GDT: May 22 • Quarterfinal • Sweden 3, Belarus 2

[Systemfel]

2014 IIHF World Championship
Quarterfinal

May 22
2:00 PM ET • 20:00 CET • 21:00 EET

Sweden
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

45 Oscar Möller​

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60 Mikael Backlund

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12 Joakim Lindström​

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86 Linus Klasen​

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19 Calle Järnkrok​

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41 Gustav Nyquist​

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21 Jimmie Ericsson

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15 Mattias Sjögren​

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11 Simon Hjalmarsson​

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28 Dick Axelsson​

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20 Joel Lundqvist

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44 Nicklas Danielsson​

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-​

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40 Dennis Rasmussen​

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-​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

14 Mattias Ekholm​

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10 Johan Fransson​

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9 Niclas Andersén​

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3 Niclas Burström​

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4 Tim Erixon​

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29 Erik Gustafsson​

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-​

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32 Magnus Nygren​

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Starter​

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Backup​

31 Anders Nilsson​

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1 Joacim Eriksson​

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Scratched​

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Reason​

G 30 Linus Ullmark​

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Healthy​

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D 48 Daniel Rahimi​

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Internal bleeding, out for tournament​

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D 51 Jonas Ahnelöv​

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Shoulder injury, out for tournament​

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Belarus
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

17 Alexei Kalyuzhniy

16​

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23 Andrei Stas​

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Geoff Platt​

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74 Sergei Kostitsyn​

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77 Alexander Kitarov​

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46 Andrei Kostitsyn

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18 Alexei Ugarov​

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37 Nikita Osipov​

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61 Andrei Stepanov​

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88 Yevgeniy Kovyrshin​

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73 Artyom Volkov​

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27 Alexei Yefimenko​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

25 Oleg Yevenko​

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7 Vladimir Denisov

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89 Dmitriy Korobov​

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92 Raman Hrabarenka​

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91 Kirill Gotovets​

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5 Nikolai Stasenko​

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11 Andrei Karev​

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-​

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Starter​

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Backup​

35 Kevin Lalande​

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31 Andrei Mezin​

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Scratched​

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Reason​

G 1 Vitaliy Koval​

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Injury​

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D 57 Igor Usenko​

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Healthy​

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F 28 Konstantin Koltsov​

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-​

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F 84 Mikhail Grabovskiy

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-​

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Officials​

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Referee​

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Vyacheslav Bulanov | -

Referee​

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Jyri-Petteri Rönn | -

Linesman​

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Pierre Dehaen | -

Linesman​

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Anton Semjonov | -

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[Khokhlach86]

Vitaliy Koval out of tournament (injury)

 

[Howe Elbows 9]

Lindström will play in this game: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=2688&grupp=9154&artikel=5868844

I expect this game to get loud.

 

[Tomas W]

Even if this is a "no name" team Sweden, they have shown that they are very tough to beat. Belarus cant afford to let in many goals to win this, and sadly for the homecrowd I think they WILL let in too many goals.

Belarus have impressed though, and with home crowd and a good start, they could come up with the upset.

 

[Mestaruus]

Got Belarus winning this one.

 

[Fazkovsky]

How did Andrei Kostitsyn look so far?

 

[m4tt145]

70/30 Sweden. Belarus has a decent chance if their goalie plays well and keeps it a low scoring game.

 

[ViD]

Go Belarus !

 

[SurMartin]

Wow, swedish media saying it's a 50/50 chance. That's gotta be a first.

 

[Bjornee]

I read an article about Salt Lake 2002 today in one of sweden's newspapers. Apparently people still remember that year as one of Belarus finest hockey moments, heh. I somehow think I know how that feels like when I look back at 1994, the year Sweden won bronze in Soccer WC in US. Oh memories! That being said I think the history (unfortunately for Belarus fans) will not repeat itself. Atleast not this year. I still think this game will be awesome, much like the WC finals last year versus Switzerland. Game on!

 

[Scotty B]

Easy Win for Tre Kronors...What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSuBv1D_qU

 

[m4tt145]

Easy Win for Tre Kronors...What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSuBv1D_qU

Wow, how did I miss that? (not)

 

[Systemfel]

Grabovskiy still a scratch.

 

[777]

Grabovskiy still a scratch.

Injured?

 

[David Suzuki]

Let's go Belarus!

 

[m4tt145]

Lessssss go

 

[Cruor]

All right, let's go!!

 

[m4tt145]

Close..

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Grabovskiy still a scratch.

Damn it.

 

[Bjornee]

Gotta love Klasen!

 

[m4tt145]

Ericsson...

 

[Bjornee]

Is Nilsson a gem or what? So damn good.

 

[SurMartin]

Swedens worst player scores!

 

[m4tt145]

Good. Nicky D!

 

[777]

Kostitsyn's aren't playing together? Or just a long shift by Andrei?