Breakthrough of zero! The Chinese men's ice hockey team scored its first goal at the Winter Olympics

Beijing, February 12 (Quanzhou Evening News special correspondent Wu Congwei) This afternoon, the Chinese men's ice hockey team ushered in the second opponent of the group stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics - the second runner-up team of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the fifth-ranked team in the world. In the second quarter of 19 minutes and 14 seconds, China's forward Fu Shuai broke through the opponent's goal and pulled the score to 1-3. It was the first goal scored by the Chinese men's ice team in the main event of the Winter Olympics.

In the first quarter of the game, Germany's Marcel Brandt and Kobinian Holzer scored separately, and although the Chinese team created threats many times, it lacked the ability to break the goal, and the Chinese team fell behind 0-2 in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Germany's Dominique Cahun scored another goal at 4 minutes and 41 seconds in the opening round, and China fell behind 0-3, and with 46 seconds left in the quarter, China's Fu Shuai received a sweeping pass from Kelios and pulled a goal back. This is also the first goal scored by the Chinese men's ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics! In the second quarter, the Chinese team fell behind 1-3.

In the third quarter, at 8 minutes and 26 seconds, Germany's Yasin Elitz was sent off for two minutes for lifting the bar too high, and the Chinese team seized the numerical advantage and Wang Taylor chased another goal. The Chinese team trailed their opponents 2-3.

Then the Chinese team began to take advantage of the momentum to attack, with 1 minute left in the game, the Chinese team replaced the goalkeeper to attack with all its strength, forming a siege against the German team, but unfortunately failed to equalize in the end, losing 2-3.

Since the Chinese Ice Hockey Association joined the International Ice Federation in 1963, Chinese men's ice skaters have never played in the main olympic games of the Winter Olympics. In the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Qualifiers, the Chinese team was in the same group as Spain, Serbia and Iceland, and finally ranked at the bottom.

This time, the world's 32nd ranked Chinese male ice player with the host "wild card" to participate, finally ushered in the "debut" of the Winter Olympics. In the first group game, the opponent of the Chinese team was the two Winter Olympic gold medalists and the North American team. Despite the fact that the strength of the North American Hockey Professional League (NHL) players has been greatly weakened, the strength of the American players is still much higher than the Chinese team's opponents. In this match, the Chinese team lost 0-8. After the game, captain Ye Jinguang said that in the face of the world's strongest opponent, everyone paid 100% of their efforts, "let the world remember that we have come." "At present, this team is composed of local players and naturalized players, which is the strongest Chinese male ice team in history.

【Source: Quanzhou Tong Client】

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