After opening with a loss to Slovakia, Hungary was back on the ice against defending champions Canada. As expected Canada had brought a very strong roster as usual.
Rich Chernomaz gave Zoltán Hetényi the start in net with Ádám Vay dressing as the backup goalie. Also getting into the roster was Csanád Erdély and István Mestyán, missing because of injury was Kalvin Sagert and Miklós Rajna with Dániel Kóger as a healthy scratch.
Hungary opened with the first shot on goal, in the opening minutes Kevin Wehrs picked up a penalty. Hungary had survived the first five minutes of the game and also looked to kill the penalty, however Schiefele went high glove side on Hetényi to make it 1-0. Canada made it 2-0 off of a counter attack after Vilmos Galló stick broke on a shot, Corey Perry was credited with the goal. Later in the period just as an Erdély penalty was being killed, István Sofron was forechecking, István Bartalis snipped a shot from the left faceoff dot to make it 2-1.
Hungary came out in the strong in the second period with a flurry of shots that Pickard had to save. The game settled down as Canada took over the game, Mark Stone made it 3-1 as he put a rebound in off of a long shot. Balázs Sebők had an excellent scoring chance but the puck went wide. Canada started to pull away during the middle of the period as a Marchand shot slipped through the legs of Hetényi to make it 4-1 and Brassard goal made it 5-1 and just over a minute later Matheson made it 6-1. Chernomaz switched goalies as Vay came in for Hetényi, Vay kept the game at 6-1 though the rest of the period.
Canada continued where they they left off in the second period as Taylor Hall slipped a loose puck past Vay to make it 7-1. As the game went on true to his nature Brad Marchand become more and more of a pest, exchanging words with Hungarian players on every shift. Hungary did not give the fight as the game wound down against Canada, however Canada picked up the three points.
Line up
Sebők Bartalis Sofron
Erdély, Sarauer, Galló
Kovács, J. Vas, G.Nagy
Magosi, K.Nagy, Benk
Banham
Wehrs, Dudás
Mestyán, Szirányi
Stipsicz, M.Vas
Garát
Hetényi (Vay)
World Championships, Russia, Group B (St. Petersburg)
May 7th, 12.15 (11.15): Slovakia–HUNGARY 4-1
May 8th, 12.15 (11.15): HUNGARY–Canada 1-7
May 10th, 20.15 (19.15): HUNGARY–France
May 11th, 20.15 (19.15): Finland–HUNGARY
May 13th, 16.15 (15.15): USA–HUNGARY
May 14th, 16.15 (15.15): HUNGARY–Belarus
May 16th, 20.15 (19.15): German
HUNGARIAN ROSTER
Goalies (3): HETÉNYI Zoltán, RAJNA Miklós (Fehérvár AV19), VAY Ádám (Debreceni HK)
Defencemen (8): SZIRÁNYI Bence, WEHRS Kevin (Fehérvár), GARÁT Zsombor, MESTYÁN István, STIPSICZ Bence (MAC), DUDÁS Jesse, SAGERT Kalvin, (DVTK), VAS Márton (Fassa)
Forwards (16): BANHAM Frank, BARTALIS István, BENK András, KOVÁCS Csaba, KÓGER Dániel, NAGY Gergő, SARAUER Andrew (Fehérvár) ERDÉLY Csanád (Sioux Falls), GALLÓ Vilmos (Linköping), MAGOSI Bálint (Briancon), NAGY Krisztián (MAC), SEBŐK Balázs (KalPa), SOFRON István (Klagenfurt), VAS János (Slavia Praha)