Canada gets past Slovakia, USA dispatches Denmark

Canada now 3:0 in Tournament after getting past persistent Slovaks

A shorthanded goal by Juraj Mily in the 13th minute opened the score after his fellow Slovak Roman Grman had been benched for Roughing. The Canadians couldn't react to the goal while the 1st period was underway and it also didn't seem like the equalizing goal would fall in the second period. But with 7 seconds left Brendan Perlini on a power play scored the important goal while Haydn Fleury and Travis Sanheim gave the pass. With 54 minutes played Perlini advanced to the game winner as he scored the 2nd goal of the evening receiving the important pass from Brayden Point. With that goal, the Slovaks were unable to answer and lost the game 2:1. Slovakia now has a record of 1 regulation win, 1 loss and an overtime loss before they face Sweden in the final preliminary round game.

USA marches through, beats Denmark 7:0

For today's match, Mathias Seldrup got the nod over fellow netminder Lilie. But he couldn't stop the shot from Frank Milano in the 11th minute but stopped the other 20 shots in the first period. Jared Fiegl in the 32nd minute (assist by Joe Wegwerth) and Jack Eichel 5 minutes later (assists by Frank Milano & Jack Glover) increased the score to 3:0 after 40 minutes. While Seldrup's team mates couldn't account a single shot on goal during the second period he prevented his Team of worse, stopping 19 shots. Four goals by Jack Glover in the 43rd minute, Ryan Hitchcock in the 46th minute, Jack Eichel in the 53rd and finally Kyle Connor a minute later secured the 2nd win for the US Boys while Denmark will most likely meet Germany in the relegation round. Noteworthy is Seldrups performance, as he kept another 13 shots while his counterpart Edwin Minney had exactly 8 shots to block.

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