Aubin’s out, Portland wins anyway. WBS lets two leads slip away. Trouble.
Three more points for Jason Krog in a 5-0 win at home.
Both series get back at it Tuesday and Wednesday.
Russia came from 3-1 and 4-2 down to win the World Championship in overtime at Quebec. Ilya Kovalchuk tied it late and won it in OT, with Rick Nash in the box for that stupid puck-over-glass, delay-of-game penalty. It’s hard to believe, but this is Russia’s first major senior world title of any kind — World Championship, World Cup, Olympics — since it won the World Championship in 1993. It had a silver and two bronzes at this tournament, a silver and a bronze in four Olympics, and no medals at two World Cups in the interim.
Here’s the media all-tournament team and the directorate’s honors. The IIHF story notes that a host team hasn’t won since 1986.
The international rankings put the U.S. in an Olympic pool with Canada. And with Switzerland passing Slovakia in the rankings, have the Swiss arrived? Does this sport have eight powers now? Anyway, that file also notes the reason for the non-crossovers in this year’s quarterfinals and relegation rounds: Quebec and Halifax were too far apart. (OK, good point.)
USA: still sixth. (In more ways than one.)