Connor Ingram has surely had busier days at the office, but he did enough to earn his first win at the World Junior Hockey Championships.
The 19-year-old Ingram started in goal for Team Canada during their game against Slovakia on Tuesday, Dec. 27, earning a shutout in a 5-0 Canadian victory. Slovakia only mustered six shots on Ingram, who turned each aside.
Team Canada was paced a busy second period, with Boston Bruins prospect Jeremy Lauzon, Tampa Bay draft choices Taylor Raddysh and Anthony Cirelli and future Ottawa Senator Thomas Chabot each scoring. New Jersey Devils pick Mike McLeod added an insurance marker in the third period.
Long before hitting the ice with Team Canada, Ingram suited up for a handful of games as a backup goalie with the Flin Flon Bombers. The young netminder played two games with the Bombers in 2013-14 at the tender age of 17. Comparatively speaking, Ingram was busier in Flin Flon’s crease, making 41 saves on 44 shots with the maroon and white.
Ingram left the Bombers before the 2014-15 season to join the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers and was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in last summer’s NHL Entry Draft.
Canada played Latvia at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre Thursday night. Results of the game were unavailable at press time. The Canadian side will finish the round robin with a rivalry match against the United States on
New Year’s Eve.
