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Licking leaves bad taste for U.S.

By Damien Cox
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, December 30, 2004

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- This is no way to defend a world title. Or at least, no easy way. That said, if the Americans, as generous hosts, were trying to add a little drama to this year's World Junior Championship, they did so by selflessly sacrificing a little of the country's hockey pride. It all happened Wednesday night at the Palace on the Prairie, the University of North Dakota's gorgeous Ralph Englestad Arena, when Team USA suffered arguably the ugliest defeat in the history of its junior p ...

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