Canada's team faced a stern reality check after their penalty woes allowed the USA to power their way to a 4-1 victory. The Canadian squad, leading the tournament in minor penalties, held a team meeting to address their undisciplined play and vowed to make amends in their upcoming matches.
Team Canada held a meeting on Wednesday to address their parade to the penalty box at the World Juniors. The message was straightforward. The United States scored three power-play goals on seven chances in Tuesday's 4-1 win over Canada . 'The good thing about last night's penalties is that they were so obvious that there's no denying we can't take them,' Cameron said.'I'll tell you tomorrow at 7:30,' he said.'It's not about understanding. It's about how they're going to act on it.
The time for talking is over.' Canada split its four games in the preliminary round, but one consistent element in the games has been undisciplined play. Canada leads the tournament with 29 minor penalties, which is seven more than any other team. The players have struggled to adapt to the stricter standard in the international game, but Cameron isn't interested in excuses. 'No, no, no, no, no, no, no,' he said.'The standard's the standard. Those penalties are nothing to do with the referee.' Canadian centre Berkly Catton wonders if the electric atmosphere in Ottawa may be leading his team to be too amped up. 'Maybe lots of emotions,' the Seattle Kraken prospect theorized.'We have a fifth line out there with our fans. They give us lots of energy and maybe we're using it in the wrong ways in terms of taking it out on the other team sometimes when we should be creating offence or blocking shots instead.' 'We have to have a little chat and just make sure everybody's on the same page going into these next couple games,' captain Brayden Yager said in the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's game. 'We had a good talk within the players,' forward Carson Rehkopf confirmed on Wednesday.'We're ready to fix that next game.' Rehkopf took a pair of penalties, including an interference call for knocking away the dropped stick of USA goalie Trey Augustine. 'It was a dumb penalty,' said Rehkopf, who is one of four returning players from last year's World Junior
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