Hungary comes back from 2 for Big win

2015.04.23. 12:28 |

After the key win against Italy, Rich Chernomaz and Hungary took on Ukraine in another important match.

As expected Miklós Rajna started in the net, the forward lines and the defensive pairing stayed the same as they were against Italy.

Hungary came out looking strong, they continued to execute the same game plan that they had against Italy the day before. Hungary about twice as many scoring chances as Ukraine, at time it was just luck that was on Eduard Zakharchenko’s side. Never the less neither team was able to score a goal in the first twenty minutes of the game.

János Hári was sent off in the opening minutes of the second period and Ukraine took advantage but also had some luck as Roman Blagy took a close shot that bounced up off of Tyler Metcalfe’s stick off the post and in for the opening goal of the game. Ukraine managed to create some scoring chances after they took the lead but Rajna played solid. Hungary got their wheels back as they were creating scoring chances one after the other. Metcalfe hit the post on a long shot that was reviewed, minutes later Andrew Sarauer also hit the metal as well. In the closing minutes Balázs Gőz took a long shot from just inside the blueline that Frank Banham redirected, with the rebound sitting on the doorstep Sarauer slipped it in for the Hungarian goal to cut the Ukraine lead in half.

The last twenty minutes was nerve racking for the Hungarian fans and frustrating for the players as the scoring chances were not producing goals. Hungary tied it up at 2-2 when Sarauer fed a pass to Dániel Kóger from behind the net for the power play goal. With just under four minutes left Kóger picked up a loose puck, skated into the Ukraine zone, held onto the pick until the last possible second, flipped to Sarauer who crashed the net and somehow squeezed the puck past the goal line. The drama continued when Ukraine had a power play goal waved off because of a high stick. On the ensuing faceoff István Sofron carried the puck out of the Hungary end and did not stop until he slipped the puck into the back of the Ukraine net.

Today's Lineup

Kóger, Sarauer, Sofron
Sebők, Hári, Banham
Kovács, J.Vas, Erdély
Benk, Nagy, Magosi
Vincze

Gőz/Kiss, M.Vas
Metcalfe, Szirányi
Orbán, Pozsgai

Rajna (Bálizs)

Coaches Corner

Rich Chernomaz “I'm very proud of our guys coming back from a two goal deficit, we knew it was going to be a very tough game. We got off our game plan which did cost us, but in the third period we did find a way to win and that happened in the last ten minutes.”

Alexander Godynyuk“The teams play different styles of hockey, they came out very hard they forchecked, they have some great skilled players, we unfortunately don't have the players that can win the game for us only play well.”

View from the Ice

Andrew Sauerer-“Hasn't sunk in yet it was a tough 20-40 minute, we believe in that locker room, it takes 22 guys and we all believed, we all came out and it worked out good. We had some trouble getting pucks on net, but I was lucky to get the rebound.”

Frank Banham-“We had the start we wanted, we out chanced them and out shot the, we took some penalties in the second period and they took advantage of it, scoring that first goal was key and we had a solid third period.”

The Hungarian Squad

Goalies (2): BÁLIZS Bence (Miskolci Jegesmedvék) RAJNA Miklós (Fehérvár AV19)

Defensmen (7): KISS Dániel (Újpest) ORBÁN Attila, SZIRÁNYI Bence (Fehérvár AV19) POZSGAI Tamás (Dab.Docler), GŐZ Balázs, METCALFE Tyler (Miskolci Jegesmedvék), VAS Márton (Löwen Frankfurt, DEL2)

Forwards (13): BANHAM Frank, BENK András, EREDÉLY Csanád, KOVÁCS Csaba, KÓGER Dániel, MAGOSI Bálint, SARAUER Andrew, VINCZE Péter, (Fehérvár AV19) NAGY Krisztián (Miskolci Jegesmedvék) SEBŐK Balázs (Hokki, FIN2) SOFRON István (Krefeld Pinguine, GER), VAS János (Slavia Praha, CZE) HÁRI János (MODO, SWE)

Coaching Staff

Head Coach: Rich Chernomaz
Assistant Coaches: Gergely Majoross, Tamás Sille, Diego Scandella
Goalie Coach: Gary Clark

World Championships Schedule

Sunday April 19

Hungary-Japan 4-2

Kazakhstan-Ukraine 5-2

Italy-Poland 2-1

Monday April 20

Kazakhstan-Hungary 5-0

Italty-Ukraine 2-1 OT

Poland-Japan 2-0

Wednesday April 22