Game Report 2365

IIHF World Junior Championship - Pre-tournament

PLAYED AT: Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
Date: Dec 19, 2018
GAME NOTES: CANADA EDGES SWISS IN PRE-WORLD JUNIORS OPENER JASON LA ROSE VICTORIA, B.C. – Maxime Comtois (Longueuil, Que./Drummondville, QMJHL) scored two goals and set up two others, sending Canada’s National Junior Team to a 5-3 win over Switzerland in its pre-tournament opener Wednesday ahead of the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship. Cody Glass (Winnipeg, Man./Portland, WHL) added a goal and two helpers for the Canadians, who opened up a 4-1 lead midway through the second period before the Swiss clawed back to make it close. Switzerland struck first, taking an early lead against the run of play; a bouncing puck found its way onto the stick of Philipp Kurashev in the slot, and his shot found its way under the right pad of Canadian goaltender Michael DiPietro (Amherstburg, Ont./Ottawa, OHL) just 5:13 in. But Glass needed only 14 seconds to answer, roofing a backhand over the short-side shoulder of Swiss netminder Luca Jan Hollenstein, and Owen Tippett (Peterborough, Ont./Mississauga, OHL) rifled a shot from distance past the glove of Hollenstein at 11:43 to put Canada ahead for good. Comtois, who earned assists on the Glass and Tippett markers, added a goal of his own before the end of the first period; Glass forced a turnover along the sideboards and set up Comtois, who snapped a quick shot to the far side on Hollenstein. The Canadian power play clicked in the second period; Jack Studnicka (Tecumseh, Ont./Oshawa, OHL) followed up a Barrett Hayton (Peterborough, Ont./Sault Ste. Marie, OHL) chance in front and potted the 4-1 goal. Switzerland made it a two-goal game less than two minutes later when Valentin Nussbaumer broke in alone and tucked a backhand around DiPietro, and Tobias Geisser hammered in a loose puck at 18:43 to pull the Swiss within one after 40 minutes. But they would get no closer, and Comtois found the empty net in the final minute of the third period to finish his stand-out performance and clinch the win for the Canadians. Canada is back on the ice at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre on Friday, taking on Slovakia (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) before wrapping up its pre-tournament schedule against Finland on Sunday night in Vancouver (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT). The 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship begins Boxing Day with Canada opening defence of its gold medal against Denmark (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT).

Visiting Team: Switzerland

Home Team: Canada

SWITZERLAND LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Zaetta, Gianluca
G	30	Hollenstein, Luca Jan
	6	Lehmann, Marco
	7	Burger, Gianluca
	8	Moser, Janis
	9	Muller, Nicolas
	10	Bruschweiler, Yannick
	14	Schmid, Sandro
	15	Verboon, Matthew
	16	Gross, Nico
	17	Wyss, Luca
	18	Nussbaumer, Valentin
	19	Barandun, Davyd
	20	Tanner, Ramon
	21	Berni, Tim
	22	Eggenberger, Nando
	23	Kurashev, Philipp
	24	Geisser, Tobias
	25	Sopa, Kyen
	26	Aebischer, David
	27	Derungs, Ian
	28	Wüthrich, Dario

SWITZERLAND PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
2nd	15	2:00	Holding	3:07	1		3:07	5:07
2nd	7	2:00	Hooking	10:06	1		10:06	11:25
3rd	6	2:00	Hooking	2:15			2:15	4:15

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
	13	Vilardi, Gabriel
	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	27	2:00	Interference	19:24	1		19:24	1:24
2nd	11	2:00	Interference	15:42	1		15:42	17:42

SWITZERLAND Goals

SWITZERLAND PLAYERS (plus)

CANADA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st

5:11

2nd

13:07

18-9

2nd

18:43

24-26-23

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

SWITZERLAND PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st