USA WINS WORLD JUNIOR GOLD

MONTREAL – The United States has won the 2017 world junior hockey championship.

Troy Terry scored the shootout winner as the U.S. beat Canada 5-4 at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Thursday to capture the gold medal.

The game needed a shootout after a 20-minute overtime decided nothing.

Canada held a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes on goals from Thomas Chabot and Jeremy Lauzon.

Charlie McAvoy responded for the U.S. early in the second period and Kieffer Bellows made it a 2-2 game heading into the third.

Nicolas Roy regained the lead for Canada less than two minutes into the third and Mathieu Joseph made it 4-2 but, again, the Canadian squad blew the two-goal cushion.

Bellows scored his second of the night 39 seconds after Joseph and Colin White tied it with nearly 13 minutes to still play in the period.

Carter Hart was in net for Canada while Tyler Parsons started for the U.S.

Earlier, Russia beat Sweden 2-1 in overtime to claim bronze.

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Arash Madani
Arash Madani
7 years ago

Should never end a gold medal game with anything but playing the actual game.

Oh well, great game nevertheless

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

May as well have fastest skater or hardest slap shot win the Gold , what's the difference?

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

If the would have had Steel, they would have won a better metal…get it

willie
willie
7 years ago

What a DISGRACEFUL way to win a Gold Medal and become a World Champion. And I would say the exact same thing if Canada would have won. Brilliant hard working end to end hockey with these young kids working their asses off and ending it like that.If they would have stuck to their guns and played 3 on 3 until it ended it would have been fine , but Oh No once again this year they had to change the rules and it ends in a Pitiful Shootout.Hats off to Both teams for a wonderful evening of nail biting entertainment.… Read more »

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Great game! Neither team won or lost the game but the USA won the shootout!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Plain and simple. Not enough WHLers.

Red Neckerson

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Anon # 3 . "Steel ". Give your head a shake or is it made of STEEL ?

william weppler
7 years ago

A hell of a game!
Congrats to both Teams.

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Agree on the Steel comment. They would've been better off defensively with Hobbs as well!

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Canada deserved to lose based on the team they picked

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Bad day all around for Moose Jaw Warriors Head Coach Hunter, losing the gold medal, coming home to a team without one of its key star players Pappaguyev or however you spell his name.

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

So…
(Previous poster) The puck knows more about hockey than any other nation except Canada,

NOT – X
USA ✔ USA✔ USA ✔USA✔

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

If it ain't Gold, it's Failure!
Better luck next time Canada!

Tim from Kansas
Tim from Kansas
7 years ago

Ignore the trolls, they're probably from Winnipeg or Calgary anyways. I've lived half my life here in suburban Kansas City. I seriously don't know one person down here who has even heard of the World Junior Tournament. No doubt there are a few around, but I have never met one. And I never got to watch any of the games. It's not on TV here so nobody could watch it even if they wanted to. It was on NHL network, which most cable companies don't carry and if they do it is often a premium package that nobody buys. NHL… Read more »

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Absolute failure Team Canada