The Czech Republic secured bronze at the World Junior Hockey Championship, defeating Sweden in a shootout. Eduard Sale was the hero, scoring the winning goal in the 14th round of the shootout.
The Czech Republic's Eduard Sale scored in the 14th round of the shootout to lead his country past Sweden 3-2 and claim bronze at the world junior hockey championship Sunday. Czech Republic forward Eduard Sale scores on Sweden goaltender Marcus Gidlof in the second period on Sunday. He also scored the winner in the shootout. Eduard Sale scored in the 14th round of the shootout to lead his country past Sweden 3-2 and claim bronze at the world junior hockey championship Sunday. The U.S.
faced off against Finland this evening in the gold-medal game. The Czech captain beat goaltender Marcus Gidlof on his fifth attempt — and 28th between the teams — with a move to the backhand. Sale and Jakub Stancl had the goals in regulation for the Czechs. Michael Hrabal stopped 32 shots through 65 minutes of action. The Czech Republic, which settled for silver at the 2023 tournament in Halifax when Canada captured its 20th gold medal before securing bronze last year in Sweden, has now made the podium at three consecutive tournaments for the first time since Czechoslovakia's dissolution in 1992. The Czechs, who eliminated Canada for a second straight year in the quarterfinals, opened the scoring on the power play — and the game's first shot — at 3:47 of the first when Stancl one-timed his tournament-leading seventh goal upstairs. Sweden, which lost to the U.S. in last year's final on home soil has just two gold medals all-time at the world juniors, replied on a man advantage of its own at 12:31 when Edstrom deposited a loose puck for his third. Sale made it 2-1 at 9:27 of the second when he took advantage of a turnover to roof his sixth before Stancl rang a shot off the crossbar. Eklund hit the post at the other end, but Edstrom connected on a redirection at 15:40 that found iron, hit a television camera inside Sweden's net and bounced out
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