🇨🇦 Canada 8-6 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 02 August 2024

Propelled by three power-play goals, Canada skated to an 8-6 win over Finland in the first game of the day.

Finland’s Topias Hynninen opened the game’s scoring 11:55 into the game with a power-play tally, finishing a quick rebound off an initial shot by Emil Pieniniemi.

Canadian winger Andrew Cristall found the equalizer with a power-play goal of his own 3:38 later with a shot from the right dot.

Tij Iginla scored goals just eight seconds apart late in the period to give Canada a 3-1 lead after 20 minutes. A tip-in off perfect pass from Beckett Sennecke with 1:10 to play gave the Canadians a lead they would not relinquish, then a shot went five-hole off a seam pass from Dylan MacKinnon to wrap up a busy first.

Cristall netted his second of the night 3:05 into the middle frame, putting the finishing touch on a tic-tac-toe play with Vincent Collard, then Cole Beaudoin made it 5-1 with 8:58 left in the period with a wrister from the right dot.

A power-play score from Pieniniemi just over a minute later from the top of the left circle made it 5-2 heading into the final period.

Sennecke buried a one-timer on the power play 1:22 into the third, Sam Dickinson scored a power play goal of his own just 45 seconds later, then Riley Heidt scored off the rush to give the Canadians an 8-2 lead.

The Finns registered four goals in the back half of the period, including two on the power play, to account for the 8-6 final.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
11:37 – 🇨🇦 PEN – MacKinnon, cross checking
11:55 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Hynninen (Pieniniemi, Kumpulainen)
15:28 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kuusla, hooking
15:33 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Cristall (Heidt, Dickinson)
18:50 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Iginla (Sennecke)
18:58 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Iginla (MacKinnon)

2nd Period
23:05 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Cristall (Collard, Dickinson)
31:02 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Beaudoin (Cristall, Morin)
32:00 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Collard, high sticking
32:30 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Pieniniemi (Hemming, Kiiskinen)
33:40 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kiiskinen, tripping
34:24 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dickinson, roughing
34:24 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kuusla, roughing
36:36 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Sotheran, roughing
36:36 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kangas, roughing double minor
37:12 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Nykyri, tripping
39:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hynninen, unsportsmanlike conduct minor + 10 min. misconduct
39:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Korkola, tripping

3rd Period
40:12 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pieniniemi, slashing
41:22 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Sennecke (Romani, Price)
42:27 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Dickinson (Heidt, Cristall)
43:48 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Iginla, cross checking
47:46 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Heidt (Barkey, Sennecke)
48:31 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kangas, unsportsmanlike conduct minor + 10 min. misconduct
49:04 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Romani, holding
50:17 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Barlow, high sticking
50:53 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Pieniniemi (Hemming, Kiiskinen)
52:09 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Saarelainen (Koivu, Jokinen)
53:54 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Sotheran, unsportsmanlike conduct minor + 10 min. misconduct
54:14 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Soini (Kuusla, Nurmi)
54:14 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dickinson, unsportsmanlike conduct minor + 10 min. misconduct
57:56 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gibson, interference
59:59 – 🇫🇮 EA GOAL – Hemming (Kumpulainen, Ruohonen)

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇨🇦 Bjarnason (8-9), Ravensbergen (11-16)
L: 🇫🇮 Vedenpää (25-32), Louhivaara (4-5)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇨🇦 14+13+10 = 37
🇫🇮 7+5+13 = 25

ROSTERS
🇨🇦 Goaltenders: Carson Bjarnason, Joshua Ravensbergen. Defence: Quinton Burns, Sam Dickinson, Andrew Gibson, Dylan MacKinnon, Étienne Morin, Caden Price, Carter Sotheran. Forwards: Denver Barkey, Colby Barlow, Cole Beaudoin, Vincent Collard, Andrew Cristall, Riley Heidt, Tij Iginla, Jett Luchanko, Bradly Nadeau, Anthony Romani, Beckett Sennecke, Carson Wetsch.
🇫🇮 Goaltenders: Veeti Louhivaara, Visa Vedenpää. Defence: Mitja Jokinen, Jimi Junkkari, Kalle Kangas (A), Niko Korkola, Niklas Nykyri, Janne Peltonen, Emil Pieniniemi, Sebastian Soini, Arttu Tuhkala. Forwards: Arttu Alasiurua, Emil Hemming, Topias Hynninen, Jesse Kiiskinen (C), Aatos Koivu, Rasmus Kumpulainen (A), Emil Kuusla, Tom Leppä, Onni Lind, Julius Miettinen, Jesse Nurmi, Kasper Pikkarainen, Heikki Ruohonen, Joona Saarelainen.

Article Credit: USA Hockey
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