Sweden Wins Gold, Patrick Kane Named Worlds MVP
On Sunday in Copenhagen, Sweden defeated Switzerland 3-2 in a shootout to clinch their a second straight IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship gold medal. The United States took home the bronze.
After Sunday’s championship game, Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player. He led all players with 20 points (eight goals, 12 assists). Sebastian Aho (18) and Connor McDavid (17) finished second and third in scoring, respectively.
Here’s how the rest of the Blackhawks’ players performed at the Worlds:
United States
Alex DeBrincat – 1 goal, 8 assists, plus-three
Connor Murphy – 1 assist, plus-seven
Jordan Oesterle – 1 assist, plus-three
Sweden
Erik Gustafsson – 1 assist, plus-three
Germany
Dominik Kahun – 1 goal, 2 assists, minus-one
Slovakia
Tomas Jurco – 4 goals, 1 assist, plus-three
Russia
Artem Anisimov – 3 goals, 5 assists, plus-seven
Maxim Shalunov* – 3 goals, 3 assists, plus-six
Good to see so many nice plus/minus numbers there. People poke fun at this stat because sometimes you get a + or – you did not deserve…but that equals out over time. At game’s end, it’s the most important stat.
It was also nice that Kaner had so many of his points in close games. Aside from the 5 he got vs Korea, he was putting up 2 and 3 point efforts in games we won by 1 goal. He handled the honor of being captain well, I thought.
Outstanding performance by Kane
It seemed like Kaner missed being in the Cup playoffs. He wasn’t ready for the season to end.
Hall of fame talent! On a big ice he’s so dangerous.
Kane 8 goals, 12 assist, 20pts with a minus -2
Aho 9 goals, 9 assist, 18pts with a plus +15….also played 2 less games…Aho should have been the MVP…just saying.
Plus minus is more a team stat?