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Goals have come from players up and down the Canadian lineup at the World Junior Championship but the fire-starter has been Tyson Jost.

That is to say, Jost -- a freshman at the University of North Dakota -- made the big plays to open the scoring in Canada’s wins over Russia and Slovakia to open the tournament.

Looking at the final shots on goal, it might be hard to comprehend that the Canada-Slovakia game was scoreless through the first 20 minutes Tuesday night. Shots were 14-2 in Canada's favour, and while you had a fair idea of how the game was trending, it was still naught-naught when Jost carried the puck up the ice and found the tape of Jeremy Lauzon’s stick with a neat drop pass. As the play unfolded, you weren’t sure that Jost could have picked up the trailer without a rearview mirror but there it was, Lauzon’s for the finishing as he beat the beleaguered Slovak netminder Adam Huska to put Canada up 1-0.