A duel of giants, of two great schools of ice Hockey took place at the National Indoor Stadium in the early afternoon of this Saturday, between United States and Canadavalid for group A of the men’s tournament of Winter Olympics Beijing 2022🇧🇷

A confrontation with a lot of history, between two countries of reference in the modality and which have already made the final of the Games. On the ice, 11 Olympic titles. O Canada again in search of glory, having won bronze at PyeongChang 2018. United Stateswhose men’s team wants to end the streak of Olympic titles, having been last in Lake Placid in 1980.

Both teams were coming off victories. You Americans made eight to zero with regard to the People’s Republic of Chinawhile the Canadians passed the Germans by five to one🇧🇷

Deprived of big names who work in the NHL (acronym in English for National Hockey League, modality’s main league), the teams had an interesting, hard-fought game with young athletes taking on Beijing 2022 to establish themselves in the sport at the international level.

With focus on the American keeper Mann (USA)who closed his team’s goal, especially in the third and final period, the United States defeated Canada by four to two, with gaps in the periods of 2 to 1, 1 to 1 and 1 to 0.

The match which started agitated, with a goal of Robinson (CAN) less than a minute and a half. Almost the same time later, the United States was tied with Andy Miele, which operates in Europe. At 18min44s when the Americans saw with ben meyers🇧🇷 A turn with high intensity hockey. Two to one for the United States and the end of the first period.

The intensity continued in the second period and, in a mistaken outing by the Canadians, the forward Brendan Brisson, 20, takes advantage of the opportunity and extends the score: three to one. The United States dominated all action, but facing Canada leaves no room for error. That’s what happened. At 12:40, the Canadians were one less, but they still reduced the score with a goal of Raven Knight at 14:13. still had one power play in favor, but they didn’t know how to take advantage of it. Ended the second period, Three to two for the United States.

Game in the last third and tense. an applied good knock of 10m very well applied by Augustine (USA) at 6:13, he went straight into Canada’s goal. The United States extended to four to two. From then on, it was just pressure from the Canadians. With 15 minutes in that span, there were 11 defenses by the Americans to four from Canada, which kicked 12 times to five.

The goalkeeper Mann (USA), with great fanfare, avoided what could have been a Canadian triumph. He was one of those responsible for the victory of the United States over Canada.

Four against two for the Americans and final figures.

In 18 games between the two countries at the Winter Olympics, it was only the fourth victory for the United States, against 12 for Canada. The last of these took place in the group stage at Vancouver 2010.

In the other match of the round, the People’s Republic of China were beaten by Germany by three to two early Saturday night.

Sentences

“A lot of people talk about physicality and size, but you can be a physical team in many ways. We have a handful of guys who know how to compete, they don’t lower their heads. When we can combine stamina and heart, and when we have good skills, and I think if we apply those skills tonight, we can succeed,” said the coach. David Quinn (USA)🇧🇷

About the youth of the team, the author of one of the American goals, Kenny Agostino (USA)added: “The boys can play, that’s for sure. Of course we have talent and speed, but today’s game was a game for the big guys”.

next games

The next round is the last of the group stage, with the top two qualifying directly for the quarter-finals. Canada will face hosts the People’s Republic of China on Sunday, February 13 at 9:10 p.m. Beijing time (10:10 a.m. Brasília time) at the National Indoor Stadium.

The United States will face Germany, also on Sunday, February 13 at 9:10 p.m. Beijing time (10:10 a.m. Brasilia time) at the Wukesong Sports Center.

The quarter-finals of the Beijing 2022 men’s ice hockey tournament begin on Wednesday, February 16.

You can follow the emotions of ice hockey at Beijing 2022 with broadcasts from the Olympics.com and Globo/Sportv channels for the Brazilian territory.

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data sheet

Canada 2: Pasquale, Tomkins; Power, Robinson, Staal (C), McTavish and Ho-Sang; Wotherspoon, Noreau, Knight, Tambellini and Weal; Barberio, Demers, Street, Johnson and O’Dell; Grant, McBain, Winnik, Cracknell and Desharnais. Coach: Claudius Julien.

United States 4: Commesso, Mann; Kampfer, Ness, Agostino, O’Neill and Miele (C); Warsofsky, Faber, Beniers, Abruzzese and Knies; Sanderson, Cooper, Farrell and Coates; Perbix, Smith, Brisson, McLaughlin and Shore. Coach: david quinn

Arbitration: Andrins Ansons (LAT), Tobias Bjork (SWE), Daniel Hynek (CZE) and Dustin McCrank (CAN).