Which team won the World Hockey Championship 2014

Which team won the World Hockey Championship 2014



Every year all the hockey fans of the world expectthe main tournament of national teams. The World Hockey Championship calls 16 teams under their banners, but only one eventually raises the coveted trophy over his head.





Which team won the World Hockey Championship 2014

















May 25, 2014 in the capital of Belarus on"Minsk Arena" in the presence of more than 15 thousand spectators hosted the final match of the World Hockey Championship. After sixty minutes of playing time, the national team of Russia won the victory, which has already become a four-time world champion in modern history. The coveted trophy was raised over his head by the captain of the Russian team Alexander Ovechkin, and then all players and coaches performed a circle of honor on the site.

In the final, the Russians defeated the Finnish team with a score of 5: 2. Washers at the gates of the Finns threw Shirokov, Ovechkin, Malkin, Zaripov and Tikhonov.

The Russian team brought to this World Cup 12newcomers, their ranks have joined the recognized leaders of the national team of the KHL and the NHL. It is worth acknowledging that at the tournament in Minsk the Russians had the strongest squad. At the invitation of Oleg Znark, the stars of the first magnitude of world hockey responded. Alexander Ovechkin, Nikolai Kulemin, Artem Anisimov, Sergei Bobrovsky and some other NHL-sheep immediately arrived at the location of the team before the start of the tournament. A serious strengthening of the composition was the arrival towards the end of the group stage of striker Evgeni Malkin. It was the genius Eugene and Alexander the Great who managed to turn the tide of the game in the second period of the final meeting when the Russians lost 1: 2. In the final dvadtsatiminutke in most Danis Zaripov scored the fourth goal, which became one of the most beautiful in the tournament.

During the championship, the Russian team won all ten matches in regular time and became a deserved triumphant of the world hockey championship in 2014.