🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 04 August 2015

2015 IIHF World Junior Championship gold medallists Brayden Point and Jake Virtanen put on a show at the Markin MacPhail Centre on Tuesday, combining for eight points in a 7-1 Canadian win; Point had five points and Virtanen added three.

“That’s nothing new from Brayden Point. The guy is just a world-class player who puts pucks in the net, shifts easily to defence, hits guys. He does it all,” said Virtanen. “Tonight he had a great performance.”

The Canadians posted their second straight come-from-behind win at Canada’s National Junior Team Sport Chek Summer Development Camp, scoring seven unanswered goals.

Midway through the first period, Canada turned it over in their own end before Filip Chlapík’s quick shot ended up over Mackenzie Blackwood’s stick for a 1-0 lead.

Late in the opening frame, Rourke Chartier tied it up for Canada on the power play, snapping a wrist shot from the hash mark off a set-up from Virtanen and Nicolas Aubé-Kubel.

Despite the tie game at the end of the first the Czech Republic doubled Canada in shots, 14-7.

A flurry of goals – four to be exact – and better skating and puck-handling helped Canada in the second period.

It started at 4:09 when Virtanen beat Czech goaltender Vitek Vaněček with a nice deke off a crafty pass from Point, and Haydn Fleury fired in a slap shot from the point halfway through the period to give Canada a two-goal lead.

Late in the middle frame, Vaněček left the side of the net open for Point, who buried his shot into the gaping hole off a pass from Travis Konecny.

Jut 2:19 later, Noah Juulsen and Point set up Brandon Hickey who walked in and tipped home the 5-1 goal.

Early in the third, Virtanen found himself open in the slot and beat Vaněček with a shot off the goaltender’s glove, and Point capped his impressive night at 13:22, tucking the puck around the Czech netminder.

“I thought our team clicked pretty quick and had a good game,” Point said. “The chemistry I got with my linemates (Anthony Beauvillier and Konecny) was fun to play. They’re fast and quick and really smart so it was easy.”

Canada outshot the Czech Republic 27-17.

The Canadians next face Russia on Wednesday night at the Markin MacPhail Centre.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
11:38 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Chlapík (Kotala)
13:52 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Chlapík, roughing
13:52 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Fleury, cross checking
13:52 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Sadowy, roughing
18:15 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Chlapík, roughing
18:45 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Chartier (Virtanen, Aubé-Kubel)
19:38 – 🇨🇦 PEN – McKeown, tripping

2nd Period
24:09 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Virtanen (Point, Sadowy)
25:16 – 🇨🇦 PEN – McKeown, holding
29:28 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Fleury (Konecny, Point)
33:14 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Point (Konecny, Aubé-Kubel)
35:33 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Hickey (Point, Juulsen)

3rd Period
44:30 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Virtanen (Bleackley, Sadowy)
52:16 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gauthier, slashing
52:26 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Veselý, high sticking double minor
53:22 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Point (Konecny, Fleury)
57:43 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Ščotka, holding

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇨🇦 Blackwood (26-27)
L: 🇨🇿 Vaněček (27-34)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇨🇦 9+10+8 = 27
🇨🇿 9+5+3 = 17

ROSTERS
🇨🇦 Goaltenders: Mackenzie Blackwood, Samuel Montembeault. Defence: Thomas Chabot, Haydn Fleury, Brandon Hickey, Noah Juulsen, Olivier LeBlanc, Roland McKeown. Forwards: Nicolas Aubé-Kubel, Mathew Barzal, Anthony Beauvillier, Connor Bleackley, Rourke Chartier, Jake DeBrusk, Julien Gauthier, Jayce Hawryluk, Travis Konecny, Brayden Point, Dylan Sadowy, Jake Virtanen.
🇨🇿 Goaltenders: Vítek Vaněček, Karel Vejmelka. Defence: Tomáš Havlín, Ondřej Mikliš, Filip Pyrochta, Alex Rašner, David Sklenička, Jan Ščotka, Jakub Zbořil. Forwards: Jindřich Abdul, Tomas Andres, Filip Chlapík, Jiří Černoch, Tomáš Gřeš, Lukáš Jašek, David Kaše, Jakub Kotala, Filip Kuťák, Jan Ordoš, Michael Špaček, Radek Veselý, Daniel Voženílek.

Article Credit: Hockey Canada