GDT: Group A - May 12 - Russia vs Switzerland

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2018 IIHF World Championship
Group A

May 12
2:15 PM ET • 8:15 PM CET

Russia vs Switzerland

Russia
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
83 Vasili Koshechkin
30 Igor Shestyorkin

Defensemen:
4 Vladislav Gavrikov - 55 Bogdan Kiselevich
89 Nikita Nesterov - 22 Nikita Zaitsev
44 Yegor Yakovlev - 51 Alexei Bereglazov
88 Nikita Tryamkin

Forwards:
7 Kirill Kaprizov - 13 Pavel Datsyuk - 97 Nikita Gusev
25 Mikhail Grigorenko - 15 Artyom Anisimov - 19 Pavel Buchnevich
78 Maxim Mamin - 11 Sergei Andronov - 63 Yevgeni Dadonov
94 Alexander Barabanov - 29 Ilya Kablukov - 87 Maxim Shalunov
66 Ilya Mikheyev

Scratched:
G 31 Ilya Sorokin
D 3 Dinar Khafizullin
F 41 Nikita Soshnikov


Switzerland
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
20 Reto Berra
63 Leonardo Genoni

Defensemen:
16 Raphael Diaz - 41 Mirco Müller
65 Ramon Untersander - 34 Dean Kukan
38 Lukas Frick - 45 Michael Fora
76 Joël Genazzi

Forwards:
82 Simon Moser - 71 Enzo Corvi - 22 Nino Niederreiter
85 Sven Andrighetto - 83 Joel Vermin - 28 Timo Meier
46 Noah Rod - 92 Gaëtan Haas - 60 Tristan Scherwey
15 Gregory Hofmann - 19 Reto Schäppi - 14 Chris Baltisberger
79 Damien Riat

Scratched:
G 62 Gilles Senn


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[Atas2000]

Gusev is in. Correct lines for Russia should be:

Gusev - Datsyuk - Kaprizov
2nd line - no changes
Dadonov - Andronov - Mikheyev
4th line - no changes

Khafizullin(injury) replaced by Bereglazov.

 

[Retroglyphs]

Exciting match! .... Russia 3 - Switzerland 2, in OT

 

[Kshahdoo]

With Shipachev this team would be way stronger, but yeah, he's out of coach's favor now...

 

[maximafinogenov7]

5-1 Russia

 

[Reds4Life]

Russia should win easily, 4-0.

 

[mosare]

Russia should win easily, 4-0.

Switzerland with the better team (nhler). 3:2 for the swiss

 

[theslatcher]

Should be a 1 goal game, don't think it's going to OT though.

 

[Atas2000]

Switzerland with the better team (nhler). 3:2 for the swiss

Not the Swiss. Even with the Nashville additions they would not be better on paper. The outcome of the actual game can be anything though.

 

[jonas2244]

Yeah, Switzerland also has not a history beating Russia (in comparison to CZE, CAN, SWE, etc.). Last two games were pretty clear, last close game was 2009, last win 2000. It's probably something like 60-40 for Russia. Or even more.

But Switzerland has a good team and like to play forward and we know that Russia sometimes can loose their defensive stability. Could be a nice offenisve minded game with a lot of scoring chances.

 

[swissexpert]

Switzerland with the better team (nhler). 3:2 for the swiss

An upset is quite possible, but we don't have the better team. Russia was, is, and will always be the favourites in this matchup.

A few years ago, everyone expected a blowout so we have gone quite a distance over the last decade especially regarding to depth and high-end forwards.
Hoping for points today, but it needs a huge effort.

 

[BlitzSnipe]

I think Russia should take this, but it won't be too easy in my opinion. I say a win in regulation by a 1 or 2 goal margin, something like 4-2 Russia.

 

[ijuka]

Switzerland with the better team (nhler). 3:2 for the swiss

Doesn't Russia have more NHLers than Switzerland?

 

[Kshahdoo]

Doesn't Russia have more NHLers than Switzerland?

Dadonov, Buchnevich, Zaitsev - that's it... I mean, solid NHLers and not fringe ones like Mamin or Soshnikov. Of course, we have Dats, who's still as good as any NHLer, and Gusev, who could probably be a star in the NHL as well.

 

[ijuka]

Dadonov, Buchnevich, Zaitsev - that's it... I mean, solid NHLers and not fringe ones like Mamin or Soshnikov. Of course, we have Dats, who's still as good as any NHLer, and Gusev, who could probably be a star in the NHL as well.

How is Anisimov not an NHLer?

 

[Kshahdoo]

How is Anisimov not an NHLer?

Yeah, of course, forgot about him, he's a good NHLer for sure.

 

[Toreko]

5-2 Russia
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[Atas2000]

Gusev is in. Correct lines for Russia should be:

Gusev - Datsyuk - Kaprizov
2nd line - no changes
Dadonov - Andronov - Mikheyev
4th line - no changes

Khafizullin(injury) replaced by Bereglazov.

Mamin replaced Mikheyev on the third line for the pre-game skate.

 

[snipes]

Russia 5-0

 

[mosare]

Even without josi and fiala the swiss are at least not that much worse than the russians . But their face off f***ed up....

 

[Kshahdoo]

Gusev even at 50% is probably the best player on the ice.

 

[BlitzSnipe]

How did the Russians manage not to score?

 

[BlitzSnipe]

Gusev even at 50% is probably the best player on the ice.

The guy has some insane ice vision, agreed.

 

[Jon Riley]

Not the best start of the match, got better along the way.

Scherwey the one man penalty kill

 

[Kshahdoo]

It's what Gusev is able to do.