Game Report 1820

Olympic Winter Games - Men

PLAYED AT: Kwandong Hockey Centre
Date: Feb 15, 2018
GAME NOTES: CANADA OPENS OLYMPICS WITH WIN OVER SWISS JASON LA ROSE GANGNEUNG, South Korea - René Bourque (Lac La Biche, Alta./Djurgårdens IF, SHL) and Wojtek Wolski (Toronto, Ont./Metallurg Magnitogorsk, KHL) scored two goals apiece, leading Canada Men's Olympic Team to a 5-1 win over Switzerland in its opening game Thursday at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. The Canadians scored twice in the first eight minutes and never looked back, winning their 11th consecutive Olympic game and improving their all-time record against the Swiss at the Games to 9-1. Maxim Noreau (Montreal, Que./SC Bern, NLA) had the other goal for Canada, while Derek Roy (Rockland, Ont./Linköping HC, SHL) added three assists and Chris Lee (MacTier, Ont./Metallurg Magnitogorsk, KHL) chipped in with two helpers. Bourque opened the scoring just shy of the three-minute mark when he redirected a feed from Lee past Swiss goaltender Leonardo Genoni, and Noreau ripped home a power-play goal at 7:30 for the eventual game-winner. A pair of quick-strike goals put the game away for Canada early in the second period. Bourque got his second on a Canadian power play, jamming a shot through Genoni, before Wolski danced through the defence and wired a shot upstairs just 51 seconds after that to make it a 4-0 game. That would be the end for Genoni, who gave way to Jonas Hiller after allowing four goals on 12 shots. Penalty trouble early in the third period allowed Switzerland to get on the board; Simon Moser poked in a loose puck that had snuck through Canadian netminder Ben Scrivens (Spruce Grove, Alta./Salavat Yulaev Ufa, KHL) to get the Europeans on the board on the power play, but Scrivens closed the door from there, making 11 of his 28 saves in the third period. The Swiss put Hiller on the bench with more than five minutes left in a last-gasp effort to cut into the Canadian lead, but Wolski found the empty net to clinch the three points for Canada. The Canadians are back in action Thursday (10:10 p.m. ET/7:10 p.m. PT) at the Gangneung Hockey Centre, taking on the Czech Republic in the second of three preliminary-round games.

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: Switzerland

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Scrivens, Ben
G	31	Poulin, Kevin
	3	Stollery, Karl
	4	Lee, Chris
	5	Genoway, Chay
	7	Brulé, Gilbert
	8	Wolski, Wojtek
	9	Roy, Derek
	11	Kelly, Chris
	12	Klinkhammer, Rob
	16	Howden, Quinton
	17	Bourque, René
	18	Gragnani, Marc-Andre
	19	Ebbett, Andrew
	21	Raymond, Mason
	22	O’Dell, Eric
	27	Goloubef, Cody
	37	Robinson, Mat
	40	Lapierre, Maxim
	56	Noreau, Maxim
	91	Vey, Linden
	92	Thomas, Christian

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	27	2:00	Slashing	3:47	1		3:47	5:47
3rd	21	2:00	Tripping	4:40	1		4:40	6:40
3rd	9	2:00	High-Sticking	6:07	1		6:07	8:07

SWITZERLAND LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Hiller, Jonas
G	63	Genoni, Leonardo
	4	Geering, Patrick
	8	Praplan, Vincent
	9	Rüfenacht, Thomas
	10	Ambühl, Andres
	13	du Bois , Felicien
	15	Hofmann, Gregory
	16	Diaz, Raphael
	19	Schaeppi, Reto
	23	Bodenmann, Simon
	27	Schlumpf, Dominik
	44	Suter, Pius
	54	Furrer, Philippe
	55	Loeffel, Romain
	58	Blum, Eric
	60	Scherwey, Tristan
	61	Herzog, Fabrice
	65	Untersander, Ramon
	70	Hollenstein, Denis
	71	Corvi, Enzo
	82	Moser, Simon
	89	Almond, Cody
	92	Haas, Gaëtan

SWITZERLAND PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	9	2:00	Interference	6:45	1		6:45	7:30
2nd		2:00	Too Many Players	4:46	1		4:46	5:00
3rd	60	2:00	Slashing	4:07	1		4:07	6:07

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

SWITZERLAND PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st