(Beijing Winter Olympics) The Chinese men's ice hockey team lost all three games to Canada to end the group stage
China News Service, Beijing, February 14 (Wang Hao) On the evening of the 13th, in the men's ice hockey group A match of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team lost 0:5 to the Canadian team and ended the group stage with a record of 3 losses. journey.
In the next promotion round, the Chinese team will meet the Canadian team again.
This is the first time the Chinese team has participated in the men's ice hockey competition at the Winter Olympics. In the previous two group matches, the Chinese team lost to the United States and Germany successively.
The Canadian team is a traditional strong team in men's ice hockey. It has won the Winter Olympics many times. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, the current players of the North American Professional Hockey League cannot participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which has greatly weakened their strength.
According to the rules, the regular time of the ice hockey game is divided into three quarters, each of 20 minutes. If the game is interrupted, the watch needs to be stopped.
After the start of the first quarter, the Canadian team scored in less than 3 minutes.
After that, the Canadian team launched a fierce offensive and scored two more goals to take a 3-goal lead in the first quarter.
In the second quarter of the game, the backward Chinese team began to actively look for opportunities to score goals, frequently creating dangerous situations in front of the opponent's goal, but it was never able to score a goal. Instead, Canada scored another goal at the end of this quarter.
In the last quarter of the game, the Chinese team still failed to score, and the Canadian team scored another goal.
In the end, the Canadian team defeated the Chinese team 5-0.
In the three group matches, although the Chinese team lost all of them, there are also bright spots. For example, in the game against Germany, they scored two goals in a row when they were three goals behind, rewriting the Chinese men's ice hockey team's goal without the Winter Olympics. History.
After the game, Ying Rudi, a member of the Chinese team, said in an interview that the players of the Chinese men's ice hockey team did not have the mentality of coming here, they all had a sense of honor, and now everyone will focus on preparing for the next promotion match.
When asked if the three games were in line with the pre-match expectations, he said: "There may be some small things that are not as we imagined, such as the score. But I personally think that these three games are actually opportunities, especially Last game (against Germany)."
The men's ice hockey group stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics ended on the 13th.
According to the rules, no elimination is involved in the group stage, and the first group of the three groups and the second group with the most points directly enter the quarter-finals.
The remaining 8 teams will fight in pairs in the promotion round to compete for the remaining 4 quarter-finals. The specific matchup will be determined according to the group stage points.
The top team in Group A is the United States, which has won all three games. The first team in Group B is the Russian Olympic Committee. In Group C, Finland and Sweden join hands to advance to the top 8. These teams will wait for their quarter-finals. opponent.
The Chinese team's opponent in the promotion round is still the Canadian team, which will be played on the 15th.
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