Game Report 210

IIHF World Junior Championship

PLAYED AT: Bell Centre
Date: Jan 2, 2017
GAME NOTES: CANADA RALLIES TO TOP CZECHS AND CLINCH BERTH IN SEMIS DAVID BRIEN MONTREAL, Que. – Julien Gauthier (Pointe-aux-Trembles, Que./Val-d’Or, QMJHL) scored twice in the third period to help Canada’s National Junior Team to a 5-3 quarter-final win over the Czech Republic on Monday at the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship. The win punches Canada’s ticket to the semifinals after a one-year absence; the Canadians will face Sweden in the final four on Wednesday night (7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT) at the Bell Centre. Mitchell Stephens (Peterborough, Ont./Saginaw, OHL) added a goal and two assists and Thomas Chabot (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Que./Saint John, QMJHL) had one of each in the victory, while Blake Speers (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont./Sault Ste. Marie, OHL) was the other goal scorer. Connor Ingram (Imperial, Sask./Kamloops, WHL) made 16 saves to record the win in the Canadian goal. Canada outshot the Czechs 11-4 in the first period, but the Europeans had the lone goal after a weird bounce off the referee landed on the stick of David Kase for the 1-0 marker. The Canadians tied the game less than four minutes into the second period when Mathieu Joseph (Chambly, Que./Saint John, QMJHL) intercepted a clearing attempt and fed the puck to Stephens, who found birthday boy Speers in front for a redirection through Czech goaltender Jakub Skarek. Stephens gave Canada its first lead at 7:27, scoring right off a won face-off by Anthony Cirelli (Woodbridge, Ont./Oshawa, OHL), only for Tomas Soustal to get the Czechs even less than 90 seconds later, pulling the puck around a sliding Noah Juulsen (Abbotsford, B.C./Everett, WHL) before beating Ingram. Chabot restored the Canadian advantage for good at 13:32, as he faked a shot, toe-dragged around a Czech player and fired a bullet through a screen and past Skarek to the stick side. Gauthier led the way for the red-and-white in the final frame, scoring twice in 3:19, sandwiched around a Simon Stransky goal that temporarily made it a one-goal game again. He roofed a centering pass from Nicolas Roy (Amos, Que./Chicoutimi, QMJHL) for his first goal, and buried the rebound of a Kale Clague (Lloydminster, Alta./Brandon, WHL) for his second to round out the scoring. The Canadians held a one-sided 41-19 advantage in shots on goal. Tickets are still available HERE for the Wednesday semifinal.

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: Czech Republic

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Ingram, Connor
G	31	Hart, Carter
	2	Bean, Jake
	3	Juulsen, Noah
	5	Chabot, Thomas
	6	Myers, Philippe
	8	Fabbro, Dante
	9	Dubé, Dillon
	10	Clague, Kale
	11	Joseph, Mathieu
	12	Gauthier, Julien
	14	Barzal, Mathew
	15	Lauzon, Jérémy
	16	Raddysh, Taylor
	17	Jost, Tyson
	18	Dubois, Pierre-Luc
	19	Strome, Dylan
	20	McLeod, Michael
	21	Speers, Blake
	22	Cirelli, Anthony
	25	Roy, Nicolas
	27	Stephens, Mitchell

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	3	2:00	Delay of Game	9:45	1		9:45	11:45
2nd		2:00	Too Many Players	15:35	1		15:35	17:35

CZECH REPUBLIC LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	2	Skarek, Jakub
G	30	Vladar, Daniel
	3	Krenzelok, Daniel
	6	Vala, Ondrej
	7	Kral, Filip
	8	Kvasnica, Michal
	12	Hrdinka, Frantisek
	14	Chlapik, Filip
	15	Soustal, Tomas
	16	Kurovsky, Daniel
	17	Jasek, Lukas
	18	Spacek, Michael
	19	Budik, Vojtech
	20	Zboril, Jakub
	21	Koblizek, Radek
	22	Kase, David
	23	Stransky, Simon
	24	Suchy, Filip
	25	Reichel, Kristian
	26	Musil, Adam
	28	Kalina, Petr
	29	Hronek, Filip

CZECH REPUBLIC PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	20	2:00	Cross-Checking	14:20	1		14:20	16:20
2nd	29	2:00	Tripping	0:40	1		0:40	2:40
3rd	29	2:00	Cross-Checking	10:13	1		10:13	12:13
3rd	20	2:00	Cross-Checking	19:52	1		19:52	20:00

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

CZECH REPUBLIC PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

2nd