14 power plays! How many did Canada have?
Big win and nice win.
I coudnt find a box score, but here is an article:
Canadian Press
8/27/2007 5:01:18 PM
UFA, Russia (CP) - From the goaltender out to the forwards, the Canadian team showed resilience during a 4-2 win over Russia to open the eight-game Super Series on Monday.
Goaltender Steve Mason and his Canadian teammates got off to a rough start and quickly fell behind 2-0.
But Canada eventually shed its rust and nerves to grab a 1-0 lead in the series, which celebrates the 35th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union.
''We're looking to win all of them and obviously if we lost the first one we couldn't do that,'' said Mason, who plays for the OHL's London Knights.
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Mason gave up a suspect goal to Russia in the first period, but stopped 40 of 42 shots and played a leading role in Canada's dominant penalty kill.
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<!--- End Ad --> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> The Canadians held Russia to one goal on 13 power-play opportunities and scoreless on two 5-on-3s. The host team's inability to score with a man advantage had the full house of 8,500 at the new Ufa arena whistling in derision by the third period.
Mason's London teammate Sam Gagner had a goal and an assist. The University of Wisconsin's Kyle Turris scored on a penalty shot and Stefan Legein of the Mississauga IceDogs and Brad Marchand of the Val-d'Or Foreurs also contributed goals.
Ilya Kablukov and Alexander Ryabev spotted Russia a 2-0 lead with goals within the first 10 minutes of the game. Washington Capitals draft pick Semen Varlamov stopped 19 of 23 shots in the loss.
Legein sparked the Canadian comeback by scoring its first goal at 15:48 and Turris tied it up on a successful penalty shot attempt 40 seconds later.
He used a move that had worked on goaltender Leland Irving the day before during a breakaway drill to conclude Canada's last practice in Moscow. Turris beat Varlamov between his pads.
''I thought I'd better try that again because I didn't score on any of the other shots in that drill, so the move worked,'' said Turris.
Canada might have been excused for dropping the first game of the series because of their gruelling travel schedule, compressed preparation time and lack of exhibition games.
Their reward for overcoming that and that early two-goal deficit was an upswing in confidence to take into the rest of the series.
''We were hoping to win this once because of the travel, the jet lag and we'd been working pretty hard in practice so we were pretty tired,'' said Legein. ''To get this one out of the way is kind of a relief and it will set the tone for us.''
The second game of the series will be played Wednesday (Sportsnet, 9 a.m. ET) in Ufa. The next two games after that will be played in Omsk on Friday and Saturday.
The two teams then head to Canada to complete the circuit Sept. 4 in Winnipeg, Sept. 5 in Saskatoon, Sept. 7 in Red Deer, Alta., and Sept. 9 in Vancouver.
The 1972 Summit Series opened in Montreal, where the USSR shocked Canada 7-3.
It had been widely expected by Canadians at that time that their team would win the Summit Series because they were unaware of how strong the Soviets had become in hockey.
But Canada's junior hockey players are well aware of how good their opponents are. The two countries have evenly split gold medals in their last six meetings at world junior hockey championship finals.
The visitors looked like a team without its game legs at the start of Monday's game. Canada turned the puck over in the neutral zone and left their blue-line unchallenged, which contributed to Russia's quick start.
Their second goal was a softie by Mason, who had a clear view of Ryabev's off-speed shot from the blue-line but misplayed the bobbling puck.
''I just talked to myself and calmed myself down and said, `Definitely you can do this' and I pulled through,'' said Mason.
He was a fortress during a Russian 5-on-3 in the second period and made a key save on Vyacheslav Voinov's shot through traffic with his pads.
The Columbus Blue Jackets draft pick moved with more authority as the game progressed and his team's confidence kept pace with his.
Mason has made a case for earning another start in Russia before the series heads to Canada.
''I feel really happy about the way I bounced back after that soft goal, but I think the whole team is on a pretty good high right now,'' he said.
The Canadians supported the puck better and cut down on their mistakes in the second and third periods and drew momentum from a penalty kill that frustrated the Russians.
The flipside of that for the Canadians is they're going to drain the tank quickly if they keep having to kill that many penalties.
''Some of the penalties were pretty much penalties in any league, so it wasn't like the officiating was awful tonight,'' Legein said of the all-Russian crew. ''It was a little different because we couldn't talk to them and ask them questions because they don't speak English.''
Monday's game was the first played in Ufa's arena, which is so new it wasn't quite finished.
There was a flurry of activity around the arena prior to the game as sawdust was swept, paint applied, balloons hung and the parking lot paved.
CP player of the game - Forward Stefan Legein of the Mississauga IceDogs was a tour de force on the penalty kill and helped Canada get momentum by scoring his team's first goal. He killed off a large chunk of Russia's first power play by protecting the puck deep in their zone and he later created a short-handed chance with Brandon Sutter.
Notes - Scratches from Canada's lineup were forward Dana Tyrell, defenceman Ty Wishart and Irving ... Defenceman Konstantin Alexeev and forward Sergei Zachupeiko were released from the Russian team this week to reduce their roster to 26 ... Canadian forward line combos were: Milan Lucic, Sutter, Legein; David Perron, Turris, John Tavares; Colton Gillies, Zach Hamill and Zach Boychuk, Marchand, Gagner and Claude Giroux ... Canada's ambassador to Russia, Ralph Lysyshyn, was involved in the pre-game ceremony and gave a speech in Russian, English and French.
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