No Repeat For Canada at World Juniors
Saturday, January 2, 2016 @ 10:43 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Canada has been eliminated in the quarter-finals at the World Junior Hockey Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
Canada, the tournament’s defending champion, gave up the winning goal with two men in the penalty box with about six minutes to play in the third period to lose the offensive slugfest with the host Finns, 6-5.
Canada had made it to the semi-finals at the World Juniors for 17 straight years.
In today’s other quarter-finals, Sweden thumped Slovakia 6-0 while Russia had to go to overtime before edging Denmark 4-3. The fourth game of the day has the U.S. facing the Czechs.
Finland will play Sweden in the semi-finals while Russia takes on the winner of the US-Czech contest.
Comments
Penalties killed us again
JAKE take a deep breath and reign in that temper a wee bit. There is a time to put them into the seventh row and a time to bite your lip. YOU are going to be one hell of a hockey player. I felt that you were improving with the Canucks every game.Keep working hard on and off the ice and rewards will come. Now is the time to train smarter, harder than before and you will reap great dividends.
Poor hockey skills all around for team Canada this year.
Poor hockey skills? They’re a bunch of kids learning to play on the world stage. Almost the entire team will be back next year because they are so young.
They played chippier than a Rec D team , on a tuesday night 10:30 game. Add to that, the diving, the ‘over-the-top’ celebrations after lame goals… they got what they deserved.
On a more positive note, Canada won the Spengler Cup.
I wish this tournament had more media coverage than it gets. It’s actually good hockey to watch, even if it’s older / slower guys who play in Europe.
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