Steve Russell / Toronto Star
Team Canada poses after winning the world junior championship against Russia.
While the Air Canada Centre rocked, it was Team Canada that rolled over Russia.
And because of it,
gold — the world junior hockey version — is back on Canadian soil. An
elated bunch of teenagers could not contain their joy.
“We’re world junior
champions. We’re world champions,” said Connor McDavid. “It’s joy. We
were never really under pressure. The media and all the fans might’ve
been putting that pressure on us, but we were just able to brush it off.
Right now this is just absolute joy.”
A star-studded
Canadian team came in waves — McDavid, Anthony Duclair, Max Domi, Sam
Reinhart — to overwhelm their Russian rivals early, then held on late in
a frenetic, nervewracking 5-4 final for the world junior hockey
championship...Continue reading...
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