Game Report 2491

IIHF World Championship

PLAYED AT: Steel Arena
Date: May 13, 2019
GAME NOTES: CANADA TOPS SLOVAKIA IN THRILLER AT WORLDS QUINTON AMUNDSON KOSICE, Slovakia – Mark Stone (Winnipeg, Man./Vegas, NHL) made it a birthday to remember, registering the game-winning goal on the power play with 1.8 seconds left to lift Canada’s National Men’s Team to a back-and-forth 6-5 victory over Slovakia on Monday at the 2019 IIHF World Championship. Stone beat the buzzer by rifling a wrist shot from the face-off circle past the left shoulder of Slovakian netminder Marek Cilak to net Canada’s third man-advantage goal of the game. Special teams made a significant difference as the Canadians erased a pair of two-goal deficits; the power play went 3-for-4, while the penalty kill was a perfect 5-for-5. Shea Theodore (Langley, B.C./Vegas, NHL) and Anthony Mantha (Longueuil, Que./Detroit, NHL) led the way with a goal and an assist apiece. Jonathan Marchessault (Cap-Rouge, Que./Vegas, NHL), Anthony Cirelli (Woodbridge, Ont./Tampa Bay, NHL) and Troy Stecher (Richmond, B.C./Vancouver, NHL) also lit the lamp for Canada, and Thomas Chabot (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Que./Ottawa, NHL) notched two assists. Matt Murray (Thunder Bay, Ont./Pittsburgh, NHL) made 26 saves to earn the win. Slovakia scored goals 64 seconds apart to take an early lead before the game was 10 minutes old. Matus Sukel and Adam Liska scored at 7:14 and 8:18, respectively, by poking home rebounds in the crease. Canada struck back with goals 1:50 apart late in the frame as Kyle Turris (New Westminster, B.C./ Nashville, NHL) set up Mantha for a one-timer on an odd-man break at 16:20, and Theodore found the target on the power play with a wrist shot at 18:10. The host nation put Canada back in a two-goal hole early in the second period as Ladislav Nagy and Liska made it a 4-2 game with just over five minutes gone. But the Canadians surged to take their first lead; Marchessault cut the deficit to one on a power play with a five-hole shot at 7:01, Cirelli tied the game by batting in a loose puck in tight at 8:43 and Stecher netted a shot from the perimeter at 16:20. Sukel scored his second goal with 8:15 remaining in the third period to set the stage for Stone’s dramatics. Canada will go for three wins in a row Thursday against France (10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. ET).

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: Slovakia

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Murray, Matt
G	31	Hart, Carter
	4	Fabbro, Dante
	7	Couturier, Sean
	10	Jost, Tyson
	14	Henrique, Adam
	16	McCann, Jared
	17	Strome, Dylan
	18	Dubois, Pierre-Luc
	19	Turris, Kyle
	21	Joseph, Mathieu
	23	Reinhart, Sam
	25	Nurse, Darnell
	27	Theodore, Shea
	28	Severson, Damon
	39	Mantha, Anthony
	51	Stecher, Troy
	59	Bertuzzi, Tyler
	61	Stone, Mark
	62	Montour, Brandon
	71	Cirelli, Anthony
	72	Chabot, Thomas
	81	Marchessault, Jonathan

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	16	2:00	Roughing	9:51			9:51	11:51
1st	19	2:00	Roughing	9:51	1		9:51	11:51
1st	71	2:00	Holding	18:57	1		18:57
1st	28	2:00	Boarding	19:55	1		19:55	0:55
1st	28	10:00	10-Minute Misconduct	19:55			19:55
3rd	18	2:00	Cross-Checking	6:33	1		6:33	8:33
3rd	39	2:00	Slashing	14:11	1		14:11

SLOVAKIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Ciliak, Marek
G	33	Rybar, Patrik
	2	Sekera, Andrej
	6	Fehervary, Martin
	13	Kristof, Michal
	14	Panik, Richard
	16	Lantosi, Robert
	17	Buc, David
	19	Sukel, Matus
	23	Liska, Adam
	24	Zigo, Tomas
	27	Nagy, Ladislav
	28	Studenic, Marian
	47	Lunter, Mario
	52	Marincin, Martin
	56	Dano, Marko
	64	Koch, Patrik
	65	Cajkovsky, Michal
	71	Daloga, Marek
	79	Hudacek, Libor
	81	Cernak, Erik
	83	Jaros, Christian
	90	Tatar, Tomas

SLOVAKIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	14	2:00	Roughing	9:51			9:51	11:51
1st	83	2:00	High-Sticking	16:40	1		16:40	18:10
2nd	90	2:00	Cross-Checking	5:41	1		5:41	7:01
3rd	23	2:00	Diving	6:33	1		6:33
3rd	81	2:00	Tripping	18:46	1		18:46

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

SLOVAKIA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st