2023-24 National Junior Team

Top three players of the tournament for Canada, named by the IIHF: Maveric Lamoureux, Macklin Celebrini, Denton Mateychuk.

With that, the coverage of the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship blog comes to a close. Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you back at next year's IIHF World Junior Championship in Ottawa! 

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Game over. Canada's National Men's Junior Team outshoots Czechia 30-22 but a goal by Jakub Stancl with 11 seconds remaining leads Czechia into the semifinal. 

3rd - 0:11 | Czechia scores... Jakub Stancl with his second of the game. 

CZE 3 - CAN 2

3rd - 5:30 | Hrabal has continued to be busy in the Czech net, with Canada leading 9-2 in shots this period. Both teams are looking for the tiebreaker now late in the third period. 

3rd - 11:43 | Canada couldn't capitalize on the man-advantage but are continuing to dominate in the Czech zone. Shots are 7-0 in favour of Canada nearing the midway mark of the third period.

3rd - 19:38 | Canada heads to its first power play of the game with Czechia's Marek Alscher heading to the box for tripping. 

3rd - 20:00 | The third period is underway inside Scandinavium!

AFTER 2 | Goals from Matthew Wood and Jake Furlong has Canada and Czechia even at 2-2 after 40 minutes. Canada outshot the Czechs 11-7 in the middle period, now leading the overall shots 16-14.  

CAN 2 - CZE 2

2nd - 3:20 | GOAL! Jake Furlong ties the game for Canada! His shot from the point gets through the crowd in front of the Czech net and the game is now even!

CAN 2 - CZE 2

2nd - 12:47 | Canada has the momentum now as it continues to pressure in the Czech zone. Matthew Wood with a shot from the slot but was turned aside by Hrabal. 

2nd - 16:17 | GOAL! Easton Cowen springs Matthew Wood, who goes top corner for his second goal of the tournament, and cuts the Czech lead down to one! 

CZE 2 - CAN 1

2nd - 20:00 | Teams are back on the ice and the second period is underway!

AFTER 1 | Canada heads into the first intermission trailing Czechia 2-0. Shots are 9-6 in favour of Czechia after 20 minutes. 

CZE 2 - CAN 0

1st - 1:59 | Czechia scores... Thomas Cibulka's point shot finds its way into the back of the net and Czechia now leads by two. 

CZE 2 - CAN 0

1st - 8:56 | Dominik Rymon takes the penalty shot and...STOPPED by Rousseau!

Mathis Rousseau went for the poke check and made the glove save on Rymon to keep it a one-goal game. 

1st - 8:56 | Noah Warren gets called for slashing on a Czech breakaway, penalty shot opportunity coming up for Czechia.

1st - 12:09 | Czechia scores... Jakub Stancl beats Rousseau on the blocker side off the rush and Czechia gets the games first goal. 

CZE 1 - CAN 0

1st - 15:25 | Canada leads 5-1 in the shots department to start off the game but Czechia comes close to opening the scoring as Ondrej Becher's backhand attempt grazes the Canadian crossbar! 

1st - 20:00 | The puck is down in Gothenburg and the quarterfinal match between Canada and Czechia is underway!

It will be Mathis Rousseau (CAN) and Michael Hrabal (CZE) defending the respective creases, with both goalies making their fifth-straight start in Gothenburg.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 2024 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship quarterfinal match between Canada and Czechia from Gothenberg.