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One period is enough for Russia
- Davide Tuniz from Bern
With 4 goals in first 8 minutes Russia won on France and secures qualification
After the easy debut against France, Russia gains second round qualification with another piece of cake versus France. A red storm falls down on wretched France already in first period: 8 minutes are enough to dig an unrecoverable gap: 4-0 Russia with goals by Aleksander Radulov (two goals), Danis Zaripov and Aleksandr Perezhogin. France gives a shout with a nice team action ending by Kevin Hecquefeuille. But before the first break Russia added one more goal, scored by a very active Aleksei Tereschenko.
Five goals gap seems satisfying Russia and in central period also France can show a good hockey, but is punished at the first chance: at 27:23 same Aleksei Tereschenko signs his second goal of the night, again on power play. Decreased pace by Russia encourages France, able to score second goal, again with collective move, for final shot by Luc Tardif
Last period is enlighten by nice Perezhogin's pass for 7th Russia goal, scored by Ilya Kovalchuk at 49:20, but is less exciting: Russia keeps vital energies for rest of tournament and France try to peeve a concentrated Aleksandr Eremenko. Salavat goalie is outstandin at last second when deflected twice a France's last attack
Russia - France 7-2 (5-1,1-1,1-0)
1-0 01:23 Alexander Radulov (Konstantin Gorovikov)
2-0 07:06 Danis Zaripov (Konstantin Gorovikov,Dmitri Kalinin)PP
3-0 07:20 Alexander Radulov (Sergei Zinoviev)
4-0 08:01 Aleksandr Perezhogin (Anton Kuryanov,Ilya Kovalchuk)
4-1 10:26 Kevin Hecquefeuille (Stephane da Costa,Pierre Edouard Bellemare)
5-1 15:00 Aleksei Tereschenko (Vitali Atyushov)PP
6-1 27:23 Aleksei Tereschenko (Alexander Morozov,Vitali Atyushov)PP
6-2 39:31 Luc Tardif (Vincent Bachet,Baptiste Amar)
7-2 49:20 Ilya Kovalchuk (Aleksandr Perezhogin)
Att: 10.505
MVP: Ilya Kovalchuk - Kevin Hecquefeuille
Story added on 26th April 2009 at 20:33 GMT
Story submitted by: Davide Tuniz.
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