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Canada blows lead to RussiaCanadian PressFRYDEK-MISTEK, Czech Republic—Jamie SloiTpicked a bad time to be generous,The Canadian iietminder was victimized by two soft third-period goals which allowed Russia to rally for a 3-3 tie yesterday at the world junior hockey championship.With Canada cruising along nicely with a 3-0 lead, Sergei Breylin banked a shot from behind the net off Storr's stick at 12;20 of the third. Then, with captain Brent Tully off for an unnecessary boarding penalty and Russia playing with six attackers, Alexander Karlomov made it 3-2 at 17:47.Maxim Sushinski capped the rally with 55 seconds remaining when his innocent-looking shot from outside the right faceoff circle eluded Storr, who is considered one of the top prospects in the 1994 NHL draft.“He let a shot go that was bouncing and kind of tricked me, said Storr. “I thought it was going a bit more to the right, so 1 kicked out my pad with the stick and it (puck) bounced over my stick and went between my legs.“It had some speed on it, but it was still a bad goal. I should have had it.”And, Canada should have had the win, based on its play through the first 52 minutes,The Canadians played a perfect tight-checking, dump-and-run game to the tee, and were rewarded witli a 3-0 lead on goals by Todd Harvey, Anson Carter and Jason Allison. But coach Joe Canale noticed his team lost .confidence after Russia's first goal.When a team scores one goal, no matter if it’s Canadian hockey or European hockey, you lose confidence and tend to make bad decisions,” Canale said. You want to go back and score one more goal.But it was only 3-1, we still had the lead. After they scored on the power play, we panicked.”And it dropped Canada into second in the ovei--all standings at 2-0-1. Sweden is first at 3-0, with Finland third at 2-1. Russia and the United States are tied for fourth at 1-1-1.In Wednesday’s other games, Sweden beat Finland 6-2; the United States beat Germany 7-2 and the Czech Republic beat Switzerland 6-0.While the tie didn’t officially take Canada out of gold-medal contention, the defending champions must pretty much win their four remaining games to repeat, starting with tonight against Finland(lp,m.,CDT.TSN).“We haven’t lost anything yet,” Canale said, “But if we go into that game {against Finland) with our heads between our legs, then we will have lost something.But whether Storr will be back in goal remains to be seen. Late last night, Canale and his coaches discussed possibly playing Manny Fernandez, but Canale said a decision won't be made Until today.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Dec 30, 1993
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