Japan vs Austria
· Thursday, February 12, 1998 · The Big Hat
JapanAway
4–3
Final, in a shootout30–40
AustriaHome
Game summary
The Japan beat the Austria 4–3 in a shootout on Thursday, February 12, 1998 at The Big Hat. The Austria outshot the Japan 40–30.
Dominic Lavoie scored twice. Shin Larsson, Gerald Ressmann, Akihito Sugisawa and Tsutsumi Otomo also scored.
Dusty Imoo made 0 saves on 40 shots for the win; Reinhard Divis stopped 0 of 31.
| Goals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 30 |
| AUT | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 40 |
Scoring
1st period
Dominic Lavoie (4)Martin Ulrich (2), Simon Wheeldon (1)0–102:35 AUT · 
Shin Larsson (1)Takeshi Yamanaka (1)1–109:22 JPN · 
Gerald Ressmann (2)Andreas Pusnik (2), Dieter Kalt (1)1–218:17 AUT
2nd period
Akihito Sugisawa (2)Takeshi Yamanaka (2), Shin Larsson (3)2–208:34 JPN ·
3rd period
- Dominic Lavoie (5)Martin Ulrich (3)2–303:04 AUT ·
Tsutsumi Otomo (1)Unassisted3–306:35 JPN
Shootout
- Shin LarssonUnassisted7–505:00 JPN
Team stats
JPNAUT
3040
0%0%
2/102/6
1831
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:03 into the first periodKunihiko Sakurai · hooking2 min
- 8:05 into the first periodDominic Lavoie · cross checking2 min
- 15:53 into the first periodAndreas Pusnik · roughing2 min
- 15:53 into the first periodTsutsumi Otomo · roughing2 min
- 16:16 into the first periodSteve Tsujiura · interference2 min
- 1:56 into the second periodMichael Lampert · interference2 min
- 2:39 into the second periodGerhard Unterluggauer · roughing2 min
- 2:39 into the second periodToshiyuki Sakai · high sticking2 min
- 4:07 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 7:40 into the second periodGerhard Puschnik · tripping2 min
- 9:19 into the second periodTsutsumi Otomo · charging2 min
- 11:28 into the second periodMartin Hohenberger · elbowing2 min
- 14:57 into the second periodDominic Lavoie · hooking2 min
- 17:39 into the second periodTsutsumi Otomo · interference2 min
- 2:54 into the third periodHiroyuki Miura · tripping2 min
- 3:40 into the third periodWolfgang Kromp · roughing2 min
- 7:13 into the third periodMario Schaden · interference2 min
- 11:27 into the third periodShin Larsson · hooking2 min
- 12:17 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 1:17 into overtimeHiroyuki Miura · roughing2 min
- 1:17 into overtimeGerald Ressmann · roughing2 min
- 7:49 into overtimeGerhard Puschnik · 20 minute game misconduct20 min
- 7:49 into overtimeGerhard Puschnik · 2 minute checking from behind2 min
Japan
| 30Shin LarssonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 6Takeshi YamanakaD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 13Akihito SugisawaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Tsutsumi OtomoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Steve TsujiuraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Toshiyuki SakaiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Makoto KawahiraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Yuji IgaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Kunihiko SakuraiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 31Hiroshi MatsuuraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 40Ryan FujitaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 47Matt KabayamaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 71Ryan KuwabaraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 75Chris YuleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Hiroyuki MiuraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Atsuo KudoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 7Takayuki KoboriD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Tatsuki KatayamaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Yutaka KawaguchiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 36Takayuki MiuraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Shinichi IwasakiG | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| 70Dusty ImooG | W | 40 | 3 | .925 |
Austria
| 6Dominic LavoieD | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 47Martin UlrichD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Andreas PusnikC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 11Gerald RessmannL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Simon WheeldonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 74Dieter KaltR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Christoph BrandnerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Gerhard PuschnikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Rick NasheimR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 19Norm KrumpschmidC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Patrick PilloniC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Mario SchadenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Martin HohenbergerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Wolfgang KrompL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Christian PerthalerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Michael LampertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Gerhard UnterluggauerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 9Tom SearleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 14Engelbert LinderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 30Herbert HohenbergerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23Michael PuschacherG | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| 25Reinhard DivisG | L | 31 | 3 | .903 |