{"id":395440,"date":"2023-01-05T00:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T05:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395440"},"modified":"2023-01-05T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:35:42","slug":"canada-advance-to-final-after-beating-usa-6-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-advance-to-final-after-beating-usa-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada U-20 advance to final after beating USA 6-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada U-20 team fought off a sluggish start and a 2-0 deficit to defeat the United States 6-2 in front a Scotiabank Centre crowd of 10,636, an arena record, and advance to the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship against the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GAME OVER | Going for GOLD! \ud83e\udd47<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5KYDd5Br1y\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/5KYDd5Br1y<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldJuniors?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WorldJuniors<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gb7aNyZobO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Gb7aNyZobO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada\/status\/1610825461352828933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. outshot the tournament hosts 45-37 on Wednesday night, dominating large patches of the game and were unfortunate not to have had a more favorable outcome.<\/p>\n<p>They, however, couldn&#8217;t solve Canadian goalie Thomas Milic to any great degree. He was outstanding in making 43 saves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s incredible,&#8221; Milic added. &#8220;It&#8217;s something we&#8217;ve been working toward for a long time now and it&#8217;s something you dream of doing as a kid. So super-excited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love those high-pressure situations. And I think as we&#8217;ve progressed through the tournament, we&#8217;ve just been getting better and better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Joshua Roy had two goals, the second into the empty net, and two assists for Canada. Adam Fantilli, Connor Bedard and Logan Stankoven each had a goal and an assist, and Brandt Clarke also scored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Logan Cooley and Kenny Connors scored in the first period as the Americans raced to a 2-0 lead. Trey Augustine stopped 31 shots for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking its 20th title, Canada will face the Czech Republic on Thursday night. The Czechs, 5-2 winners over Canada in their tournament opener, rallied to beat Sweden 2-1 in overtime in the first semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>The United States will play Sweden in the bronze-medal game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada U-20 team fought off a sluggish start and a 2-0 deficit to defeat the United States 6-2 in front a Scotiabank Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395441,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17173],"news_category":[16709,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The tournament hosts will seek 20th world title","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395440"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395440"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}