FRIBOURG, Swizterland (AP) \u2014 Captain Macklin Celebrini scored and Canada beat Slovakia 5-1 after a four-goal burst in the final period at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Celebrini, John Tavares, Gabriel Vilardi and Ryan O\u2019Reilly all recorded a two point game for a goal and an assist, and Dylan Cozens also scored in Fribourg to help Canada win its sixth straight Group B game.<\/p>\n
Canada netminder Jet Greaves stopped 31 shots.<\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby set up Cozens to put Canada 1-0 up on a breakaway with 5:32 remaining in the opening period.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth goal for Cozens and Crosby\u2019s seventh assist at the tournament.<\/p>\n
In the middle period, Kristi\u00e1n Posp\u00ed\u0161il tied it 1-1 for Slovakia.<\/p>\n
Canada wasted 1:16 of a 5-3 advantage early in the final period but jumped to a 5-1 lead with four goals scored before the midway point.<\/p>\n
Vilardi restored a one-goal advantage on a power play 2:14 in the period and Tavares netted a backhand shot 2:40 later.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Reilly increased it to 4-1 with a short-handed goal for his fifth at the worlds 7:36 in and 1:45 later Celebrini scored his third in Switzerland from the top of the right circle.<\/p>\n
Canada tops Group B with 17 points and faces Czechia (13 points) in its last group-stage game on Tuesday. Slovakia is on 11 points in third.<\/p>\n
In Zurich, Finland made it six wins from six by beating Austria 5-2 to join Switzerland atop Group A with both teams on 18 points. Austria remains third on nine.<\/p>\n
Britain’s return to the ice hockey world championship proved short-lived after Latvia blanked the newcomer 6-0.<\/p>\n
The sixth straight defeat in Group A means Britain is relegated from the top division with a game left.<\/p>\n
Britain returned to the top tier after a one-year absence but has failed to win a single point and scored only four goals and conceded 29 in its six games. Britain, which will play Germany on Monday in their final game, trails second-to-last Hungary by three points but lost their head-to-head encounter 5-0.<\/p>\n
Another newcomer, Italy, still has a chance to survive after earning the first point in a 3-2 defeat to Denmark in a shootout in Fribourg.<\/p>\n
Italy is two points behind Slovenia in Group B before they face each other on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIBOURG, Swizterland (AP) \u2014 Captain Macklin Celebrini scored and Canada beat Slovakia 5-1 after a four-goal burst in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[19,9439,2804,3937,5,65042,693,611,8638,3494,3492,3671,768,6711,15280],"class_list":["post-582940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-canada","tag-czech-republic","tag-dylan-cozens","tag-gabriel-vilardi","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey-worlds-canada-finland-britain","tag-jet-greaves","tag-john-tavares","tag-latvia","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-ryan-oreilly","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-switzerland","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116632206929983043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582940","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=582940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}