Game Report 31		World Cup of Hockey
PLAYED AT: Air Canada Centre Date: Sep 29, 2016 GAME NOTES: CANADA WINS 2016 WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY WENDY GRAVES TORONTO – The Little Ball of Hate may just be the most popular player in Canada. Brad Marchand (Hammonds Plains, N.S./Boston, NHL) scored shorthanded with 44 seconds left in the third period and Canada defeated Team Europe 2-1 to win the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. Canada swept the best-of-three final series. Marchand took a drop pass from Jonathan Toews (Winnipeg, Man./Chicago, NHL) and fired a shot from between the hash marks, beating Jaroslav Halak and putting an exclamation point on a fantastic tournament. The forward finished with eight points, including a team-leading five goals. Marchand’s heroics were made possible by linemate Patrice Bergeron (Ancienne-Lorette, Que./Boston, NHL), who redirected a Brent Burns’ (Barrie, Ont./San Jose, NHL) point shot on the power play to tie the game with 2:53 remaining in regulation. The third member of the line, Sidney Crosby (Cole Harbour, N.S./Pittsburgh, NHL), was named the Most Valuable Player. Marchand, Crosby and Bergeron was the team’s – and the tournament’s – best line, combining for 25 points in the tournament. Carey Price (Anahim Lake, B.C./Montreal, NHL) finished with 32 saves, none bigger than the one he made on Marian Hossa from point blank range with 1:09 left in the third, setting the stage for Marchand 25 seconds later. Canada had been the dominant team the entire tournament. Coming in the team had won 15 straight games in best-on-best competition: it was a perfect 5-0 at the World Cup, 6-0 at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games and had won its last four at the 2010 Games. Here in Toronto it had outscored its opposition 22-7, outshot it in 12 of 15 periods and had successfully killed off all 15 penalties it had been called for For 57 minutes on Thursday night none of that mattered. Zdeno Chara gave Team Europe the lead 6:26 into the first period. Chara, booed every time he touched the puck both tonight and in Game 1 on Tuesday, took a short pass from Andrej Sekera and beat Price from the middle of the left face-off circle. For the longest time it looked like it would be enough to force a winner-take-all game on Saturday. Team Europe outshot Canada in both the first and second periods, and its ability to neutralize the Canadian attack – and Canada’s sometimes sloppy play on its own – had the underdogs thinking upset. But mixing up of its lines to start the third period seemed to give Canada the jolt it needed. With the win Canada has now won six of the eight World and Canada Cups contested. Visiting Team: Europe Home Team: Canada
EUROPE LINEUP Pos No.   Name G 1   Greiss, Thomas G 31   Grubauer, Philipp G 41   Halak, Jaroslav   2   Sekera, Andrej   5   Sbisa, Luca   7   Streit, Mark   8   Rieder, Tobias   10   Ehrhoff, Christian   11   Kopitar, Anze   12   Gaborik, Marian   21   Tatar, Tomas   22   Niederreiter, Nino   26   Vanek, Thomas   29   Draisaitl, Leon   33   Chara, Zdeno   36   Hansen, Jannik   44   Seidenberg, Dennis   51   Nielsen, Frans   59   Josi, Roman   63   Zuccarello, Mats   78   Bellemare, Pierre-Edouard   81   Hossa, Marian   89   Boedker, Mikkel	EUROPE PENALTIES Per. No.  Min  Offence Off PP PS Start On 1st 78  2:00  Hooking 10:52 1   10:52 12:52 1st 22  2:00  Slashing 14:49 1   14:49 16:49 3rd 59  2:00  Delay of Game 2:17 1   2:17 4:17 3rd 11  2:00  Holding 16:25 1   16:25 18:25	CANADA LINEUP Pos No.   Name G 31   Price, Carey G 50   Crawford, Corey G 70   Holtby, Braden   4   Bouwmeester, Jay   6   Weber, Shea   7   Muzzin, Jake   8   Doughty, Drew   9   Duchene, Matt   15   Getzlaf, Ryan   16   Toews, Jonathan   20   Tavares, John   24   Perry, Corey   27   Pietrangelo, Alex   28   Giroux, Claude   37   Bergeron, Patrice   39   Couture, Logan   44   Vlasic, Marc-Edouard   63   Marchand, Brad   87   Crosby, Sidney   88   Burns, Brent   90   O'Reilly, Ryan   91   Stamkos, Steven   97   Thornton, Joe	CANADA PENALTIES Per. No.  Min  Offence Off PP PS Start On 1st 88  2:00  Hooking 12:30 1   12:30 14:30 2nd   2:00  Hooking 0:32 1   0:32 2:32 3rd 8  2:00  High-Sticking 18:10 1   18:10 20:00

EUROPE Goals EUROPE PLAYERS (plus) CANADA PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time    G-As1-As2     1st 6:26   33-2-1

CANADA Goals CANADA PLAYERS (plus) EUROPE PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time    G-As1-As2     3rd 17:07  PP  37-88-87                         3rd 19:16  SH  63-16-27

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES EUROPE 0 / 3 CANADA 1 / 4 PENALTY SUMMARY EUROPE 8 min / 4 inf CANADA 6 min / 3 inf POINT SUMMARY EUROPE 1 G + 2 A = 3 Pts CANADA 2 G + 4 A = 6 Pts

SCORING 1 2 3 Total EUROPE 1 0 0 1 CANADA 0 0 2 2 GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time) 1 2 3 Tot. On Off EUR - Halak (60:00) (L) 8 13 9 30 /0:00 3rd/20:00 CAN - Price (60:00) (W) 11 15 5 31 /0:00 3rd/20:00 Stars of the Game TIME OF GAME:   -  Start:   -  End:   -  Attendance:

OFFICIALS Referee: Referee: Linesmen: Linesmen: CERTIFIED CORRECT   This report has been checked and verified against the Official World Cup of Hockey Game Report.

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