VIDEO The ferocity of the young Czechs was not enough: Home Canada will challenge Finland in the fight for another gold at the World Cup! – Športky.sk

Canadian under-20 hockey players celebrate a goal Source: SITA/AP/Jason Franson/The Canadian Press EDMONTON – Hockey players from Canada and Finland advanced to the finals of the World Cup for under-20 players in Edmonton. The home Canadians beat the Czech Republic 5:2 in the semi-finals, the Finns narrowly won the Nordic derby 1:0 over Sweden. The fight for gold is scheduled for Sunday at 2:00 CET, the duel for third place will be played on Saturday at 10:00 CET. In the match against the Czech Republic, Canada took a step forward already in the first period, in which they built up a two-goal lead. In the second, the favorite added two more accurate hits and already led 4:0. The Czechs won with a goal only at the beginning of the final ten minutes, when Jan Myšák and Michal Gut reduced the score to 2:4 within 110 seconds. In the 55th minute, however, Joshua Roy finally sealed the progress of Canada, whose 31 saves helped the progress of goalkeeper Dylan Garand. Kent Johnson had a goal and two assists, defender Olen Zellweger was involved in three of his team’s hits. “Javorové listy” last enjoyed the title in 2020, they have a record 18 championships from the World Cup. The Czechs knocked out the defending champions from the USA in the quarterfinals. The Canadians will appear in the World Cup 20 final for the fifth time in six years. “It’s great to be in the final, but the hardest work is still ahead of us. We have to rest well, recover and be ready to fight for the title,” said goalkeeper Garand. After reducing the difference to two goals, the Czechs still threw their forces into attack, but finally conceded. “In the end, we went into it with the idea that if we had scored a contact goal to make it 3:4, it would have been even more dramatic. It didn’t work out, but I think our players left everything there,” he praised according to idnes.cz team performance of Czech coach Radim Rulík. In the battle for bronze, his men will try for the first shot at a medal after 17 years. The last time they enjoyed third place was in 2005. The Finns succeeded in the Nordic drama The Finns will have a chance to repeat their “golden” championship from 2019 in the final. Kasper Puutio in the power play. Goalkeeper Juha Jatkola shone with a clean sheet with 23 saves. The Swedes also had support in the goal, Jesper Wallstedt stopped 27 opponent shots. The Finns have won the Junior World Championship five times so far (1987, 1998, 2014, 2016, and 2019), and they will meet Canada for the first time in the fight for gold. Photo gallery (11) Source: SITA/AP/Jason Franson/The Canadian Press “It’s unbelievable. We have a great group of guys. Many of us have been playing together for six years and I can’t even describe how I feel right now. It’s going to be hard to fall asleep, but we’ll be ready to fight for the gold,” said the author of the goal Puutio for the official IIHF website. Swedish captain Emil Andrae did not hide his disappointment: “It’s a difficult loss. We didn’t get much space in our attacking zone. It was a one-goal duel, we could have won the matches anyway.” semi-final of the WC in hockey under 20 years: Canada – Czech Republic 5:2 (2:0, 2:0, 1:2)
Goals and assists: 11. Johnson (Stankoven, Foerster), 16. Bedard (Gaucher, Cuylle), 32. Stankoven (Johnson, Zellweger), 37. McTavish (Johnson, Zellweger), 55. Roy (Zellweger, Dufour) – 51 Myšák (Kulich, Svozil), 53. Jurajček (Kulich, Myšák). Referee: Holm (Sweden), Fernandez – Briganti, Rey (all USA). Exclusions: 2:3. Usage: 2:1. Spectators: 5092. Canada: Garand – Sebrango, Zellweger, Del Mastro, Cormier, Thompson, Seeley, O’Rourke – Dufour, McTavish, Roy – Foerster, Stankoven, Johnson – Bedard, Gaucher, Cuylle – Desnoyers, Ostapchuk, Othmann. Coach: Dave Cameron. Czech Republic: Suchánek (41. Čajan) – Ticháček, Jiříček, Svozil, Špaček, Hamara, Cech, Š. Nemec – Myšák, Šapovaliv, Kulich – Urban, Gut, Szturc – Ryšavý, Menšík, Kos – Hauser, Ivan, Měchura – Herčík. Coach: Radim Rulík. Sweden – Finland 0:1 (0:0, 0:1, 0:0)
Goal: 26. Puutio (Räty, Niemelä) next WC under-20 program /times are in SELČ/: Saturday, August 20
match for 3rd place
22.00 Czech Republic – Sweden Sunday, August 21
2.00 Canada – Finland Photo gallery for the article Number of photos: 11 Author: © Video list: Youtube/CAZIIN, Youtube/PROHockey Source: TASR