Game Report 523

World Under-17 Hockey Challenge

PLAYED AT: Centre 200
Date: Dec 29, 2013
GAME NOTES: MARNER NETS HAT TRICK TO LEAD ONTARIO OVER GERMANY by Wendy Graves SYDNEY, N.S. – Mitchell Marner (Thornhill, Ont./London, OHL) scored three goals and Dylan Strome (Mississauga, Ont./Erie, OHL) added a goal and two assists as Ontario opened Group B play at the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge with a 8-1 win over Germany Sunday afternoon. Matthew Kreis (Georgetown, Ont./Barrie, OHL), Blake Speers (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont./Sault Ste. Marie, OHL), Jakob Chychrun (Toronto, Ont./Toronto Jr. Canadiens, GTHL) and Brett McKenzie (Vars, Ont./North Bay, OHL) also scored for Ontario. Ontario dominated from the opening face-off and 11 players ended up on the scoresheet. The key to the game was its special teams: it scored three times on the power play and once shorthanded. The boys in red came out quickly and built a 2-0 lead shortly after the seven-minute mark of the first period. Germany was being outskated, outhustled and outhit, but thanks to back-to-back minors on Ontario, they cashed in on the man advantage, with Jakob Mayenschein firing in a shot from the left wing. Germany must have been feeling lucky to be trailing by only one goal as the clock ticked down on the opening period. Alas, its luck expired 30 seconds before the period did. Strome fired the puck wide of the German net, but Chychrun was Johnny-on-the-Spot and gave Ontario a 3-1 lead after 20 minutes. Ontario built on that momentum in the opening minutes of the second. With the team killing a tripping minor, a strong forecheck led to a short-handed tally by McKenzie. A great individual effort by Travis Konecny (Clachan, Ont./Ottawa, OHL) to keep the puck in the German zone, followed by a pass on his stomach led to Marner making it 5-1 after the second period. Two tic-tac-toe passing plays helped Marner finish his hat trick, and an unassisted goal by Strome completed the scoring in the third. Ontario will look for a 2-0 start when it takes on Atlantic in an all-Canadian match-up Monday night in Sydney (7 p.m. AT), while Germany takes on the defending bronze medallists from the United States in an afternoon tilt in North Sydney (2 p.m. AT).

Visiting Team: Ontario

Home Team: Germany

ONTARIO LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Timpano, Troy
G	31	Blacker, Ben
	2	McFadden, Garrett
	3	Capobianco, Kyle
	4	Day, Sean
	5	Lemcke, Justin
	6	Spencer, Matthew
	7	Chychrun, Jakob
	8	Vande Sompel, Mitchel
	9	Marner, Mitchell
	10	Barwell, Jesse
	11	Harding, Sam
	12	McKenzie, Brett
	14	Knott, Graham
	15	Kreis, Matthew
	16	Strome, Dylan
	17	Konecny, Travis
	18	Speers, Blake
	19	Laishram, Adam
	20	McCool, Hayden
	21	Crouse, Lawson
	22	Stephens, Mitchell

ONTARIO PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	14	2:00	Roughing minor	3:33	1		3:33	18:27
1st	10	2:00	(auto) Boarding minor	12:50	1		12:50	9:10
1st	8	2:00	(auto) Hooking minor	14:37	1		14:37	7:23
1st	14	2:00	Tripping minor	19:47	1		19:47	2:13
2nd	15	2:00	(auto) Hooking minor	5:07	1		5:07	16:53
2nd	17	2:00	(auto) Hooking minor	12:32	1		12:32	9:28
2nd	17	2:00	(auto) Charging minor	15:50	1		15:50	6:10

GERMANY LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	29	Brenner, Cody
G	30	Boehm, Michael
	4	Groeger, Markus
	5	Neher, Marvin
	6	Halbauer, Philipp
	7	Schuetz, Simon
	8	Schmitz, Tom
	9	Glaessl, Maximilian
	10	Kaelble, Lukas
	11	Schiller, Lars
	16	Drews, Yannick
	17	Kopp, Valentin
	19	Daubner, Maximilian
	20	Koerner, Christoph
	21	Kirchhofer, Tobias
	22	Mayenschein, Jakob
	23	Napravnik, Julian
	24	Spitzner, Lois
	25	Retzer, Max
	26	Komnik, Dimitri
	27	Busch, Valentin
	28	Eder, Tobias

GERMANY PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	10	2:00	(auto) Holding minor	3:27	1		3:27	18:33
1st	7	2:00	(auto) Cross-Checking minor	5:59	1		5:59	16:01
2nd	10	2:00	(auto) Hooking minor	1:55	1		1:55	0:05
3rd	7	2:00	(auto) Hooking minor	13:33	1		13:33	8:27
3rd	28	2:00	(auto) Delay of Game minor	15:15	1		15:15	6:45

ONTARIO Goals

ONTARIO PLAYERS (plus)

GERMANY PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st