Game Report 213		IIHF World Junior Championship
PLAYED AT: Bell Centre Date: Jan 4, 2017 GAME NOTES: CANADA TOPS SWEDEN, WILL PLAY FOR WORLD JUNIORS GOLD DAVID BRIEN MONTREAL, Que. – Julien Gauthier (Pointe-aux-Trembles, Que./Val-d’Or, QMJHL) scored twice, while captain Dylan Strome (Mississauga, Ont./Erie, OHL) and Anthony Cirelli (Woodbridge, Ont./Oshawa, OHL) added a goal and an assist each to allow Canada’s National Junior Team to top Sweden 5-2 on Wednesday and clinch a spot in the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship gold medal game. Canada will hit Montreal’s Bell Centre ice Thursday to play the United States in the final (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT). The Americans topped the team 3-1 on New Year’s Eve and are coming off a 4-3 shootout win over Russia in the other semifinal. It was Connor Ingram (Imperial, Sask./Kamloops, WHL) who drew the start in Canada’s net, but he was quickly pulled in favour of Carter Hart (Sherwood Park, Alta./Everett, WHL) after surrendering two goals on Sweden’s first three shots. The move proved to pay off for head coach Dominique Ducharme and company, Hart making 28 saves for a shutout effort in his 51:55 of ice time. Joel Eriksson Ek netted the game’s first goal at 6:05 of the first period after firing a shorthanded wrist shot from the top of the circle, but Mitchell Stephens (Peterborough, Ont./Saginaw, OHL) tied the game back up just 1:38 later after jumping on a loose puck. The tie game wouldn’t last, Sweden getting its lead back just 11 seconds later when Carl Grundstrom fanned on a shot that accidentally slid through the five-hole to end Ingram’s night. Cirelli would tie the game at 2-2 with 1:11 left before the first break thanks to a perfectly placed wrist shot that beat Sweden’s Felix Sandstrom over the shoulder. The red-and-white scored the only goal of the second period to take its first lead of the game after a rebound that sat in Sandstrom’s crease was poke-checked in by Gauthier. While playing at four-on-four, Canada took a 4-2 lead 7:38 into the final frame after Strome fired a wrist shot through a Matt Barzal (Coquitlam, B.C./Seattle, WHL) screen. The team wrapped up its scoring with just under two minutes left in the game when Gauthier added an empty netter to register his second consecutive two-goal outing. Canada outshot Sweden 43-31 in the game to give the Scandinavians their first loss of the World Juniors, sending them to tomorrow’s bronze medal showdown against Russia (3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m PT). Visiting Team: Sweden Home Team: Canada
SWEDEN LINEUP Pos No.   Name G 1   Sandstrom, Felix G 30   Gustavsson, Filip   4   Larsson, Jacob   5   Bernhardt, David   6   Gunnarsson, Kristoffer   7   Kylington, Oliver   8   Dahlin, Rasmus   9   Carlsson, Gabriel   11   Ahl, Filip   14   Pettersson, Elias   15   Andersson, Lias   16   Grundström, Carl   17   Karlstrom, Fredrik   18   Asplund, Rasmus   19   Nylander, Alexander   20   Eriksson Ek, Joel   23   Carlsson, Lucas   24   Looke, Jens   25   Ohlsson, Sebastian   27   Dahlen, Jonathan   28   Wingerli, Andreas   29   Soderlund, Tim	SWEDEN PENALTIES Per. No.  Min  Offence Off PP PS Start On 1st 25  2:00  Tripping 4:51 1   4:51 6:51 1st 16  2:00  Cross-Checking 18:40 1   18:40 0:40 2nd 16  2:00  Goaltender Interference 0:59 1   0:59 2:59 2nd 23  2:00  Hooking 14:00 1   14:00 16:00 3rd 15  2:00  High-Sticking 2:24 1   2:24 4:24 3rd 7  2:00  Holding 7:32 1   7:32 9:32	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 18  2:00  Interference 9:21 1   9:21 11:21 1st 9  2:00  Kneeing 17:56 1   17:56 19:56 2nd 17  2:00  Hooking 6:23 1   6:23 8:23 3rd 5  2:00  Tripping 6:53 1   6:53 8:53

SWEDEN Goals SWEDEN PLAYERS (plus) CANADA PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time    G-As1-As2     1st 6:05  SH  20-29                         1st 8:05   16-19

CANADA Goals CANADA PLAYERS (plus) SWEDEN PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time    G-As1-As2     1st 7:43   27-22                         1st 18:49   22-10-5                         2nd 12:02   12-18                         3rd 7:38   19-3-2                         3rd 18:02  EN  12-19-17

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES SWEDEN 0 / 4 CANADA 0 / 6 PENALTY SUMMARY SWEDEN 12 min / 6 inf CANADA 8 min / 4 inf POINT SUMMARY SWEDEN 2 G + 2 A = 4 Pts CANADA 5 G + 8 A = 13 Pts

SCORING 1 2 3 Total SWEDEN 2 0 0 2 CANADA 2 1 2 5 GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time) 1 2 3 Tot. On Off SWE - Sandstrom (57:45) (L) 10 16 11 37 /0:00 3rd/17:45 SWE - Sandstrom (0:19) (L) 0 0 1 1 /18:03 3rd/18:22 SWE - Sandstrom (1:12) (L) 0 0 0 0 /18:48 3rd/20:00 CAN - Ingram (8:05) 3 0 0 3 /0:00 1st/8:05 CAN - Hart (51:55) (W) 11 11 4 26 /8:05 3rd/20:00 Stars of the Game TIME OF GAME:   -  Start:   -  End:   -  Attendance:

OFFICIALS Referee: Referee: Linesmen: Linesmen: CERTIFIED CORRECT   This report has been checked and verified against the Official IIHF World Junior Championship Game Report.

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