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Buffalo Sabres at IIHF World Championships: Day 5

By Melissa Kania |

Another day at the IIHF World Championships, another goal for Buffalo Sabres defenseman Andrej Meszaros.

Yep, that’s right — Meszaros scored once more on Tuesday for Slovakia as they defeated Slovenia by a score of 3-1.

For the folks at home who are keeping track, that’s three goals in as many games for Meszaros, including the overtime game-winner a few days ago.

All in all, there were four games at the IIHF World Championships on Tuesday.

The day began with Switzerland’s 1-0 victory over Germany, thanks to a goal by Denis Hollenstein. Damien Brunner and Kevin Romy tallied the assists, while Brunner led all Swiss skaters with four shots on goal.

Action continued as Belarus came out on top of Denmark by a final score of 5-1.

Belarussian goals came from Ilya Shinkevich, Ivan Usenko, Artur Gavrus and Yevgeni Kovyrshin (2). Sergei Kostitsyn had four penalty minutes and two shots on goal. For the Danes, the lone goal came from Julian Jakobsen.

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    • The most notable stat line from that game, however, may be the 20 penalty minutes accrued by Danish defenseman Markus Lauridsen. He received that penalty with just about five minutes remaining in regulation. The Colorado Avalanche prospect received the misconduct came for “throwing a stick or object.”

    Elsewhere, the French shut out the Austrians by a score of 2-0. Damien Fleury and Laurent Meunier had the goals for France, while Cristobal Huet had 23 saves in net.

    The final game of Tuesday’s action at the IIHF World Championships saw Buffalo Sabres defenseman Meszaros and Slovakia face Slovenia.

    In the end, Slovakia came out on top by a score of 3-1.

    Meszaros had a goal and five shots on net as he skated a team-high 23:44. Meszaros continues to lead the Slovakian players in ice time game after game.

    Marian Gaborik had the other pair of goals for Slovakia; he also registered five shots on net and played 20:43.

    Other NHL players on the Slovakian team: Richard Panik (1 shot, 16:00 ice time); Marko Dano (3 shots, 18:16 ice time), Milan Jurcina (4 shots, 17:17) and Tomas Kopecky (9:34 ice time). Tomas Tatar also registered two shots and two penalty minutes in 19:43 ice time on Tuesday.

    Slovenia’s lone goal came from Jan Urbas. Anze Kopitar, lone NHLer on that squad, had three shots and registered a minus-1 in 25:29.

    At the close of Tuesday’s games, Canada leads Group A with a perfect 3-0-0-0 record, nine points and a 22:4 goal differential. The Untied States sits atop the Group B standings with an equally perfect 3-0-0-0 record, nine points and an 11:4 goal differential.

    There are four games on tap for the IIHF World Championships on Wednesday, with both Buffalo Sabres players in action with their respective national teams.

    Buffalo Sabres forward Tyler Ennis returns to action with Team Canada, as they face Team Sweden – and former Buffalo Sabres netminder Jhonas Enroth. Prior to that, Switzerland and Latvia will face off, as will Russia and Denmark.

    The final game of the day will see Meszaros and Team Slovakia face Norway.

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