Team Canada continued its success today at the U-16 and U-18 World Championships in Most, Czech Republic. Both teams representing Canada have advanced to the World Finals on Saturday June 5, 2010. 

The U-16 Canadian team entered today’s semi final game vs. Czech Republic having only lost one game of the championships. The young men have bounced back from a nervous start and have gained momentum in each game showing some of the best performances of the tournament. This was most evident in today’s semi final victory over the always competitive Czech Republic where they ran to an 8-3 victory. This latest victory puts Canada vs. Slovakia in the World Final tomorrow. Canada will be looking to exact revenge for their only loss of the tournament. The game will be shown live tomorrow June 5, 2010 at 8:30 am EDT and available at http://www.strizna.cz/video/finale-u16-269.aspx 

The U-18 squad was undefeated at 3-0 heading into today’s semi final match-up vs. Switzerland. The Canadians started fiercely right after the opening whistle and put their pressure to good use at 1:34, when Greenaway opened the score after the shot from the blue line. Twenty seconds later Simpson increased their lead and the crowd didn’t have to wait long for another goals. Lelievre scored in 8th minute, Robitaille was succesful just one minute later, and Tedesco, Lelievre again and Davison followed his example. Swiss team had a chance to score their consolation goal when Müller ran away during Canadian power play, but Canadian goalkeeper was prepared. Belter added another Canadian goal and Kontos closed the first period score on 10-0.

The Swiss coaches decided to switch goalkeepers for the second part of the game. Röthlisberger resisted for quite a long time, but at last he was surmounted by Lelievre at 28:01. Switzerland succeed in the last part of the game, when Studer scored in 33rd minute. But than Canadian shooters started their cannonade again. Monkhouse was the first succesful shooter, Greer added another goal few seconds later and final score was set by Tedesco, who scored his second goal in this match at 43:22.

Canada eventually ran the clock out for the out playes Swiss with a final score of 14-1 and will play in the Gold Medal match tomorrow at 11:00 am EDT vs. Slovakia which is available to watch live at http://www.strizna.cz/video/finale-u18-279.aspx