Canada 4 - Czech Republic 1

Under-18 Junior World Cup
Gold Medal Game
August 15, 2004
Piestany, SVK

BRECLAV, CZECH REPUBLIC - Canada's National Under-18 Summer Team captured the gold medal at the 2004 World Junior Cup, after defeating the Czech Republic 4-1 in the final game of the tournament on Sunday. Canada finished the Championship with a perfect 5-0-0 record.

With the victory on Sunday, Canada has now won seven gold medals out of the last eight summer Under-18 events held in Europe. This annual Under-18 summer event has evolved over the years, going from four participating teams, to six teams, and to now an eight team tournament, featuring the top eight hockey countries in the world.

The Czech Republic captured the silver medal, while USA and Sweden were playing for the bronze medal (late game - no report on score).

Gilbert Brule of the WHL's Vancouver Giants scored the game winning goal for Canada. Bradford, Clutterbuck and Bertram added Canada's other goals to lead Canada to the gold medal win. Goaltender Carey Price of the WHL's Tri-City Americans got the win for Canada by stopping 16 of the Czech Republic's 17 shots. Canada killed off all 15 penalties, and only surrendered a short-handed goal to the hometown Czech’s.

Player of the Game/Joueur du match:
CAN Cody Bass

Box Score	CAN	1	3	0	4
Compte	CZE	0	0	1	1

First Period/Première période

Scoring/Buts:
CAN, Brock Bradford (Devin Setoguchi) 11:20

Penalties/Pénalités:
Dan Bertram, CAN (elbowing) 00:13
Carey Price, CAN (tripping) 1:03
Kris Russell, CAN (hooking) 4:20
Tomas Kudelka, CZE (boarding) 7:02
David Kuchejda, CZE (interference) 9:28
Richard Clune, CAN (interference) 11:50
David Ruzicka, CZE (interference) 12:17
Brendan Mikkelson, CAN (cross-checking) 12:33
Dan Bertram, CAN (holding) 17:13

Second Period/Deuxième période

Scoring/Buts:
CAN, Gilbert Brule (Andrew Cogliano) 21:02 PP
CAN, Cal Clutterbuck 16:34 SH
CAN, Dan Bertram (Ryan Wilson, Andrew Cogliano) 28:54 PP

Penalties/Pénalités:
Martin Hanzal, CZE (charging) 20:30
Dan Bertram, CAN (cross checking) 20:30
Tomas Kudelka, CZE (cross checking) 21:13
Alexandr Hegegy, CZE (interference) 21:52
Kris Russell, CAN (tripping) 21:57
Daniel Ryder, CAN (hooking) 24:02
Ryan Parent, CAN (slashing) 25:08
Alexandr Hegegy, CZE (holding) 28:30
Devin Setoguchi, CAN (tripping) 31:07
Ondrej Masek, CZE (hooking) 34:12
Daniel Rakos, CZE (tripping) 35:26

Third Period/Troisième période

Scoring/Buts:
CZE, Tomas Pospisil (Bohdan Visnak) 54:13

Penalties/Pénalités:
Ryan Parent, CAN (cross checking) 40:44
Ryan Wilson, CAN (checking from behind) 40:00
Ryan Wilson, CAN (game misconduct)
David Kveton, CZE (tripping) 45:20
Adam Hobson, CAN (hooking) 48:49
Dan Bertram, CAN (tripping) 49:11
Bench Penalty, CZE 52:18
Ryan O’Marra, CAN (high sticking) 56:36
Daniel Ryder, CAN (game misconduct) 58:17
Cal Clutterbuck, CAN (elbowing) 59:13
Cal Clutterbuck, CAN (roughing) 59:13

Goaltenders	CAN	Carey Price
Gardiennes de but	CZE	Ondlei Pavelec

Shots on Goal	Team	1 p	2 p	3 p	Final
Shots on Goal	CAN	4	6	6	16
Tirs au but	CZE	7	3	7	17

Referee/Arbitre	-
Linesmen/Juges des lignes	-

Attendance/Assistance	4,000