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2019 World Juniors Day 1 Recap: Czechs win in Overtime, Canada disfigures Denmark, USA comes back from 1-0, and Finland spends half the game penalty killing

The Czechs and the Swiss are two teams that play fundamentally ridiculous hockey. One side plays balls-out, no half-measures cocaine and octane flowing kind of hockey, and the other is no-frills, fundamentals only kind of hockey that requires a good command of system rather than individual brilliance, though some does exist on Switzerland’s roster. What resulted?

A kinda slow, but ultimately fast and kinda fun game where both sides’ stars got a chance to do all sorts of crazy stuff for their national team.

Game Notes:

  • International Dostal (in which Czech Republic’s starting goaltender, Lukas Dostal, becomes inexplicably and impossibly terrible at goaltending) stayed home today and man wasn’t that a sight.