After a 5-2 loss to Czechia on Boxing Day, Canada responded with an 11-2 win over Germany at the 2023 World Junior Men’s Hockey Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Wednesday. It was a great performance for Regina Pats center Connor Bedard of North Vancouver, British Columbia, who tied the Canadian record for most points in a single game at the World Junior Hockey Championship. With the win, Canada improved their record to one win and one loss.
Bedard, who had three goals and four assists for seven points, joins Dave Andreychuk of Hamilton, Ontario, Brenden Morrow of Carlyle, Saskatchewan, Mike Cammalleri of Richmond Hill, Ontario, and Gabriel Bourque of Rimouski, Quebec in the Canadian record books. Andreychuk had three goals and four assists in a 13-0 Canada win over Norway on January 4, 1983 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. Morrow had two goals and five assists in a 12-2 Canada quarterfinal win over Kazakhstan on January 2, 1999 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Cammalleri had three goals and four assists in a 15-0 Canada win over France on December 25, 2001 in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and Bourque had three goals and four assists in a 16-0 Canada win over Latvia on December 26, 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Bedard was one of two Canadian players to record a hat trick in the win over Germany. The other was Dylan Guenther of Edmonton, Alberta. The other five Canadian goal scorers were Shane Wright of Burlington, Ontario, Brandt Clarke of Nepean, Ontario, Joshua Roy of St-Georges-de-Beauce, Quebec, Logan Stankoven of Kamloops, British Columbia, and Zack Ostapchuk of Edmonton. Stankoven had one goal and two assists for three points, while Wright, Clarke and Roy had one goal and one assist for two points. Other Canadian players with a multi-point game were defensemen Olen Zellweger of Calgary, Alberta (three assists) and Kevin Korchinski of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (two assists).
