World Junior Championship recap: Canada routs Germany, USA shocked by Slovakia
Slovakia has pulled off a significant upset at the World Junior Championship, beating USA 6-3 on Wednesday.
It didn’t take long for the Slovaks to strike first. At 2:14, Simon Nemec created the scoring chance that saw his team strike near the net. There, Libor Nemec knocked the puck over the goal line and in for the 1-0 goal.The Americans answered back with a pair of goals, with Tyler Boucher scoring at 4:42 on a crease-crashing situation of his own. Two minutes later, Lane Hutson’s shot was tipped in by Gavin Brindley in front of the Slovak net to give USA its only lead of the game.
Bedard is projected to go first overall in the upcoming draft, with his six-point effort coming exactly one year after he scored four goals as a double-underager against Austria.Bedard helped set the first goal up, finding Dylan Guenther all alone for the 1-0 power-play goal. Roman Kechter would get one for Germany five minutes later, but Shane Wright answered back two minutes later, and Bedard scored one of his own at 17:26 to make it 3-1 heading into the break.
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