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Buffalo Sabres Players at World Championships: Day 4

By Melissa Kania |

Tyler Ennis was the lone Buffalo Sabres player in action on May 4th at the 2015 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championships. Although Andrej Meszaros and Team Slovakia were off Monday, there were four games in play at the tournament.

Monday’s action at the IIHF World Championships began with an 8-1 routing of Latvia by Sweden.

Loui Eriksson had a hat trick to lead the Swedes to victory. Filip Forsberg, Jacob Josefson, Joel Lundqvist, Oscar Moller and Victor Rask also scored for Sweden.

Former Buffalo Sabres netminder Jhonas Enroth had 19 saves in the victory, while the Swedes registered 36 shots on net.

Latvia’s lone goal came from Lauris Darzins.

The second game of the day saw the United States squad defeat Russia by a score of 4-2 in what some called a “surprise” victory for the young Team USA.

Russia outshot Team USA by a narrow margin, 16-15, but the United States was able to contain Russia’s offense and carry on to the win. Jack Campbell had 14 saves against his counterpart, Sergei Bobrovsky.

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    • Trevor Lewis, Brock Nelson, Mark Arcobello and Torey Krug all scored for the United States. Jack Eichel had an assist, as did Jimmy Vesey, Justin Faulk and Anders Lee. Krug led the team with four shots on goal.

    Russia’s goals came from Sergei Plotnikov and Anton Belov.

    Later in the day, Tyler Ennis and Team Canada faced the Czech Republic. Canada came out on top by a final score of 6-3.

    Ennis was held off the scoresheet, but registered three shots on goal. He registered a minus-1 in 11:44 ice time.

    Canada’s goals in the win came from Taylor Hall, Sean Couturier, Jordan Eberle, Tyler Toffoli, Sidney Crosby and Tyler Seguin.

    Czech goals came from Vladimir Sobotka, Martin Zatovic and Martin Erat.

    Finally, Finland defeated Norway by a score of 5-0 in IIHF World Championships action, despite being outshot 25-20.

    Finland’s goals came from Jyrki Jokipakka, Esa Lindell, Joonas Kemppainen (2) and Jussi Jokinen.

    At the end of day four, the United States is now atop the Group B standings, with nine points, an 11:4 goal differential and a perfect 3-0-0-0 record — their best start since 1997.

    Canada sits atop the Group A standings with their own perfect 3-0-0-0 record and a goal differential of 22:4.

    Ennis and Canada are now off until Wednesday, but Buffalo Sabres defenseman Andrej Meszaros returns to the ice on Tuesday as Slovakia faces Slovenia in one of four games on the schedule. Elsewhere, Switzerland and Germany face off; Denmark faces Belarus, and Austria and France hit the ice.

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