No panic at Junior Team Canada, after its defeat against Latvia

A difficult defeat to accept, certainly, but still just a defeat… This is the message sent by the members of the Canadian team after their historic loss against the Latvians at the World Junior Hockey Championship, Friday evening in Ottawa.

How are you. We’ve all lost a hockey game before thislaunched forward Easton Cowan on Saturday morning. It’s not pleasant to lose, we all like to win and that’s what we want to do tomorrow night.

A dozen hours after the team lost 3-2 in a shootout, Peter Anholt appeared before the media to repeat that he was not worried by the performance of the Canadian hockey players.

We shouldn’t focus too much on yesterday’s matchindicated the leader of the management of Junior Team Canada. There is no need to panic. The world doesn’t end with this match. It’s difficult, obviously, but we will be better for the next match.

After the meeting, Bradly Nadeau qualified the performance of the maple leaf unacceptable. With a little hindsight, he continues to have difficulty accepting the effort made.

It’s certain that you look back on moments that happened and that you could have done better, but today, it’s really about making a resetsaid the Saint-François-de-Madawaska attacker.

Changes are expected within the Canadian squad for Sunday’s duel against Germany.

Defenseman Sawyer Mynio will be added to the lineup to replace Matthew Shaefer, who is out of the tournament due to a left shoulder injury. Anholt also confirmed that veteran Carson Rehkopf will be included to serve as a spark plug for Canada’s offense.

The 19-year-old Ontario forward was left out for the first two games, despite being one of those who participated in last year’s world championships.

Against Latvia, Canada shot 57 times on the opposing net, but very few shots were threatening.

Maybe we could try going a little deeper insideAnholt admitted half-heartedly. There is a lot of discussion about what we could change. We’re trying to find solutions, but we don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater either.

Criticisms to ignore

The training scheduled for the Canadian team was canceled on Saturday. Instead, the players were able to spend some time in the afternoon with family members present in Ottawa.

They also have to deal with the numerous criticisms of their performances online and on social networks.

We know that we should have won and that we didn’t play well. Whatever you want to say, we already know it. We know we lost, but it’s only one game in the tournament, we can bounce backreplied Ottawa defender Oliver Bonk.