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Canada is exactly where it needs to be at the IIHF World HockeyChampionship. Not only does the team control its own destiny on the Helsinki sideof the tournament, it also appears to be rounding into form headinginto the pressure packed final week. An 8-0 victory over Kazakhstanon Saturday may not have held much suspense, but it did offerevidence that Canada is headed in the right direction particularly since it came just 24 hours after an emotional victoryover the host Finns. "We did a real good job of making sure our focus was where itneeded to be today," said Canadian coach Brent Sutter. "We played areal solid 60 minutes and it's a tremendous credit to the playersthat they handled it the right way." Devan Dubnyk stopped all 24 shots he faced while Dion Phaneufscored twice as Canada spread its offence around. Kazakhstan arrived at this tournament looking to earn respect fromthe top hockey nations and managed to take the Americans toovertime on Friday before losing 3-2. They also started wellagainst Canada, keeping the score to 1-0 through the first 30minutes. "It was a tight game early," said Phaneuf. "They came out hard. Werespected them as an opponent I think any team in thistournament has proven it can win on any given night." The Kazaks saw their slim chance at an upset disappear becauseCanada stuck to its game plan and eventually wore them out. It wasa patient performance by the Canadians, who broke their opponent'swill with an aggressive and disciplined game. "We fell like rocks down a hill," said Kazak forward KonstantinPushkarev. "It looks like we were gassed and we've got no emotions.It was a pretty bad game for us. "We just stopped playing." Corey Perry, Alex Burrows, Evander Kane, John Tavares, TeddyPurcell and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored on a night where allbut five players recorded at least one point for Canada (5-0-1).Duncan Keith and Ryan Getzlaf each added three assists. Kazakhstan faced Canada for the first time ever in worldchampionship play and saw its record drop to 0-5-1. The team willbe relegated to the lower level Group A world championship nextyear. Canada, meanwhile, can clinch the top seed in the Helsinki poolwith a victory in its final round robin game against Belarus onTuesday. After that, it will need three straight victories to claimthe country's first world championship gold since 2007. "We're playing the way that we want to play," said Phaneuf. Canada should take some confidence away from the fact it didn'tsuffer a major letdown after the big comeback win over Finland.That game was played in front of a rocking sold out crowd atHartwall Arena a far cry from the library-like atmosphere withjust 4,151 people in the building Saturday. The goals didn't come quickly. Kazakhstan killed a penalty in the first period and managed to keepCanada off the scoresheet for 15 minutes. Phaneuf eventually gotthings started on his team's second man advantage with a hardslapshot that beat Vitali Kolesnik at 15:45 to make it 1-0. Best scoring chance However, the Kazaks didn't go away testing Dubnyk with 10 shotsin the second period. Roman Savchenko had a glorious chance to tiethe game with the Canadian goalie down and out, but he fired highwith the team's best scoring chance of the night. "It was still fresh ice," said Dubnyk. "As I went down, I slid abit to my right more than I would have liked. It just went off mypad and right to their guy. Lucky for me he chopped it over [thenet]." Perry gave Canada a little breathing room with a nice wraparoundgoal at 12:05 before Jordan Eberle earned an assist the hard way.He was knocked to the ice by Vladislav Kolesnikov, who had justcome out of the penalty box, but had the puck go right to Burrowsfor a goal at 17:03. Eberle wasn't shaken up on the play. "He just clipped me," he said. The game turned into a rout in the final 20 minutes. Early goals 50 seconds apart by Kane, Tavares and Purcell chasedKolesnik from the net before Phaneuf got his second goal of thenight at 5:53 against backup Vitali Yeremeyev. "We wanted to try and wear them down and try and wear their beliefdown," said Tavares. "I think over the course of the game we didthat. Eventually, we got the results that we wanted." Dubnyk earned his first career world championship shutout. He hadto stand tall during a late 5-on-3 disadvantage that promptedKazakhstan to call a timeout in the final minute to draw up a play. "I was joking with the ref," said Dubnyk. "I said 'Come on, there's50 seconds left, let's just get out of here."' There were smiles all around when the final buzzer sounded on asatisfying victory. It could have been a trap game against a weakeropponent but Canada played exactly as it intended to. "You want to just keep your good habits and stay as focused as youcan," said Eberle. "Obviously, it can be tough. But you have to beprepared for the games ahead and all of that starts with goodhabits.". I am an expert from continuous-castingmachine.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Electric ARC Furnaces , Continuous Casting Machine for Steel, Billet Casting Machine,and more.
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