🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Summer Showcase
Sandman Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Friday, 03 August 2018

Alex Formenton capped a wild final minute of the second period with the game-winning goal, sending Canada to a 4-1 win over Sweden on Friday night at the Sport Chek World Junior Showcase.

After more than 39 minutes without a goal, the teams scored three in 45 seconds to finish the middle frame.

Jared McIsaac was first, getting a shot through traffic and past Swedish netminder Olle Eriksson Ek with 47.9 seconds remaining, only for Marcus Sylvegard to take advantage of a broken play and beat Canadian goaltender Michael DiPietro only 16 seconds later.

Formenton beat the buzzer to restore the red-and-white advantage, streaking down the left wing and going post and in to the far side of Eriksson Ek with just 2.3 ticks to go.

Both teams picked up the offence in the third period; after combining for 29 in the first 40 minutes (16-13 in favour of the Canadians), there were 30 in the third period alone – 16-14 Canada.

MacKenzie Entwistle doubled the lead early in the final stanza, finding a loose puck in front and lifting the 3-1 goal over Eriksson Ek, and Joël Teasdale hit the empty net in the final minute to finish the scoring.

Matthew Villalta got the start in the Canadian goal, stopping all eight shots he faced in 29 minutes of work. DiPietro turned away 18 of 19 the rest of the way.

Showcase closes Saturday with a pair of games; Canada is up first against the United States, followed by a Scandinavian showdown between Sweden and Finland.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:42 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Entwistle, tripping
04:32 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Aterius, roughing
13:10 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Hayton, hooking
17:35 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Olofsson, slashing
19:54 – 🇨🇦 PEN – team, too many players

2nd Period
23:53 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Woo, tripping
26:00 – 🇸🇪 PEN – S. Johansson, roughing
30:05 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Phillips, hooking
34:36 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Frost, interference
39:12 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – McIsaac (Woo, Dewar)
39:28 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Sylvegard
39:57 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Formenton (Smith, Bernard-Docker)

3rd Period
44:17 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Entwistle (Bowers, Hayton)
48:00 – 🇸🇪 PEN – F. Johansson, hooking
49:40 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lundkvist, slashing
59:03 – 🇨🇦 EN GOAL – Teasdale (Lavoie)

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇨🇦 Villalta (8-8), DiPietro (18-19)
L: 🇸🇪 Eriksson Ek (28-31)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇨🇦 7+9+16 = 32
🇸🇪 6+7+14 = 27

ROSTERS
🇨🇦 Goaltenders: Michael DiPietro, Matthew Villalta. Defence: Jacob Bernard-Docker, Evan Bouchard, Jared McIsaac, Markus Phillips, Ty Smith, Jett Woo. Forwards: Shane Bowers, Connor Dewar, MacKenzie Entwistle, Alex Formenton, Morgan Frost, Barrett Hayton, Raphaël Lavoie, Stelio Mattheos, Ryan McLeod, Isaac Ratcliffe, Nick Suzuki, Joël Teasdale.
🇸🇪 Goaltenders: Olle Eriksson Ek, Samuel Ersson. Defence: Adam Boqvist, Adam Ginning, Filip Johansson, Simon Johansson, Nils Lundkvist, Sebastian Walfridsson, Filip Westerlund. Forwards: Erik Aterius, Emil Bemström, Jonatan Berggren, Oskar Bäck, Lucas Elvenes, David Gustafsson, Rickard Hugg, Filip Hållander, Linus Karlsson, Isac Lundeström, Jacob Olofsson, Marcus Sylvegård, Fabian Zetterlund.

Article Credit: Hockey Canada
Photo Credit: Team Canada Twitter – IIHF – HHOF – IOC