Canada’s men post shootout win over Slovakia to remain unbeaten at hockey worlds | CBC Sports

Jack Quinn scored the winning shootout goal as Canada edged Slovakia 2-1 Monday at the world hockey championship in Riga, Latvia.

Canada goaltender Sam Montembeault clinched the win by stopping Martin Chromiak on Slovakia’s final shootout attempt.

Jake Neighbours scored in regulation for Canada, which leads Group A with eight points (two regulation wins, one overtime win) in three games.

Peter Cehlarik scored for Slovakia, which is fourth in the group with four points (one win, one loss, one overtime loss).

Montembeault made 23 saves for Canada in regulation and overtime.

Samuel Hlavaj made 42 stops for Slovakia.

Canada returns to action Wednesday against Kazakhstan at 1:20 p.m. ET.

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Canada moves to 3-0 record after shootout win over Slovakia at world championship

Jack Quinn scored the shootout winner and goaltender Sam Montembeault had a strong game as Canada defeated Slovakia 2-1 at the IIHF world hockey championships.

DeSmith backstops U.S. to 3rd victory

In other action, the United States had to fight hard to overcome Germany 3-2 for a third victory in three games in Tampere, Finland.

Matt Coronatto, Sean Farrell and Ronnie Attard each scored for the Americans and T.J. Tynan had two assists at Nokia Arena. Goaltender Casey DeSmith made 30 saves.

Coronatto scored the winner on a power play with 5:10 to go to complete the rally in the final period after Farrell tied the score at 2-2 in the same frame.

After the Germans limited the U.S. to four shots in the opening period, Attard broke the scoreless deadlock at 5:39 into the middle period.

Germany came back with Samuel Soramies’s equalizer from a short-handed goal followed by Justin Schutz giving them the lead with five seconds to go on a breakaway.

Finland faced Sweden in Group A later Monday, and the Czechs played Latvia in Group B.