latvian striker Vítkovic Roberts Bukarts scored the winning goal in the shootout.