And nowhere is this more apparent than with Jake Virtanen.
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Auston Matthews had a hat trick to lead the United States to a 7-0 victory over the Czech Republic on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the world junior hockey championship. He has not played since Sweden’s first game of the tournament when he was injured on a questionable hit and there has been no update on his condition.
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“We want the game to be played fast and exhibited through skill”, said Renney.
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Finland poses a particularly steep challenge.
Finland entered the game with the tournament’s best offense, having led the way with 23 goals through the first round via the potent line of Jesse Puljujärvi, Sebastian Aho, and Patrik Laine – the tournament’s top three scorers.
“I guess you could say they got what they deserved when they’re living and dying by the penalty”.
Mitchell Stephens and Mitch Marner scored for Canada, which had a regulation win, overtime win and two losses in the preliminary round. Although that 8,200-seat arena was near capacity with boisterous Canadian fans for all four games, it will be a different story on Saturday.
“Forget about it”, said Strome when asked what he thought of the lopsided loss to Sweden. When you’re down as a team it’s a learning experience.
The 28-year-old had seven years remaining on an eight-year, $64 Million contract and was not considered the type of player that Shanahan wanted to rebuild his team around. Nothing bad can happen from that. 900 everyone knows that it’s going to be tough to win.
The biggest chink in Finland’s armour is its goaltending.
Sweden’s team doctor told reporters that the team hopes Nylander will play later in the tournament. 860 and Blackwood and McDonald combined for a 3.58 goals-against average. He has a 3.36 GAA and. Blackwood’s first start of the tournament – finishing his OHL suspension – is one where Canada’s starting goalie looked less than stellar, but is hopefully a thing of the past. Finland head coach Jukka Jalonen could barely contain his laughter. Canada came into the quarter-final matchup as the underdog but wasted no time getting to work. “They’re always favourites. I think it’s the same situation now”. “What we’ve tried to do is put as much skill on the ice as we can and be a threat that way, as opposed to being regimented and that role-playing type player that might get minimal minutes and not contribute as much as we would like”.
Canada carried the play, but Perlini took a costly penalty for slashing, allowing the white hot, Finnish powerplay to strike again, Puljujarvi setting up Aleksi Saarela for the game-tier.
“We could have definitely won gold”, said Blackwood.
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Virtanen kept up his strong play, shortly after spinning off his check to drive the net, setting up Dylan Strome for a great chance and drawing a hooking penalty.
