Ukraine Dominates Estonia 8-0 in World Hockey Championship Opener

Ukraine started the World Hockey Championship with a shocking 8:0 victory

The national hockey team of Ukraine defeated Estonia in the opening match of the World Championship in Division IB (the third strongest hockey division). The meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, ended with a score of 8:0.

Ukraine started the game well, opening the scoring in the 12th minute of the first period. Alexander Peresunko made a name for himself, who was finally recognized as the player of the game in the national team of Ukraine.

At the beginning of the second period, the Estonians could have equalized the score, but our goalkeeper Bogdan Dyachenko did not allow the opponent to realize a one-on-one situation. This was a turning point. Half a minute later, with an interval of 10 seconds, the Ukrainians scored two goals, eliminating all questions about the winner.

Daniil Trakht got the win in the 6th minute.

In the last 20 minutes, Dmitry Khristich decided to save the leaders and the Ukrainian team switched to energy saving mode to save energy for further matches. The representatives of the third and fourth lines got more and more time, but this did not stop our team from getting two goals.

Estonia – Ukraine 0:8 (0:1, 0:3, 0:4)

Washers:

11:44 Peresunko (Ratushny, Mazur) – 0:1

21:36 Sadovikov (Zakharov, Lyalka – big) – 0:2

21:47 Deniskin (Ratushny, Fadeev) – 0:3

25:26 Trakht (Peresunko, Pangelov-Yuldashev) – 0:4

47:27 Krivoshapkin (Vorona) – 0:5

52:41 Merezhko (Peresunko, Tolstushko) – 0:6,

54:58 Deniskin (Yanishevsky) – 0:7,

55:55 Morozov (Sadovikov) – 0:8

Keepers: Mold – Dyachenko

According to the rules, in order to be promoted to class (Division IA), our team must win a group consisting of Estonia, Lithuania, China, Spain and the Netherlands.

The “yellow-blue” will play their next match on April 28 against the Netherlands.

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