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Russia destroy Latvia in Olympics opener
Published: 17 February, 2010, 11:11
Edited: 18 February, 2010, 13:10
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TAGS: Sport, Olympics, Malkin, Ovechkin, Vancouver-2010, Hockey
Team Russia has made an impressive start in its quest for gold in the men's Olympic ice hockey tournament. Vyacheslav Bykov's men had no problems in their opening Group B game against Latvia.
The reigning world champions thrashed their opponents, 8-2.
Aleksandr Ovechkin and Danis Zaripov each claimed a brace, Ilya Kovalchuk and Evgeny Malkin had a goal and an assist each, and Sergey Fedorov came off the rink with two assists under his belt.
The only disappointment this evening was Evgeny Nabokov’s might-have-been shutout.
“It is only the first game, but I am sure it will be different in the second game. We have to play desperate,” Kovalchuk assured after the game.
“A few things we would like to change. But it's the first game,” said defender Sergey Gonchar, echoing Kovalchuk. “Still, I like what we had,” he added.
Russia plays its next game on Thursday night against Slovakia.
Elsewhere, in Group A, Canada and the United States both won their opening games.
The Olympic hosts began their Olympic hockey tournament by hammering Norway, scoring eight goals against zero from the Scandinavian side.
The United States also showed confidence, beating hard nut Switzerland 3-1.
16.02.2010, 15:00
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Dan Fitzgerald last night we saw the who most likely will win the Gold Metal. In view, Russia will win the Gold Metal if the team keep on playing the way it played last night. The quality, speed and intensity between Russia/Latvia was much higher than the game between Canada/Norway. This was plainly clear to even those of us who are not expert in Hockey. Last night, we also saw the subtext to the men’s hockey as a contest between NHL v KHL. Thus, Russia faced much formidable opponent than Canada. You left that fact out in your. Russia showed something awesome: lighting speed. Canada needs to prepare for facing Russia’s lighting speed if it has any hope of winning the Gold Metal at home.
Great sport,love watching the internationals,especially america , russia ,canada,,the punch up is great,but its shake hands and carrying on playing.that is the admiral thing about sportsmen,it all in the heat of the moment.