Monday, August 27, 2007

Canada Takes Game One

Penalty killing will clearly be an important part of Canada’s game in the Super Series.The Canadian team had to play through eleven short handed situations, including a couple of five on three situations in game one of their eight game series against Russia.

As seems to be the case in Internationally officiated games, any form of contact can suddenly send you to the box, particularly anything to do with the hockey stick. Canada played almost one third of the game down a man on the ice, but still managed to not only weather the storm, but to turn the flow of the game around and move the game into the Russian end of the ice.Game one saw Canada fall behind two to nothing before storming back to score four unanswered goals on the way to a 4-2 opening night victory.