January 5. Halifax. Metro Center. A - 10,594.
Canada - Russia  2-3 (1-1, 1-0, 0-2)

First period:
0-1 RUS 11:17  Taratukhin,2 (Perezhogin, Grigorenko)
1-1 CAN 12:01  Parenteau,4 (White, Laich)
Penalties: Artyukhin RUS (high-stick) 2:31. Tyutin RUS (roughing) 12:51. Lupul CAN (cross-check) 12:51. Trubachev RUS (hooking) 17:05.
Second period:
2-1 CAN 16:22  Upshall,4 (Parenteau, Laich)  (pp)
Penalties: Roy CAN (tripping) 12:05. Kaigorodov RUS (cross-check) 15:02.
Third period:
2-2 RUS  4:22  Grigorenko,6 (Perezhogin, Koltsov)
2-3 RUS 11:09  Trubachev,3 (Polushin, Tyutin)
Penalties: Upshall CAN (elbow) 12:29. Tyutin RUS (holding) 16:58.

Goaltenders: Fleury (L,3-1-0) 28/31 - Medvedev (W,5-0-0) 22/24.

Shots:
CAN  12  8  4 -- 24
RUS  14 10  7 -- 31

Power play: Canada 1/4, Russia 0/2.

Referee - Ulf Radbjer (Sweden).

RUSSIA: Tyutin(+1/2) - Grebeshkov(+1/1), Ovechkin(+1/5) - Trubachev(+1/4) - Polushin(+1/4). Koltsov (+2/0) - Korneev(+2/0), Grigorenko(+2/3) - Taratukhin(+2/3) - Perezhogin(+2/1). Kondratiev(-1/0) - Lyubushin(-1/1), Zherdev(-1/1) - Kaigorodov(-1/1) - Anshakov(-1/1), Shishkanov(even/1) - Pestunov(even/0) - Artyukhin(even/3).
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