The Canadians torched the Czechs for five power-play goals – four of them in a tournament record-tying first period
— and buried the reeling hosts 7-2 to clinch top spot in the World Junior Championship “Group of Death” Tuesday at Ostravar Arena.
Nolan Foote and captain Barrett Hayton, Canada’s best gunners in the absence of injured Alexis Lafreniere, quickly added their third apiece in four games. Connor McMichael added the fourth on that same five-minute advantage. He beat starting goaltender Lukas Parik, who suffered an injury on the play and had to be helped off the ice.
At that point, the Czechs’ list of walking wounded has descended into the realms of the tragi-comical. They were already missing a line’s worth of quality forwards in Jan Jenik, Jakub Lauko and Jan Sir.
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