{"id":582314,"date":"2026-05-24T02:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/582314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T02:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:15:33","slug":"red-wings-emmitt-finnie-scores-first-goal-for-canada-at-worlds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/582314\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings’ Emmitt Finnie scores first goal for Canada at worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Red Wings rookie Emmitt Finnie hasn’t been getting much ice time for Canada at the world hockey championship in Switzerland, but he’s making the most of his opportunities.<\/p>\n

Finnie scored his first goal of the round-robin tournament and added an assist in only 5:57 of ice time, as Canada (5-0) defeated Slovenia, 3-1, on Friday at the BCF Arena in Fribourg.<\/p>\n

More: Seven Red Wings competing at world championships: ‘It’s a great honor’<\/a><\/p>\n

Finnie, a seventh-round draft choice who had 13 goals and 17 assists for 30 points with a minus-10 rating and 131 hits in his first season in Detroit, has played in only two of Canada’s five games.<\/p>\n

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Red Wings forward Emmitt Finnie, left, is checked by Slovenia defenseman Blaz Gregorc in front of goalie Zan Us during Canada’s 3-1 win at the world hockey championships at the BCF Arena in Fribourg, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

“My role here is a little different from what I’m used to, but everyone here is a great player,” Finnie said after the game at iihf.com. “Whether I’m playing or not it’s not going to deteriorate my confidence. I’m just trying to work as hard as I can and make an impact when I’m out there.”<\/p>\n

Finnie scored his goal early in the third period by going to the net and tipping in a shot from Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly at 6:41, his first career goal with Team Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s not easy for him,” Maple Leafs forward John Tavares said. “Maybe he’s not always taking a regular shift when he’s in, but he’s really enjoying being around the group and he’s learning a lot, being a sponge.<\/p>\n

“I’m thrilled for him to get on the board and be named Best Player of the game.”<\/p>\n

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Red Wings forward Emmitt Finnie, left, was presented the player-of-the-game award for Canada after recording two points in a 3-1 win over Slovenia on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ex-Spartan Porter Martone was scoreless in 8:11 of ice time for Canada. He has one goal and four assists for five points in five games.<\/p>\n

The win keeps Canada in top place of the Group B standings without a loss, their only blemish being a 6-5 OT decision against Norway on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Canada has a day off before playing Slovakia on Sunday in a battle of undefeated teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think our game was more connected today than yesterday,” Tavares said. “It would have been nice to put the puck in the net a little more today, but we possessed it a lot.<\/p>\n

“We were in control pretty much the whole game, but we can always find ways to be better.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Emmitt Finnie of the Detroit Red Wings scores first goal at worlds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings rookie Emmitt Finnie hasn’t been getting much ice time for Canada at the world hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[19,599,93,5137,21105,5,611,4,3358,5138,3037],"class_list":["post-582314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-red-wings","tag-canada","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroitredwings","tag-emmitt-finnie","tag-hockey","tag-john-tavares","tag-nhl","tag-red-wings","tag-redwings","tag-team-canada"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116627146517149941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}