BEIJING (AP) The best player so far in the men’s hockey tournament at the Olympics is also the youngest. Juraj Slavkovsky of Slovakia is six weeks away from his 18th birthday and already drawing comparisons to Jaromir Jagr.
David Alter, TSN.ca Staff
They can t all be routs against understaffed teams. I think we grew as a group tonight, Team Canada coach Andre Tourigny said of his team. We learned to go though adversity and learned to keep our compsure.
Team Canada received a tougher test in their 3-2 victory against Team Slovakia on Sunday. Philip Tomasino continued scored the game-winning goal and added an assist as in the second preliminary round game for the team at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships.
Jordan Spence and Jack Quinn also had goals in the victory.
Spence scored at 4:08 of the first period and made his tournament debut after it was announced earlier on Sunday that forward Dylan Holloway would miss the game with an upper-body injury.