From the Destructions Comes a Signing

It was the Russian's best game of the Super Series on Wednesday night in Saskatoon. Although the final score was 4-1 for the Canadians, the Russians were actually in the game for more than 10 minutes. They were down 1-0 after the first period after a scramble goal by, who else, Sam Gagner. In the second, the Russians had their share of power play chances, but was only able to bury a goal on their first chance of the period. Ivan Vishnevsky scored his first of the tourney and Artem Anisimov had his first point as well. The game went into the third tied at one. Unfortunately for the Russians, before the halfway point of the third period, the hope started to crumble. Dana Tyrell scored his first of the series and the whole thing came a fallin' down. The Canadians added two more goals later in the third to seal the deal and the Russians have their embarassment continue.

NHL Team	Name	Pos	G	A
N/A	A. Ryabev	F	2	1
	A. Vasyunov	F	1	1
N/A	V. Solodukhin	F	0	2
	I. Kablukov	F	1	0
	I. Vishnevsky	D	1	0
N/A	P. Doronin	D	1	0
N/A	A. Grishin	D	1	0
2008 Draft	M. Chudinov	D	1	0
	A. Anisimov	F	0	1
N/A	I. Zubov	D	0	1
	E. Dadonov	F	0	1
N/A	M. Glukhov	F	0	1
	M. Mayorov	F	0	1

NHL Team	Name	Pos	W	SO
	S. Varlamov	G	0	0

Washington prospect, Semen Varlamov, played quite well for the Russians... easily his best game of the Series. He will likely get the start again in Red Deer on Friday. Alex Vasyunov continued to shine with some good rushes up and down the ice, but no actual scoring to speak of. The Russians have a lot of work to do if they are to blemish Brent Sutter's international record with the U20's.

NHL Team	Name	Pos	G	A
	S. Gagner	F	5	6
	C. Giroux	F	3	4
	B. Marchand	F	3	3
	D. Perron	F	2	4
	K. Turris	F	4	1
2009 Draft	J. Tavares	F	1	4
2008 Draft	Z. Boychuk	F	3	1
	Z. Hamill	F	1	3
	J. Godfrey	D	0	4
	S. Legein	F	3	0
	B. Sutter	F	1	2
	L.Pyett	D	1	1
	K. Ellerby	D	0	2
	M. Lucic	F	0	2
	T. Hickey	D	0	2
	K.Alzner	D	0	2
2008 Draft	D. Doughty	D	0	2
	C. Gilles	F	1	0
	D. Tyrell	F	1	0

NHL Team	Name	Pos	W	SO
	J. Bernier	G	2	1
	S. Mason	G	2	0
	L. Irving	G	2	0

Leland Irving had himself a better showing than Game 3 in Omsk. He seemed a lot more calm and steady and was able to make some good saves against 24 Russian shots. Certainly the kind of showing the Flames scouting staff was hoping to get out of him.

Finally, one of the more exciting players for the Canadian side has earned himself his first contract, thanks in part to his stellar play in this series. David Perron signed his entry level deal with the Blues last night and needless to say, President John Davidson was very pleased to have him on board. Personally, Perron really impressed me during the Memorial Cup and then even moreso in the SuperSeries... so I'm glad he's got his deal done now. It should be interesting to see if he can impress at training camp.


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