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World Junior Championships: Canada stunned the Czech Republic 5-2 in their first match

World Junior Championships: Canada stunned the Czech Republic 5-2 in their first match

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Junior Team Canada’s journey started on a sour and unpredictable note Monday at the World Junior Hockey Championships when they lost to the Czech Republic 5-2 in their Group A duel.

Twice, the Czechs hit the target twice in less than 40 seconds to run away with the win.

Minutes after Colton Dash gave Canada their first breakaway of the night — Czech goaltender Tomas Sošanek locked his pads in time to prevent the puck from going in — the Canada Juniors found themselves on offense for the first time in the tournament, courtesy of a blocking gesture by Gabriel Strock. At the expense of goalkeeper Ben Goudreau.

The first Canadian unit quickly opened fire, with Captain Shane Wright deftly deflecting Olin Zellweger’s low shot from the point. On the play, two other ECJ players who were loaned out by an NHL club, Dylan Guenther, caught an assist.

The crowd favorites were given another reason to celebrate when defender Brandt Clarke fired a powerful low shot at the Czech keeper.

A perfect departure for Dennis Williams’ troopers, then, you say?

Not so fast.

The offside claim was won by the Czechs, with Clarke sending off his successful net after a long period of deliberation by the referees.

The first twenty already punctuated by multiple interruptions of all kinds kept losing tempo, which is the reason for the neglectors that context served them.

Playing boldly on Canadian soil, defenders David Shpacek and Stanislav Svozel both went wide, close to Gudreaux’s net, and Szovel distributed a clever pass that his compatriot deposited with ease, creating par.

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Just 35 seconds after paček, fellow QMJHL goaltender David Movarec — of the Halifax Mooseheads, no less — gave the Czech Republic their first lead of the game.

If panic was not immediately felt in the stand, the hum began to set the mood when Svozil, left unattended at the edge, had enough time to count five “Mississippi” before releasing the throw that brought the score from 3 to 1.

One might have thought that the image of this extraordinary indifference would be erased when Conor Bédard, Canada’s player most applauded by the crowd, opened his counter, 33 seconds after Svozil’s net.

Although the puck deflected slightly from the blade of his cover stick, Bedard, who came quickly down the left wing, fired hard enough to beat Soshanik in the top section.

Now trailing by one goal, Junior Team Canada regained their front-watch bite during the opening minutes after that second goal.

Frontman Zachary Dean wanted to do his part in this class, but he got too excited in the check he handed out to Alice Chick, who shook in the sequence.

The Gatineau Olympic striker took his place in the penalty area. It’s not all too late and long-term demure, after a revision – an autre -, a major penalité and an inconduite partie who has been decernées, the results of FIHG and how many times a soup we had had Head.

For nearly four minutes, the Canadian shorthand quad did a more than decent job, but the remaining 67 seconds would dramatically change the course of the game.

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For the second time in the encounter, there was barely time to wink, as the Czech Republic scored twice, this time 33 seconds apart, thanks to two support staff: Jaroslav Shmelat, on a return from a throw near Gudreaux’s semi-circle, and Matusz Menchik.

It ended up being an evening of work for Gaudreau, as he was beaten five times in 17 rounds, then replaced by Thomas Milic.

Without saying that we no longer expected the slightest fly to fly at this time in the Mooseheads’ enclosure, we came pretty close.

Although the Maple Leaf created its share of beautiful climbs and a couple of well-designed passing games, dangerous shots on goal were fairly rare, with the exception of the trio

Pressing before falling behind by three goals, Bédard tried several times to cross the entire defensive block that was offered to him, making his actions somewhat predictable.

After a day off on Tuesday, Canada will face Germany on Wednesday, while the Czech Republic will follow up on Tuesday with a match against Austria, who were humiliated by Sweden 11-0 earlier in the first day of the competition.

More details to come.