The blue-and-yellows decided everything in the second period, when they scored three unanswered goals against their opponents
Ukraine U-18 national hockey team beat her peers from Japan in the first match Division IA on World Championship 2024 – 4:1.
The first period ended with the score 0:0, and in the second 20 minutes the blue-yellows made the game, scoring three unanswered goals. Alexey Evtekhov opened the scoring, after which Mikhail Gaponenko scored a double.
The Japanese managed to soak Alexander Levshin in the middle of the third period. But the last word remained with the team of Alexander Bobkin – shortly before the siren, Gavriil Simchuk hit the empty goal.
In other matches of the first round of Division IA, Hungary defeated Denmark with a similar score of 4:1, and Germany beat Austria 3:2.
The blue-yellows will play their next match at the 2024 World Cup on Monday, April 15, against the Danes.
- Hockey. U-18 World Championship. Division IA. 1st round
Ukraine U-18 — Japan U-18 — 4:1 (0:0, 3:0, 1:1)
Washers: 1:0 — Evtekhov (Gaponenko, Kosarev), 27:44. 2:0 – Gaponenko, 29:11. 3:0 – Gaponenko (Shulga, Bondarev), 31:18. 3:1 – G. Miura (Seki), 48:36. 4:1 – G. Simchuk (empty goal), 59:21
Source: Sportarena
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