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Canadian power play destroys India, will face Slovakia for 1st place

4. 6. 2017 | Derek OBrien
Danick Martel scored three goals, Jordan Escott recorded four assists and Canada went an amazing 5-for-6 on the power play to beat India 8-0, which sets up a game for first place in the group with Slovakia on Tuesday. The score was 2-0 after one period and 3-0 after two before the Canadians pumped in five in the third. Goalie Tim Barlow was replaced by Kevin McHolm in the last minute of the game for a combined shutout. With the loss, India cannot finish any higher than third place, and will need something from their last game to stay ahead of Greece and Finland.
 

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Jordan Escott (forward, Team Canada): Our power play started clicking. We got a big power-play goal right at the end of the first, which was good for momentum, then we came out in the second and got another one and just kept going from there. We changed things a bit and it’s taken a couple days for things to gel together, but things went really well today. We’ve had that game (vs Slovakia) circled on our calendar. They’re obviously really good and in 2015 they beat us in the quarter-finals, so we’re looking forward to playing them. It should be a good game and we’ll enjoy the day off tomorrow.

George Chanal (assistant coach, Team India): We played very well 5-on-5, but we had a little bit of penalty trouble and Canada has a fantastic power play. We had some opportunities on the power play too, but didn´t score. Canada dictated the first half of the game especially.