{"id":436788,"date":"2023-05-27T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436788"},"modified":"2023-05-27T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T16:20:14","slug":"canada-goes-to-iihf-final-winning-4-2-over-latvia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-goes-to-iihf-final-winning-4-2-over-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada goes to IIHF final winning 4-2 over Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada scored three goals in the final period for a 4-2 win over Latvia in the first semifinal of IIHF at the Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>USA and Germany play in the second semi-final and will determine Canada&#8217;s opponent in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvians took a double lead with goals from Dans Lochmelis in the first period and Rudolfs Balchers in the second. Sammy Blais of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/st-louis-blues\/\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> temporarily tied the score for the 27-time champions.<\/p>\n<p>Canada delivered the decisive blow in the final third. Jack Quinn of the Buffalo Sabers tied the game 45 seconds into the game, and eight minutes later, 18-year-old University of Michigan junior Adam Fantilly scored the game-winning puck.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@hockeycanada<\/a> is heading to the gold medal game!\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CANLAT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CANLAT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIHFWorlds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IIHFWorlds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full game recap \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/trsL2JnCoK\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/trsL2JnCoK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l5NWMOeZbI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l5NWMOeZbI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IIHF (@IIHFHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIHFHockey\/status\/1662456494174896128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Scott Laughton, one of the captains of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/philadelphia-flyers\/\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>, finished off the opponent with an empty net goal 43 seconds before the end.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Montembo blocked 22 shots for the Canadians, and Arthurs Shilovs made 32 saves in the opposite net.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wa71pTKSGI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada scored three goals in the final period for a 4-2 win over Latvia in the first semifinal of IIHF at the Nokia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":436789,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18844,19304],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18845,19305],"acf":{"announce":"The Maple Leafs got the win in the final third","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\/436788"}],"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=436788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436788"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436788"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}