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Canada 3 Slovakia 0 - Canada Goes to the Dressing Room Comfortably Ahead

Written by Joe Tetreault | 26 February 2010

Canada

3
Slovakia

0

Second Intermission Thoughts

With eight and a half minutes left, the Slovakian squad had a nice odd man stroll. It's difficult to call it a rush, because the sense of urgency with rushes was lacking. Jozef Stumpel tried to feather a pass to Ziggy Palffy. He hit the stick, but gave Palffy no chance to do much of anything with the puck. Eddie Olczyk raved about Sidney Crosby's defensive play, but watching Stumpel he just looked so tentative with the puck. That sequence summed up the period for Slovakia. The lack of crisp passing prevented them from sustaining any play in the Canadian zone.

Canada had no such difficulties. They moved the puck well, at one point putting eight shots on net without allowing Slovakia to get a shot on Roberto Luongo. Luongo has hardly been tested to this point seeing but nine shots in the first forty minutes. Much of that total was due to the flurry of good offensive play during the Slovakian man advantage.

The game's first infractions brought out Slovakia's fine special teams units. They moved the puck better on the power play and effectively shut down the lethal Canadian power play unit. But with just over three minutes left, trying to kill their second penalty, Canada broke through again as Ryan Getzlaf buried a backhand shot in the goal.

Time is running out on Slovakia's Cinderella story. They need to score quickly to begin the third, which is a tall order against the Canadians. They won't catch them if they can't muster more than the five shots on net they had in the second.

Scoring Summary

  • 16:54 Ryan Getzlaf from Corey Perry and Chris Pronger

Penalties

  • 1:29 Drew Doughty (hooking)
  • 6:08 Zdeno Chara (roughing)
  • 16:34 Richard Zednik (Holding the Stick)

Shots

Slovakia 5
Canada 11

Joe TetreaultJoe Tetreault blogs about sports, culture, business/technology and current events at TetreaultVision in addition to being the Editor for Bloguin's Olympic Hockey Blog.

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