Canada beats Czech Republic to advance to World Junior Gold Medal Games

Canada will play for gold at the World Junior Hockey Championship after defeating the Czech Republic 5-2 in the semifinals on Friday.

Kent Johnson gave one goal and two assists to the undefeated Canadians (6-0-0), while Logan Stancoven contributed one each of his. Conor Bedard, Mason McTavish and Joshua Roy also scored, with Oren Zellweger adding his three helpers.

Jan Mysak scored for the Czech Republic (a country commonly known as the Czech Republic) midway through the third period and in the late frame he added an assist to David Jiricek's power play his tally. Ili Kulich helped with both goals.

Dylan Garland has stopped 31 of his 33 shots for Canada, the silver medalist in the 2021 tournament.

Goalkeeper Tomas Suchanek replaced Pavel Kajan to start the third period after his 22 saves (2-3-1) over the Czech Republic. The Cajuns were relieved and stopped eight shots.

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Joshua Roy scored the final goal of the match. Canada won. He defeated the Czech Republic 5-2 on Friday to advance to his junior hockey championship game at the Worlds in Edmonton.

Canada will face Finland (4-1-0) or Sweden (4-1-0) in Saturday's gold medal match. The two teams will face off in Friday's second semi-final.

In Wednesday's quarterfinals, the Czech Republic had her 4-2 upset win over the reigning champion American. Canada advanced to the semi-finals with her 6-3 victory over Switzerland on the same day.

With 5:34 remaining, Roy fired his low shot into the Cajun pad and Canada regained his three-point advantage.

Zilicek unleashed a long bomb from inside the blue line, sending the puck through and defeating Garland Groveside.

The Czech got on the board midway through the third round when Misak scored his fifth goal of the tournament via the Canadian Netminder.

His second power play of the day for Canada His goal was 16:21, second goal after Czech Stepan his Nemec called for a slash.

McTavish went on the offensive, hitting his single shot from his faceoff circle and going outside the crossbar to push Canada's lead to his 4–0.

McTavish leads the tournament with his 15 points scored (8 goals and 7 assists).

Too many men's penalties cost the Czechs second.

Penalty With Czech forward Thomas his Urban in his box, Johnson picked up his puck loose along the boards, sliced ​​it on the ice and made a breakaway for Stankoven. Aimed at.

The Kamloops Blazers forward stepped forward and shot Hush past his mark and past Štěanek to give Canada his 3–0 at the 11:28 mark.

Canada 2 in power play Friday It was 3 against 3, but Czech was 1 against 2.

The Czech Republic caught fire again as he moved into second place, beating Canada 8-0 to her in his first five minutes of the period.

Garland forced his save with a solid pad at 3:55 after Czech Jakub's Kos broke his defense in a tight game.

Nathan Gaucher slammed the puck into his zone in Neutral, sending the 17-year-old prodigy out. Bedard closed the game with a ferocious shot over the glove side from Ščanek at 15:20 to give the hosts a 2-0 cushion.

This goal was Bedard's fourth of the tournament.

Suchanek scored a fine diving his stop on Tyson's Forster backhand his shot midway through the first game to keep the game scoreless.

However, the Czech netminers were unable to get the puck and Johnson quickly shot from the top of Kreese, who in the opening frame scored at 10:04.

Johnson scored two goals in this tournament - both against the Czech Republic.

Canada played without forward Ridley Greig. He suffered an apparent shoulder injury early in the quarter-final win over Switzerland. Riley Kidney is back in the lineup after four straight games of healthy scratching.