GDT: Group H • May 15 • Slovakia 5, France 4

[Systemfel]

2012 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | ROUND ROBIN GAME
MAY 15, 2012
9:15 AM ET • 15:15 CET • 16:15 EET



HARTWALL ARENA, HELSINKI, FINLAND
(CAPACITY: 13,464)

Slovakia

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
82 Tomáš Kopecký	26 Michal Handžuš	92 Branko Radivojevič
21 Libor Hudáček	43 Tomáš Surový	18 Miroslav Šatan (A)
90 Tomáš Tatar	71 Juraj Mikúš	91 Michel Miklík
61 Milan Bartovič	55 Mário Bližňák	87 Marcel Haščák
-	25 Marek Hovorka	-

Left Defense	Right Defense
33 Zdeno Chára (C)	4 Michal Sersen
7 Ivan Baranka	44 Andrej Sekera
23 René Vydarený	19 Tomáš Starosta

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
50 Ján Laco	2 Peter Hamerlík

Scratches	Reason
G 39 Július Hudáček	Healthy
D 51 Dominik Graňák	Injury
D 78 Kristián Kudroč	Back injury
F 81 Marcel Hossa	Healthy

France

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
24 Julien Desrosiers	10 Laurent Meunier (C)	7 Yorick Treille
19 Loïc Lampérier	41 Pierre-Édouard Bellemare (A)	14 Stéphane Da Costa
54 Antoine Roussel	22 Brian Henderson	26 Charles Bertrand
82 Damien Raux	80 Teddy Da Costa	9 Damien Fleury

Left Defense	Right Defense
3 Vincent Bachet (A)	84 Kevin Hecquefeuille
32 Alexandre Rouleau	27 Baptiste Amar
18 Yohann Auvitu	74 Nicolas Besch
20 Maxime Moisand	4 Antonin Manavian

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
39 Cristobal Huet	42 Fabrice Lhenry

Scratches	Reason
G 49 Florian Hardy	Healthy
F 71 Anthony Guttig	Concussion
F 77 Sacha Treille	Suspended

Officials

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	Antonín Jeřábek
	Brent Reiber
	Stefan Schulz
	Jesse Wilmot

[DrPabloRamirez]

Granak and Hossa out
Hovorka in

[kyeddy]

If france wins in reg do they come 4th? Whats the tiebreakers?

[begbeee]

Originally Posted by kyeddy

If france wins in reg do they come 4th? Whats the tiebreakers?

Tiebreaker is current match. If there will be tie in the end, Slovakia comes 4th because of scores differential.

[Erathian]

Originally Posted by begbeee

Tiebreaker is current match. If there will be tie in the end, Slovakia comes 4th because of scores differential.

Uhm....doesn't France have less points? So tie is 4th place for Slovakia and lose is 4th place for France, right? Because of mutual match...

[begbeee]

Slovakia 12 points 16:9
France 9 points 17:27

If France win, they will have 12 points. Because of mutual match, they are goin' further.
If there is a tie, further goes Slovakia (I was wrong in my previous post, sorry, I'm writing and thinking fast, while I'm at work).

So France HAS to win in regular time.

[t0ny]

Yep...we,France, have to win this in reg otherwise it will be Slovakia in 1/4.
Stakes are, for us, at a kinda high ceiling for one time

[stenlis]

Wow, after winning over Kazachstan, the Swiss, USA and Belarus, Slovakia still has to fight for the last 1/4 spot - with France.

Never would have thought this was possible.

[Kamzik]

This game also has Olympic ramifications. A single point from SVK and they qualify for the 2014 games in Sochi. This was the reason given by several players, including the captain, for joining the team.

[begbeee]

Let's start.
EDIT: 1:0 Bartovic; weak goal by Huet

[t0ny]

softy from Cristo... well no choice but working hard

[begbeee]

What a breakaway....and first penalty. France is dangerous on PP.

Kopecky scores on his former teammate from Chicago.

[t0ny]

Already down 0-2...
w000t 1-2 Treille !!

Still hope then!

[begbeee]

Who is Da Costa? He was probably the best forward in every game I've watched France in this WC.
France plays very bold game.

EDIT? Haven't I said it right now? Beuty by him.

[Naoned]

We're playing better since Treille's goal. Allez les Bleus!

[t0ny]

2-2 T.Da Costa !!!!

Bad turn over by slovakia...

[Naoned]

Originally Posted by begbeee

Who is Da Costa? He was probably the best forward in every game I've watched France in this WC.
France plays very bold game.

Stephane is an Ottawa prospect. Undrafted, he played a few games with the Sens this year, but was mostly in the AHL.
Edit: Stephane's brother Teddy scores!

[begbeee]

Originally Posted by Naoned

Stephane is an Ottawa prospect. Undrafted, he played a few games with the Sens this year, but was mostly in the AHL.
Edit: Stephane's brother Teddy scores!

Ou, there are two DaCostas
France is cleary better in second half of the period.

[t0ny]

Originally Posted by begbeee

Who is Da Costa? He was probably the best forward in every game I've watched France in this WC.
France plays very bold game.

EDIT? Haven't I said it right now? Beuty by him.

he is not the most known of the da costa brotherhood but he is gifted talent wise, he played 11-12 in Poland.... with Tychy i guess

edit : got beat ^^

[Belizarius]

Great 1st period from France.

[Lee Van Cleef*]

Any stream for this game?

[Like Wall]

Originally Posted by Chokers Gonna Choke

Any stream for this game?

Many!

http://www.lshunter.tv/hockey-live-streaming-video.html

[begbeee]

Slovaks cant pass one ************g pass to each other!

[Paxton Fettel]

Allez les bleus!!! Go France!

[Naoned]

What I really like is that we don't just play D, like we used to. We're able to generate some offense.