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KOSICE, Slovakia – The Slavonic Republic overcame the achievement of Alex Ovechkin to vex country 3-2 Sun and reassert a amend record at the hockey concern championship.

Jakub Voracek, Jaromir Jagr and Tomas Plekanec scored for the Slavonic Republic as Ovechkin couldn't support country punish a 2-1 expiration to the Czechs in the final of terminal year's worlds.

"It was a thickened game, to the terminal second," Slavonic nervy histrion Havlat said.

Voracek gave the Czechs a 1-0 lead with a backhanded on a recuperate 14:01 into the opening punctuation and Jagr doubled the plus 1:51 later for his ordinal content of the tournament.

Also Sunday, Mikael Backlund scored 7:47 into the ordinal punctuation and added an empty-net content to provide Sweden a hard-fought 2-0 conclusion over Schweiz to secure a place in the quarters. The termination effectuation that the United States also advanced.

Sweden netminder Viktor Fasth posted his ordinal shutout of the tournament.

"They had a aggregation of opportunities, but we blocked shots substantially and our netminder was enthusiastic for us tonight," Backlund said. "He's been outstanding for us this tournament."

Two Slavonic players — nervy city Michalek and belligerent Karel Rachunek — left the mettlesome and didn't convey after attractive big hits from Slavonic nervy Yevgeni Artyukhin in the ordinal period. Rachunek was bleeding from his nous but Artyukhin free without a penalisation for that check.

"It wasn't a pretty game," Jagr said. "There were a aggregation of penalties and power plays."

Alexei Tereshenko scored a power-play content for country midway finished the region period, but Tomas Plekanec regenerate a penalisation effort to change a two-goal lead 3:27 into the third.

Russia also got a content from Danis Zaripov with 4:56 remaining.

"We started substantially the prototypal 10 transactions but then we prefabricated whatever defensive mistakes and the Czechs scored two goals, that shouldn't have happened," country railcar Vyacheslav Bykov said.

The Czechs outshot the Russians 33-26.

Ovechkin joined the Slavonic aggroup Sat after his pedagogue Capitals were eliminated from the NHL playoffs, but failed to attain an effect in his prototypal mettlesome after a wearying trans-Atlantic flight.

Czech netminder Ondrej Pavelec prefabricated 24 saves for the win.

The Slavonic have secured the crowning blot in Group E with digit more mettlesome to endeavor in the limiting round and will foregather the fourth aggroup from Group F in the quarterfinals.

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