2017 ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The IIHF world championships for the year 2017 are being held in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany for the 5^th to the 21^st of May. The United States is in group A of the championships other countries include Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia and Sweden. All preliminary round games will take place at Laxness arena in Cologne Germany. All semifinal, bronze medal and gold medal games will take place at the main host location of Cologne, Germany.

Today we address USA vs. Italy, the United Stated took their third win of the ice hockey world championship with a 3 – 0 defeat of Italy yesterday. The star player was Brock Nelson from the United states who scored twice against Italy. “He broke the deadlock with a wrist shot to the top right corner early on, then scored another in the second period minutes before Anders Lee completed the scoring on a power play”. Nelson who’s a player for the New York islanders was named player of the game. Nelson fired one off the right post and into the back of the net from the hash marks to open the scoring 5:17 into the game after he picked off an errant clearing pass. The U.S held Italy without a shot on goal for the first 15 plus minutes of the contest and finished the first period with a 9-2 shot on goal advantage.

Nelson Brock's scores against the Italian team

"The American Coach Jeff Blashill stated that Italy was tough to play against but “our guys kept with it and made enough plays to win the game and that’s the important thing”. Team USA has two days off before putting its three-game winning streak on the line against Latvia this Saturday May the 13^th. Team USA out shot Italy 32-9 the U.S. was 1- for-2 on the power play while Italy finished 0-for-2, the U.S. have the day off today before returning to practice tomorrow in preparation for the game against Latvia at 12:15 p.m.

Dylan Larkin extended his point streak to four games with his two assists yesterday, he’s the only U.S. player to have at least one point in each of team USA’s first four games of the world championship."

Italy's Marco Insam, left, and US forward Brock Nelson.

FRIDAY THE 12^TH GAME SCHEDULE:

CZECH Republic VS. SLOVAKIA at 16:15 GMT the games will be held at Accor Hotels Arena.

DENMARK VS. GERMANY at 20:15 GMT, at the LANXESS Arena.

SWEDEN VS. ITALY at 16:15 GMT, at the LANXESS Arena.

FRANCE VS. BULGARIA at 20:15 GMT, at the Accor Hotels Arena.  

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