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Sweden Pulls out Big Win over Germany

Written by: Chris McCluskey on 12/31/2002 Subscribe to HF's RSS Feed

It was an important game for both teams but it was Sweden who won easily by five goals over a weak German squad in world junior action this afternoon. Germany came out playing a more open and offensive style of game than in their previous three match-ups, but unfortunately this is what the Swedes thrived on, scoring the game's first three goals within a span of ten minutes in the first period. This proved to be all the Scandanavians would need as they cruised to a 7-2 victory. Thirteen Swedish players recorded points with Robert Nilsson, Mattias Beck, Alexander Steen, and Marcus Paulsson leading the way with two each.

German goaltender Dimitri Patzold, fresh off a phenomenal performance against Team Canada on Sunday, made multiple highlight reel saves. However, without the same level of defence as in the other games he was often left deserted by his defence to stop the powerful Swedish offence. "They got some rebounds and scored on their rebounds," said the San Jose Sharks prospect of his play. Patrick Ehelechner came on in his relief at the halfway point of the game to conclude his round robin play which saw Patzold come from being a virtual unknown to becoming a fan favorite in Halifax this past week.

Despite giving up seven to the Swedes, including 3 on the power play, the game also saw Germany mark its highest goal total of the tournament. Singles came from the sticks of German player of the game Marcel Goc and Christoph Ullman. Goc's goal just beat the buzzer with :01 left on the clock in the second period to break Michal Zajkowski's shutout. This fired up the Germans to start the third but the damage was already done as the goal deficit was much too great to overcome.

The Germans have now finished round robin play and await the relegation round. Sweden is back in action tomorrow against the Czech Republic in an important game for positions in the next round.

PERIOD 1

Scoring:

8:34 SWE Valdix 1 (Baarnhielm)
10:34 SWE Steen 2 (Beck, Lindstrom)
18:14 SWE Steen 3 (Skoog, Leetma) PP

Penalties:

2:36 GER Bartlick 2 (Hooking)
13:24 SWE Eriksson 2 (Charging)
17:19 GER Sulzer 4 (Roughing, Interference)
17:19 SWE Falk 2 (Roughing)
17:42 GER Barz 2 (Delay of Game)

PERIOD 2

Scoring:


4:30 SWE Lindstrom 2 (Beck)
9:55 SWE Andersson 1 (Eriksson, Hagos) PP
12:02 SWE Falk 1 (Paulsson, Nilsson) PP
19:59 GER Goc 1 (Sulzer, Schauer) PP

Penalties:

1:49 SWE Baarnhielm 2 (Tripping)
9:37 GER Petermann 2 (Holding)
15:13 GER Kink 2 (Roughing)
18:51 SWE Falk 2 (Tripping)
19:12 SWE Paulsson 2 (Cross Checking)

PERIOD 3

Scoring:

12:58 SWE Falk 2 (Paulsson, Nilsson)
13:44 GER Ullmann 1 (Barta, Menauer)

Penalties:

16:32 GER Team 2 (Too Many Men)
19:23 SWE Falk 2 (Roughing)

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PLAYERS OF THE GAME

Sweden: Alexander Steen (2 goals)
Germany: Marcel Goc (1 goal)

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GOALTENDERS

Sweden: Michal Zajkowski (1-1)
Germany: Dimtri Patzold (0-4), Patrick Ehelechner (12:02 of second)

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LINE COMBINATIONS

Sweden:

Eriksson-Hagos-Jamtin
Lindstrom-Steen-Beck
Sjostrom-Almtorp-Valdix
Nilsson-Falk-Paulsson

Andersson-Hansson
Skoog-Leetma
Baarnhielm-Enstrom
Agu-Persson

Germany:

Grygiel-Goc-Seidenberg
Danner-Kink-Hospelt
Menauer-Barta-Ullmann
Menge-Seyller-Barz

Petermann-Sulzer
Scahuer-Wilhelm
Walter-Bartlick
Wrobel

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SHOTS ON GOAL 

		1	2	3	F

Sweden	12	18	14	44
Germany	8	6	7	21

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