Michael Petrie, CanWest News Service
Team Canada saved its best stretch of hockey for the biggest game of the world junior championship.
With a thunderous opening period, the Canadians rolled out to a 3-0 lead on Russia and never relinquished in a 4-2 decision in Leksand, Sweden. The win gave Canada its third-straight world junior gold medal and marked the nations 18th victory in a row, stretching back to the round-robin opener in 2005.
National pride in beating the Russians at ice hockey stretches back to the great 1972 Canada Russia series in which Canada won in a battle on the rink and in the minds of those in the east and west.
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I just found out that the CBC has launched Canadas Hockey Anthem Challenge contest to find a new song for its weekly hockey broadcast. The prize is $100,000, 50% going to minor hockey.