{"id":435429,"date":"2023-05-12T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435429"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T20:02:46","slug":"canada-trash-latvia-6-0-in-1st-match-at-the-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-trash-latvia-6-0-in-1st-match-at-the-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada trash Latvia 6-0 in 1st match at the World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada destroyed Latvia 6-0 in the IIHF Men&#8217;s World Hockey Championship at Arena Riga in front of 9\u00a0260 spectators.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Team Canada takes care of business against Team Latvia in their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIHFWorlds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IIHFWorlds<\/a> opener. \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ELneA38HO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6ELneA38HO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1657106913539108864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Weegar notched and had 2 assists as goalie Sam Montembeault stopped 23 shots for the Team Canada victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian national men&#8217;s hockey team scored 2 goals in each period. Lawson Crouse netted the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal against Latvia less than a minute after the beginning of the clash. The other goals were notched by Scott Laughton, Samuel Blais, Joe Veleno, and Jack McBain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One shot, one goal, less than one minute in! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>Canada moves up 1-0 on host Latvia. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIHFWorlds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IIHFWorlds<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7wbm4SH86I\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7wbm4SH86I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1657074061355122698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Canada is in Group B with the Czech Republic, Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, and Latvia. The first 4 teams in the group will advance to the World Championship playoffs as the last-placed team will be relegated to the WCH IA.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will face next Slovenia on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada destroyed Latvia 6-0 in the IIHF Men&#8217;s World Hockey Championship at Arena Riga in front of 9\u00a0260 spectators. Team Canada takes care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435430,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19304,19228],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19305,19229],"acf":{"announce":"Canada blanked their opponent in the opening game.","video":["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\/435429"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435429"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435429"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}