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Stephen D’Abadie opened the goal account of team Canada with five minutes into the game as he tapped it in from backhand. Danick Martel then doubled the lead of favorites with a nice move on a solo breakaway and it later appeared to be the game winning goal.
After the break, Canada made it by three goals with a power play goal from Brian Szolga. The Swiss managed to pull one down thanks to power play as well when Mario Paulik tried to open the zone for his teammates with a slapper from red line and it ended up going into the net. There was another penalty for Canada which would make the Swiss get back into the game, but they could not capitalize off it and went into third period while down by two.
Marcus Power then increased the gap early after the intermission and allowed his side to have an easy going third period, unlike the Czechs or Greeks. The final result was set by Remi Laurencelle who went in between his legs to score a beautiful goal on Sidler who already lied on the floor in the Swiss crease.
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Ian Moores (head coach, Team Canada): It was a good game. For sure, we are happy to win and move on to the semi-finals. The Swiss had a good tournament and they were good opponent today, but we are certainly pleased with the 5-1 win. We played Greece in our first game of the tournament. We came away with the win in the shootout, but we know they’re on a high right now because they beat the U.S. We are going to be prepared; they have a good team. We are not going to take it for granted, I guarantee that. It should be a good and hard game.
Mario Paulik (forward, Team Switzerland): I think that we overslept a little bit in the first period. The boys had a little bit too much respect for the opponent, but if we’d stayed two steps closer, it wouldn’t have been so terrible. In this situation, the period finished 2-0 for Canada. Later, we said together in the dressing room that we had to avoid needless penalties. We created a lot of power plays for Canada; from them we gave them three or four goals and it’s hard to get those back with a team like Canada. They have more experience, which they showed. We have a lot of new players, and that showed too. Unfortunately, we are getting better only with losses. I hope that, in future, it will get better.
