Russia won the First Hockey World Cup

The current champion, the Russian team won the starting match of the world hockey championship over the German national team with a score of 5: 0, ITAR-TASS reports.

Three goals in the first period were abandoned by Oleg Saprykin, Ilya Kovalchuk and Sergey Zinoviev. Two more goals of Anton Kuryanov and Danis Zaripov struck the gates of the Germans in the final twenty -minute meeting. In the match, Zaripov was recognized as the best player of the Russian team. In the German team, Kai Hospelt was called the best.

On Sunday, the Russians will meet with the French team. On April 28, they will have a game with the owners of the championship of the Swiss. After that, the final part of the tournament will begin, which will end on May 10.