Game Report 332

IPC World Para Hockey Championship

PLAYED AT: Gangneung Hockey Centre
Date: Apr 17, 2017
GAME NOTES: CANADA EDGED BY AMERICANS AT SLEDGE WORLDS JASON LA ROSE GANGNEUNG, South Korea – Tyler McGregor (Forest, Ont.) opened the scoring late in the first period, but Canada’s National Sledge Team came up a goal short in a 2-1 loss to the United States on Monday at the 2017 IPC World Para Hockey Championship. The defeat is the first for the Canadians, who fell into a first-place tie with the Americans at 12 points, although the unbeaten U.S. has played one game less than Canada. Early American penalty trouble meant Canada had the run of play in the first period, outshooting the U.S. 5-1 and taking a 1-0 lead when McGregor jumped all over the rebound of an Adam Dixon (Midland, Ont.) point shot and beat goaltender Steve Cash with just 91 seconds to go in the opening frame. The U.S. got that back on their first power play chance, with Nikko Landeros circling the net and banking his shot in off Canadian netminder Dominic Larocque (Quebec City, Que.) at 6:06 of the second period. The goal was the first allowed by the Canadians in the tournament (they had outscored their opponents 36-0 prior to the Landeros marker) and ended their shutout streak at just over 206 minutes. Declan Farmer added the game-winner for the Americans less than three minutes later, splitting the Canadian defence before going under his sled to his right hand to beat Larocque. The Canadian offence was held in check from there, although McGregor and Billy Bridges (Summerside, P.E.I.) both had multiple point-blank chances to tie the game late; Canada directed four of its five third-period shots towards Cash in the final three minutes. Despite the loss, Canada finished with a 12-8 advantage in shots on goal. The Canadians will close out their preliminary round schedule on Tuesday night, taking on Germany (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT) with a chance to clinch a spot in the gold medal game.

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: United States

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Watson, Corbin
G	31	Larocque, Dominic
	3	Cozzolino, Dominic
	5	Henry, Tyrone
	6	Culmone, Anthony
	8	McGregor, Tyler
	9	Smith, Corbyn
	10	Delaney, Ben
	11	Dixon, Adam
	12	Westlake, Greg
	14	Arsenault, Steve
	18	Bridges, Billy
	20	Sholomicki, Bryan
	23	Hickey, Liam
	27	Bowden, Brad

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
2nd	18	2:00	Charging	4:33	1		4:33	6:33

UNITED STATES LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Reichenbach, Bo
G	34	Cash, Steve
	3	Grove, Noah
	4	Roybal, Brody
	6	McDermott, Luke
	8	Wallace, Jack
	9	Yohe, Andy
	11	Carron, Tyler
	15	Landeros, Nikko
	16	Farmer, Declan
	20	Page, Adam
	23	Roman, Rico
	27	Pauls, Josh
	28	Schaus, Paul
	88	McKee, Kevin

UNITED STATES PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	4	2:00	Elbowing	4:00	1		4:00	6:00
1st	4	2:00	Holding	10:14	1		10:14	12:14
2nd	88	2:00	Teeing	0:19	1		0:19	2:19
2nd	4	2:00	Roughing	9:28	1		9:28	11:28

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

UNITED STATES PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st

13:29

8-11

UNITED STATES Goals

UNITED STATES PLAYERS (plus)

CANADA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

2nd

6:06

15-16

2nd

8:45

16-88

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES
CANADA	0 / 4
UNITED STATES	1 / 1

PENALTY SUMMARY
CANADA	2 min / 1 inf
UNITED STATES	8 min / 4 inf

POINT SUMMARY
CANADA	1 G + 1 A = 2 Pts
UNITED STATES	2 G + 2 A = 4 Pts

SCORING	1	2	3	Total
CANADA	1	0	0	1
UNITED STATES	0	2	0	2

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)	1	2	3	Tot.	On	Off
CAN - Larocque (44:14) (L)	1	2	3	6	/0:00	3rd/14:14
CAN - Larocque (0:14) (L)	0	0	0	0	/14:28	3rd/14:42
USA - Cash (45:00) (W)	4	2	5	11	/0:00	3rd/15:00

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CERTIFIED CORRECT

This report has been checked and verified against the Official IPC World Para Hockey Championship Game Report.

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