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It closes with a big surprise the first day of competition of the World Championship Top Division underway in Minsk, Belarus.
Saturday 10 May 2014 3 minutes reading time
In Group A, France has got a'' very important to shootout victory against Canada. The training Alps has played an exemplary match playing openly against an opponent'' on the top card. The French have started great, going ahead already at the end of the first third thanks to the creation of Stephane da Costa able to exploit a situation to their advantage powerplay. Two minutes Later, a similar situation of superiority'' Numerical Canadians have been equalized accounts, going to rest on the score of 1 to 1.
In the third drittel the game started to catch fire, with North Americans who have gone to the tenth to lead the match through the network of Gudbranson, before being taken up by the "blues" for the second time they capitalized on the powerplay thanks Costa usual good to stow the pack behind Reimeyr.
After an additional time in which there were no marker, the race is resolved at the third penalty, when the French goalkeeper Huet saved a shot and Read the following shootout teammate Pierre-Edouard Bellemare achieved the goal of victory.
With this success, the France 2 pockets important and unexpected points in the optical salvation, complicating even before you begin the journey of the world'' that Italy will now have to strength to win the head to head against the "cousins" Bleus seek to stay in the'' elite'' s hockey world.
'' In another match of Group A, narrow victory of the Czech Republic in the derby against Slovakia. The Czechs were imposed for 3 to 2 at the end of extra thanks to the decisive goal by Jakub Klepis.
In Group B victories Net Russia (5-0 to Switzerland) and for the United States that have liquidated Belarus hostess for 6 to 1.
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