Game Report 2764

IIHF World Championship - Pre-tournament

PLAYED AT: Erste Bank Arena
Date: May 7, 2019
GAME NOTES: CANADA TOPS AUSTRIA FOR PRE-WORLDS WIN QUINTON AMUNDSON VIENNA, Austria – Kyle Turris (New Westminster, B.C./Nashville, NHL), Anthony Mantha (Longueuil, Que./Detroit, NHL) and Jonathan Marchessault (Cap-Rouge, Que./Vegas, NHL) registered a goal and an assist each to power Canada National Men’s Team to a 7-5 victory over Austria on Tuesday in its lone pre-tournament contest prior to the 2019 IIHF World Championship. Sean Couturier (Bathurst, N.B./Philadelphia, NHL), Jared McCann (London, Ont./Pittsburgh, NHL), Anthony Cirelli (Woodbridge, Ont./Tampa Bay, NHL) and Mark Stone (Winnipeg, Man./Vegas, NHL) also found the net for Canada, which overcame four one-goal deficits before forging ahead on the scoreboard late in the second period. Matt Murray (Thunder Bay, Ont./Pittsburgh, NHL) denied 11 shots in 40 minutes of work, and Carter Hart (Sherwood Park, Alta.) stopped two of three attempts in the third period. Alexander Rauchenwald opened the scoring for Austria with a wrist shot midway through the first period, but Sean Couturier responded with 5:36 to play in the opening frame, swatting a loose puck past Bernard Starkbaum. Fabio Hofer put Austria ahead again just 22 seconds later with a breakaway goal, only for Kyle Turris to answer with a bar-down power-play goal less than a minute after that to make it 2-2 heading into the intermission. The goals kept coming at a furious clip in the second period. Thomas Raffl made it 3-2 Austria with a shot off the wing, Marchessault tucked the puck past Starkbaum’s pad with some slick stickhandling, Alexander Cijan completed a back-door tip to put the Austrians ahead again, and McCann answered with a deflection of his own 39 seconds later. Cirelli put Canada in the driver’s seat at 17:44, tipping in a point blast from Brandon Montour (Brantford, Ont./Buffalo, NHL). Stone provided insurance with a minute to play in the middle stanza with a hard drive from the slot. Manuel Ganahl cut Canada’s lead to 6-5 by taking advantage of a miscue by Hart at 9:32 of the third period, but Mantha restored the two-goal spread and finished the scoring at 11:56. Canada outshot Austria 50-18 in the game. The Canadians will venture to Košice, Slovakia for the preliminary round of the IIHF World Championship. It begin its quest for its first gold medal since 2016 on Friday against Finland (10:15 a.m. ET/7:15 a.m. PT).

Visiting Team: Austria

Home Team: Canada

AUSTRIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	29	Starkbaum, Bernhard
G	30	Kickert, David
	3	Schneider, Peter
	5	Raffl, Thomas
	9	Rauchenwald, Alexander
	12	Raffl, Michael
	14	Peter, Patrick
	16	Zwerger, Dominic
	17	Ganahl, Manuel
	21	Haudum, Lukas
	23	Hofer, Fabio
	24	Strong, Steven
	26	Baumgartner, Benjamin
	27	Hundertpfund, Thomas
	28	Schumnig, Martin
	63	Schlacher, Markus
	67	Komarek, Konstantin
	77	Lindner, Philipp
	90	Pallestrang, Alexander
	91	Heinrich, Dominique
	92	Unterweger, Clemens
	94	Cijan, Alexander

AUSTRIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	14	2:00	Hooking	15:22	1		15:22	15:44
3rd		2:00	Too Many Players	0:39			0:39	2:39

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Murray, Matt
G	31	Hart, Carter
	4	Fabbro, Dante
	7	Couturier, Sean
	10	Dorion, Marc-André
	14	Henrique, Adam
	16	McCann, Jared
	17	Strome, Dylan
	19	Turris, Kyle
	20	Tavares, John
	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
3rd	25	2:00	Hooking	12:11	1		12:11	14:11

AUSTRIA Goals

AUSTRIA PLAYERS (plus)

CANADA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st