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Usually when there’s a bone to pick with a penalty call it has more to do with the referee’s judgment than the validity of the rule, but there’s an inconsistency in slashing calls around the league that is driving me crazy. As it is now, when a player whacks another player’s stick, if the...
Team Canada's Dany Heatley accepts the trophy for the tournament's MVP after loosing to Russia 5-4 in the gold medal game at the IIHF World Hockey Championship. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press) QUEBEC CITY -- Dany Heatley accomplished something here that has never been done before. But it will...
QUEBEC CITY, May 18 (UPI) -- Ilya Kovalchuk scored in the third period and overtime, carrying Russia past Canada 5-4 Sunday in the gold medal game of the World Hockey Championship. The come-from-behind win at Quebec City gave the Russians their first world title since 1993. Kovalchuk tied the...
Penalty to Nash opens the door for winning goal Ilya Kovalchuk scored on the power play at 2:42 of overtime to give Russia a 5-4 victory over Canada at the world hockey championship in Quebec City. The goal came with Canada's Rick Nash in the box for shooting the puck out of the rink from his own...
By: Chris Johnston, THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC - The Russians are now the only team that stands in the way of Canada becoming the first country to win the IIHF World Hockey Championship on home soil since 1986. The Swedes tested Canada more than any of its first seven opponents - especially in the...
The coach is still finding fault, picking out nuances of the game his squad needs to improve, but this edition of Team Canada sure looks like it's peaking just as games start to matter at the world hockey championship. ... Coach Ken Hitchcock said the Canadians "got...
Team Canada didn't disappoint in front of a crowd at the Halifax Metro Centre on Monday that included Prime Minister Stephen Harper, cruising to the quarter-finals of the world hockey championships with an unbeaten mark intact. ... Captain Shane Doan and Dany Heatley...
Jacques Lemaire will return to coach the Wild, after comforting meetings with GM Doug Risebrough. ... Since the Wild started, coach Jacques Lemaire and Doug Risebrough would meet once the season ended, hashing out the past season, looking ahead to the next. Risebrough...
