The 2012 Canada–Russia Challenge was a four-game international ice hockey tournament between Canadian and Russian junior teams, held in Canada and Russia on August 9–14, 2012, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, as well as honouring the memory of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash.
Games Date City Away team Home team Score August 9 Yaroslavl, Russia Canada Russia 3–2 August 10 Yaroslavl, Russia Canada Russia 3–6 August 13 Halifax, Canada Russia Canada 6–5 August 14 Halifax, Canada Russia Canada 2–4
Being a four-game series with each team winning twice, a tie-breaking overtime was required to determine the series winner. Canada's Ryan Strome scored at 3:20 of the 20-minute sudden death period to win the series for Canada.
Statistics Name Nationality Goals Assists Points Ty Rattie Canada 3 2 5 Kirill Kapustin Russia 3 2 5 Jonathan Huberdeau Canada 2 3 5 Ryan Murphy Canada 1 4 5 Andrei Sigarev Russia 3 1 4 Ryan Strome Canada 2 2 4 Nail Yakupov Russia 1 3 4 Morgan Rielly Canada 1 3 4 Mark Scheifele Canada 0 4 4 Sean Monahan Canada 2 1 3
Name Nationality GP SA GA SVPT GAA Malcolm Subban Canada 2 49 4 91.84% 2 Andrei Vasilevski Russia 2 73 7 90.41% 3.5 Andrei Makarov Russia 2 79 8 89.87% 4 Maxime Lagacé Canada 1 35 5 85.71% 5 Laurent Brossoit Canada 1 27 6 77.78% 6 Includes Ryan Stromes overtime goal for players, but does not count against Andrei Vasilevski because of the lack of information regarding total overtime shots.
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