Failure again: Belarusian hockey players eliminated from world’s championship

• 17.05.2010, 8:55

The Belarus ice hockey national team lost all chances of advancing to the quarterfinal of the 74th worked championship in Germany.

On May 16, Eduard Zankavets team gained an 2-1 overtime victory over Germany (1-0, 0-0, 0-1, 1-0) in the second match of the second game of the qualification round. However, only a regulation time victory was needed to advance to the playoff stage, BelaPAN reports.

Goals were scored by Andrei Mikhalou (6:43, assistants Yaroslav Chupris, Yevgeni Kovyrshyn), Marcel Muller (59:06, assistants Sven Felski, Felix Schitz, 6х5), Aliaksei Kaliuzhny (64:45, assistantsb Mikhail Grabovski, Alexander Makritski).

Penalty statistics: 2 – 8 (Andrei Stas, 21:32; Korbinian Holzer 4:11, Nicolai Goc 16:51, John Tripp 19:33).

Russia thumped Denmark 6-1 (2-0, 1-1, 3-0) in Group E.

The standings in Group E is as follows: Russia 12 points (4 games, 15-5), Finland 6 points (3: 4-4), Denmark 6 points (4; 12-10), Germany 4 points (4; 6-7), Slovakia 3 points (3: 5-11), Belarus 2 points (4; 5-10).

In Group F, Latvia beat Norway 5-0 (0-0, 0-0, 5-0), Sweden gain a victory over Canada 3-1 (1-1, 2-0, 0-1). The standings are Sweden 9 points (4; 13-7), Switzerland 9 points (3; 10-4), Canada 6 points (4; 20-9), Latvia 3 points (4; 99-13), the Czech Republic 3 points (3; 607), Norway 3 points (4; 6-24).

On May 17, Belarus will play its last match at the worlds against Denmark (the beginning at 9:15 p.m.).