FRIBOURG, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Canada prevailed late in beating Sweden 5-3 to open the ice hockey world championship on Friday.<\/p>\n
John Tavares, Ryan O\u2019Reilly, Dylan Holloway, Connor Brown and Dylan Cozens scored and goaltender Jet Greaves stopped 22 shots for Canada in Fribourg.<\/p>\n
Tavares was the first player to score at the tournament by beating goaltender Magnus Hellberg on the first Canada shot on goal 2:21 into the game. O\u2019Reilly buried a backhand shot with 4:00 to go in the first period for 2-0.<\/p>\n
Sweden, last year\u2019s bronze medalist, finally scored in the middle period.<\/p>\n
Jacob Larsson netted from the left circle 8:21 in and Lucas Raymond leveled by wristing a shot past Greaves eight seconds into a power play midway through the frame.<\/p>\n
Holloway restored the lead for Canada from the slot with 5:44 left and Mattias Ekholm made it 3-3 1:17 later with a one-timer from the point.<\/p>\n
Brown scored 3:21 into the final period and Canada regain the lead for good. Cozens completed the victory with a deflected backhand.<\/p>\n
Canada is the most successful nation at the tournament with 28 titles but last won the trophy three years ago.<\/p>\n
The team hopes to rebound from fifth place last year and was boosted by the late addition of Sidney Crosby to the roster.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Crosby decided to participate in the worlds for a second straight year and a fourth time overall after his Pittsburgh Penguins were eliminated from the NHL playoffs in the first round.<\/p>\n
With 19-year-old Macklin Celebrini already named the Canada captain, Crosby became an alternate captain, replacing Tavares.<\/p>\n
In Zurich, Finland beat Germany 3-1.<\/p>\n
Defending champion the United States faces host Switzerland later Friday and the Czech Republic meets Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIBOURG, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Canada prevailed late in beating Sweden 5-3 to open the ice hockey world championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[563,35937,35936,35938,35930,35933,35935,35940,35932,35934,35931,25937,24204,24203,35941,25934,35939,3937,17],"class_list":["post-66099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-canada","tag-connor-brown","tag-dylan-cozens","tag-dylan-holloway","tag-hockey-worlds-canada-us","tag-jacob-larsson","tag-jet-greaves","tag-john-tavares","tag-lucas-raymond","tag-magnus-hellberg","tag-mattias-ekholm","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-ryan-oreilly","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116580499007224816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}