PRAGUE (AP) – Canada trailed by five points in the third period at the World Ice Hockey Championship on Tuesday, but John Tavares scored 15 seconds into overtime to give the defending champions a 7-6 lead over Austria. won.
Canada led 6-1 in the Group A match in Prague, but Austria forced overtime after scoring an unprecedented five goals in the final period. Peter Schneider led Austria's breakthrough with two goals and one assist in the third.
After Benjamin Baumgartner completed a 2-on-1 rush, Schneider scored from a tight angle to make it 6-3. He made it a two-point lead on Dominik Zwerger's slap shot.
Schneider added his second goal with 4:04 left, and Marco Rossi's backhander tied the score at 6-6 with 49 seconds left.
In overtime, Tavares brought the puck into the zone and fired a wrist shot past goaltender David Madlenar to seal Canada's third straight victory.
“It was a good lesson learned,” said Tavares, Canada's captain. “This definitely gets our attention: how we have to stay on our game and continue to build our identity, and how we have to deal with emotional swings. .”
For Canada, Connor Bedard scored in three straight games, Kaiden Guhl had a goal and an assist, and Dylan Cozens, Bowen Byram, Jared McCann and Pierre-Luc Dubois each had a goal.
Canada scored three points in the first 6 minutes and 55 seconds of the first period to take a 3-1 lead. Couzens took the lead from the slot, and Tavares doubled the advantage with a feed from the left circle to Guhr. Benjamin Nissner scored one goal for Austria, and Byram scored the third.
McCann skated around Madrener to make it 4-1 at midfield. Bedard took a shot from the goal line and Madlenar deflected the puck into his own net to add his fifth goal. Dubois added six.
Madlenar made 42 saves for Austria and earned his first point of the tournament. Canada's Jordan Binnington stopped 15 shots.
Latvia defeated Kazakhstan 2-0 in two overtimes, making it their third straight victory.
In the Group B match in Ostrava, Roberts Bukarz and Harald Eagle scored for last year's bronze medalists, while Christers Gudrevskis made 22 saves to secure the three points.
Latvia needed extra time to get past Poland and France.
In Group A held in Prague, Norway defeated Denmark 2-0, earning their first win of the tournament.
Michael Brandsegg Nygaard scored, Eirik Salsten added a second goal into an empty net, and goalkeeper Henrik Haukeland stopped 24 shots.
In Group B, France achieved their first victory by defeating Poland 4-2 with two goals from Justin Adamo.
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