McGregor, Cozzolino pace Canadian men in 11-0 rout of Germany to open Para hockey worlds

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 25, 2025 9:40 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 25

Tyler McGregor scored 4 goals and Dominic Cozzolino of Mississauga, Ont., had 2 goals and 3 assists arsenic Canada's National Para hockey squad opened defence of its golden medal with an 11-0 triumph implicit Germany astatine the World Para Hockey Championship connected Saturday astatine the LECOM Harbor Center successful Buffalo, N.Y.

McGregor, who hails from Forest, Ont. (near London), became conscionable the 3rd subordinate successful National Para hockey squad past to scope 150 vocation goals.

James Dunn added a extremity and 4 assists for Canada, portion Adam Dixon, Micah Kovacevich, Rob Armstrong and Anton Jacobs Webb added singles.

Dixon, who added an assistance successful his 252nd vocation game, passed Billy Bridges for the astir games played with Canada's National Para hockey team. He was presented with a metallic instrumentality aft his record-breaking feat.

Netminder Corbin Watson lone had to marque 3 saves to registry the shutout. Canada outshot Germany 32-3.

"Germany played hard and structured, and it forced america to propulsion our individuality retired and instrumentality to it. I deliberation our extent yet started to overtake their efforts arsenic the crippled went on. We got contributions each done the lineup, and I deliberation that is simply a large mode to commencement the tournament," said Canadian caput manager Russ Herrington.

Canada volition play South Korea connected Sunday.

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Sixteen Canadians are connected the roster that bushed the Americans 2-1 for the golden medal past twelvemonth successful Calgary, their archetypal rubric connected location crystal and archetypal aft falling to the U.S. successful 3 consecutive finals.

"Entering the satellite title arsenic the defending champions is not thing we instrumentality lightly," said caput manager Russ Herrington.

"We cognize that each state volition bring their champion against us. As a group, we person continued to turn and make implicit the past year.

"This roster has a ton of acquisition connected the large stage, and we are excited to get going."

Canada mislaid 4-1 to the U.S. successful the last of the Para Cup successful Charlottetown connected Dec. 14, and 5-3 to the Americans successful the last of the International Para Hockey Cup successful Ostrava, Czech Republic on Oct. 13.

The U.S. besides bushed Canada successful the last for Paralympic golden successful some 2018 and 2022. Their rivalry is expected to proceed into the 2026 Winter Games successful Milan-Cortina, Italy.

China and South Korea are besides successful Canada's satellite title radical successful Buffalo, portion Group B features the U.S., the Czech Republic, Norway and Slovakia.

Canada takes connected South Korea connected Sunday astatine 5 p.m. ET and China connected Tuesday. Wednesday's quarterfinals will beryllium followed by the semifinals Friday and Saturday's medal games.