{"id":29553,"date":"2008-01-04T10:50:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2008\/01\/04\/us-to-face-russia-in-bronze-medal-game-after-loss-to-canada\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:57:08","slug":"us-to-face-russia-in-bronze-medal-game-after-loss-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2008\/01\/04\/us-to-face-russia-in-bronze-medal-game-after-loss-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"US To Face Russia In Bronze Medal Game After Loss To Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
The U.S. National Junior Team will play for the bronze medal in the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship against Russia after a 4-1 loss to Canada in the semifinals of the tournament.<\/p>\n
“Canada played a great game,” said U.S. Head Coach John Hynes. “Our guys will refocus and be ready to play tomorrow. We have a chance to win back-to-back medals in this tournament for the first time in the history of our country.”<\/p>\n
Canada took the lead at 2:46 of the second period when Shawn Matthias scored from just outside the crease after an end-wall feed from Matthew Halischuk. Then at 10:00, Karl Alzner fired one home from the top of the left circle on the power play. Team USA had a 13-to-6 shots on goal advantage in the period with Max Pacioretty’s (Michigan) rebound chance in front 11 minutes into the stanza among them. Team USA’s penalty-killing unit foiled :41 of a two-man Canada advantage late in the period to keep the game within reach after 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
With goals by Gillies and Brad Marchand at 7:04 and 7:24, Canada took control of the game. James vanRiemsdyk (New Hampshire) banged one in from the right of Canada netminder Steve Mason at 13:26 to account for the lone U.S. goal of the contest. Mike Carman (Minnesota) gained an assist on the play.<\/p>\n
Smith had 20 saves for Team USA, while Mason made 33 stops for Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.S. National Junior Team will play for the bronze medal in the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship against Russia after a 4-1 loss to Canada in the semifinals of the tournament. “Canada played a great game,” said U.S. Head Coach John Hynes. “Our guys will refocus and be ready to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n