Almost two decades have passed since the Czech Republic’s last medal at the U20 Games. In the previous match, the bronze was taken by the United States, which defeated Sweden.
Canada has won the under-20 men’s ice hockey world championship. In the World Cup they hosted, Canada beat the Czech Republic 3–2 in the final match that went into overtime.
The first two sets of the match remained firmly in the gloves of the host Canada. Canada’s opening goal was scored in the first period Dylan Guenther19, who also pitched by Shane Wright19, scored in the second period.
Instead, there was a sudden turn in the third set, when the Czech Republic Jiri Kulich18, opened the scoring for his team, and immediately after Jakub Kos, 19, equalized. The match was decided in the seventh minute of extra time, when Canada’s Guenther scored his second goal of the match.
As such, the silver medal is a great achievement for the Czech Republic, whose last medal in the U20 Games has been almost two decades. The Czechs won medals at the Games at a steady pace before this and also won the world championships in 2000 and 2001.
Since the beginning of the millennium, however, there have been few who broke the strong medal front of Canada, the United States, Finland, Sweden and Russia. The Czech Republic last succeeded in this with the bronze in 2005, while Slovakia reached the bronze in the 2015 World Championships.
Sume’s career took off at the World Cup in the quarterfinals against Sweden. Finland will play in next year’s World Cup in Group A together with Canada, Sweden, Germany and Latvia.
The USA celebrated the World Cup bronze medal – an incredible 15 goals were scored in the match
The United States beat Sweden in overtime with 8-7 goals in the bronze medal match of the World Cup. The match was very special, as the teams scored an incredible 15 goals in the fight.
The decision of the match stretched into overtime, where the United States scored the winning goal Chaz Lucius, when overtime had been played for a little over two minutes. Lucius scored 3+0 in the match.
Especially in the second half of the match, there were fierce goal fights, when the teams scored a total of nine goals.
The final part of the match was also dramatic, as the teams went into the last 20 minutes of regular time tied at 5–5. Sweden first Noah Östlund gave Sweden a 6–5 lead, the USA equalized 6–6 four minutes later By Luke Hughes succeeded.
After more than a minute and a half of the final set, the United States Cutter Gauthier took his team to a 7–6 lead. Sweden was not discouraged by this, but took the goalkeeper by Carl Lindbom off the mark and put the sixth fielder in the dugout. It paid off, because Filip Bystedt finished the tie at 7-7 with 22 seconds left in the third period.
Bystedt was Sweden’s most effective player in the bronze match with 2+1 points.