GDT: Group B • 05/08/10 • Switzerland 3, Latvia 1

[Systemfel]

2010 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | GROUP B
MAY 8 • 20:15 CET • 2:15 PM EDT
vs.

Live Summary

Known Online Live Streams
YLE | Finnish
SUI99 (SopCast) | Swiss


SAP Arena, Mannheim, Germany

Switzerland
Official lineup.

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
32 Ivo Rüthemann (A)	28 Martin Plüss	67 Romano Lemm
22 Nino Niederreiter	9 Paul Savary	18 Thomas Déruns
25 Thibaut Monnet (A)	10 Andres Ambühl	96 Damien Brunner
30 Marcel Jenni	88 Kevin Romy	46 Paolo Duca

Left Defense	Right Defense
3 Julien Vauclar	31 Mathias Seger (C)
57 Goran Bezina	33 Steve Hirschi
90 Roman Josi	13 Félicien Du Bois
-	6 Timo Helbling

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
26 Martin Gerber	52 Tobias Stephan

Scratched	Reason
G 79 Daniel Manzato	Healthy

Latvia
Official lineup.

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
47 Mārtiņš Cipulis	12 Herberts Vasiļjevs (C)	17 Aleksandrs Ņiživijs (A)
16 Kaspars Daugaviņš	5 Jānis Sprukts (A)	9 Mārtiņš Karsums
10 Lauris Dārziņš	23 Andris Džeriņš	19 Miķelis Rēdlihs
87 Gints Meija	27 Sergejs Pečura	6 Juris Štāls

Left Defense	Right Defense
3 Arvīds Reķis	71 Georgijs Pujacs
15 Aleksandrs Jerofejevs	13 Guntis Galviņš
11 Kristaps Sotnieks	20 Jēkabs Rēdlihs
22 Māris Jass	14 Jānis Andersons

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
31 Edgars Masaļskis	1 Mārtiņš Raitums

Scratched	Reason
G 30 Edgars Lūsiņš	Healthy

Officials

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Tom Laaksonen	Referee
Tom Sterns	Referee
Thomas Gemeinhardt	Linesman
Andreas Kowert	Linesman

[Lapa]

I think the Swiss will take this one. Simply their team and goaltending is better.

3-1.

[Peter K]

Originally Posted by Lapa

Simply their ... goaltending is better.

Will see about that.

EDIT: I think that Jass will play with J Redlihs in the defence (4th line)

[SwissStef]

Lineup Swiss:

Goaltender:
Martin Gerber

Defense:
Julien Vauclair, Mathias Seger
Félicien DuBois, Roman Josi
Steve Hirschi, Goran Bezina
Timo Helbling.

Offense:
Nino Niederreiter, Paul Savary, Thomas Déruns
Ivo Rüthemann, Martin Plüss, Romano Lemm
Thibaut Monnet, Andres Ambühl, Damien Brunner
Paolo Duca, Kevin Romy, Marcel Jenni


HOPP SCHWIZZZ!!!

[TheNextOneX]

I hope Switzerland has learned his loss from 30 april 2009.

Solving Edgars Masalskis, by driving to the net causing traffics, shooting high and Switzerland should have no problem of destroying Latvia...

Our new coach should also make the difference as he know how to prepare his players when it really count.

[Hybbe]

Go El Niño!

Swiss win, 4-2.

[swisdan]

Masalskis is better then Gerber right now. It's the first reason i see Latvia with a win tonight. The second is this swiss team is not far to be Switzerland B. Only one defenseman of the 8 swiss defensemen in Vancouver is in Germany for example.

[torero]

I say : SUI 5 - 2 LAT

mark my words

2 goals Rutheman, 1 goal Josi, Lemm and Nino.

Amen

[ktf]

Stream? Please

[swissexpert]

6:0

2x Ambühl, Monnet, Josi, Rüthemann, Brunner

[Peter K]

Originally Posted by ktf

Stream? Please

http://www.tv3.lv/hokejs/video
latvian

[ktf]

Originally Posted by Peter K

http://www.tv3.lv/hokejs/video
latvian

Thanks, great quality

[Geric]

Yep, thanks for the link. Working and viewable here in Canada.

[jonas2244]

Switzerland is dominating but only manages to score once. The line with Ambül, Brunner and Monnet is very strong.

Latvia with one or two good scoring possibilities.

[torero]

Another stream would be on Zattoo ... SF2 or TSI2 or TSR2. ... german, italian or french

[Peter K]

Originally Posted by jonas2244

Switzerland is dominating but only manages to score once. The line with Ambül, Brunner and Monnet is very strong.

Latvia with one or two good scoring possibilities.

Agreed, but nonetheless Latvia is playing way below its potential. I expect a different game after the 1st intermission.

Jenni and Brunner -

[torero]

Originally Posted by jonas2244

Switzerland is dominating but only manages to score once. The line with Ambül, Brunner and Monnet is very strong.

Latvia with one or two good scoring possibilities.

Shots : SUI 14 - 5 LAT

[jonas2244]

2-0 by Josi, shots 24-10

[Peter K]

A disaster on the ice.

[Zorkan]

Originally Posted by Peter K

A disaster on the ice.

Except for the score (which of course is what counts, I know), Latvia is actually having a much better game than last year. This time we are just actually scoring once in a while... ;-)

[torero]

Switzerland isn't doing too bad ! I like Brunner, Ambuhl and ... .
Nino is giving it all.

2-0
and
25shots to 10

GoSwitzerlandGo

The goalie is keeping Latvia in the game. without this good goalie ... could be 3 or 4-0 ... wouldn't be a scandal !

[Zorkan]

Still a long time to go. The Monnet/Ambühl line is pretty much the only offensive line that we have in this game, the others have to step it up. Especially Lemm has to improve a lot and is not having a good game so far (no lack of effort though).

Defense looks good, but like I said in the other thread, I would prefer Geering instead of Helbling. Helbling isn't playing well enough in this game neither IMO.

But anyway, I don't want to sound too negative, it's a good game and I'm enjoying our plays.

[Peter K]

Originally Posted by Zorkan

Except for the score (which of course is what counts, I know), Latvia is actually having a much better game than last year. This time we are just actually scoring once in a while... ;-)

This game sucks in general. Both goals were ridiculous for a game of this importance..
Do you really consider the Swiss team performance great today? Defence should be much better, and on the offensive side I see nothing much beyond the Ambuhl line. No chance with Canada (not talking about Latvia khe khem..)

[Peter K]

Talking about ridiculousness...

[Afro Thunder*]

This could be a dumb question.

How come no Roman Wick for the Swiss?