GDT: Gold Medal Game • 05/23/10 • Russia 1, Czech Republic 2

[Systemfel]

2010 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | GOLD MEDAL GAME
MAY 23 • 20:30 CET • 2:30 PM ET
vs.

Live Summary

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Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany

Russia
Official lineup.

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
8 Alexander Ovechkin (A)	29 Sergei Fedorov (A)	28 Alexander Semin
71 Ilya Kovalchuk (C)	13 Pavel Datsyuk	11 Evgeni Malkin
24 Alexander Frolov	23 Alexei Tereschenko	52 Viktor Kozlov
41 Nikolai Kulemin	42 Artem Anisimov	61 Maxim Afinogenov

Left Defense	Right Defense
37 Denis Grebeshkov	22 Konstantin Korneev
7 Dmitri Kalinin	55 Sergei Gonchar
74 Alexei Emelin	5 Ilya Nikulin
27 Vitaly Atyushov	43 Dmitri Kulikov

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
40 Semyon Varlamov	83 Vasily Koshechkin

Scratched	Reason
G 30 Alexander Eremenko	Healthy
L 10 Sergei Mozyakin	Healthy
R 33 Maxim Sushinsky	Healthy

Czech Republic
Official lineup.

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
20 Jakub Klepiš	14 Petr Vampola	68 Jaromír Jágr (A)
60 Tomáš Rolinek (C)	15 Jan Marek	93 Jakub Voráček
22 Lukáš Kašpar	10 Roman Červenka	12 Jiří Novotný
11 Petr Hubáček	42 Petr Koukal	91 Marek Kvapil
-	Extra Forward:	27 Martin Růžička

Left Defense	Right Defense
6 Tomáš Mojžíš	3 Michal Rozsíval
36 Petr Čáslava (A)	63 Ondřej Němec
44 Miroslav Blaťák	4 Karel Rachůnek
23 Petr Gřegořek	-

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
29 Tomáš Vokoun	31 Ondřej Pavelec

Scratched	Reason
G 33 Jakub Štěpánek	Healthy
D 5 Filip Novák	Injury
D 8 Michal Barinka	Healthy

Officials

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Vladimír Baluška	Referee
Jari Levonen	Referee
Dave Brown	Linesman
Tobias Wehrli	Linesman

[Swipes]

This'll be a close one, but I'm banking on Russia not taking us seriously enough that we'll take them by surprise

[aBurmistrov]

Russia will win

[Postnova]

Kulemin is available?

I won't play him anyway aftar his dumb action today.

Semin will return to fedorov line,varlamov the goalie.

Sushinsky in kulemin place.

Datsyuk line will decide this again,i think varlamov can match vokoun.

[Dr Despair]

Go get it Czechs. We all saw the games yesterday. They don't have what it takes. Just go get it.

[VladNYC]

Theoretically, Russia should take this easy. But knowing our emotionally unstable team and their dumb and lethargic ways, I say the Czechs have a good chance of winning this. I am preparing to cringe tomorrow.

[zorz]

We will try... but still Russia has the best team on paper here, there is no doubt about that.

GO CZECHS GO

[Crimson Devil*]

Please win Czechs. Would be a huge upset if they did.

[Klaus]

Pfff... the Russians just squeaked out a 2-1 game over Germany. If the Czechs play hard they can win this.

[Fish on The Sand]

The Czechs are proof that us Canadians whine too much about not having our best players.

[cska78]

shaibu!

[cska78]

Originally Posted by Fish on The Sand

The Czechs are proof that us Canadians whine too much about not having our best players.

actually Jagr ranted quite nicely during this tournament.

[Klaus]

Originally Posted by Fish on The Sand

The Czechs are proof that us Canadians whine too much about not having our best players.

Can you not generalize...? please...?

[Klaus]

Originally Posted by cska78

actually Jagr ranted quite nicely during this tournament.

What'd he say?

[cska78]

Originally Posted by DecyferDown

What'd he say?

he said that many players refused the invitation of their national team, forget their heritage and the reason why they are now successful in the NHL.

[Klaus]

Originally Posted by cska78

he said that many players refused the invitation of their national team, forget their heritage and the reason why they are now successful in the NHL.

Ah. So basically a repeat of the IIHF article.

[Uncle Rotter]

Originally Posted by DecyferDown

Ah. So basically a repeat of the IIHF article.

Except that he said it a couple of weeks before

[Klaus]

Originally Posted by Uncle Rotter

Except that he said it a couple of weeks before

So maybe Szymon Szemberg drew inspiration from him.

[js10]

I am very much surprised by Czech squad. They do not have big names from NHL but have a young, quality team, capable to score and Vokoun in goal. That should be about enough to get the gold!

[timekeep]

hopefully Vokoun can stand on his head and keep them russians to a silver

[Tender Rip]

Its a bit funny to see Ovechkin's line being the '1st' by default, considering that the second is much better and gets more ice-time.

Don't quite get the logic when it comes to the D-pairings either.

Anyway, details schmetails. Russia will win and Gonch will get his first WC title. Team Russia really ought to win this one at least, no offense to the Czech team.

[Mosserat]

only Russia!!
Vpereeeeed Rossia!!!!!)))

[habsman56]

Please steal this one Czechs!

[Franck]

Got to wish the Czechs good luck with this one, would be a huge upset if they managed to beat the Russians with the on paper rather unimpressive squad they got to this tournament.

[Salzig]

Is Kulemin suspended after his game misconduct?