Herning, Denmark – Final yr’s runner Switzerland closed the USA Three-Zero and handed to People the primary loss on the World Hockey Ice Championship on Monday.
Damien Riat, Jonas Siegenthaler and Dean Kukan scored within the Group B recreation in hernning. Web-Warder Leonardo Genoni stopped 23 photographs for closing.
Riat put Switzerland earlier than 7:14 left within the first interval, redirecting the puck within the air gate. It was the primary objective that the US granted on the event.
The second adopted Three:13 later by Siegenthaler from the blue line. Kukan got here to the center of the ultimate interval on the high of the left circle.
“After the primary objective, I did a greater job, I got here in increasingly more and I closed them,” mentioned the Swiss striker Kevin Fiala.
The beast recorded an assistant in his first recreation at The Worlds. It joined the late Swiss, after his Los Angeles kings have been eradicated from the NHL playoffs within the first spherical.
American goalkeeper Joey Daccord made 24 rescue.
The US beat Denmark 5-Zero and Hungary 6-Zero within the first two video games and are going through Norway on Wednesday.
In Stockholm, Austria predominated on Slovakia by Three-2 in a punishment trade.
The protection of the Czech Republic champion performs Denmark in herning on Monday later, and Sweden meets the Rival of Finland in Stockholm.
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