{"id":55152,"date":"2013-12-26T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=55152"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:42:31","slug":"team-usa-opens-world-juniors-with-5-1-win-over-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2013\/12\/26\/team-usa-opens-world-juniors-with-5-1-win-over-czech-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA opens World Juniors with 5-1 win over Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five different players scored and Providence goaltender Jon Gillies made 23 saves to help the U.S. National Junior Team defeat the Czech Republic 5-1 in the opening game of the 2014 World Junior Championship Thursday in Malmo, Sweden.<\/p>\n
[scg_html_wjc2014] Team USA grabbed a two-goal lead following a pair of power-play markers just 41 seconds apart in the opening minutes of the contest from captain Riley Barber (Miami) at 1:21 and then Will Butcher (Denver) at the 2:02 mark.<\/p>\n
“When you get the two power-play goals to begin the game and can play with the, lead it’s much, much easier to play the game,” said Team USA coach Don Lucia (Minnesota) in a news release. “Our defense did a good job breaking us out and Jon Gillies was there when we needed him.”<\/p>\n
The score remained 2-0 until 9:23 of the middle frame when Hudson Fasching (Minnesota) scored off a rebound.<\/p>\n
Jaccob Slavin (Colorado College) made the score 4-0 at 17:03 of the second period and then Vince Hinostroza (Notre Dame) tallied on a breakaway at 17:49 of the third period.<\/p>\n
Michal Plutnar converted on a power play at 5:47 of the final period for the Czechs, who got a 28-save outing from goaltender Daniel Dolejs<\/p>\n
Stefan Matteau was named player of the game for the Americans.<\/p>\n
Team USA is back in action Saturday, Dec. 28, when it takes on Slovakia at 7:30 a.m. EST. The game will be broadcast live on the NHL Network in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Five different players scored and Providence goaltender Jon Gillies made 23 saves to help the U.S. National Junior Team defeat the Czech Republic 5-1 in the opening game of the 2014 World Junior Championship Thursday in Malmo, Sweden. [scg_html_wjc2014] Team USA grabbed a two-goal lead following a pair of power-play markers just 41 seconds apart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n