PLAYED AT: Bossard Arena
Date: Apr 18, 2015
GAME NOTES: BARZAL’S THREE POINTS LEAD CANADA OVER HOSTS AT U18 WORLDS
JASON LA ROSE
ZUG, Switzerland – Mathew Barzal (Coquitlam, B.C./Seattle, WHL) scored twice and added an assist, helping Canada’s National Men’s Under-18 Team to a 4-1 win over Switzerland on Saturday at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship.
Canada and Finland sit atop Group B with six points apiece through three days of action at Bossard Arena.
Nicolas Roy (Amos, Que./Chicoutimi, QMJHL) and Anthony Beauvillier (Sorel, Que./Shawinigan, QMJHL) were the other goal-scorers for Canada, which has opened 2-0 at the world championship for the third year in a row, and fourth time in its last five tries.
Barzal didn’t waste any time converting on Canada’s first power play opportunity, taking a feed from Mitchell Stephens (Peterborough, Ont./Saginaw, OHL) and going to the backhand to beat Swiss netminder Joren van Pottelberghe just 13 seconds into the man advantage, and just four minutes into the game.
A fortuitous bounce helped Canada double its lead early in the second period; leading the rush into the Swiss zone, Barzal’s centering feed deflected off the stick of Jonas Siegenthaler and in for a 2-0 advantage.
Roy made it a 3-0 game midway through the middle frame, camping out at the top of the crease and banging in the rebound of a Deven Sideroff (Summerland, B.C./Kamloops, WHL) shot on another Canadian power play.
The Swiss got one back on a power play of their own late in the second when Dominik Diem finished off a pretty pass from Denis Malgin, but that would be the only puck to beat Canadian goaltender Evan Cormier (Bowmanville, Ont./Saginaw, OHL), who stopped 19 of 20 shots in his first start of the tournament.
Beauvillier capped the scoring with Canada’s third power play marker of the game, rifling a wrist shot past van Pottelberge on the short side just 30 seconds into the third period.
The Canadians outshot Switzerland in every period, and finished with a 29-20 advantage overall.
Canada is right back to preliminary round action on Sunday when it takes on the Czech Republic (12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT) in a game that can be seen live on TSN2. |
Visiting Team: Canada
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Home Team: Switzerland
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CANADA LINEUP
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| Pos |
No. |
Name |
| G | 1 | Cormier, Evan | | G | 30 | Sawchenko, Zachary | | | 2 | Bear, Ethan | | | 4 | Chabot, Thomas | | | 5 | Brisebois, Guillaume | | | 7 | Roy, Jérémy | | | 8 | Dubois, Pierre-Luc | | | 9 | Beauvillier, Anthony | | | 10 | Noel, Nathan | | | 11 | Roy, Nicolas | | | 12 | Harkins, Jansen | | | 14 | Barzal, Mathew | | | 15 | Gawdin, Glenn | | | 18 | Sideroff, Deven | | | 21 | Benson, Tyler | | | 22 | Howden, Brett | | | 23 | Stephens, Mitchell | | | 26 | Wotherspoon, Parker | | | 27 | Spencer, Matthew | | | 28 | Capobianco, Kyle | | | | | | | | |
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CANADA PENALTIES
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| Per. |
No. |
Min |
Offence |
Off |
PP |
PS |
Start |
On |
| 1st | 9 | 2:00 | Tripping minor | 9:29 | 1 | | 9:29 | 12:31 | | 1st | 15 | 2:00 | (auto) Cross-Checking minor | 12:20 | 1 | | 12:20 | 9:40 | | 1st | 23 | 2:00 | Slashing minor | 13:03 | 1 | | 13:03 | 8:57 | | 2nd | 12 | 2:00 | (auto) Hooking minor | 7:05 | 1 | | 7:05 | 14:55 | | 2nd | 26 | 2:00 | (auto) Holding minor | 17:19 | 1 | | 17:19 | 4:41 | | 3rd | 18 | 2:00 | Slashing minor | 0:42 | 1 | | 0:42 | 1:18 | | 3rd | 7 | 2:00 | Tripping minor | 10:05 | 1 | | 10:05 | 11:55 | | 3rd | 2 | 2:00 | (auto) Cross-Checking minor | 10:17 | 1 | | 10:17 | 11:43 | | 3rd | 8 | 2:00 | (auto) Hooking minor | 13:11 | 1 | | 13:11 | 8:49 | | 3rd | 15 | 2:00 | (auto) Hooking minor | 19:56 | 1 | | 19:56 | 2:04 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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SWITZERLAND LINEUP
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| Pos |
No. |
Name |
| G | 1 | Muff, Daniel | | G | 29 | Guggisberg, Tim | | G | 30 | van Pottelberghe, Joren | | | 4 | Stadler, Livio | | | 5 | Bircher, Alain | | | 7 | Weber, Serge | | | 9 | Riat, Damien | | | 10 | Volejnicek, Dominik | | | 11 | Impose, Auguste Inembe | | | 12 | Suleski, Kristian | | | 13 | Malgin, Denis | | | 14 | Holdener, Makai | | | 15 | Hischier, Nico | | | 16 | Miranda, Marco | | | 17 | Marchon, Nathan | | | 18 | Thürkauf, Calvin | | | 20 | Pinana, Christian | | | 22 | Forrer, Sandro | | | 23 | Diem, Dominik | | | 24 | Siegenthaler , Jonas | | | 25 | Karrer, Roger | | | 26 | Prassl, Raphael |
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SWITZERLAND PENALTIES
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| Per. |
No. |
Min |
Offence |
Off |
PP |
PS |
Start |
On |
| 1st | 24 | 2:00 | Tripping minor | 3:47 | 1 | | 3:47 | 18:13 | | 2nd | 17 | 2:00 | Tripping minor | 8:26 | 1 | | 8:26 | 13:34 | | 2nd | 11 | 2:00 | (auto) Interference minor | 10:47 | 1 | | 10:47 | 11:13 | | 2nd | 24 | 2:00 | Slashing minor | 19:39 | 1 | | 19:39 | 2:21 | | 3rd | 9 | 2:00 | (auto) Interference minor | 5:48 | 1 | | 5:48 | 16:12 | | 3rd | 18 | 2:00 | (auto) Interference minor | 8:40 | 1 | | 8:40 | 13:20 | | 3rd | 18 | 2:00 | Tripping minor | 15:31 | 1 | | 15:31 | 6:29 | | 3rd | 4 | 2:00 | Tripping minor | 17:40 | 1 | | 17:40 | 4:20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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