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The IIHF World Hockey Championship quarterfinal games have been played and the semi-finalists are now known. Some of them are surprises, some of them... not really.
Finland 5:4 Sweden
The Swedes were clear favorites in the game between the Scandinavian countries, unfortunately for them - Finns knew how to pull off an upset.
Goal scorers: Mikkola (Pesonen, Manninen) 1:0 Klingberg (Nylander, Wennberg) 1:1 Hornqvist (Ekman-Larsson, Larsson) 1:2 E.Petterson (Landeskog, Ekman-Larsson) 1:3 Lindbohm (Manninen, Pesonen) 2:3 Hakanpaa (Manninen) 3:3 Gustafsson (Landeskog, Wennberg) 3:4 Antitila (Ojamaki, Lehtonen) 4:4 Manninen (Lankinen) 5:4 OT
The Czechs continued their steady go in the tournament - this time against Germany. Philip Grubauer and Leon Draisaitl couldn't manage to contain their opponents.
Goal scorers: Kovar 1:0 Mauer (Tiffels) 1:1 Voracek (Simon) 2:1 Kubalik (Kovar, Hronek) 3:1 Palat (Kolar) 4:1 Kovar 5:1
Russians continue perfect at the IIHF World Championships - this time throwing out of the contest talented American team.
Goal scorers: Gusev (Sergachev, Kucherov) 1:0 Sergachev (Gusev) 2:0 Skjei (Kane, Gaudreau) 2:1 Kaprizov (Gusev, Sergachev) 3:1 Hanifin (J.Hughes) 3:2 Grigorenko (Malkin Dadonov) 4:2 DeBrincat (Kane, J.Hughes) 4:3
Canada was close to the elimination but luckily for them, the tables turned once they tied the game with 0.4 seconds left in the 3rd period.
Goal scorers: Andrighetto (Diaz, Fiala) 0:1 Stone (Fabbro, Dubois) 1:1 Hischier (Martschini, Niederreiter) 1:2 Severson (Stone) 2:2 Stone (Dubois, Theodore) 3:2 OT
Russia - Finland Canada - Czech Republic.
Semi-finals will be played on Saturday.