{"id":436134,"date":"2023-05-17T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436134"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:47:16","slug":"canada-trashes-kazakhstan-5-1-in-riga","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-trashes-kazakhstan-5-1-in-riga\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada trashes Kazakhstan 5-1 in Riga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada scored four goals in the first period en route to an easy 5-1 win over Kazakhstan in their Group B match in the IIHF. The victory keeps Canada without a loss and puts them back in first place with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians needed just 19 seconds after the puck was dropped for defender Mackenzie Weegar to get the puck in the high slot and make no mistake, drilling a shot over the glove of Nikita Boyarkin. Less than five minutes later, in was 2-0 when Lawson Crouse tapped it in at 5:05.<\/p>\n<p>\u0410t 7:50 Crouse got his second. Canada added a fourth goal with 37.6 seconds remaining off a fine play by Samuel Blais.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Four goals in the first period secured <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@hockeycanada<\/a> easy win over Kazakhstan in Group B tonight.\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CANKAZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CANKAZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIHFWorlds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IIHFWorlds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read full game story \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DpwgCkNF2r\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/DpwgCkNF2r<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YCJZFbJ8BE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YCJZFbJ8BE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IIHF (@IIHFHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIHFHockey\/status\/1658917839867109379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Kazakhs settled down in the second and\u00a0Canada came out with more determination in the third, playing more in th\u0435 Kazakhstan end. They were rewarded early on, scoring a fifth goal at 1:55. Boyarkin made a fine stop off an initial shot from Veleno, but the puck came right back to Blais, who hit the open net.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7fQ7P-2z2mU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada scored four goals in the first period en route to an easy 5-1 win over Kazakhstan in their Group B match in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":436136,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18844,19304],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18845,19305],"acf":{"announce":"The Maple Leafs scored inside the first 19 seconds","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\/436134"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436134"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436134"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}