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Pinios had a good chance for Greece right at the beginning, but missed and then Canada scored two quick goals. In span of 19 seconds, at first Remi Laurencelle and then Dylan Kelly managed to beat Bitsakis to earn an early 2-0 lead for their side. Danick Martel took advantage of some free space in front of Greek goal later and scored for third goal still inside the first period.
Penalties prevented Greece from creating a pressure and trying to get on board in second period. Also Canada capitalized on one of them when Patrick O‘Keefe blasted the ball into the net for number four.
The game was hyped up, there were some minor conflicts and also a major penalty. Spiro Goulakos got ejected late in the second period and the game was pretty much settled. Kevin Reid scored the fifth shorthanded with ten minutes to go in regulation and it was only a matter of final score since then. Tim Barlow managed to perform some outstanding saves to get the shutout.
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Ian Moores (head coach of Canada): We are happy to win and we are going to championship game. Greece played hard game in quarter-final yesterday, it was really good opponent today, but my players was ready to go to the championship game for sure. It doesn’t matter who will play against us in the final, we will be ready for whoever it will be.
John Kontitsis (manager of Greece): We played Canada in the past, we knew the style they play. I think today we just weren’t ready to play. We weren’t ready to run and if you are not wolling to work hard against a team like this, then that’s the outcome. In the beginning we had a couple of good chances. You bury one or two of those and maybe the game changes a little bit, but you miss it and they score on the other side. But you must keep playing hard. We couldn’t seem to get the bounce, to get the goal and we never got back into the game.
