Through seven tournament games with Team Canada, Hicketts recorded three assists and a +3 rating to go with two minutes in penalties.
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Louis Belpedio and Auston Matthews had back-to-back goals late in the third period for the United States (1-0), while Colin White and Zach Werenski also scored.
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It was only the Americans’ second regulation win in their last 14 World Juniors meetings with Canada. Borgen had two shots on goal and was a plus-1 in the game.
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USA goalie Alex Nedeljkovic, who plays in Canadian major juniors, stopped 25 Canada shots. Taking a feed from Mitch Marner, the Arizona Coyotes prospect walked into the slot and ripped a wrist shot past Alex Nedeljkovic’s glove hand.
“I’m just trying to get in the guys that are going”, said Lowry.
Canada’s Rourke Chartier (14) takes a shot from a teammate as the United States’ Nick Schmaltz (9) tries to check him away from the crease during second period preliminary hockey action at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015. Today, it was the United States who got that bounce by sneaking a couple pucks from the point through the defense in the third period that made the difference.
“It’s unfortunate, but it’s a Canadian thing”, said Jerry Fortier of Fort McMurray, Alta., on Saturday while drinking during the first intermission of Canada’s game against the U.S. “We do bring our beers into the stands and, y’know, Canada rocks”.
“It was a tough game”, Team Canada forward Jake Virtanen said. I hope they fix that before tournament play gets under way.
The first goal of the game went to Matthew Barzal, a New York Islanders draft pick playing for Team Canada.
Canada next plays Denmark on Monday. Six of the past 11 games have been decided by one goal and three of those games required overtime.
The native of Kamloops, BC recently served as captain for Team WHL in Game 2 of the Canada Russia series which took place in his hometown. The game was the first preliminary test of the tournament for both clubs.
In the other Group A game, Dmytro Timashov had two goals and an assist in Sweden’s 8-3 victory over Switzerland 8-3. “I’ve got to put more pucks on the net and if I’m in front of the net on the power play, I’ve got to get there and do my best to tip them or put them in”.
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Maxim Lazarev scored the only goal in the shootout as Russian Federation edged the Czech Republic.
