US wins Group B at Bandy World Championships

The US bandy team completely and utterly dominated Group B in Moscow to win the 2008 World Championships in their bracket. They won all 6 of their games with a total of 65 goals for and only 3 against. That included 3 shutouts, a 17-1 win over Mongolia and 7-1 win over Canada. (The US has never lost to Canada believe it or not.)

Earlier this morning the US team met Belarus in a game that would decide whether or not the two teams would switch groups. A win for the US would put them into Group A amongst the likes of Sweden, Finland and Russia. Unfortunately, despite a great showing in the tournament, this would not be the year. The game, which ended a couple of hours ago, ended 6-4 in favor of Belarus. Congratulations go out to them nonetheless, as well as to Canada who came in second by beating Latvia yesterday on penalty shots.

In Group A, Russia will play Sweden in the finals this afternoon, Finland picked up the bronze beating Kazakhstan earlier today.

The World Championships are held every year, next year's event will be hosted by Sweden.