{"id":391087,"date":"2026-01-06T05:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391087\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:34:05","slug":"sweden-holds-off-czechia-to-capture-first-gold-medal-at-world-juniors-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391087\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden holds off Czechia to capture first gold medal at World Juniors since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Casper Juustovaara and Viktor Eklund scored first-period goals and Sweden won its third world junior hockey title, beating Czechia 4-2 on Monday night in the first all-European final since 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sweden also won in 1981 and 2012. Czechia won its lone titles in 2000 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sascha Boumedienne gave Sweden a 3-0 lead at 3:47 of the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Adam Jiricek and Matej Kubiesa scored for Czechia, with Kubiesa striking with 24 seconds left. Ivar Stenberg capped the scoring with an empty-netter with eight seconds left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the third-place game, Sam O\u2019Reilly scored twice, Gavin McKenna and Michael Hage each had four points to help Canada beat Finland 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McKenna had a goal and three assists, and Hage had four assists. Zayne Parekh had a goal and an assist to break the Canadian record for points by a defenceman with 13 on six goals and seven assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Casper Juustovaara and Viktor Eklund scored first-period goals and Sweden won its third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-391087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391087","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=391087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}