Quinton Byfield leads Canada to 10-0 win over Switzerland in world junior tournament
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Dec 29, 2020 7:42 PM
EDMONTON Quinton Byfield had two goals and four assists in Canada’s 10-0 win over Switzerland at the world junior men’s hockey championship Tuesday.
Jakob Pelletier scored twice for Canada (3-0).
Connor McMichael, Dylan Cozens, Philip Tomasino, Ryan Suzuki, Cole Perfetti and Kaiden Guhle also scored for the defending champions.
Canadian goaltender Devon Levi posted a 15-save shutout.
Swiss goalie Noah Patenaude of the QMJHL’s Saint John Sea Dogs stopped 42 shots in the loss, his first start of the tournament.
Canada caps the preliminary round Thursday against Finland (2-0) in what is expected to be the toughest test yet for the host team.
Quinton Byfield has officially arrived at the IIHF World Junior Championship.
Last year, the then-17-year-old kid from Newmarket, Ont., notched one assist in limited time over seven games as Canada won gold. Byfield entered Tuesday s game with one assist in three games in 2021. By the end of 60 minutes against the Swiss, he tacked on six more points with two goals and four helpers as the Canadians handily won by a final score of 10-0. Definitely in camp, not playing hockey for eight to nine months definitely affects you a little bit, and I feel like I just had to ease myself back into it, Byfield, the youngest skater on Team Canada at 18, said after the win. I finally found my footing, but I’ve been playing the same way. I’m trying to play hard and play our structure, but everything kind of just happened tonight. I think me and [Jakob Pelletier] had some good connections on some goals and getting the bounces tonight.
96.1 The Rush By Luke McGrath Team Canada has outscored their opponents 29-3 in just three games.
In what was arguably their most complete game of the tournament so far, Team Canada took care of business against team Switzerland, beating them 10-0 in their third game at the 2021 World Junior Hockey Championship.
Philip Tomasino scored just 90 seconds into the game to put Canada up 1-0 early, and although that was the only goal scored in the first period, Canada was clearly controlling the game. Switzerland was outshot 14-3 in the first 20 minutes, hardly testing goaltender Devon Levi.
Early in the second period, Whitehorse s Dylan Cozens poked home a rebound off a Cole Perfetti shot on the powerplay to put the Canadians up 2-0. That kick-started a four goal period in which Canada outshot their Swiss opponents 23-4. Cozens picked up his second point of the night late in the second period, stealing the puck from a Swiss defender before fi
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