World Junior Hockey Championship 2017 Results: Semifinal Scores and Reaction

January 4th, 2017 by Joe Pantorno Leave a reply »

The finals of the 2017 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship from Montreal are set after Wednesday's semifinal action. Things led off with the United States defeating Russia in a thrilling shootout and its reward will be a gold-medal matchup with continental foes Canada after it defeated Sweden.

Here are the updated results from the semifinals:

 

United States 4, Russia 3 (Shootout) The United States was coming off its most difficult game of the tournament with a 3-2 quarterfinal win over Switzerland. That was until Wednesday against the Russians. 

But thanks to the heroics of Troy Terry, who converted all three of his shootout attempts, the United States managed to outlast its opponents and make the World Junior finals for the first time since 2013.

Russia provided the breakthrough 11:54 into the first period when Kirill Kaprizov streaked around the United States net and stuffed the puck between Tyler Parsons' legs before the goalie could realize, via TSN: 



Michael Traikos of the Postmedia News made a lofty comparison to the Russian scorer who is a ...

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