“They knew the importance of the game. They wanted to win the game as badly as we did but we played the way we wanted to and our goalie played awesome,” said Czech forward Martin Havlat. Milan Michalek and Jaromir Jagr scored for the Czechs while Ondrej Pavelec made 31 saves. Anssi Salmela scored Finland’s
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Evgeny Kuznetsov helps Russia rout rivals 8-3
This year’s U20 edition of the deep-rooted rivalry between Russia and the Czech Republic ended with a lopsided 8-3 win for Russia, which will play Finland in the quarterfinals. While Russia goes on to play for potentially a medal, the Czechs go down to the relegation round for the sceond consecutive year. After a good