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Sweden dethrone Russia at top of Euro Hockey Tour standings
Published: 12 February, 2012, 22:43
From left: Russia's goalie Mikhail Biryukov and Andrei Zubarev during the 2012 Oddset Hockey Games third round match of the 2011/12 Euro Hockey Tour between the national teams of the Czech Republic and Russia. (RIA Novosti/Alexey Kudenko)
TAGS: European Championships, Hockey, Russia's hockey squad
Team Russia have failed to win the third stage of the Euro Hockey Tour in Sweden. Zunetula Bilyaletdinov's men were thrashed 4-0 by the Czech Republic on the final day of the competition.
Jakub Nakladal opened the scoring two minutes into the match, and power-play goals by Petr Nedved 13 minutes later, Kamil Kreps in the second period, and Petr Koukal with less than five minutes remaining, completed the scoring in Stockholm.
Russia finished the tournament bottom with just three points after three games and slipped to second in the tour’s overall standings. However, the team’s head coach Zunetula Bilyaletdinov didn’t let the result get him down too much, saying that the tournament would be a good lesson and experience for the bunch of new players.
The Oddset Hockey Games winner was crowned in the concluding match, when Sweden hammered historic rivals Finland, winning 5-0.
The Euro Hockey Tour's final leg is the Czech Hockey Games in late April before the start of the World Cup co-hosted by Sweden and Finland.
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