After a few tough losses to its southern rivals, Canada enacted some revenge on the ice. <\/p>\n
Canada demolished the United States 8-1 in the gold-medal game of the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Edmonton on Saturday, winning the annual under-18 tournament for the 26th time.<\/p>\n
The top 2028 prospects led the way, as Maddox Schultz and Liam Pue each had two goals and an assist. Top 2027 prospects Brock England and Landon DuPont also had a say, finishing with two goals and three assists, respectively.<\/p>\n
The Canadians came out firing, as England opened the scoring only 1:24 into the showdown, then scored two more unanswered. <\/p>\n
Though the Americans responded with a goal of their own near the end of the first period, Canada came back from the first intermission to score three more unanswered and build up a seemingly insurmountable lead. <\/p>\n
Canada put the nail in the coffin less than a minute into the third period, as Pue tucked home a breakaway goal off an outlet pass from Schultz. <\/p>\n
The win marked a return to gold for the Canadians at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup after falling short in 2025 with a third-place finish. The Americans won last year’s tourney, beating Sweden 5-3 in the gold-medal game. En route to that gold, Team USA took down Canada 4-3 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Canada last won the U-18 tournament in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a few tough losses to its southern rivals, Canada enacted some revenge on the ice. Canada demolished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-807511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}