Some Russian hockey fans were celebrating victory despite losing at the world junior hockey championships because of a confusingly timed TV repeat. CBC | Sports News
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Resilient Canadians capture 3rd world junior gold medal in 6 years
Akil Thomas capped a three-goal, third-period comeback with his first of this year’s world junior hockey championship, beating Russian goalie Amir Miftakhov late in regulation to lift Canada to a 4-3 gold-medal win on Sunday in Ostrava, Czech Republic. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Sweden earns world junior bronze, beating 2019 champions Finland
Linus Oberg scored the go-ahead goal midway through the second period, and Sweden held on to beat Finland 3-2 on Sunday for the bronze medal at the world junior hockey championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada forward Barrett Hayton questionable for world junior final
Arizona Coyotes rookie Barrett Hayton will be a game-time decision for Canada, which faces rival Russia in the gold-medal game at the world junior hockey championship at 1 p.m. ET. He left Saturday’s semifinal against Finland with a suspected left arm injury. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada breezes to world junior gold-medal game against Russia
Canada scored three times before Saturday’s world junior hockey semifinal with Finland was four minutes old in cruising to a 5-0 victory that sets up a mouth-watering gold-medal showdown with Russia on Sunday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Russia to play for world junior gold after OT win over Sweden
Ivan Morozov’s goal at 3:24 of overtime, his second of the game, lifted Russia to a 5-4 semifinal victory over Sweden at the world junior hockey championship on Saturday and a berth in the gold-medal game for the first time in four years. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s world junior returnees looking for redemption against Finland in semis
Canada was leading Finland 1-0 with under a minute to go in the quarterfinals of last year’s world junior hockey championship in Vancouver before a crowd ready to explode. Moments later, disaster struck. CBC | Sports News
Read More »The Canada-USSR brawl at the 1987 world junior hockey tournament
Junior hockey teams from Canada and the Soviet Union fought for 20 minutes before getting ejected from the game. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada fires 5 power-play goals in world junior rout of Czechs to win Group B
Canada scored four power-play goals in a dominant first period Tuesday to beat the Czech Republic 7-2 and finish first in Group B at the world junior hockey championship. The Canadians face Slovakia in Thursday’s quarter-finals at Ostrava, Czech Republic. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Alexis Lafrenière’s world junior status remains unclear after knee injury
Alexis Lafrenière’s knee injury will keep him out of Canada’s next game at the world junior hockey championship, but the star winger hasn’t been ruled out for the rest of the tournament. CBC | Sports News
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