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Sharks at World
Championships
Four SJ players
participating
5/5/05 - By Mike Lee
Four current San Jose Shark players are participating in the IIHF World
Championships in Austria. Patrick Marleau and Scott Hannan are representing
Team Canada, while Christian Ehrhoff and Marcel Goc are donning the black, red
and yellow for Team Germany. Marleau kicked off the two week tournament with a
goal and an assist in Canada's 6-4 win over Latvia on Saturday.
The
Latvians surprised many with a gritty performance versus the defending World
Champions in the Group B qualifying round game.
Player
Stats
| Player |
GP |
G |
A |
Pts |
PIM |
 |
| Marleau (CAN) |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Hannan (CAN) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Ehrhoff (GER) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Goc (GER) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Ehrhoff and Goc probably want to take a mulligan after
Germany was shocked by Kazakhstan 2-1 on Sunday. Neither player scored in the
loss. Kazakhstan bookended the opening period with goals, which all they would
need. Dmitri Upper opened the game with a goal 1:24 in and Yevgeniy Koreshkov
scored on a breakaway late in the period to provide Kazakhstan all the
offensive punch it would need.
Both teams resume play on Tuesday with Canada playing a
Group B game versus Slovenia, while Germany squares off in a Group D game
versus the Czech Republic. Both teams finish pool play on Thursday, when the
Canadians playing Team USA, and Germany wrapping up things versus
Switzerland.
Several Sharks eligible for World Championship play are not
representing their countries due to injury. Most notably, Sharks goaltender
Evgeni Nabokov and forward Marco Sturm elected not to play in order to nurse
injuries. Nabokov would have tended goal for Russia. Sturm, decided to take
time to rest the leg he injured at the end of the 2003-04 NHL regular
season.
Sturm did play in the German Elite League this year during the
NHL lockout, but elected to give his leg some time off.
Additional
tournament info may be found at the IIHF IHWC website at: http://live82.ihwc.net/english/, including
tournament team power rankings, which
currently have Canada resting atop the PR list. Team USA is cirrently ranked
second.
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