WJC on Eurolanche (1.)
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 Avalanche prospects, who are playing at World Junior Championship. Bigras was nominated to the National Junior team of Canada. Butcher will represent the National Junior team of USA.
Today, Chris Bigras and the Canadian National Junior team played first game at the World Junior Championship against Germany. For Canada it was very important and very hard game, because the German National Junior team led two times. Anthony Mantha scored the hattrick and Canada won. Bigras didn´t shot on goal, but he blocked one shot and he gained one plus point to plus/minus evaluation.
Eurolanche Evaluation: 2-
Germany “20“ – Canada “20“ 2:7 (2:4, 0:2, 0:1)
Chris Bigras fights for the puck.
Will Butcher with his teammates played a game against Czech Republic National Junior team. USA scored two fast goals, Butcher scored second of them. The US National Junior team won first match 5:1 and Butcher was oneof the best players in today game, when he scored game winning goal and spent on the ice more than 18 minutes.
Eurolanche Evaluation: 1*
Czech Republic “20“ – USA “20“ 1:5 (0:2, 0:2, 1:1)
Will Butcher scored goal vs Czech Republic.
Other games:
Norway “20“ – Russia “20“ 0:11 (0:5, 0:5, 0:1)
Switzerland “20“ – Sweden “20“ 3:5 (2:3, 0:0, 1:2)
Source of photos: IIHF
Juraj Janotak, Slovakia, janotak@eurolanche.com
26/12/2013 - 22:00
