{"id":44156,"date":"2016-08-09T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ontariohockeyleague.com\/comtois-the-ot-hero-as-canada-edges-host-slovakia-to-open-hlinka-memorial-cup\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:16:50","slug":"comtois-the-ot-hero-as-canada-edges-host-slovakia-to-open-hlinka-memorial-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/article\/comtois-the-ot-hero-as-canada-edges-host-slovakia-to-open-hlinka-memorial-cup","title":{"rendered":"Canada edges host Slovakia in OT to open Hlinka Memorial Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maxime Comtois (Victoriaville Tigres) scored 4:31 into overtime to lift Canada to a 3-2 victory over host Slovakia to open the 2016 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in Bratislava.<\/p>\n<p>The unassisted marker pushed Canada to victory after the Slovaks staged a third period comeback, scoring with 1:02 remaining in the third period to force overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Tippett (Mississauga Steelheads) opened the scoring just 1:09 into the opening frame with assists from Michael Rasmussen (Tri-City Americans) and Joseph Veleno (Saint John Sea Dogs).<\/p>\n<p>Comtois extended the Canadian lead to 2-0 at 6:25 with helpers going to Nick Suzuki (Owen Sound Attack) and MacKenzie Entwistle (Hamilton Bulldogs).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Canada topped Slovakia 3-2 in OT to open the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HlinkaMemorial?src=hash\">#HlinkaMemorial<\/a> earlier today.<br \/>\nSTATS &amp; STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TxF2hDoV8f\">https:\/\/t.co\/TxF2hDoV8f<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TMiSNl5tX4\">pic.twitter.com\/TMiSNl5tX4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team Canada Men (@HC_Men) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HC_Men\/status\/762767989041205248\">August 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless second period, Slovakian goals from Michal Ivan and Filip Krivosik drew the score even at two despite Canada taking the shooting column 43-23.<\/p>\n<p>Comtois&#8217; winner helped Canada get off to a 1-0 start as they square off against Russia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that we improved in a lot of areas compared to our first exhibition game,&#8221; said Canadian head coach Paul McFarland (Kingston Frontenacs). &#8220;We also understand that we will have to find another level of consistency and effort for tomorrow\u2019s contest versus Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian Scott (Prince Albert Raiders) turned aside 21 shots in goal to backstop Canada to victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockeycanada.ca\/en-ca\/Team-Canada\/Men\/Under-18\/2016-17\/Ivan-Hlinka-Memorial-Cup\/Schedule-Results\/Aug-08-CAN-SVK\" target=\"_blank\">Game Summary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER SCORES FROM DAY 1:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sweden 3, Russia 1<br \/>\nUnited States 4, Finland 3 OT<br \/>\n<em>&#8212; USA: Chmelevski (Ottawa 67&#8217;s &#8211; 1G, 1A), Lodnia (Erie Otters &#8211; 1G, 1A)<\/em><br \/>\nCzech Republic 6, Switzerland 1<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada includes 20 players from the Canadian Hockey League including 11\u00a0from the Ontario Hockey League, six from the Western Hockey League and three\u00a0from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.\u00a0 Canada has won gold at the annual summer under-18 tournament\u00a0eight\u00a0consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Hockey Canada and Canada\u2019s National Men\u2019s Summer Under-18 Team, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockeycanada.ca\">www.hockeycanada.ca<\/a>, or follow along through social media at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockeycanada\">www.facebook.com\/hockeycanada<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/hockeycanada\">www.twitter.com\/hockeycanada<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/hc_men\">www.twitter.com\/hc_men<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississauga Steelheads forward Owen Tippett scored in Canada&#8217;s 3-2 overtime win over Slovakia to open the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Hockey Canada","slug":"hockey-canada","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":395,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":606,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1520"},{"term_id":1060,"name":"Ivan Hlinka Memorial","slug":"ivan-hlinka-memorial","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1072,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":14,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1579"},{"term_id":933,"name":"Under-18","slug":"under-18","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":945,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":197,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3655"}],"class_list":["post-44156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-hockey-canada","tag-ivan-hlinka-memorial","tag-under-18","category-186","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/cdn.ontariohockeyleague.com\/archive\/ohl.uploads\/app\/uploads\/ohl\/2016\/08\/09145628\/IvanHlinkaTippett.jpg",1024,512,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}