2023-12-26 14:11:28
Canadian prospect Filip Mesar quickly got to work at the World Junior Hockey Championship to impress his fans and surely the Montreal organization on Tuesday during the first game of the competition.
Facing the Czechs, silver medalists last year, the 19-year-old Slovak player collected two assists to lead his country to a convincing 6-2 victory. The winners at the same time signed their most recent victory. imposing once morest their great rivals in the history of the event: they had never defeated the Czech Republic by a gap of four goals and with six goals on the clock.
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The winger also contributed to an offensive explosion of four goals for his team in the third period. Thus, the 26th pick in the 2022 National League draft sped into the opposing zone and following bypassing a rival, he handed the puck to Servac Petrovsky, well placed to the left of the net to complete the sequence.
Previously, Mesar excelled on a power play, spotting Petrovsky with a cross-ice pass. He beat goaltender Michael Hrabal with a one-timer to momentarily tie the game 1-1.
Peter Repcik, Samuel Honzek, Boris Zabka and Martin Strbak also threaded the needle for the winners, who will face the Swiss on Wednesday. The response from the Czech Republic, which meets Norway on the same day, was the work of Matyas Sapovaliv and Dominik Rymon.
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