On Saturday, April 30, the Ukrainian national ice hockey team played the third match of the World Championship in Division 1B, meeting with Japan.
The Blue-Yellows suffered a crushing defeat 2-8 and lost their chances of fighting for first place and promotion to Division 1A.
Washers in the national team of Ukraine were thrown by Vitaliy Lyalka and Oleksiy Vorona .
The only pass to division 1A (the second strongest in world hockey) will go to the winner of the world championship in Tichy. After three rounds, Ukraine scored 4 points and is in 3rd place. Japan is in the lead with 9 points.
World Championship Division 1B
Japan – Ukraine 8:2 (3:0, 3:2, 2:0)
Washers : 1:0 – Furugashi (Miura, Galliday), 04:19. 2:0 – Minoshima, 04:52. 3:0 – Furugashi, 09:08. 4:0 – Suzuki (Furugashi, Minoshima, – more.), 20:24. 4:1 – Doll (Merezhko, Korenchuk), 25:06. 5:1 – Nakayashiki, 31:42. 5:2 – Crow (Andreikov, Litvinov), 34:40. 6:2 – Gitosato (Girano), 39:56. 7:2 – Gitosato (Girano), 44:09. 8:2 – Girano (Nakajima, Gitosato), 59:59
The final match at the world championship the Ukrainian team will play on Sunday, May 1 against Estonia. Start – at 21:00.
Recall that the hockey club “Energia” took a radical step and stopped cooperation with Russian and Belarusian hockey players.
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