{"id":395448,"date":"2023-01-06T03:36:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T08:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395448"},"modified":"2023-01-06T03:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T08:36:51","slug":"canada-u-20-beat-czech-republic-3-2-for-20th-world-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-u-20-beat-czech-republic-3-2-for-20th-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada U-20 beat Czech Republic 3-2 for 20th world title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lively Dylan Guenther scored his second goal of the game in overtime to give Canada U-20 team a famous 3-2 victory over the Czech Republic on Thursday night for their record-extending 20th world junior hockey title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GAME OVER! Golden in Halifax. \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83e\udd47<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZrfSWZTxuv\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZrfSWZTxuv<\/a><br \/> <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\/Qv43ur5HkQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Qv43ur5HkQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada\/status\/1611189200446971904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Canada also won the pandemic-delayed summer showcase in Edmonton, Alberta, and is the first repeat winner since they clinched five golds in a row between 2005 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Coyotes forward Guenther took a pass from Joshua Roy on a 2-on-1 and beat goalie Tomas Suchanek in the 3-on-3 extra period after Canada blew a 2-0 lead in the third period.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE GOLDEN GOAL BY DYLAN GUENTHER! \ud83e\udd47<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\/VbbZQfTOV4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VbbZQfTOV4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada\/status\/1611189358328946693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means everything,\u201d Guenther said. \u201cYou never know when you\u2019re going to get the opportunity to win again. To be here with this team and play in front of these fans and just the whole situation, it couldn\u2019t have ended better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shane Wright, on his 19th birthday, also scored for Canada, and Thomas Milic made 24 saves. Connor Bedard, the projected No. 1 draft pick who had 23 points,\u00a0was selected the tournament MVP.<\/p>\n<p>Jiri Kulich and Jakub Kos replied for the Czech Republic, scoring in a 54-second span in the third period. Suchanek stopped 35 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Czechs stunned the tournament hosts 5-2 in the opener on Dec. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lively Dylan Guenther scored his second goal of the game in overtime to give Canada U-20 team a famous 3-2 victory over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395450,"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":"This is the first repeat winner for Canada since they clinched five golds in a row between 2005 and 2009","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\/395448"}],"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=395448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395448"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395448"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}