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Canada ends dominating tourney run with gold

By Scott Burnside
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, January 4, 2005

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Men to boys, giants to sprites, mountains to mole hills. Take your pick as Canada's national junior team ended a dominating run at the World Junior Championship by thrashing Russia 6-1 in the gold-medal game Tuesday night. The Russians -- led by the top two picks in last summer's NHL entry draft, Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin -- were supposed to represent the first true challenge for a Canadian team that had outscored opponents 35-6 in its first five games. Instead, ...

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