From frank_seravalli: Lafreniere scores winner as Canada defeat USA in thrilling World Juniors opener. MORE:
Seven seconds - that’s all it took for Alexis Lafreniere to make something out of nothing. June’s consensus No. 1 overall pick picked off a pass and slipped it by Spencer Knight, responding for a shell-shocked Team Canada against its biggest rival.
Instead, Team Canada kicked off the 2020 World Junior Championship in style, hanging on for a wild, 6-4 win on Boxing Day against their cross-border foe on the back of Lafreniere’s four-point night. Lafreniere was voted the game’s best player by a tournament directorate committee; captain Barrett Hayton also chipped in two goals.
Canada was in real danger of losing a fifth straight game to the Americans, the first time that would have happened at the hands of any opponent in Hockey Canada’s 43-year run in this tournament. There are no nights off, no shifts off in a tournament this short - and Thursday’s see-saw affair was the perfect reminder of that.
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