{"id":30826,"date":"2022-08-21T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T14:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=30826"},"modified":"2022-08-21T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T14:12:20","slug":"kidney-team-canada-win-world-junior-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=30826","title":{"rendered":"Kidney, Team Canada win World Junior gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;156&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> A hockey player from Enfield is bringing home World Junior hockey gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riley Kidney, who suits up with the QMJHL\u2019s Acadie-Bathurst Titan, was in the lineup as the 13<sup>th<\/sup> forward for Team Canada as they nipped Finland 3-2 to win the COVID-19 delayed World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton, Alta. On Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidney, one of the youngest players on the team, played in three games, including the semi-final and gold medal game. He recorded no points and had no penalty minutes in the role as the extra forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against Finland, Canada got out to a 2-0 lead before the Finns crawled back forcing overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In OT, it was Kent Johnson who came to the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 3:20 of overtime, Johnson tucked home the rebound from his own shot on net, giving the Canucks the 3-2 win and their 19<sup>th<\/sup> World Junior gold medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout regulation, the Canadians had plenty of chances to bury the Finns but went 0-for-6 on the power play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;161&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;147&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;156&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] ENFIELD: A hockey player from Enfield is bringing home World Junior hockey gold. Riley Kidney, who suits up with the QMJHL\u2019s Acadie-Bathurst Titan, was in the lineup as the 13th forward for Team Canada as they nipped Finland 3-2 to win the COVID-19 delayed World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton, Alta. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3620,390,1012,545,4003],"class_list":["post-30826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-acadie-bathurst-titan-2","tag-enfield","tag-riley-kidney","tag-team-canada","tag-world-juniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}