First Defeat of Russian Hockey Team on 2015 IIHF World Championship

USA players managed to win in a match with Russian team.

05.May.15 7:13 PM
By Irina Klyachina
Photo fhr.ru.RU

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First Defeat of Russian Hockey Team on 2015 IIHF World Championship

2015 IIHF World Championship is taking place in Czech Republic. Russian hockey team coached by Oleg Znarka had its first defeat during the tournament in a match against USA players. The match was played yesterday. The score after the final whistle was 2:4 (0:1, 1:1, 1:2).

Luis, Krug, Arcobello and Nelson scored for their team while Belov and Plotnikov managed to score for Russia in this match.

The head coach said in the interview after the game: “It is always unpleasant to lose especially when it comes to USA team. But nothing horrible has happened. We talked to players and said that Championship has only started. That is why we need to be focused on our next game”.

Russian national anthem has been already played for two times in a row before this match commemorating two victories for the team. They smashed players from Norway with final score 6:2 and beat Slovenia 5:3 in the next match. The team still continues its way to play-off stage. The next match is against Denmark.

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