Connor Bedard ties Jordan Eberle for national record with 14th career goal at world juniors
Connor Bedard had two goals and four assists as Canada pounded Austria 11-0 for the host country’s second straight blowout win at the world junior hockey championship Thursday.
Canada was embarrassed 5-2 by the Czechs in Monday’s opener before rebounding with an emphatic 11-2 victory over Germany on Wednesday. Bedard tied Canada’s single-game record with seven points against Germany, and entered Thursday tied with John Tavares, Eric Lindros and Jeff Carter with 12 combined goals in his world junior career – two back of Eberle’s national record.
A roster stacked with nine first-round NHL draft picks, plus presumptive 2023 top-5 selections Bedard and Fantilli, Canada had a tentative opening against the European lightweights, registering a solitary shot over the game’s first 14 minutes.Guenther, who scored a hat trick against Germany – all off Bedard feeds – got things started off a slick no-look, between-the-legs pass from Brennan Othmann.
Allan then made it 6-0 on a seeing-eye shot from the point and Stankoven added his second from in tight on another sequence that required video review.
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