Spender Knight, goaltender for Team USA at the World Junior Hockey Championships and first-round pick of the Florida Panthers, is quickly learning just how much pressure comes with representing your country on the international stage. Knight was the starter for Team USA for the club's first match against Russia on Christmas Day and things couldn't have gone much worse. The 19-year-old let in four goals on 12 shots in the game, including a couple of soft ones, and was pulled in favour of fellow netminder Dustin Wolf.
Following Knight's dismal performance, hockey fans were not kind to him on social media.
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At the beginning of the game, many analysts were calling this game a match up between the top two goaltending prospects in the world in Knight and Russia's Yaroslav Askarov. Team USA has officially announced that Dustin Wolf, a seventh round pick of the Calgary Flames, will get the start Saturday night against Austria.
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