“Embarrassing” – Fans left FRUSTRATED as Canada gets knocked out from World Juniors Championship by Czechia for 2nd year running

Lightning struck twice on Thursday as Canada got eliminated from the World Juniors Championship by Czechia for a second year running.

“Embarrassing” – Fans left FRUSTRATED as Canada gets knocked out from World Juniors Championship by Czechia for 2nd year running

A snippet from Czechia-Canada game (via Sportsnet)

It seems Team Canada has found a new arch-nemesis at the World Juniors Championship. For the second year in a row, they have been eliminated from this competition by Team Czechia.

A few days ago, the team suffered a shocking defeat to Latvia in overtime. Despite that loss, the hosts would qualify for the knockouts round and were aiming to take back the gold medal from the United States.

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The hosts did not have a good start and conceded within a minute of the game. Petr Syrkora tapped the puck in from a close range to give his team a 1-0 lead in the game. Though Canada made it 1-1 for a brief moment in the first period, the ended the period 3-1 down as goals from Jakub Stancl and Eduard Sale.

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With the crowd backing them, Canada would show their fighting spirit and found their way back into the game. A powerplay goal Porter Martone near the end of the second period made it 3-2. In the final period, they level things up at 3-3 as Bradley Nadeau whacked in a loose puck in the crease.

As the game seemed to be heading to overtime, Czechia went on to stun Canada again. They scored a powerplay goal from Adam Jecho with 39 seconds remaining on the clock. This was enough for the European nation to advance to the semi finals and knock out Canada for a second year running.

After the game, Canada’s coach Dave Cameron said that they created enough chances but they just did not went in.

We weren’t scoring, and scoring generates your emotion… We were creating chances. Could you create more? Of course you could. If you look at the analytics, 5-on-5, we created enough chances to win the games, they just didn’t go in. That’s the nature of the game tonight.

Dave Cameron said as per NHL.com

Canada will finish this year tournament in fifth place in the top division standings. In five matches, they finish with 2-2-1 record.

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Social media reacts to Team Canada’s loss in World Juniors Championship against Czechia

For Team Canada, it was a day to forget on Thursday. History repeated itself for them as they lost to Czechia again and got eliminated from the World Juniors Championship.

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A snippet from Czechia-Canada game (via Sporting News)

Fans on social media were left furious with the performance from the team. On X, several users criticized the team’s play style in the game. One fan, seemingly unpleased with the performance, slammed them and wrote, “Dreadful team. Embarrassing“.

Check out that and some top reactions regarding this incident from X below:

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While the tournament comes to an end for Canada, their opponent from this game Czechia, will lock horns with defending champions United States of America in the semi final. The other semi final matchup will see Sweden face off against Finland.