Pater Cajanek, who scored three goals, against Team Canada Defender Dale Clarke

Twenty-five years after their last participation and victory at the tournament in Davos, Dynamo Moscow has won the 82nd edition of the Spengler Cup.

180° turn: Dynamo hardly recognizable

In what turned out to be the best game of the tournament, Dynamo Moscow defeated Team Canada 5:3 and added their name to the list of victors, being the first East European team since Metallurg Magnitogorsk's 2005 triumph in the Spengler Cup. The Russians dominated at will the first half of the game. After their uninspired performance from the day before against the same opponent, Dynamo Moscow was hardly recognizable as some people had expected.

Petr Cajanek, the former NHL player, was the outstanding performer at the Vaillant Arena, which had been sold out for the sixth time. The Czech who played on the third-placed Olympic team of 2006, was able to score three of the first four Dynamo goals after a perfect set up from Swedish player Mattias Weinhandl: 1:0 when numerically disadvantaged in the 10th minute, 2:0 and 4:2 each taken while both teams were equal in numbers.

Moral was high on Team Canada

Team Canada missing its 12th overall victory since its first participation in 1984, was able to restore the excitement after two Powerplay scores just before the end of the 3rd period. Within 18 seconds, Micki Dupont and Hnat Domenichelli clawed back some ground making the score 2:3. The russian resolution came 167 seconds before the final whistle when Canadian captain Serge Aubin's catastrophic pass on his own blue line virtually gifted the 5:3 to Dynamo Moscow's Maxim Pestuschko.

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Team Canada - Dynamo Moscow 3:5 (0:1, 2:2, 1:2).

Vaillant Arena. -- 6746 spectators (sold out). -- SR Johansson/Rönn (Sd/Fi), Wehrli/Wirth (Sz). -- Goals: 10. Cajanek (Weinhandl/ disqualification Schitikow!) 0:1. 29. (28:24) Cajanek (Weinhandl) 0:2. 29. (28:59) Nepriajew (Afanasenkow, Wyschidkewitsch/ disqualification Isbister) 0:3. 40. (39:18) Dupont (Robitaille, Domenichelli/ disqualification Tolpeko, Schitnik) 1:3. 40. (39:36) Domenichelli (Robitaille/ disqualification Schitnik) 2:3. 41. Cajanek (Weinhandl, Landry) 2:4. 50. Robitaille (Domenichelli, Vigier) 3:4. 58. Pestuschko 3:5. -- Penalties: 5 times 2 minutes against Team Canada, 6 times 2 minutes against Dynamo Moscow.

Team Canada: Machesney; Dupont, Harrison; Jackman, Scalzo; Clarke, Heins; Kwiatkowski, Kemp; Ritchie, Roest, Isbister; Fata, Pittis, Trudel; Kariya, Aubin, Toms; Vigier, Robitaille, Domenichelli.

Dynamo Moscow: Jeremejew; Schitnik, Rasin; Rachunek, Denissow; Rylow, Wyschidkewitsch; Budkin; Kaljuschni, Sinowjew, Jatschmenew; Weinhandl, Cajanek, Landry; Pestuschko, Nepriajew, Afanasenkow; Schitikow, Goroschanski, Tolpeko.

Bemerkungen: goal posts / crossbar: 8. Kaljuschni. -- 16. Trudel missed Penalty.

Translation: Olivia Kaferly