Game Report 2453

IIHF World Junior Championship - Pre-tournament

PLAYED AT: Rogers Arena
Date: Dec 23, 2018
GAME NOTES: CANADA DOWNED BY FINNS IN PRE-WJC FINALE JASON LA ROSE VANCOUVER, B.C. – Morgan Frost (Aurora, Ont./Sault Ste. Marie, OHL) and Barrett Hayton (Peterborough, Ont./Sault Ste. Marie, OHL) scored goals, but special-teams doomed Canada’s National Junior Team in a 5-2 loss to Finland in its final pre-tournament game Sunday ahead of the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship. The Finns scored twice on the power play and twice shorthanded to spoil Canada’s first game at Rogers Arena in front of a red-and-white-clad crowd of more than 14,000. Finland opened the scoring just past the midway mark of the first period when Otto Latvala followed up a Teemu Enberg opportunity and banged a rebound past Canadian goaltender Michael DiPietro (Amherstburg, Ont./Ottawa, OHL), but Frost rifled a wrist shot just under the cross-bar to get Canada even less than five minutes later. The Finns took control in the second period, scoring early and late. Linus Nyman gave the Scandinavians the lead for good just 3:49 into the middle frame, walking out from behind the net and patiently picking his spot over the short-side shoulder of DiPietro. Anton Lundell doubled the advantage at 17:07, knocking a rebound five-hole on netminder Ian Scott (Calgary, Alta./Prince Albert, WHL), who replaced DiPietro midway through the period. The lead became three when Eeli Tolvanen wired a shot upstairs on Scott only 88 seconds into the third, but Hayton answered by finishing a tic-tac-toe passing play with Cody Glass (Winnipeg, Man./Portland, WHL) and Owen Tippett (Peterborough, Ont./Mississauga, OHL) for a power-play goal to get Canada back within a pair. The Canadians dominated the third period, outshooting Finland 17-5, but couldn’t get a bounce to go their way; more than one puck hopped over a Canadian stick in front of an yawning Finnish goal. A late power play gave Canada hope, but Santeri Virtanen curled a shot into the empty net with 1.1 seconds to go to finish off the scoring. With exhibition play done, the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship begins Wednesday when Canada opens defence of its gold medal against Denmark (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT).

Visiting Team: Finland

Home Team: Canada

FINLAND LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka
G	31	Lindberg, Filip
	2	Laaksonen, Oskar
	3	Utunen, Toni
	4	Anttalainen , Aleksi
	7	Vaakanainen, Urho
	10	Heponiemi, Aleksi
	12	Vainionpaa, Samuli
	13	Puustinen, Valtteri
	15	Jokiharju, Henri
	18	Engberg, Teemu
	19	Kupari, Rasmus
	20	Tolvanen, Eeli
	21	Latvala, Otto
	22	Virtanen, Santeri
	23	Nyman, Linus
	24	Kakko, Kaapo
	25	Talvitie, Aarne
	27	Ylonen, Jesse
	28	Moilanen, Sami
	29	Lundell, Anton
	34	Heinola, Ville
	36	Honka, Antonni

FINLAND PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	12	2:00	Roughing	9:18			9:18	11:18
1st	7	2:00	Tripping	10:19	1		10:26	12:19
1st	24	2:00	Interference	13:07	1		13:07	15:07
2nd	34	2:00	Interference	17:31	1		17:31	19:31
2nd	4	2:00	High-Sticking	18:32	1		18:32	1:32
3rd	2	2:00	Delay of Game	5:39	1		5:39	6:43
3rd	7	2:00	Hooking	19:21	1		19:21

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	14	2:00	Roughing	9:18			9:18	11:17
1st	4	2:00	Holding	16:13	1		16:13	18:13
2nd	24	2:00	Tripping	16:36	1		16:36	17:07
2nd	17	2:00	Holding	20:00	1		20:00	1:26
3rd	26	2:00	Tripping	12:39	1		12:39	14:39
3rd	24	2:00	Holding	17:27	1		17:27	19:27

FINLAND Goals

FINLAND PLAYERS (plus)

CANADA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st