Tip: A solid win for Canada against a weak Kazakhstan!

Canada and Kazakhstan battles on Wednesday night in the fourth group stage round of the 2023 World Championship. The venue is Arena Riga in the Latvian capital and the game start at 13:20 PM ET.

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Just two points against Slovakia = a desire for three points for Canada tonight?

As the headline reads, Canada managed to "only" get two points for in their last match, against Slovakia, when a penalty shoot-out was required before André Tourigny's team could take the win. The game winner for the Canadian team was the Buffalo forward Jack Quinn who scored the decisive penalty in a shootout where Cody Glass and Michael Carcone also found the net. Before the match against Slovakia, Canada managed to defeat Slovenia and Latvia 5-2 and 6-0 respectively. In all matches, and especially the last two, Canada have created a big amount of goal scoring chances and the Slovaks have their 21-year-old goalkeeper Samuel Hlavaj to thank for the fact that there were not three points against Slovakia. As I mentioned in the guide ahead of the Championship I consider the Canadian team's defense to be the strongest in the tournament and so far they have let into an average of one goal per game. They also have quality offensively as players like Jack McBain and Tyler Toffoli has been prominent alongside the defenseman MacKenzie Weegar who leads the internal scoring league, and after the opening three group stage rounds, only Switzerland and the USA have scored more goals than Canada.

Another big loss to wait for a weak Kazakhstan?

Kazakhstan started the Championship by taking two points from Norway, in a match where they were the weaker side. The Kazakhs managed to recover from 3-1 to 3-3 and then winning on penalties where Spartak Moscow forward Roman Starchenko was the match-winner after finding the net in both of his two penalties. After the initial victory, it has been more difficult for Kazakhstan to collect points, as they have fallen against both the Czech Republic and Switzerland with 5-1 and 5-0 respectively. Kazakhstan have been the weaker side in all of their three matches so far, and the shot statistics in the three individual matches have been written as 34-18, 43-15 and 36-13 in favor of the opposing team. As mentioned in the guide, they have a weak team as the team's players can be found in a clearly weakened KHL, the domestic league or lower ranked leagues in Russia.

Conclusion and game tips

Canada will probably come to tonight's game with a lot of revenge in their sight considering that they only got two points against Slovakia where they were clearly better and deserved three points. The Canadian team have a strong roster both offensively and defensively and have showed good level in all of their three games so far during the championship. Kazakhstan, on the other hand, have had a tough start to this year's World Championships as they have had major problems in terms of play with difficulties in creating goal scoring chances and have had a big amount of shots against their own net. Canada is also one of the teams that have scored the most goals so far in the tournament, while Kazakhstan, along with Slovenia and Austria, are the teams that have conceded the most goals. Canada is clearly better, and I think that it is likely that they take a solid win with at least five goals.

My betting tip is therefore:

Canada to win by five goals or more @ -109 at Unibet