Sean+Brennan

Canada needs shootout to stay undeated.

On Feburary eighteenth the Canadian hockey team played against Switzerland in mens hockey. Canada had a two to zero lead Half-way through the second period, (goals scored by Dany Heatly and Patrick Marleau), but Switzerland tied it, (goals scored by Ivo Rutheman and Patrick Von Gunten), and sent the game into a shootout.(a shootout is when each team uses three players to try to get more goals than than the other. If it is still tied after the first round, then the teams use one more player and so on.) The first three Candian shooters were Ryan Getzlaf, Sidney Crosby and Jonathan Toews, but the Swiss goalie Jonas Hiller shut them all down. Canada's goalie Martin Brodeur was flawless, stopping all of Switzerland's shooters. So each team had to choose one more shooter. Canada's coach Mike Babcock decided to chose Sidney Crosby once more and it worked, Sidney Crosby scored winning the game for Canada, 3 to 2!____ Jonas Hillar had a very good game (stopping 43 of Canada's 45 shots, but that wasn't enough to beat the soaring Canadians.