Canada beat the Young Lions on the opening night of the U20 World Cup.
Gavin McKenna baked the opening goal into the top corner. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS
Canada was strong as expected on the opening night of the Under-20 World Cup. Finland’s defeat was recorded on the Canadian Tire Centre’s scoreboard with a score of 0–4.
– The resistance was tough today, head coach Lauri Mikkola said in an interview with TV5.
– It wasn’t until the third set that we really got started.
Finland cleared Canada’s initial rush and had cleared the entire opening set without a setback – but didn’t clear it. On time 19.08 Gavin McKennathe super promise of the hosts, was allowed to stir for too long and too peacefully Petteri Rimpinen in front, so it was no surprise that the ottava laziness got something to celebrate.
McKenna is 17 years old and will not be of reserve age until the summer of 2026. This season, he has scored 60 (19+41) points in 30 games for the WHL’s Medicine Hat Tigers.
At the beginning of the second period, Rimpinen made a lot of great saves, but couldn’t do anything of Easton Cowan for a sharp, front upper corner oriented wrist. The hit in 25:22, combined with the mankel at the beginning of the second set, already knocked the air out of the Finns.
In the opening seconds of the final set Benjamin Rautiainen was able to shoot from the right place, as well So does Tanner Molendy during the ice age, but in reality Finland did not catch a letter change in the eye at any point.
Luca Pinelli package the match Caden Price after a nice preliminary work, five minutes before the buzzer. Matthew Schaefer completed the numbers in an empty Finnish goal.
Carter George the shutout was capped with 31 saves. Rimpinen had 41 saves.
Short rest period
The rest of the Finnish team will be short. The tournament continues with the Germany match tonight at 22:30 Finnish time.
Along with Canada and Germany, Latvia and the United States play in the same starting group as Finland. Only the group jumbo is excluded from the playoffs.
The World Cup final will be played early on the morning of Epiphany Finnish time.