CANADA

8-0

SLOVAKIA

Canadiens prospects.  Slovakia’s captain, Martin Reway was held shotless and pointless with a minus-4 rating.  Team Canada goaltender Zach Fucale had the equivalent of a period of work for the entire 60 minutes with 12 just saves for the shutout.  Fucale will be the backup on Saturday night as Canada faces Germany with Winnipeg Jets prospect Eric Comrie getting the start.

Where are you Montreal? A disappointing Bell Centre crowd of only 14, 142 were in attendance, well short of a sellout.

Plus / Minus

▲    Robby Fabbri, Nic Petan, Sam Reinhart, Jake Virtanen, Brayden Point, Max Domi, Anthony Duclair, Madison Bowey, Josh Morrissey

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• CAN:  Robby Fabbri
• SLO:  Martin Reway

• “It was nice to see the offence come from our third and fourth lines. I really feel that with our speed up front, we were able to put them on their heels.”
• “Connor, Duclair, Reinhart, they have tremendous speed and it’s tough to defend. And it’s tough when you have Brayden Point who you can put on any line and he adjusts. We have offence on every line and it’s up to us to find a way to bring it out, day in and day out.”

Robby Fabbri

• “Points are one thing, but the way the team played the whole game, staying level headed, sticking to our game, it was good to see and good to win the game.”
• “I get switched around once in a while, but to play with Nic Petan, he’s such a special player. So skilled and he works really hard. It’s easy just to feed off him.”

Slovakia forward Martin Reway

• “It’s my third year here and we always played tight games with them. We know they’re good, but I told the guys we can play with them. But we didn’t play well in the first two periods.”