As soon as the puck was dropped, you could tell that Canada was going to win this game as their forwards, defense, and goalie were all far better than the oppositions. They entered the offensive zone with speed and power, causing Slovakia to be disjointed on the defensive side of the puck. Canada dropped Slovakia at the Bell Centre in Montreal by a final score of 8-0. The home nation will continue play Saturday evening as they take on Germany, while Slovakia will take on the defending champions, Finland.
Patrik Koys ripped a shot just over two minutes into the first, but it was stopped by Quebec Ramparts' Zachary Fucale. Then it was Canada's turn to go on the offense as they had a couple of good looks, but nothing that was really ever going to trouble the Slovak goalie. The pressure was mounting on the Slovakia defense and finally, Robby Fabbri was able to get the puck past Denis Godla after Sam Reinhart found him with a beautiful pass in front of the net. After the Canadian goal, Slovakia had a couple of good lucks at goal that sent Fucale sprawling, fortunately for Canada, he was able to keep each shot out in spectacular fashion.
Canada entered the Slovakian zone with speed and Max Domi hit Anthony Duclair with a blistering past and Duclair doubled the Canadian's lead with some fancy stick work and slid the puck behind Godla. Guelph Storm's Fabbri got his second goal of the period, as he got a bit of luck with a bounce off his stick going behind Godla to extend the lead to 3-0, with less than half of the first period played.
The second period was more of the same for Canada as they added four more goals to their already dominating score line. North Bay Battalion's Nick Paul got the opening goal of the period, followed by Brayden Point, and Max Domi getting the third in a matter of minutes. This pushed Canada's lead to six and forced Slovakia to change their goalie and put in Orange 20 Bratislava's David Okolicany. But this didn't stop Canada at all. In fact, they just continued to play like normal and got one past the new Slovakian goalie fairly quickly. It was Nic Petan who scored the seventh goal of the game with a tight angled shot that beat David Okolicany short side into the roof of the net late in the second period of play.
It seemed as though that Canada sort of put their foot off the gas pedal a little bit to start the third period knowing that they have a game tomorrow against Germany. Slovakia went on the power play near midway of the final period and got decent looks on goal, but Fucale was up for the task and was able to help Canada kill the penalty. In fact, Slovakia only mustered 10 total shots throughout the sixty minutes leaving the Canadian net minder with little to do throughout the contest. Canada would get their eighth and final goal with a few minutes to goal as the puck deflected off the end boards with Jake Virtanen waiting for it and pushed the puck into the open net.