More stories in English

WJC on Eurolanche (6.)

WJC on Eurolanche (6.)Eurolanche Fan Club will cover the Colorado Avalanche two prospects in the action at the World Junior Championship.

Chris Bigras and Will Butcher are two Colorado Avalancheprospects, who are playing at World Junior Championship. Bigras was nominated to the National Junior team of Canada, Butcher represents the National Junior team of USA. For Butcher the tournament ended in the quarterfinals, but Bigras continued at the  tournament in the semifinals against Finland.

Today Canada and Finland played second semifinales at the World Junior Championship. Young Finns played very good and they absolutely destroyed Canadians. Chris didn´t played a lot. The head coach of  Canada did from Bigras  7th defenceman. Canadian National Junior team will play for bronze medal against Russia.

Eurolanche Evaluation: 0

Canada U20 – Finland U20 1:5 (0:0, 1:2, 0:3)

 Young Finns will play for the gold.

Other game:

Sweden U20 – Russia U20 2:1 (1:0, 0:0, 1:1)

Source of photo: IIHF  


Juraj Janotak, Slovakia, janotak@eurolanche.com
05/01/2014 - 04:00