“Rewatching that video kind of triggers me a little bit.” Returning HC_WJC players from last year will never get over the crushing loss to Finland but now they get a chance at redemption in the semifinals of the WorldJuniors.
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic — It’s a loss Joe Veleno knows he’ll never truly get over. The same goes for Barrett Hayton.
Noah Dobson got another chance to win it and send the national team to the semifinals on home soil, but the defenceman’s stick broke at the crucial moment as he stared down what basically amounted to an open net. “Rewatching that video kind of triggers me a little bit,” Veleno said. “If we would have won that game, we maybe could have won the tournament.”“We all remember all of it,” said Hayton, this year’s captain. “Forever that’ll be a bitter taste.”“It was a huge goal. I hope to see something similar on Saturday,” Utunen said, adding he’s only viewed the replay on social media a handful of times. “It’s hard to explain the feeling.
“We’ve got a really good group to do this,” said Veleno, a first-round pick by Detroit. “We believe in ourselves.”
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