TORONTO — Mario Lemieux. Simon Gagne. Brayden Schenn.
You can add Taylor Raddysh to that fine group of hockey players.
In a 10-2 beating of Latvia by Canada on Thursday night at the 2017 world junior hockey championship, Raddysh scored four goals, tying the Canada record for most in one game in the history of the event.
Lemieux did it first in 1983, Gagne followed in 1999 and Schenn did it in 2011.
Before another less-than-capacity crowd at the Air Canada Centre (this one came in at 13,796), Raddysh scored a power-play goal late in the first period to give Canada a 3-0 lead, got two goals midway through the second for a natural hat trick and then put himself in a spot alongside the others in the record books when he scored in the third period.