NHL

Canada Beats Denmark 14-0 in World Juniors Opener

Despite being the team that told gold last year, no one saw what happened in Wednesday nights World Junior opening night coming.  Denmark lost 0-14, marking the first game of the tournament for Canada as a win.

Notable Players

Maxime Comtois

Comtois scored four of the 14 goals during the game.

Morgan Frost

Frost registered a hat trick.

Players that Scored Twice

Both Owen Tippett and Brett Leason scored twice during the victory against Denmark.

Players that Scored Once

Jack Studnicka, Jaret Anderson-Dolan, and MacKenzie Entwistle also ended up finding the net and scoring a goal for Canada.

First Period

Canada opened scoring just 4:52 into the first period. Morgan Frost took the puck, had a one-on-one with Sogaard only to end up slipping the puck under the goalies pads-bringing Canada up to 1-0. Less than three minutes later at 8:32, Frost collected a pass from Glass and shot it across the ice to Tippet. Owen Tippet then got a shot in behind Sogaard, bringing the score 2-0.

Frost is a Philadelphia Flyers prospect and was dominant during the first period, scoring again with less than a minute left in the first period. This goal brought Canada up 3-0 at the end of the first period.

Second Period

The momentum was carried over into the second period with Canada scoring for a fourth time just 45 seconds in. Glass gave the puck over to Comtois at the top of the face-off circle, bringing the team to 4-0. Fifty-five seconds later, Nick Suzuki received the puck from a pass from DiPietro. Instead of shooting it, Suzuki passed the puck to Frost who hammered it in making it his third goal of the night.

Six minutes after Frost’s goal, Jack Studnicka scored, bringing Canada to 6-0. Six more minutes after that, Owen Tippet scored his second goal of the night, bringing the score to 7-0. Anderson-Dolan added an eight-goal to Canada’s score, with less than a minute left in the second period-poking the puck past the Danish goalie.

Third Period

Just two minutes and fifty-two seconds into the third period, Comtois scored. Comtois did so again, just a little over four minutes later. Giving Canada two goals, bringing the score to 10-0. Two minutes after Comtois’ second goal, Brett Leason scored.

At 12:33, Denmark’s goaltender left the game with an apparent injury. Mads Sogaard stopped 30 out of the 41 shots for Denmark before leaving.  As a result, Denmark brought in William Roth. After Roth was put in the net, Leason scored yet again, just a mere fourteen seconds into Roth’s time on the ice. Forty seconds later, Comtois scored a third time, bringing the game to 13-0. Finally, with just a minute and thirteen seconds left in the third period, MacKenzie Entwistle scored, bringing the game to 14-0

Canada’s Next Game

Canada will face Switzerland Thursday.

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