Heelis with 3 points, 2 for Cazzola in Canada win over Ukraine

Canada blanks Ukraine 11-0, improves to 2-0

Bronze medallists in 2011, the Canucks will wrap up pool play Sunday at 2 p.m. EST (8 p.m. Trentino) against Kazakhstan (1-0), the country they edged 3-1 two years ago in the third-place match of the biennial competition.

The Red and White led 3-0 after the opening period and 8-0 after 40 minutes and outshot its opponents 59-14, including 19-1 in the first, 24-5 in the second and 16-8 in the third.

Up by three after the first intermission, the team of AUS conference all-stars put the game away with a five-goal explosion in a span of 6:03 early in the middle frame, including a trio of power play markers.

Vandall, who hails from St. Louis de France, Que., led the way with his four points, followed by MacMeil (2-1-3), Éric Faille of Moncton (2-1-3), Liam Heelis of Acadia (1-2-3), Michael Kirkpatrick of StFX (1-2-3) and defenceman Matthew Maione of UPEI (0-3-3), who tallied three points apiece.

Faille scored the contest’s first two goals, including the game-winner 13:28 in.

Saint Mary’s Cory Tanaka, with two, StFX’s Josh Day and Acadia’s Mike Cazzola rounded out the scoring.

Saint Mary’s netminder Anthony Peters earned the shutout in his first start of the tourney.

At the other end of the ice, Ukrainian goaltender Ievgenii Napnenko was pulled after 20 minutes after allowing three goals on 19 shots. His replacement Andrii Bezkhlibnyi turned aside 32 pucks the rest of the way.

“The key to this tournament is to find ways to get better every day. This is our second game together as a group and we’ve had three practices now so I thought some of the things that we’ve worked on contributed to the success we had in the game,” said Team Canada head coach Gardiner MacDougall from UNB. “We had some peak performances from some players but overall the whole team has played very well. It’s about team cohesion, getting the chemistry off and on the ice, and right now we are finding ways to get better.”

In 13 previous appearances at the FISU tourney, Canada has reached the podium 12 times, including three gold medals, three silver and six bronze. Its three triumphs came in 2007 when represented by AUS standouts, 1991 (senior national team) and 1981 (Alberta Golden Bears).

Team Canada website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/universiade/winter/2013/index

Trentino 2013 website: http://www.universiadetrentino.org/en

TEAM CANADA SCHEDULE & RESULTS (all times local / 6 hours ahead of EST)
Dec. 10 (20:00): Canada 12, Japan 1
Dec. 13 (20:00): Canada 11, Ukraine 0
Dec. 15 (20:00): Canada vs. Kazakhstan
Dec. 18 (TBD): Quarter-finals
Dec. 20 (TBD): Semifinals
Dec. 21 (10:30): Bronze
Dec. 21 (14:30): Final

SCORING SUMMARY (official boxscore: BOXSCORE)

Canada 11, Ukraine 0

FIRST PERIOD

SCORING:

1. CAN Éric Faille (3) (unassisted), 13:28
2. CAN Éric Faille (4) (Nick MacNeil, Michael Kirkpatrick), 17:18 PP
3. CAN Mike Cazzola (2) (Chris Desousa, Michael D’Orazio), 18:10

PENALTIES:

Tyler Carroll (CAN) tripping, 2:50;
Ruslan Svyrydov (UKR) hooking, 6:10;
Oleksii Voitsekhivskyi (UKR) slashing, 9:28;
Tyler Carroll (CAN) interference, 11:36;
Dmytro Nimenko (UKR) checking to the head, 12:06;
Dmytro Nimenko (UKR) 10-minute misconduct, 12:06;
Ievgen Sekirko (UKR) cross-checking, 15:52;
Liam Heelis (CAN) high sticking, 15:52;
Ruslan Svyrydov, hooking, 16:35.

SECOND PERIOD

SCORING:

4. CAN Josh Day (1) (Chris Desousa, Matthew Maione), 5:05 PP
5. CAN Pierre Vandall (2) (Josh Day, Matthew Maione), 5:34 PP
6. CAN Nick MacNeil (5) (Liam Heelis), 6:29
7. CAN Cory Tanaka (3) (Pierre Vandall, Michael Kirkpatrick), 8:39
8. CAN Cory Tanaka (4) (Pierre Vandall, Matthew Miaone), 11:08 PP

PENALTIES:

Dmytro Demianiuk (UKR) cross-checking 5-minute major, 1:06;
Dmytro Demianiuk (UKR) game misconduct, 1:06;
Artem Ievseichyk (UKR) high sticking, 9:26;
Volodymyr Aleksiuk (UKR) interference, 16:22.

THIRD PERIOD

SCORING:

9. CAN Liam Heelis (1) (Pierre Vandall), 2:39
10. CAN Nick MacNeil (6) (Mike Cazzola, Liam Heelis), 6:21
11. CAN Michael Kirkpatrick (2) (Éric Faille), 6:32

PENALTIES:

Andrii Tatarenko (UKR) roughing 5-minute major, 8:04;
Andrii Tatarenko (UKR) game misconduct, 8:04;
Chris Desousa (CAN) roughing 5-minute major, 8:04;
Chris Desousa (CAN) game misconduct, 8:04;
Ruslan Svyrydov (UKR) roughing 5-minute major, 8:04;
Ruslan Svyrydov (UKR) game misconduct, 8:04;
Cory Tanaka (CAN) roughing 5-minute major, 8:04;
Cory Tanaka (CAN) game misconduct, 8:04;
Mike Cazzola (CAN) boarding, 11:55;
Artem Ievseichyk (UKR) hooking, 14:50;
Rob Slaney (CAN) tripping, 17:37.

GOALS (by period)

CAN: 3-5-3: 11
UKR: 0-0-0: 0

SHOTS ON GOAL (by period)

CAN: 19-24-16: 59
UKR: 1-5-8: 14

POWER PLAY:

CAN: 4-9
UKR: 0-4

GOALTENDERS

CAN – Anthony Peters (W, 1-0, 14 shots, 14 saves, 0 GA, 60:00)
UKR – Ievgenii Napnenko (L, 0-2, 19 shots, 16 saves, 3 GA, 20:00)
UKR – Andrii Bezkhlibnyi (40 shots, 32 saves, 8 GA, 40:00)

REFEREE: Robert Hallin (NOR)

LINESMEN: Lauri Nikulainen (FIN), Federico Stefenelli (ITA)

Pool A

GP       W         OTW    OTL     L          GF       GA       PTS

1. Canada        2          1          0          0          0          23        1          3
2. Kazakhstan  1          1          0          0          0          4          2          3
3. Ukraine        2          0          0          0          2          2          15        0
4. Japan           1          0          0          0          1          1          12        0

Scoring system:

3 points for a win in regulation
2 points for a win in overtime or shootout
1 point for a loss in overtime or shootout

Legend: W (win), OTW (OT win), OTL (OT loss), L (loss)
Source: CIS Communications