CZECKS 5 CANADA 4 (SO)
MALMO, Sweden – Dominik Simon got the deciding goal in a shootout as the Czech Republic shocked Canada with a 5-4 victory on Saturday at the world junior championship.
Jonathan Drouin scored for Canada on the first attempt of the shootout, but Nic Petan and Connor McDavid failed to beat Marek Langhammer while David Pastrnak and Simon scored on Jake Paterson.
The result left Canada at 1-0-1 and the Czechs, who were beaten 5-1 by the Americans in their tournament opener, at 1-1-0.
The crowd of 3,011 at the Isstadion saw the Czechs take four one-goal leads only to have Canada tie it each time. Most of the action was in the third frame, when five goals were scored.
Charles Hudon forced overtime with a 13:01 of the third period, while Sam Reinhart, with his second in as many games, Drouin and Aaron Ekblad also scored in regulation time for Canada.
David Kampf, Michal Plutnar, Vojtech Tomecek and Jakub Vrana scored in regulation for the Czechs.
(The Canadian Press)
I think we should all panic and crap our pants!
Its OK Canada…. Canada's football team won. That's all that matters is Football. 24 hrs a day 365 days a year – Rider Nation. I got fired from my job because I kept wearing Rider jersey's to work. But I want to show my pride and love for the Riders. So I was ok with losing my job. Riders are everything to me. I have 5 of the players names tattooed on my body. And when my mom lets me borrow her car I hang my Rider flags from the windows. If I ever get a girlfriend she will have… Read more »
Anon Go Riders guy…get a life.
Anon, You better hope that they are not girls or Winnipeg will want to sign them. Oh !!! And maybe you should grow up a bit while you are at it.
This is "not" because Canada lost today, but this shoot out garbage has got to end. This was a great back and forth hockey game that should never be decided by a boring shoot out. Play 4 on 4 until someone scores . That's real hockey. They keep ruining our game more and more every year.
yeah i would have been satisfied with the tie score, not a shootout
They had 65 minutes to win it, this crap about shootouts being the death of Canada is just that CRAP!
IDWT
IDWT… Who even mentioned "the Death of Canada"? This is all about shoot outs. Not about Canada losing as Willie said earlier. Take a deep breath and go smoke some more weed and you will be okay.