Intermediate joys cannot be remembered, when the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the last time came out such a boring event. Moreover, this trend is especially hitting in the head,
Intermediate joys
And do not recall after all, when the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the last time came out such a boring event. Moreover, such a trend is especially hitting in the head, given that the overall level of the championship is growing like yeast. The World Cup is a holiday, and each match of the Lie-Off is not only valuable, but also brilliantly packed and tied with a huge bow. Bant of the current quarterfinals – Yaromir Yagr. Despite the years, not at all faded, but has the right to the great Czech to go to his 39 years in the background. Although, after all, Yardo left with one foot behind the scenes, the interview gives, draws the attention of journalists to the sons of the regiment, that is, to his partners, mainly young, but no less ambitious at the same time. Such as the Yagr will make even the most predictable and passing match look. Fortunately, no one can cancel the role of personality in history.
Indeed, after all: the Swedes, Czechs, Finns – all their rivals have passed playfully. Although here it can be challenged. To play is to be passionate, to delight yourself and others. The Czechs delighted the US hockey players in the first period, when the star-striped even the advantage was owned, at least territorial. But by turning on the “Yagra option”, the Czechs added their branded pragmatism – and there are no Americans. Were they?
Swedes can play with restraint. No less than Czechs. Yes only Per Mortes The “trunur” of a different property is taught now. So their match with the Germans turned out to be more lively and more emotionally. But it was more likely to be a charge from the German national team and the spark flared up. If the Americans grabbed without passion for their piece of pie, then the Germans were in all weapons ready to prove that their success at the group stage is not an accident, but a jump forward. Yes, here is one of the main weapons – the goalkeeper Andras, did not help out, luck that evening left the German goalkeeper to another.
Finns with the Norwegians – they have their own story. You should not forget that the Norwegians are a surprise of the group stage of the championship. The Finns were preoccupied with their problems, and again – at the last line. And after all, he created a dilemma for himself Yalonen. Alternating Lassila and Milestone, he himself put himself in an uncomfortable situation, and everything became even more complicated when the milestone was replaced after two goals from the Russian national team. Lassila came out and in an interference felt what the KHL forwards were in the game. In Novokuznetsk, they should be satisfied that their new goalkeeper came out of this specific acquaintance dry from the water. But again, in the frame of Petri from Kazan, and the trust Bars justifies completely.
May 12, 2011. Bratislava. World Cup.1/4 finals. Finland – Norway – 4: 1
Often in Russia they say that by letting the crowds of legionnaires in our internal championship, we are preparing the same Czechs, towering them with hockey, and now their championship is far from the most starry even by the standards of the KHL composition. The Norwegians have their own KHL – this is Swedish elimeria. To everyone who has grown out the Norwegian championship and do not reach the NHL – the way to Sweden. The meeting of the eldest and younger brother did not take place, but without this the meeting of two North European teams is an additional intrigue.
As in the case of the Americans and the Germans, the Norwegians began to health. But if the US national team simply created moments and extinguished them at its gate, and the Bundesmanshaft managed to equally equalize in its match, then the Finns rivals managed to go forward, which at first delighted. Matis Olympus And so the match was located at the top of the Bombardier lists, at the decisive stage I also did not forget to show off. The earned and implemented bullets – a couple more coins in Matisan piggy bank at this championship.
Norwegians, however, did not save such agility. If the Czechs took their leader with their efforts, and the Swedes with collectivism and Andras, then the Finns took out secret weapons from his bosom. Four goals in the majority are a pleasant Suomi surprise. And, as it turned out a little later, an alarming call for the Russian national team – the future opponent of the Finns.
It would be unnatural today to summarize for the Finns and sculpt from the players of Suomi heroes – at least a local rosel. What if? Of course, now, impressive Granlund. This Finnish boy managed to become a popular figure not only among scouts and specialists. Just a year ago, junior and youth teams of Suomi could not do without him, and now he is one of the leaders of the team of Finland that is the face of the whole country. Let be Tuomo Rute scored the most, immediately after him goes and shines with his talent hidden in the club behind Morozov and Zaripov, Yarkko Immonon. But, approaching the semi-final, it was Granlund-the third scorer of Finland, and he, and not someone else, brought on Thursday the “bright Kazan” into his two-effective throws. When “Minnesota” receives this guy with beautiful hands and bright head will be glad of this, at least Mikko Koyva, and at best – Selianne With Koyva Sr. will have to move.
With their script, with their problems and heroes, but the Finns went further without visible difficulties and barriers. The World Championship in Slovakia, so intriguing with new procurements of hockey geography at the start, closer to the final games came to the good old showdowns of recognized favorites. The buildup of the top teams at the group stage turned out to be a reality, not a myth. The Finns did not get out of the common pool of serious and confident teams, and decided: unexpected semi -finalists, and even more so medalists, should not wait in Bratislava.
May 12, 2011. Bratislava. World Cup. 1/4 finals.Finland – Norway – 4: 1
Remember Bern and Quebec!
Match Russia is Canada It is impossible to put in a row with any other confrontations by definition. Just as it is no longer possible to imagine the last tournaments without the battle of rivals, who once carried the banner of two systems, and now they are only hockey, but what!
Even speaking of mythical Soviet traditions, few now seriously perceive Russians as exclusively technical and high -speed players, and Canadians in the role of duboloma who are throwing from all the positions. Hockey globalization has done its job and it is unlikely that you are now without a coat of arms on your chest and surname on your back. Artyukhin and Kulemin Russians, and in Dyushene Look at the truly Canadian hockey features. But it was at this championship that the souls were relocated, at least partial.
What Bykov with Zakharkin They call the hockey of the future – this is a quick hockey, aggressive, with a minimum of transverse gears. Such a model of the game is ideal for small sites, but its relevance in conditions of more familiar to Europeans is still a question. Whether a question is straightened into an exclamation a sign or will turn into a gloomy point-had to decide the next quarter-final with the founders of the hockey. And with whom else? complaining to the chronic underestimation of the opponent, even champions-champions could not cause proper emotions in Ovechkina, Kovalchuk and companies. Canadians are a historical and unchanging irritant for us. To imagine the times when we cool to each other means to go crazy and simultaneously show a remarkable fantasy. Calmly, measured and not without the share of aesthetics “maple” passed without defeat the group stage, and reached the most unwanted (or vice versa – too desired?) Opponent, and not only from among formal outsiders.
The entire tournament of the Canadian team created the image of a truly European team, as far as possible for players with a Canadian passport and Canadian hockey somewhere in the left in the chest. What is the reason? Whether the composition is guilty, generation or choice Hitchcockbut this Canada loves to tinker with the puck, play the wall, attack, in the end, positionally, and not on the move and in dynamics. It was not enough for them somewhere penalty power and real leaders, but the rivals did not provoke serious actions-this is the main thing. And the Hitchcock team falls on an unstable, unknown and located at a crossroads …
To show itself the Russian team in the debut is prevented by the removal of Kovalchuk. Pass the team already in the first seconds – Ilya would remember and the terrible first half of the season in Newarke and the lack of heads in Slovakia. But no, there was. There was no need to hang all the dogs on Kovalchuk, but the Canadians felt their game. The 71st number of Russia has already appeared on ice, and Canadians continued to play as if in the majority, in a businesslike sett in the zone.It became clear – this is the game of Canadians, thanks to which they beat more than one team in this tournament.
Having recovered from the classic Canadian beginning with the pressure and storm of strangers, the Bykov spring began to be unclenched, and she did it much more successful and slimmer than at the beginning of the tournament. Lugs Radulova And Kovalchuk were deprived of either the last pass, then a broken blow, but geometrically they were verified brilliantly. It seems that it was the Russian national team that bored Canada into an impromptu short track from the gate to the gate, and only the Canadians managed to throw noticeably more often, but again it was the cost of style.
May 12, 2011. Bratislava. World Cup. 1/4 finals. Canada – Russia – 1: 2
When the defenders missed Special and his burning attack, they are unlikely to look at Barulina With complete confidence that he will take this threat. Always reliable in the gate frame, Konstantin plays uncertainly, and sometimes completely confused. This moment was not an exception. All surprises were ahead.
Ilya! Not Kovalchuk – Nikulin. Fantastic in complexity for Judge Puck flew into the frame of the gate Bernier. In the history of the Russian national team, this was not possible, perhaps, from the semifinals of the 2002 Olympics, when the whole country was fought in hysteria and proved that the American Richter He made a trap already behind the gate line. I really want, being a Russian man, to scream “I was!”, But the Swede or the Malaysian would have said clearly something less unambiguous. This goal could not be decisive-this move is not in the plot. Life is the best playwright, you remember.
It’s so Hollywood when a million is a million, a chic blonde falls in love with it, and all enemies suddenly realize that they were wrong. What are the United States to us … The ugly duckling is an example before our eyes. If in Quebec Kovalchuk was a star, whose hands fell out of his hands, then the current Kaygorodov – A devil from a snuffbox. Literally the first in the list, who was called superfluous and useless in this team. But how he scored, my God! Having played perfectly in the minority, Magnitogorets (can be replaced by simply “Highlander”!) I gracefully left Canadians behind him, but there was no implementation, not from the special-from Kharlamov. Of course, Kaygorodov spent his short-lived career in Ottava and something and something He could spy with Jason, but … it is still unknown who, from whom, had learned.
The mention in the text of the surname Kovalchuk goes off scale. In the protocol for a long time – only removal. Ilya goes according to his usual graphics – the graphics of Quebec. Radulov pass from behind the gate and … no,Tresena – There is no partner in Salavat here, not only in the national team, generally at the World Cup. With Kovalchuk into a single whole, the best striker KHL fused for a long time, most likely they did not become perfect partners for each other. But it really interferes with only one Give a great master to give a cool program, and to another, no less great, to turn it into a goal? Especially when such symbolism is at stake.
2:1 – from Bern, the winning goal of the sleeping Kovalchuk – from Quebec. The Bratislava team is also combined, with victors from different years. Canada is impossible to beat everyday.
May 12, 2011. Bratislava. World Championship. 1/4 finals. Canada – Russia – 1: 2
And it's not by chance that in recent years fate has brought Russia and Canada together at the quarter-final stage. Losing in the final is not scary, getting silver causes frustration and resentment for the result, but only in exceptional cases can a medal be branded a failure. Hockey God was pleased that the loser came out of this hockey “el clasico”, losing absolutely everything. If the Russian team had lost today, Bykov's empire would have collapsed, and Canada, young and traditionally changeable from year to year, would hardly have been shaken by such a failure. Not Hitchcock, not Spezza Fanef, but the system.
But wait! For us, unlike the Canadians, the World Cup does not end. Perhaps someone will forgive Bykov all the sins of the two group stages for the victory over Canada, but will he himself be satisfied with this milestone? For us, alas, a victory over the founders of hockey at a stage before the final is almost always a failure on a further, albeit already short, path. Let us recall at least the Olympic Turin and the brilliant, in addition to the “dry” victory over the ancestors. What happened next is still remembered in nightmares. That magnificent team, in which, by the way, Kovalchuk was so-so, in the second link, and Ovechkin even “ran for beer for grandfathers”, not only lost the next two matches, but with all his stellar attack failed to score a single puck.
Let's remember last year's Cologne and all the same torn apart Canadians in the same quarter-finals. What happened next? And then our first strike five, worth the average NHL club, somehow, with the help of Datsyuk, some mother and with meat stuffed two goals into the starless Germans. And she might not have slammed it. We don't have a game after the Canadians – at least weep!
Today's Russian national team has become faster, there is less marriage in the programs, not to say that it is smarter, but there was an abundance of games with the heart – you can’t explain this in words. Only Bykov knows how many hearts this team has, well, maybe even Zakharkin. whether this team will play not one more main match of the year, but two whole – we will find out very soon. If hockey players with a double-headed eagle on their chests understand that Finland can also be a rival of principle, they will remember all the exploits of Komarov in the KHL, and Vekhanen in their narrow circle will be recognized as the best goalkeeper at least in Europe – we will be in medals this time too. Already in fifth in the era of Bykov.
May 12, 2011. Bratislava. World Championship. 1/4 finals. Canada – Russia – 1: 2
Finland – Norway – 4:1 (0:0, 4:1, 0:0)
0:1 – Olimb – 23:56 ShB.
1:1 – Immonen (Granlund, Niskala) – 26:01 GB.
2:1 – Rutu (Koivu, Pesonen) – 28:43 GB.
3:1 – Immonen (Granlund, Vyalivaara) – 35:38 GB.
4:1 – Lajunen (Komarov, Yaakola) – 38:29 GB.
Goalkeepers: Vehanen – Haugen.
Canada – Russia – 1:2 (0:0, 1:0, 0:2)
1:0 – Spezza (Pietrangelo) – 25:32.
1:1 – Kaigorodov – 49:07 GM.
1:2 – Kovalchuk (Radulov, Kalinin) – 52:19.
Goalkeepers: Bernier – Barulin.