Canada  9 -  Germany  1  

Canada blows out Germany en-route to gold medal berth

Billy Bridges (Summerside, PE), Jeremy Booker (Ajax, ON) and Marc Dorion (Bourget, ON) all scored twice in a seven-goal first period as Canada rolled to a 9-1 win over Germany at the World Sledge Hockey Challenge on Friday night, advancing to Saturday’s gold medal game against Norway.

Dorion finished off his hat trick in the second period for the Canadians, while Greg Westlake (Oakville, ON) scored his team-leading fourth and fifth goals of the tournament in the win.

Benoît St-Amand (St-Hubert, QC) replaced starting goaltender Paul Rosen (Thornhill, ON) after the opening period, in which Germany failed top register a shot. St-Amand stopped six of the seven shots he faced over the final 30 minutes.

Bradley Bowden (Orton, ON) picked up three assists in the win, tying him with Bridges for the team lead with four helpers.

Gerd Bleidorn scored the lone goal for the Germans, who will face the USA on Saturday afternoon for the bronze medal.

The Canada-Norway gold medal game will be a rematch of arguably the best game of the round-robin. Westlake scored the overtime winner as Canada topped the defending world champions 4-3 on Wednesday night.

The puck drops at 4:00 p.m. PST on Saturday at what is sure to be a jam-packed Capital News Centre in Kelowna.

 

 

 

Game Information
Game Number	6	Round	Preliminary
Arena	Capital News Centre	City, Country	Kelowna, B.C., Canada
Month / Day / Year	03/16/2007	Time (local)	07:00 PM PT
Attendance		Game Status	Final

Box Score	1	2	3	Total
Canada (CAN)	7	2	0	9
Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1

Goals/Penalties

First Period

Goals:    03:28 CAN 12 Greg Westlake (27 Bradley Bowden)    04:43 CAN 8 Jeremy Booker (7 Marc Dorion)    05:23 CAN 18 Billy Bridges (17 Jean Labonté)    06:48 CAN 18 Billy Bridges (27 Bradley Bowden, 12 Greg Westlake)    07:18 CAN 7 Marc Dorion (97 Dany Verner)    07:35 CAN 7 Marc Dorion (8 Jeremy Booker)    10:48 CAN 8 Jeremy Booker (29 Graeme Murray) PP Penalties:    07:35 CAN 20 Stephen Arsenault (Roughing)    08:24 GER 99 Udo Segreff (Elbowing)    09:59 GER 10 Gerd Bleidorn (Slashing)

Second Period

Goals:    04:33 CAN 12 Greg Westlake (18 Billy Bridges)    14:18 CAN 7 Marc Dorion (12 Greg Westlake, 27 Bradley Bowden) Penalties:    04:58 GER 55 Sven Stumpe (T-Boning)    06:07 CAN 21 Raymond Grassi (Hooking)

Third Period

Goals:    04:22 GER 10 Gerd Bleidorn (83 Christian Pilz) Penalties:

Goaltenders
Canada	22 Benoît St-Amand On 2/00:00   Off 2/15:00 22 Benoît St-Amand On 3/00:00   Off 3/15:00 57 Paul Rosen On 1/00:00   Off 1/15:00
Germany	11 Simon Kunst On 1/00:00   Off 1/15:00 11 Simon Kunst On 2/00:00   Off 2/15:00 47 Rolf-Dieter Wesler On 3/00:00   Off 3/15:00

Shots on Goal	1	2	3	Total
Canada	13	4	4	21
Germany	0	4	3	7

Player of Game
Canada
Germany
Officials
Referee	Tom Henetruk
Lines People	Gord Hynes, James Jenkins