Game Report 2233

IIHF World Junior Championship

PLAYED AT: Rogers Arena
Date: Dec 26, 2018
GAME NOTES: CANADA CRUISES PAST DANES IN WJC OPENER JASON LA ROSE VANCOUVER, B.C. – Maxime Comtois (Longueuil, Que./Drummondville, QMJHL) tied an all-time record with four goals and Morgan Frost (Aurora, Ont./Sault Ste. Marie, OHL) added a hat trick and two assists, leading Canada’s National Junior Team to a 14-0 win over Denmark in the opening Group A game for both Wednesday at the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship. Comtois, the lone returnee from the team that won gold a year ago in Buffalo, is the fifth Canadian to score four times in a single game at the World Juniors, joining Taylor Raddysh (2016), Brayden Schenn (2010), Simon Gagné (1999) and Mario Lemieux (1983). “That’s why he’s the captain of the team,” Canadian coach Tim Hunter said. “He led in all aspects of the game tonight; around the puck, playing physical, getting pucks out, and then obviously the four goals.” In total, 18 of the 20 Canadian skaters recorded at least a point. In addition to the big games from Comtois and Frost, Brett Leason (Calgary, Alta./Prince Albert, WHL) had two goals and two assists, Cody Glass (Winnipeg, Man./Portland, WHL) recorded four assists and Owen Tippett (Peterborough, Ont./Mississauga, OHL) scored twice. Michael DiPietro (Amherstburg, Ont./Ottawa, OHL) turned away 14 shots – including a third-period penalty shot – to post the shutout. The scoring started early; Frost found himself all alone in front of Danish goaltender Mads Søgaard and tucked a backhand five-hole just 4:52 in. Tippett was the recipient of a gorgeous feed from Frost for the 2-0 goal at 8:32, and Frost added his second goal in the final minute to send Canada to the dressing room up three. After Comtois jumped on his own rebound just 45 seconds into the second period, Frost finished a two-on-one with Nick Suzuki (London, Ont./Owen Sound, OHL) to complete his hat trick and make it 5-0. “I think I’m definitely a playmaker, but it’s nice to put the puck in the net once in a while,” said Frost, who has never scored a hat trick in his 231-game OHL career. “[There were] some great set-ups by my teammates, and fortunately they went in.” A power-play goal from Jack Studnicka (Tecumseh, Ont./Oshawa, OHL), a rocket from Tippett and an unassisted effort from Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Calgary, Alta./Spokane, WHL) rounded out the scoring in the second period and made it an 8-0 game after 40 minutes. Comtois was the story in the third; he finished a pretty passing play on a delayed Danish penalty at 2:52, and followed up his own miss to tuck in a wraparound and finish his hat trick at 7:01. It is the first time two Canadians have recorded hat tricks in the same game since Dean Evason and Russ Courtnall potted three apiece in a 12-0 win over Switzerland on Dec. 28, 1983. After Leason struck twice in a span of 3:45, Comtois spun in a the slot and snuck a backhand past Magnus Rorth – who had replaced an injured Søgaard less than five minutes before – for his record-tying fourth of the game. MacKenzie Entwistle (Georgetown, Ont./Hamilton, OHL) added the final goal with just over three minutes to go, finishing off the sixth-highest scoring game in Canadian WJC history. DiPietro was rarely tested – he made seven saves in the first period and seven the rest of the way – but came up big early in the final frame when he got his right pad on the penalty-shot attempt by Phillip Schultz. Canada is right back to action Thursday at Rogers Arena, taking on Switzerland (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT).

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: Denmark

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	DiPietro, Michael
G	31	Scott, Ian
	2	Bouchard, Evan
	3	Brook, Josh
	4	McIsaac, Jared
	5	Mitchell, Ian
	6	Dobson, Noah
	8	Glass, Cody
	9	Veleno, Joe
	11	Anderson-Dolan, Jaret
	14	Comtois, Maxime
	15	Bowers, Shane
	16	Entwistle, MacKenzie
	17	Suzuki, Nick
	18	Phillips, Markus
	20	Leason, Brett
	21	Tippett, Owen
	22	Lafreniere, Alexis
	23	Studnicka, Jack
	24	Smith, Ty
	26	Frost, Morgan
	27	Hayton, Barrett

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	18	2:00	Tripping	12:31	1		12:31
2nd	4	2:00	Tripping	2:11	1		2:11
2nd	22	2:00	Goaltender Interference	8:36	1		8:36

DENMARK LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Rorth, Magnus
G	30	Soegaard, Mads
G	31	Adamsen, Albert
	2	Koch, Magnus
	3	Setkov, Malte
	4	Mortensen, Lasse
	6	Andersen, Victor
	7	Mogensen, Jeppe
	8	Baastrup, Daniel
	10	Brinkman, Jonathan
	13	Kjaer, Oliver
	16	Rondbjerg, Jonas
	17	Andersen, Lucas
	18	Wittendorf, Jakob
	19	Gath, Christoffer
	20	Bach, Lukas
	21	Green, Gustav
	22	Grundtvig, Andreas
	23	Madsen, David
	24	Marcussen, Emil
	25	Schulze, Oscar
	27	Schultz, Phillip
	29	Cubars, Victor

DENMARK PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
2nd	13	2:00	Delay of Game	7:05	1		7:05
2nd	17	2:00	Tripping	11:41	1		11:41
2nd		2:00	Too Many Players	14:49	1		14:49
2nd	3	2:00	Slashing	19:48	1		19:48

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

DENMARK PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st

4:52

26-20

1st

8:32

21-26-8

1st

19:18

26-18-2

2nd

:45

14-8-5

2nd