{"id":16839,"date":"2026-05-16T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/16839\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:19:18","slug":"macklin-celebrini-scores-twice-to-lead-canada-to-6-0-victory-over-italy-at-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/16839\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini scores twice to lead Canada to 6-0 victory over Italy at world championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Macklin Celebrini in action against Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, on Saturday. The 19-year-old captain scored two goals for his country.Cyril Zingaro\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Macklin Celebrini scored twice and added an assist to lead Canada to a 6-0 victory over Italy on Saturday at the world hockey championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dylan Holloway, Fraser Minten, Evan Bouchard and Ryan O\u2019Reilly also scored. Goaltender Cam Talbot made 19 saves for the shutout.<\/p>\n

Holloway and Minten scored 47 seconds apart midway through the opening period. Holloway received a pass from John Tavares in front of the goal to beat goaltender Davide Fadani and Minten doubled the lead on a rebound.<\/p>\n

Celebrini, the 19-year-old captain, netted a one-timer from the right circle after receiving a cross-ice pass from Porter Martone to make it 3-0 with 3:04 remaining in the opening period.<\/p>\n

Connor Brown scores winner as Canada beats Sweden at world championship<\/a><\/p>\n

Celebrini\u2019s second goal came at 2:09 in the second period from a backhand shot high into the net. Sidney Crosby registered the first assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bouchard, on a power play, and O\u2019Reilly tallied later in the stanza.<\/p>\n

Canada was two wins from two games in Group B after beating Sweden 5-3 in its opener on Friday.<\/p>\n

Canada next plays Denmark on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newcomer Italy returned to the top division for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Macklin Celebrini in action against Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, on Saturday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4293,4283,4294,1188,4276,1557,147,4275,4288,4289,4285,4277,4274,1131,4292,1294,4287,201,4305,4278,4279,3297,5,4284,1815,1333,4295,4281,4300,4301,4303,4298,4302,4296,4299,4280,3867,4291,356,4290,4297,3869,1138,614,4286,4282,243,4304],"class_list":["post-16839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-italy","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}