Madferret
4-23-05, 9:18 AM
Canadian Press
4/22/2005
QUEBEC (CP) - Mark Parrish scored with 4.5 seconds to play in regulation as the United States defeated Canada 5-4 on Friday in the final tune-up for both teams prior to the IIHF world hockey championship. Matt Cullen had two goals - his second and third of the two-game series - for the Americans. Mike Knuble and Yan Stastny had the others before 7,166 fans at the Quebec Coliseum.
Joe Thornton, Simon Gagne, Dany Heatley and Sheldon Souray scored for Canada. Canadian goalie Martin Brodeur allowed two goals on 10 shots in a period and a half after stopping all 18 shots he faced in Canada's 3-1 win over the Americans in Halifax on Wednesday. Brodeur was replaced at 10:11 of the second by Roberto Luongo, who stopped 15 of 18 shots he faced.
Rick DiPietro played the entire game in goal for the Americans, stopping 27 shots. Stastny broke a 3-3 tie at 9:36 of the third when his weak wrist shot from the right circle went off Luongo and into the net.
Souray made it 4-4 just four seconds after Canada killed off consecutive penalties to Mike Fischer and Robyn Regehr. Souray took a pass at the blue-line from Patrick Marleau and fired a slapshot past DiPietro at 12:34 of the third. Cullen opened the scoring late in what was a listless first for both teams.
Parrish came down the left wing while Cullen got behind Canadian defenceman Chris Phillips and got in front of Brodeur. Parrish's perfect pass banked off Cullen's stick and in at 18:03. Canada scored three straight power-play goals in the second before the Americans rallied to tie the score going into the third.
Thornton got it started when his pass attempt to Gagne at the side of the net went in off Aaron Miller's stick at 2:13 with Stastny in the box. Gagne put Canada ahead 2-1 when he banged in his own rebound at 4:42, only six seconds after Andy Roach went off for tripping Kirk Maltby on a partial breakaway.
Brendan Morrison set up Heatley in the slot for his power-play goal at 7:20 of the second while Jordan Leopold was sitting out a high-sticking penalty. Knuble got the Americans to within one at 9:19 when he fought off a Souray check to score from the lip of the crease.
Cullen tied it 3-3 at 19:04 of the second when he banged in the rebound of a Parrish shot that bounced off the backboards.
NOTES - The pre-game national anthems were not sung after the singer, Caroline Marcil of Montreal, tried twice to complete the Star Spangled Banner but forgot the words each time. Finally, she decided to go back toward the dressing room, presumably to get the words, but when she returned to the ice the carpet slipped out from underneath her and she fell on her rear end. It was then decided to proceed with the opening faceoff without the singing of either anthem . . . American forward Yan Stastny, the son of Hall of Famer and Quebec Nordiques legend Peter Stastny, received some applause when he was announced in the starting lineup. Stastny was born in Quebec City and lived here until the age of seven.
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4/22/2005
QUEBEC (CP) - Mark Parrish scored with 4.5 seconds to play in regulation as the United States defeated Canada 5-4 on Friday in the final tune-up for both teams prior to the IIHF world hockey championship. Matt Cullen had two goals - his second and third of the two-game series - for the Americans. Mike Knuble and Yan Stastny had the others before 7,166 fans at the Quebec Coliseum.
Joe Thornton, Simon Gagne, Dany Heatley and Sheldon Souray scored for Canada. Canadian goalie Martin Brodeur allowed two goals on 10 shots in a period and a half after stopping all 18 shots he faced in Canada's 3-1 win over the Americans in Halifax on Wednesday. Brodeur was replaced at 10:11 of the second by Roberto Luongo, who stopped 15 of 18 shots he faced.
Rick DiPietro played the entire game in goal for the Americans, stopping 27 shots. Stastny broke a 3-3 tie at 9:36 of the third when his weak wrist shot from the right circle went off Luongo and into the net.
Souray made it 4-4 just four seconds after Canada killed off consecutive penalties to Mike Fischer and Robyn Regehr. Souray took a pass at the blue-line from Patrick Marleau and fired a slapshot past DiPietro at 12:34 of the third. Cullen opened the scoring late in what was a listless first for both teams.
Parrish came down the left wing while Cullen got behind Canadian defenceman Chris Phillips and got in front of Brodeur. Parrish's perfect pass banked off Cullen's stick and in at 18:03. Canada scored three straight power-play goals in the second before the Americans rallied to tie the score going into the third.
Thornton got it started when his pass attempt to Gagne at the side of the net went in off Aaron Miller's stick at 2:13 with Stastny in the box. Gagne put Canada ahead 2-1 when he banged in his own rebound at 4:42, only six seconds after Andy Roach went off for tripping Kirk Maltby on a partial breakaway.
Brendan Morrison set up Heatley in the slot for his power-play goal at 7:20 of the second while Jordan Leopold was sitting out a high-sticking penalty. Knuble got the Americans to within one at 9:19 when he fought off a Souray check to score from the lip of the crease.
Cullen tied it 3-3 at 19:04 of the second when he banged in the rebound of a Parrish shot that bounced off the backboards.
NOTES - The pre-game national anthems were not sung after the singer, Caroline Marcil of Montreal, tried twice to complete the Star Spangled Banner but forgot the words each time. Finally, she decided to go back toward the dressing room, presumably to get the words, but when she returned to the ice the carpet slipped out from underneath her and she fell on her rear end. It was then decided to proceed with the opening faceoff without the singing of either anthem . . . American forward Yan Stastny, the son of Hall of Famer and Quebec Nordiques legend Peter Stastny, received some applause when he was announced in the starting lineup. Stastny was born in Quebec City and lived here until the age of seven.
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