World Junior Championship
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Switzerland opens 2017 World Junior Championships with OT win over Czech Republic
Budding superstar Nico Hischier scored the overtime winner at 0:23 and added two assists as the Swiss topped the Czechs…
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Canada downs Russia in 2017 World Junior Championships opener
As far as tournament openers go, things couldn’t have gone much better for team Canada in its Boxing Day date…
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USA Opens 2017 World Junior Championships With Win Over Latvia
For a team that wasn’t at its best, the United States still managed to open the 2017 IIHF World Junior…
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Sweden Starts Off Strong at the 2017 World Junior Championships
Sweden faced Denmark in the first game of the tournament and defeated the Danes 6-1. Sweden’s lineup of 16-to-18 year-olds…
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Czech Republic stuns Finland late in the 2017 World Junior Championships Opener
The Czech Republic surprised defending champion Finland 2-1 in their opener on Monday night. Michael Spacek scored the winner with…
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USA Crushes Sweden, Wins Bronze at the 2016 World Junior Championships
Congratulations, Rikard Gronborg: You played yourself. While the United States’ eight to three drubbing of Sweden may stand out as…
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Finland Takes Gold Over Russia At The 2016 World Junior Championship
In what turned out to be a truly exciting finale to the 2016 World Junior Championship, Finland managed to avenge…
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Russia Edges USA, Advances To Gold Medal Game at the 2016 World Junior Championships
In most cases, “third time’s the charm” applies fairly well. Tell that to the Americans. Falling short of their ultimate…
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Finland Downs Sweden, Advances To Gold Medal Game at the 2016 World Junior Championships
With one more round of World Junior Championship action in the books, that means there’s one more team that has…
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USA Obliterates Czech Republic at the 2016 World Junior Championships
As the warrior-poet Drake once muttered before demolishing Meek Mill’s rap career: “OH MAN. OH MAN, OH MAN.” In the…
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Russia Squeaks By Denmark at the 2016 World Junior Championships
It was almost the shocker of the tournament. Pitting a heavily favored Russian contingent against an underdog Danish squad, Sunday’s quarterfinal…
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Finland Topples Defending Champ Canada at the 2016 World Junior Championships
In yet another dazzling display of puck prowess, the hosting team of the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship managed to…
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Switzerland Avoids Demotion, Beats Belarus In Relegation Round At The 2016 World Junior Championships
It was a terrible World Juniors for the Swiss. They finished last in Group A, the tougher of the two divisions,…
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Sweden Spanks Slovakia, Advances To Semis at the 2016 World Junior Championships
The last time Sweden faced Slovakia in the World Juniors was a little under a year ago, the two were…
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Team USA Upends Denmark at the 2016 World Junior Championships
It was the scoreline that everybody expected following a storyboard that nobody did. In the ante-penultimate game of the 2016…
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