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Steven Stamkos
Team Canada U20

2008 IIHF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

Canada vs Sweden
PARDUBICE, Czech Republic
December 29, 2007

photo courtesy of Hockey Canada

Canada 20 game winning streak
comes to an end

In a disappointing game Team Canada took their first loss against Sweden. Canada was leading 1 - 0 heading into the third period and widened their lead to 2 at the 2:17 mark. At 5:14 into the third the Swedes came back and scored 3 goals - two on power plays to take the lead. Canada came back and tied on their 2nd power play goal but Sweden's Tobias Forsberg beat out Jonathan Bernier and scored the winning goal at 19:53.

Scoring Summary:

First Period
19:05 CAN 17 Brad Marchand (28 Claude Giroux )

Second Period
no scoring

Third Period
02:17 CAN 22 Shawn Matthias (32 Matthew Halischuk 18 Colton Gillies)
05:14 SWE 2 Eric Moe (18 Joakim Andersson 23 Robin Figren) PP
06:45 SWE 25 Tony Lagerstrom
09:09 SWE 26 Oscar Moller (2 Eric Moe ) PP
16:18 CAN 28 Claude Giroux (19 Kyle Turris ) PP2
19:53 SWE 16 Tobias Forsberg (22 Mikael Backlund )