Game Report 16

World Cup of Hockey

PLAYED AT: Air Canada Centre
Date: Sep 17, 2016
GAME NOTES: PRICE EARNS SHUTOUT AS CANADA WINS WORLD CUP OPENER WENDY GRAVES TORONTO, Ont. – If that’s what Canada could do for an opening act, hockey fans across the country can’t wait to see what comes next. Behind three-point nights from Sidney Crosby (Cole Harbour, N.S./Pittsburgh, NHL) and Brad Marchand (Hammonds Plains, N.S./Boston, NHL) – and points from 12 players in all – as well as a 27-save performance from Carey Price (Anahim, Lake, B.C./Montreal, NHL), Canada shut out the Czech Republic 6-0 on Saturday night in its opening game of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. Canada fired 50 shots on net, with Crosby, Marchand, Patrice Bergeron (Ancienne-Lorette, Que./Boston, NHL), Joe Thornton (St. Thomas, Ont./San Jose, NHL), Jonathan Toews (Winnipeg, Man./Chicago, NHL) and Alex Pietrangelo (King City, Ont./St. Louis, NHL) all beating Czech goalie Michal Neuvirth. Crosby opened the scoring 8:26 into the first period, picking the puck up below the goal line, bringing it out front and banking it off Neuvirth and in. With less than three minutes to play in the first, Bergeron cleanly won an offensive zone face-off to Crosby, who fed Brent Burns (Barrie, Ont./San Jose, NHL) at the point. Burns’ blast from the blue line was tipped by Marchand to make it 2-0. Already riding the momentum from that late goal, Canada continued to press. Crosby created a turnover in the offensive zone, and Marchand sent the loose puck cross ice to Bergeron. The puck found the back of the net less than a second before the horn ended the period. Canada scored twice more in the second. Crosby backhanded the puck to Thornton for an easy tap in at the doorstep. Seven minutes later, Toews sent a spinning cross-crease pass to Ryan Getlzaf (Regina, Sask./Anaheim, NHL), who returned the puck to Toews for an easy tap in on the power play. Twelve minutes into the third, Pietrangelo’s wrist shot from just inside the face-off circle gave Canada its second power play goal in three opportunities. As much offence as the team displayed in the win, it was equally impressive on the defensive side, especially on the penalty kill. Ryan O’Reilly (Clinton, Ont./Buffalo, NHL) battled three Czechs behind their own net to knock several seconds off an early second period power play, drawing cheers from the near-capacity crowd. The Czechs finished 0/6 on the power play.

Visiting Team: Czech Republic

Home Team: Canada

CZECH REPUBLIC LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Neuvirth, Michal
G	34	Mrazek, Petr
	2	Michalek, Zbynek
	6	Kempny, Michal
	9	Michalek, Milan
	11	Hanzal, Martin
	12	Faksa, Radek
	14	Plekanec, Tomas
	17	Sobotka, Vladimir
	18	Palat, Ondrej
	23	Jaskin, Dmitrij
	33	Nakladal, Jakub
	36	Kundratek, Tomas
	46	Krejci, David
	47	Jordan, Michal
	62	Sustr, Andrej
	64	Polak, Roman
	67	Frolik, Michael
	76	Birner, Michal
	83	Hemsky, Ales
	88	Pastrnak, David
	93	Voracek, Jakub

CZECH REPUBLIC PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	62	2:00	Slashing	1:40	1		1:40	3:40
2nd	2	2:00	Hooking	12:51	1		12:51	14:45
3rd	33	2:00	Holding	11:32	1		11:32	12:41

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	31	Price, Carey
G	50	Crawford, Corey
	4	Bouwmeester, Jay
	6	Weber, Shea
	7	Muzzin, Jake
	8	Doughty, Drew
	9	Duchene, Matt
	15	Getzlaf, Ryan
	16	Toews, Jonathan
	20	Tavares, John
	24	Perry, Corey
	27	Pietrangelo, Alex
	28	Giroux, Claude
	37	Bergeron, Patrice
	39	Couture, Logan
	44	Vlasic, Marc-Edouard
	63	Marchand, Brad
	87	Crosby, Sidney
	88	Burns, Brent
	90	O'Reilly, Ryan
	91	Stamkos, Steven
	97	Thornton, Joe

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	91	2:00	Holding	1:55	1		1:55	3:55
1st	63	2:00	Hooking	3:35	1		3:35	5:35
2nd	4	2:00	Interference	3:14	1		3:14	5:14
2nd	88	2:00	Tripping	7:57	1		7:57	9:57
3rd	15	2:00	Holding	2:14	1		2:14	4:14
3rd	9	2:00	Hooking	7:01	1		7:01	9:01

CZECH REPUBLIC Goals

CZECH REPUBLIC PLAYERS (plus)

CANADA PLAYERS (minus)

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CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

CZECH REPUBLIC PLAYERS (minus)

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