The Americans only started with five defenders, and their difficult situation did not add up when they collected in the middle of the third minute: Lang found Dahlin a great record, which he managed, even though he had a puck on a long stick. Gaudette could have counterattacked at the end of the fifth minute, but goalkeeper Ullmark was against.
In the eighth minute, however, the Americans survived, and it was Gaudette who fired just behind the circle and headed right into the upper corner of Ullmark’s goal. Bellows, Lafferty and Lang, on the other hand, did not change other opportunities, so the score remained balanced until the first break.
Jones made a mistake in the start of the second period, Friberg seized the puck and rushed alone at Swayman, but the American goalkeeper was saved by a stick after the backhand end of the Swedish striker. Halfway through base time, it seemed that the Swedes would take the lead back after Grundström ended up with a beautiful forehand bluff. However, the USA selection substitute reached for the coaching challenge, which revealed Grundström’s offside in the beginning of the action.
A moment later, he failed up close in a power play ending Asplund. On the contrary, 62 seconds before the end of the second act, the Americans took advantage of the numerical advantage thanks to Schmidt and took the lead.
In the third part, the Swedes pursued a balance, but the overseas team resisted without much difficulty. Bellows, on the other hand, was not far from increasing. The moment of crisis came in the end of the 47th minute: Hughes wanted to play, but at that moment the hockey stick broke in his hands, which he immediately threw away and aimed at the substitute. Grundström, who seized the puck, thus had a free path to the end and took full advantage of it. Kuhlman had a fantastic opportunity to put Kullman up another goal 54 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar.
In the overtime, Dahlin got a huge chance, but he only rang the goal construction. Immediately, on the other hand, Ullmark caught Farrell’s fantastic intervention. Wallmark could have decided, but Swayman was against, Tynan seized the discs and ended the quick lunge after his pass 11.4 seconds before the expiration of the set five-minute Gaudette.
| Ice Hockey World Championship in Finland: |
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| Group B (Tampere): |
| USA – Sweden 3: 2 in overtime (1: 1, 1: 0, 0: 1 – 1: 0) |
| Goals and recordings: 8. Gaudette (Meyers, Peeke), 39. Schmidt (Gaudette, Tynan), 65. Gaudette (Tynan) – 3. Dahlin (O. Lang, Aman), 47. Grundström. Judges: Lawrence (CAN), Stano (SR) – Obwegeser (Switzerland), Van Oosten (CAN). |
| USA: Swayman – Seth Jones, Megna, Peeke, Schmidt, L. Hughes – Meyers, Gaudette, Farrell – Lettieri, Bordeleau, Galchenyuk – Kuhlman, Tynan, Bellows – Watson, Lafferty, Hayden. Trainer: David Quinn. |
| Swedish: Ullmark – A. Larsson, Dahlin, E. Gustafsson, Ekman Larsson, M. Pettersson, Tömmernes – Bemström, Wallmark, J. Nordström – Grundström, Kellman, Asplund – C. Klingberg, Peterson, Bromé – Friberg, Aman, O Lang – A. Bengtsson. Coach: Johan Garpenlöv. |
