OAKVILLE \u2014 Kash Kwajah scored twice, including a power-play goal at 8:28 of the third period that stood as the winner, as the Canada Red squad beat the United States 6-4 at the Under-17 World Challenge hockey tournament on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Kwajah also chipped in with two assists as Canada Red, coached by Dan DaSilva of Saskatoon, Sask., improved to 1-1 in round robin play at the Sixteen Mile Sports Complex.<\/p>\n
Canada Red lost 5-1 to Finland in Sunday\u2019s opening day action.<\/p>\n
Drew Bate also scored twice for Canada, which trailed 2-1 after the first period but was tied 3-3 heading into the third. Ben Oliverio and Kyler Lauder also scored for Canada, which got a 37-save performance from Owen Loftus. Tanner Adams chipped in with two assists.<\/p>\n
Dean Steven had two goals and an assist for the Americans, while Jack Queally had a goal and two assists. Joey Cullen also scored for the U.S., which outshot the hosts 41-36, but went 0-for-6 on the power play. Canada was 2-for-3 with the man advantage.<\/p>\n
Canada, which is in a pool with Finland (1-0) and the U.S. (0-1), will have Tuesday off and then begin the quarterfinal round on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In other action on Monday:<\/p>\n
SWEDEN 3 CZECHIA 2 (SO)<\/p>\n
Joakim Dahl scored the winner in the fifth round of Monday\u2019s shootout as Sweden opened its tournament with a 3-2 win over Czechia.<\/p>\n
Isak Alvudd and Viking Simon, on the power play, scored in regulation for Sweden.<\/p>\n
Matyas Michaelek and Matej Balvin, on the power play, scored for Czechia, which outshot Sweden 33-24. Sweden went 1-for-3 on the power play, while Czechia was 1-for-5.<\/p>\n
The teams were tied 1-1 after the first period and Sweden led 2-1 after 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
Sweden, which plays in a three-team pool with Canada White and Czechia, leads Group B with a 1-0 record. Czechia, which beat Canada White 6-4 in Sunday\u2019s opener, is 1-1, while Canada, coached by Dylan Smoskowitz of Richmond Hill, Ont., is 0-1.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Finland (1-0) plays the United States (0-1) in Tuesday\u2019s early game, while Sweden (1-0) faces Canada White (0-1) in Tuesday\u2019s later game.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKVILLE \u2014 Kash Kwajah scored twice, including a power-play goal at 8:28 of the third period that stood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-956398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956398","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=956398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}