Team Canada Wins Back-To-Back Gold Medals; Peterborough Petes' Brennan Othmann Gets Two Assists In 3-2 Win

Back-to-back gold medals for Team Canada as they beat Czechia at the 2023 World Junior Championships in a 3-2 overtime win with Peterborough Petes’ Brennan Othmann and Port Hope’s Owen Beck a part of the winning team on Thursday night.

Photo courtesy of Hockey Canada.

Othmann assisted on the games first two goals for Team Canada. He was the secondary assist for Canada’s first powerplay goal with a diving stick check to send it back to Dylan Guenther. He and Brandt Clarke exchanged the puck once before a one-time goal from the former for a 1-0 Canada lead.

Othmann’s second assist for Shane Wrights's goal, came after he helped clear the defensive zone to Guenther where he kicked the puck to Wright after being pinned on the boards. Wright cut into the offensive zone against four defenders and backhanded his shot in for a 2-0 Canada lead.

Czechia had a late push with two third-period goals to send the game to overtime.= by Jiri Kulich and Jakub Kos respectively.

After 6:22 into the overtime frame, Canada turned the puck over in their offensive zone in 3-on-3 play. Joshua Roy and Guenther had an odd-man rush at the net, passed the puck between them and the latter scored for a walk-off goal for a 3-2 Canada win.

The win was Canada’s first back-to-back gold medals since 2008-09. Connor Bedard of Canada was named tournament MVP with nine goals and fourteen assists.

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