Winter Olympics 2010: Canada set up ice hockey quarter-final clash with Russia

Bystaff Published: 9:14AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Going for gold: Canada had not approaching to mee Russia until Sunday"s last but will right away encounter their rivals in the last eight Photo: EPA

The host nation, whose fans are unfortunate for a men"s ice hockey bullion in Vancouver on top of all others, dejected the Germans 8-2 at Canada Hockey Place to make amends for their rough turn better to the United States last Sunday.

The shock 5-3 loss to the Americans left Canada in a play-off turn rather than with a bye to the last eight and additionally meant the Canadians would have to face their greatest Winter Olympics rivals Russia at the quarter-final stage, when majority fans had approaching that match-up to occur in this Sunday"s final.

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Instead, ice hockey"s greatest adversary will be played out on Wednesday with a semi-final berth at interest rather than medals.

Vancouver Canucks goalkeeper Roberto Luongo had been called in to the starting choice on his home ice in place of maestro Martin Brodeur following the annulment to the USA but it was his conflicting series Thomas Greiss of the San Jose Sharks who was the busier man in the nets as Canada dominated the Germans, outshooting the Europeans by 39 shots to 23.

Germany had never knocked about Canada in eleven meetings whilst both East and West Germany had lost a serve 3 times out of 3 total and there was small possibility of altering the statistic once Joe Thornton non-stop the scoring for Canada in the initial period.

The hosts stepped up a rigging in the second, goals entrance from defenceman Shea Weber and Jarome Iginla twice, his initial on a energy play.

The Germans got on the house for usually the fourth time at these Olympics when Marcel Goc kick a disposed Luongo with a wrap-around shot from at the back of the idea line with less than 4 mins of the second duration to go.

Sidney Crosby, one of ice hockey"s majority sparkling players, combined his name to the Canada scoresheet only 70 seconds in to the last duration as the Canadians took a 5-1 lead.

It was 6-1, five and a half mins after as Mike Richards bloody past Greiss and with defenceman Brenden Morrow claiming the assist, each one of the twenty Canadian outfield players in the patrol had possibly scored and assisted at the Vancouver Games.

The Canadians were prevalent and carrying dealt with a German energy fool around following captain Scott Niedermayer"s two-minute spell in the chastisement box for hooking, the same player returned and inside of nineteen seconds of returning to the diversion had scored his team"s seventh goal, sharpened in between the legs of Greiss.

With 3:32 remaining, Rick Nash swept in from the right after a prolonged pass out of counterclaim from Chris Pronger and slashed the puck past Greiss for idea series eight.

Manuel Klinge gave the Germans fans something to hearten with only 62 seconds superfluous when he kick Luongo but there was no encountering it was Canada"s night, and a date with the Russians awaits.