{"id":22256,"date":"2014-08-16T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22256"},"modified":"2014-08-16T23:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T15:18:53","slug":"canada-whips-united-states-11-5-to-reach-final-at-ivan-hlinka-memorial-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/16\/canada-whips-united-states-11-5-to-reach-final-at-ivan-hlinka-memorial-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada whips United States 11 5 to reach final at Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ivan-Hlinka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22364\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ivan-Hlinka.jpg\" alt=\"MIH-logo-full-CMYK\" width=\"802\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ivan-Hlinka.jpg 802w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ivan-Hlinka-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PIESTANY, Slovakia &#8212; Dylan Strome scored a hat trick as Canada defeated the United States 11-5 on Friday to advance to the final of the under-18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Konecny added a pair of goals while Jansen Harkins, Mathew Barzal, Lawson Crouse, Adam Musil, Mitchell Stephens and Tyler Soy added singles for Canada, which reached double digits in goals in a summer under-18 game for the first time since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought our guys played hard and we were ready to go off the hop,&#8221; said head coach Jody Hull.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will play the co-host Czech Republic in Saturday&#8217;s final at Breclav. The Czechs defeated Sweden 4-3 in the late semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to go out and play our game,&#8221; Hull said. &#8220;If we can go out and play our game for 60 minutes, that&#8217;s going to be the key. You&#8217;ve got to be ready for anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re just going to enjoy this tonight and be focused and ready to go tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All but two of Canada&#8217;s 18 skaters recorded at least a point in the blowout victory and Zach Sawchenko made 24 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Novak scored twice for the Americans. Brock Boeser, Tanner Laczynski and Ryan Moore had the other goals.<\/p>\n<p>Canada finished first in Group B in preliminary round play with a 3-0 record while the Czechs led Group A at 3-0. Sweden and the United States will play for the bronze medal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has won this tournament six years in a row, and 18 of the past 23 times since it began in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIESTANY, Slovakia &#8212; Dylan Strome scored a hat trick as Canada defeated the United States 11-5 on Friday to advance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}