Crosby, Celebrini lead Canada in dominant 7-0 win over Slovakia at worlds

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 17, 2025 5:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Sidney Crosby had 2 goals and 2 assists and Macklin Celebrini scored erstwhile with 2 helpers to pb Canada past Slovakia 7-0 successful satellite hockey title enactment Saturday.

Crosby, Canada's 37-year-old captain, and the 18-year-old Celebrini combined doubly successful a three-goal 2nd play for the Canadians astatine Avicii Arena successful Stockholm, Sweden.

Nathan MacKinnon besides scored twice, Brandon Montour and Tyson Foerster provided the remainder of the offence, and Jordan Binnington made 14 saves to gain a shutout.

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Canada remained undefeated with 15 points from 5 regularisation wins. Co-host Sweden, with 18 points from six regularisation wins, leads the Group A standings.

Patrik Rybar gave up 5 goals connected 32 shots for Slovakia, and Adam Huska entered the crease successful the 3rd play to halt 10 of 12.

Slovakia was 4th successful Group A, 4 points down Finland with 2 regularisation wins, 2 regularisation losses and 1 overtime defeat.

Canada adjacent faces Finland connected Monday earlier gathering Sweden connected Tuesday to wrapper up round-robin play.

US overcomes Germany 

The United States blew a three-goal first-period pb earlier beating Germany 6-3 astatine the crystal hockey satellite title connected Saturday successful Herning, Denmark.

Conor Garland's power-play extremity 4:50 into the 3rd play proved to beryllium the victor arsenic the Americans moved to 3rd successful Group B. The apical 4 beforehand to the quarterfinals.

"I liked our commencement and effect successful the 3rd period," U.S. manager Ryan Warsofsky said. "They're (Germany) a bully team. They're good coached and play hard. We knew it would beryllium a conflict and I'm arrogant of our guys."

Tage Thompson struck 1:42 into the crippled connected a powerfulness play for his 4th extremity of the tournament. Frank Nazar doubled the vantage and Drew O'Connor made it 3-0 connected a rebound with 5:43 near successful the first.

But the U.S. is making a wont of squandering leads. It mislaid a four-goal vantage earlier beating Norway 6-5 successful overtime Wednesday.

Germany scored 3 times successful the second. Defenseman Erik Mic's extremity 8:43 into the play sparked the rally. Jonas Muller scored from the slot with 5:17 remaining and Wojciech Stachowiak levelled little than a infinitesimal aboriginal connected a powerfulness play.

After Garland's go-ahead goal, Logan Cooley made it 5-3 with 3:29 to spell and Clayton Keller scored into an bare nett with 1:53 left. Garland had 3 assists.

Other results

In Stockholm, Sweden unopen retired winless France 4-0 to enactment cleanable and pb Group A with six wins from six games. Isac Lundestrom and Raymond Lucas had a extremity and an assistance each and Samuel Ersson stopped 15 shots.

In Herning, the Czech Republic routed Kazakhstan 8-1 with skipper Roman Cervenka contributing a chapeau trick. The Czechs apical Group B and person qualified for the playoffs unneurotic with Switzerland.

Denmark bushed Norway 6-3 for a 3rd triumph successful Group B and was tied with Germany astatine fourth.

Earlier, Finland defeated Latvia 2-1 to enactment 3rd successful Group A. Latvia was fifth.