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  Photo via Seattle Torrent/PWHL The Torrent suffered their fourth straight loss when they took on the Ottawa Charge on Wednesday at TD Place, losing 4-3. Seattle came alive in the second period behind two goals from Jessie Eldridge. Alex Carpenter, who made history scoring the first-ever penalty shot goal in PWHL history, tied the game before Ottawa took the lead back with little time to play. Fanuza Kadirova found the back of the net twice for the Charge. Alexa Vasko and Emily Clark also scored to help secure the victory. The Torrent will look to regroup before hosting the Boston Fleet on March 11, while the Charge travel to the Prudential Center on Sunday for a showdown with the New York Sirens. Seattle Torrent Lineup: Gosling - Serdachny - Adzija Snodgrass - Carpenter - Elridge Buglioni - Grant-Mentis - Bryant Wagner - Delianedis - Langseth Wilgren - Barnes Keopple - Brown Carter - Tejralova Lobdell Murphy Schroeder Ottawa Charge Lineup: Wozniewicz - Jenner - Leslie Clark ...
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Olympics: Marner Wins It In OT, Canada Defeats Czechia 4-3

 






In a hard-fought back-and-forth game between Team Canada and Team Czechia, the Canadians defeated the Czechs in overtime, surviving their biggest scare of the tournament at Santagiulia Arena on Wednesday. Mitch Marner scored the game-winning goal 1:22 in overtime, securing the win for Canada. Macklin Celebrini had a three-point game, scoring a goal and collecting two assists. Nathan MacKinnon and Nick Suzuki also scored for Canada. For Czechia, David Pastrnak, Lukas Sedlak, and Ondrej Palat each found the back of the net. Canada is back at it on Friday to play a to-be-determined team in the semifinal.

For the final 35 minutes, Team Canada played without captain Sidney Crosby after he sustained a lower-body injury on a hit from Radko Gudas at 4:55 of the second period.




Czechia Lineup:

Cervenka - Sedlak - Pastrnak

Chlapik - Kampf - Necas

Palat - Hertl - Kase

Flek - Tomasek - Stransky

Kubalik


Simek - Hronek

Kempny - Gudas

Spacek - Rutta

Kundratek


Dostal

Vladar


Canada Lineup:

Celebrini - McDavid - Wilson

Hagel - MacKinnon - Suzuki

Marner - Crosby - Stone

Marchand - Horvat - Reinhart

Jarvis


Toews - Makar

Harley - Doughty

Sanheim - Parayko

Theodore


Binnington

Thompson


Early in the opening frame, Macklin Celebrini put Canada on the board to give them a 1-0 lead at 16:55 after taking a drop pass by Connor McDavid to hammer it home past Lukas Dostal for his tournament-leading fifth goal. Lukas Sedlak knotted it up 1-1 at 11:26 of the first period when a puck from Radko Gudas to Roman Cervenka, who passed it to Sedlak, deflected in off Sedlak's skate after he drove hard to the front of the net. With 5:11 to go, David Pastrnak found the back of the net with a power-play goal to put Czechia ahead 2-1 when Cervenka made a pass to the point where Filip Hronek collected it and dished it to Pastrnak at the right face-off dot of Binnington for a successful one-timer.


Nathan MacKinnon tied it back up 2-2 with 7:44 on the clock in the middle frame while Michal Kempny was in the penalty box for an offensive-zone interference penalty, scoring a power-play goal off a pass from McDavid in the slot to bury it past Dostal. Celebrini also assisted.


With 7:42 remaining in the third period, Ondrej Palat took a pass from Martin Necas, who got the puck from Tomas Hertl, and Palat put in a one-timer to make it 3-2. Nick Suzuki quickly tied it 3-3 to grab extra time at 3:27 of the third off a pass from Devon Toews.


Mitch Marner got the puck from Celebrini, who received it from Thomas Harley, and Marner put it home for the 4-3 victory 1:22 into overtime.






Notes:

- Jordan Binnington made 20 saves for Canada, and Lukas Dostal made 36 saves for Czechia. ...Dostal made 35 saves through regulation and became one of two Czech goaltenders with 30-plus saves in a knockout game at an Olympics featuring NHL players, joining Dominik Hasek (38 in 1998 QF).

- Connor McDavid picked up a pair of assists. ...McDavid (2-8--10) became the fifth player to record a double-digit point total in a single Olympic tournament featuring NHL players. Saku Koivu (11 in 2006) and Teemu Selanne (11 in 2006) lead the list. ...McDavid recorded his eighth assist of the tournament, tying Saku Koivu for the most in a single Olympics featuring NHL players.

- Mitch Marner (1:22) became the sixth player to score an overtime goal in an Olympic game involving NHL players, and the fastest to open an OT period.

- Macklin Celebrini became the first teenager to record multiple three-point games in an Olympic tournament featuring NHL players, and the first to do so in the knockout round. ...Celebrini (5-2--7 in 4 GP) scored and passed Evgeni Malkin (6 in 2006) for the most points by a teenager in a single Olympic tournament featuring NHL players. ...Celebrini became the fourth player to score in four straight Olympic games involving NHL players, joining Marian Hossa (2006), Teemu Selanne (2006), and Mats Sundin (2002).

- Celebrini (19 years, 250 days) became the second-youngest player to score in an Olympic elimination game featuring NHL players. Only Finland’s Olli Maatta (19 years, 184 days in 2014) was younger.

- Nathan MacKinnon scored his second power-play goal of the tournament, tying Jarome Iginla and Al MacInnis for the most by a Canadian in a single Olympics with NHL players.

- Roman Cervenka recorded two assists.

- Radko Gudas assisted on Czechia’s game-tying goal and became the fifth Czech defenseman age 35 or older to record a point in an Olympic tournament featuring NHL players, joining Marek Zidlicky, Tomas Kaberle, Jan Rutta, and Michal Kempny.

- Czechia became the first team to take a lead against Canada in an Olympic game featuring NHL players since the United States in the round robin at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

- David Pastrnak scored on the power play to give Czechia a 2-1 lead. Since entering the League in 2014-15, his 131 power-play goals rank fourth behind Alex Ovechkin (179), Leon Draisaitl (175), and Steven Stamkos (156).

- Ondrej Palat scored with 7:42 remaining to give Czechia a 3-2 lead and became the fourth player to score a go-ahead goal in the final 10 minutes of an Olympic elimination game featuring NHL players. The others: Vladimir Kopat (2002 QF), Niklas Hagman (2010 QF), and Shea Weber (2014 QF).

- Martin Necas became the fourth Czech player to record five assists in a single Olympic tournament featuring NHL players, joining Martin Straka (2006), Marek Zidlicky (2010), and Jaromir Jagr (2006).

- Nick Suzuki (56:33) became the third Canadian to score a game-tying goal in the final five minutes of regulation in an Olympic game featuring NHL players. The others: Trevor Linden (1998 SF) and Joe Nieuwendyk (2002 RR) - all against Czechia.

- Canada and Czechia account for both overtime goals in the playoff round of Olympic tournaments featuring NHL players: Sidney Crosby (2010 GMG) and David Krejci (2010 PQ).

- This marked the fifth all-time meeting between Team Canada and Team Czechia, and just the second in the playoff round. The only other postseason matchup came in the 1998 semifinals, when Robert Reichel scored the shootout winner against Patrick Roy, leading to a 2-1 victory. It remains one of only two Olympic playoff games to end in a shootout (the other was BLR vs. SUI in 2010 playoff qualification).

- Team Canada will appear in the Olympic semifinals for the eighth time overall and the fifth time in six tournaments with NHL players.

-  86% of Canada’s goals (18 of 21) have included a former first overall pick, factoring on the play.

- Czechia became the first team to take a lead against Canada in an Olympic game featuring NHL players since the United States in the round robin at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

- Canada has posted two comeback wins in Olympic games featuring NHL players: the 2002 gold medal game (vs. USA) and the 1998 round robin (vs. Sweden).



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