Game Report 1923

IIHF World Junior Championship

PLAYED AT: Key Bank Center
Date: Dec 30, 2017
GAME NOTES: CANADIANS SCORE BY COMMITTEE, WIN GROUP AT WORLD JUNIORS JASON LA ROSE BUFFALO, N.Y. - Brett Howden (Oakbank, Man./Moose Jaw, WHL) led a balanced offence with two goals, and Canada's National Junior Team earned first place in Group A at the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship with an 8-0 win over Denmark on Saturday night. The Canadians will wait until the end of preliminary-round play on Sunday to find out who and when they play in the quarter-finals on Tuesday. They will face the fourth-place team from Group B to open the medal round. Canada spread around the scoring against the Danes - seven players scored goals, and 15 of the 20 skaters recorded at least one point. Cal Foote (Kelowna, B.C./Kelowna, WHL) finished with three assists, while Michael McLeod (Mississauga, Ont,/Mississauga, OHL) and Alex Formenton (King City, Ont./London, OHL) added a goal and a helper apiece. Carter Hart (Sherwood Park, Alta./Everett, WHL) made 18 saves to record the shutout. Robert Thomas (Aurora, Ont./London, OHL) was first on the board for the Canadians, stuffing a shot short-side on Danish netminder Emil Gransoe just 3:52 in. Howden got his first at 17:21, banging in a loose puck, and Sam Steel (Sherwood Park, Alta./Regina, WHL) found a rebound in the crease with 20.4 seconds left in the first period to make it 3-0 after 20 minutes. A pair of goals midway through the second period pushed the advantage to five; Cale Makar (Calgary, Alta./University of Massachusetts, HE) snapped in a power-play goal at 7:52 before Howden redirected a shot from Foote just 88 seconds later. Canada kept its foot on the gas in the third, directing 19 of its 44 shots at Gransoe in the final frame. Formenton made good on a mini-breakaway less than four minutes in, going upstairs in a hurry over the shoulder of Gransoe, and McLeod jumped on a turnover at the Danish blue-line and wired in the seventh Canadian goal at 9:03. Drake Batherson (New Minas, N.S./Cape Breton, QMJHL) finished the scoring at 12:26, redirecting a feed from Foote for another power-play goal. Hart came up big early, stopping Joachim Blichfeld on a pair of first-period breakaways, and turned aside seven shots in each of the final two periods to finish the shutout.

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: Denmark

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Point, Colton
G	31	Hart, Carter
	2	Bean, Jake
	3	Timmins, Conor
	6	Foote, Cal
	7	Makar, Cale
	8	Fabbro, Dante
	9	Dubé, Dillon
	10	Clague, Kale
	11	Gadjovich, Jonah
	12	Katchouk, Boris
	14	Comtois, Maxime
	16	Raddysh, Taylor
	17	Steenbergen, Tyler
	19	Batherson, Drake
	20	McLeod, Michael
	21	Howden, Brett
	23	Steel, Sam
	24	Formenton, Alex
	25	Kyrou, Jordan
	27	Thomas, Robert
	28	Mete, Victor

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
2nd	3	2:00	Holding	13:59	1		13:59	13:59
2nd	9	2:00	Interference	16:43	1		16:43	18:43

DENMARK LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Gransoe, Emil
G	30	Soegaard, Mads
	2	Larsen, Oliver
	3	Setkov, Malte
	4	Larsen, Christian
	6	Jessen, Jakob
	7	Mogensen, Jeppe
	8	Schmidt-Svejstrup, Jacob
	9	Heine, Rasmus
	11	Ahlberg, Valdemar
	13	Mathiasen-Wejse, Christian
	14	Mortensen, Lasse
	16	Rondbjerg, Jonas
	17	Andersen, Lucas
	19	Krag, Nikolaj
	20	Blichfeld, Joachim
	21	Nielsen, Daniel
	22	Grundtvig, Andreas
	23	Madsen, David
	25	Molge, Magnus
	27	Schultz, Phillip
	28	Gath, Christoffer

DENMARK PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	3	2:00	Boarding	7:02	1		7:02	9:02
2nd	22	2:00	Hooking	6:11	1		6:11	7:52
3rd	17	2:00	Holding	6:28	1		6:28	8:28
3rd	25	2:00	Interference	11:29	1		11:29	12:26

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

DENMARK PLAYERS (minus)

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Time

G-As1-As2

1st