MacKinnon collects 2 goals, assist to lead Canada past Austria at men's hockey worlds

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Nathan MacKinnon scored doubly and added an assistance arsenic Canada overcame a frustrating commencement to station a 5-1 triumph implicit Austria successful satellite hockey title enactment Thursday.

Canadians flooded frustrating commencement to gain 5-1 victory, stay undefeated

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 15, 2025 5:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A men's hockey subordinate controls the puck portion being defended.

Travis Konecny and Will Cuylle each had a extremity and an assist, and Sidney Crosby besides scored arsenic Canada remained undefeated and tied co-host Sweden atop the standings with 12 points from 4 regularisation wins.

Bo Horvat and Brandon Montour added 2 assists each.

Vinzenz Rohrer scored for Austria, which led 1-0 aft 20 minutes contempt being heavy outshot. Austria remained astatine 2 points with an overtime triumph and 3 regularisation losses.

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Canada rolls past Austria astatine satellite title

Nathan MacKinnon has 2 goals and an assistance to pb Canada to a 5-1 triumph implicit Austria astatine the 2025 IIHF Hockey World Championship successful Stockholm, Sweden. Canada remains unbeaten with a 4-0 record.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 15 saves for Canada. A precise engaged Florian Vorauer, stopped 47 shots for Austria,

Canada adjacent faces Slovakia connected Saturday.

Austria opened the scoring midway done the archetypal play erstwhile the 20-year-old Rohrer was sprung connected a breakaway and bushed the 40-year-old Fleury. It was 1 of conscionable 4 Austrian shots successful the opening frame

The Austrians made that pb basal up done 20 minutes with immoderate dogged defending. Canada peppered Vorauer with 23 shots successful the period, but generated fewer existent threats.

MacKinnon scored his 2nd of the crippled with Canada icing an other attacker connected a delayed punishment against Austria. Canada clinically kept power of the puck, and aft a sustained agelong successful the zone, MacKinnon buried a one-timer from Montour past Vorauer.

Konecny made it 3-1 successful the third, tipping successful Cuylle's changeable aft helium spun retired from down the Austrian net.

Konecny returned the favour minutes aboriginal erstwhile helium acceptable up Cuylle from down the net.

Crosby capped the scoring with 93 seconds left, taking a saucer walk from MacKinnon and beating Vorauer connected the abbreviated side.

The even-tempered crippled saw the teams harvester for 8 punishment minutes.

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