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Straits Times
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
Ice hockey-US beat Switzerland to win world championship with sudden-death goal
Ice Hockey - IIIHF World Championships - Final - Switzerland v United States - Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden - May 25, 2025 Drew O'Connor of the U.S. in action Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via REUTERS Ice Hockey - IIIHF World Championships - Final - Switzerland v United States - Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden - May 25, 2025 Switzerland and United States players before the match Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via REUTERS Ice Hockey - IIIHF World Championships - Final - Switzerland v United States - Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden - May 25, 2025 Alex Vlasic of the U.S. in action with Switzerland's Nino Niederreiter Magnus Lejhall/TT News Agency via REUTERS Ice Hockey - IIIHF World Championships - Final - Switzerland v United States - Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden - May 25, 2025 Conor Garland of the U.S. in action Magnus Lejhall/TT News Agency via REUTERS STOCKHOLM - Tage Thompson fired a sudden-death winner for Team USA as they claimed a thrilling victory over Switzerland in the final of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship on Sunday, their first gold medal at the tournament since 1933. After impressing with their free-flowing attacking play earlier in the tournament, both teams engaged in an enthralling and bruising tactical battle that remained scoreless for the entire 60 minutes, prompting the overtime period that saw the teams reduced from five to three players on the ice, plus their goaltenders. Swiss net-minder Leonardo Genoni played superbly throughout, but there was little he could do when Thompson broke forward and drove home the winning goal two minutes and two seconds into the overtime period to claim the victory. Earlier on Sunday, co-hosts Sweden and Denmark met in the bronze-medal match with the Swedes running out 6-2 winners to take third place, and the Danes finishing fourth to secure their best-ever placing following their seismic defeat of Canada at the quarter-final stage on Thursday. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Straits Times
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
Ice hockey-McCarron stakes claim for world championship gold as US down Sweden
Ice Hockey - IIHF World Championships - Semi Finals - Sweden v United States - Avicii Arena, Johanneshov, Sweden - May 24, 2025 Cutter Gauthier of the U.S. celebrates scoring their second goal with teammates Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN. Ice Hockey - IIHF World Championships - Semi Finals - Sweden v United States - Avicii Arena, Johanneshov, Sweden - May 24, 2025 Jackson LaCombe of the U.S. celebrates scoring their fifth goal with teammates as Sweden's Samuel Ersson looks dejected Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN. Ice Hockey - IIHF World Championships - Semi Finals - Sweden v United States - Avicii Arena, Johanneshov, Sweden - May 24, 2025 Zach Werenski of the U.S. in action with Sweden's Mikael Backlund Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN. Ice Hockey - IIHF World Championships - Semi Finals - Sweden v United States - Avicii Arena, Johanneshov, Sweden - May 24, 2025 Conor Garland of the U.S. scores their third goal past Sweden's Jacob Markstrom Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN. Ice Hockey - IIHF World Championships - Semi Finals - Sweden v United States - Avicii Arena, Johanneshov, Sweden - May 24, 2025 Brady Skjei of the U.S. shakes hands with Sweden's William Nylander after the match Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM - Towering American forward Michael McCarron was happy to finally shrug off the underdog tag as Team USA slammed six goals past Sweden to book their berth in the final of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) world championship on Sunday, when they will meet either Switzerland or Denmark. With many of their biggest NHL stars traditionally skipping the tournament, the United States have not won gold at the tournament since 1933 and last made the final in 1950, but McCarron said his squad showed in their 6-2 win over Sweden that they were good enough to win this time around. "We have a really good team, we have a group of NHL players as well -- they (the Swedes) might have bigger names but we're all playing the same league," he told Reuters following Saturday's victory over co-hosts Sweden, who were favourites to win gold after Canada suffered a shock elimination at the hands of Denmark on Thursday. McCarron's huge physical presence in front of goal was indicative of how the Americans approached the game, battling the slick stick-work of the Swedes with speedy skating and relentless aggression. "We try to play from below the goal-line and create a lot of offence that way, and I think we did that. We created a lot of offence from below the goal line, we put pucks behind their D and fore check hard and win a lot of pucks back that way," McCarron explained. "We had a good game, we played 55 minutes of really good hockey. We had a little bit of a wall there in the third but, you know, they were going to come out hard, and we were able to turn it around after a short little lack of puck play for us. That was really good." The 30-year-old from Michigan said that, with the final just over 24 hours away, there would be little time to reflect on history. "(Making the final), that's pretty cool. I don't know what took so long for us to get back to a gold-medal game. I think it was 1950 for the last one, something like that, so it feels good," he said. "I mean, it's a quick turnaround. We're going to enjoy this for a quick little bit and go to sleep thinking about whoever wins tonight, get ready for those guys. So it feels great but, like I said, we still have one more step to go." REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
