Canada took up an important challenge to start the Hlinka-Gretzky tournament on Monday.
The training led by Quebecois Mathieu Turcotte has taken the measure of the Toroce Finland by the brand of 5 to 3 to start the competition which takes place in Brno in Czech Republic with a victory.
Ontarian Beckham Edwards set the tone for the unifolié match by scoring the first goal of the meeting in the first minute of play. Captain Keaton Verhoeff, one of the best hopes for the next auction, has doubled the advance of his family in mid-Periide.
However, the Finns replied twice before the end of the commitment to retreat in the locker room with an equality of 2 to 2.
At the very end of a second period marked by a controversial revision of a Canadian goal and by many punishment, defender Ryan Lin broke the dead end to allow Canada to take over the lead.
Dimian Zhilkin doubled the advance of his family in the middle of the third twenty, but Finland reduced the gap to a goal by scoring the power game. Ethan Belchetz, however, nailed the coffin of opponents by marking in a cage left abandoned.
Canada dominated in terms of penalties with 38 shots directed to goalkeeper William Gammals against 25 for the Finns.
The two Quebecers in action, the striker Thomas Rousseau and the defender Cameron Chartrand, were bleached from the scoring sheet.
Canada will play its next tournament match against Switzerland on Tuesday.