{"id":384982,"date":"2026-01-03T05:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:31:06","slug":"canada-routs-slovakia-to-advance-to-semifinals-at-world-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384982\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada routs Slovakia to advance to semifinals at World Juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada scored five times in the opening period and never looked back as they cruised to a 7-1 victory over Slovakia in the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Juniors on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cole Reschny, Tij Iginla, Michael Misa, Sam O\u2019Reilly, Brady Martin, Porter Martone and Cole Beaudoin all found the net for Canada in the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jack Ivankovic got the start in net for Canada and turned away 21 shots to earn the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jan Chovan replied for Slovakia in the losing cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Michal Pradel began the game in net for Slovakia, but was replaced by Alan Lendak after surrendering three goals on 12 shots. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada advances to a semifinal matchup against Czechia, who bounced Switzerland 6-2 in an earlier quarter-final matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada defeated Czechia 7-5 in their tournament opener on Boxing Day. Zayne Parekh scored twice while Michael Hage and Ethan MacKenzie had three points each in that Canadian victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadians will be looking for a measure of revenge against Czechia, who eliminated them from the World Juniors at the quarter-final stage in the last two tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Finland upset two-time defending champion USA in the quarters and will meet Sweden in the other semi-final matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada scored five times in the opening period and never looked back as they cruised to a 7-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-384982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}