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Former Ottawa Senators forward Filip Chlapik scored the winning goal as Sparta Prague eliminated Canada from the Spengler Cup hockey tournament with a 5-1 victory in the quarterfinals on Monday.
Martins Dzerkals scored the first goal early in the third period and added an empty-netter for the Czech team, which will face Team USA in the semifinals on Tuesday.
Kristian Vesalainen scored the second goal into an empty net before David Nemechek
capped the scoring with one second left.
Canada's Matthew Peca scored the third at 13:07 to tie the game 1-1 before Chlapik scored the winner 95 seconds later.
Jakub Kovar stopped 29 shots for Prague and Connor Hughes made 21 saves for Canada.
Canada has won the invitational tournament 16 times, sharing the most titles with host HC Davos. But the Canadians haven't won a title since they won four of their five titles between 2015 and 2019.
Chlapik was selected by Ottawa in the second round of the 2015 NHL Draft and played 57 career games for the Senators, scoring five goals and adding six assists.
He is in his third season in his second season with Sparta Prague, his hometown club.
